The Representation Of Youth And Youth Culture In The Novel Absolute Beginners By Colin Macinnes

Author : Phyllis Wiechert
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638733971
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The representation of youth and youth culture in the novel Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes written by Phyllis Wiechert and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2+, Free University of Berlin (Institut für Englisch Philologie), course: Youth Cultures - Presenting Youth in Theory and Fictional Writing, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the question to what extent a piece of art, in this case a novel, can serve as a basis for cultural studies. For this reason the representation of youth and youth culture in the novel Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes will be analysed. In the second chapter this paper introduces the novel with its main characters and the main themes. The third chapter then focuses on the theories of youth and youth culture from Ogersby. To combine the results drawn from the first two chapters, the fourth chapter deals with the question whether Absolute Beginners main character is represented as a typical teenager of the fifties or whether he is just a construction by the author. All the results of the paper are combined in the conclusion to prove whether the novel serves as a medium for representing youth cultures of the fifties in England or not. This leads to the answer of the question how a piece of art can be taken as a basis for cultural studies.

Author : Stephen Ross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350067873
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel written by Stephen Ross and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of some of the most influential contemporary British writers. In this vivid work of cultural history, Stephen Ross explores: · The manic teenage vision of Absolute Beginners · The Angry Young Men of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning · Skinheads and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange · Irony and authenticity in the 1980s – from Amis to Kureishi · Heroin chic, disaffection and Trainspotting Examining the cultural contexts of some of the most important and popular post-1945 British novels, the book covers such themes as crises of masculinity, multiculturalism and inter-generational conflict, and in doing so casts new light on British writing today.

Author : John J. Han
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476633770
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worlds Gone Awry written by John J. Han and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dystopian fiction captivates us by depicting future worlds at once eerily similar and shockingly foreign to our own. This collection of new essays presents some of the most recent scholarship on a genre whose popularity has surged dramatically since the 1990s. Contributors explore such novels as The Lord of the Flies, The Heart Goes Last, The Giver and The Strain Trilogy as social critique, revealing how they appeal to the same impulse as utopian fiction: the desire for an idealized yet illusory society in which evil is purged and justice prevails.

Author : Alice Ferrebe
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748631666
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature of the 1950s: Good, Brave Causes written by Alice Ferrebe and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period.Alice Ferrebe's lively study rereads the decade and its literature as crucial in twentieth-century British history for its emergent and increasingly complicated politics of difference, as ideas about identity, authority and belonging were tested and contested. By placing a diverse selection of texts alongside those of the established canon of Movement and 'Angry' writing, a literary culture of true diversity and depth is brought into view. The volume characterises the 1950s as a time of confrontation with a range of concerns still avidly debated today, including immigration, education, the challenging behaviour of youth, nuclear threat, the post-industrial and post-imperial legacy, a consumerist economy and a feminist movement hampered by the perceivedly comprehensive nature of its recent success. Contrary to Jimmy Porter's defeatist judgement on his era in John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger, the volume upholds such concerns as 'good, brave causes' indeed.

Author : Nick Bentley
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039109340
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Fictions written by Nick Bentley and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Bentley takes a fresh look at English fiction produced in the 1950s. By looking at a range of authors, he shows that the novel of the period was far more diverse and formally experimental than previous accounts have suggested.

Author : Colin MacInnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749005405
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolute Beginners written by Colin MacInnes and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twentieth century cult classic, Absolute Beginners remains the style bible for anyone interested in Mod culture and paints a vivid picture of a changing society with insight and sensitivity.

Author : Paul Jobling
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719044670
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graphic Design written by Paul Jobling and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an inventive a well-researched study which explores the production and consumption of graphic design in Europe.

Author : Nick Bentley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350011533
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1950s written by Nick Bentley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the 'Angry Young Men', an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and feminist writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E. R. Braithwaite, Rodney Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V. S. Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J. R. R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John Wyndham.

Author : Susie Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230210244
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hanif Kureishi written by Susie Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanif Kureishi is one of the most exciting and controversial British writers who has produced significant work in a range of forms: plays, essays, novels, short stories and film. This guide introduces and sets in context the key debates about his work, and discusses his writing in relation to such issues as gender, postcolonial theory and British identity today. By exploring Kureishi's own statements and a wide range of critical perspectives, the guide provides a comprehensive resource for the study of one of the most important critical figures in contemporary culture.

Author : Bradley W Buchanan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137098279
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hanif Kureishi written by Bradley W Buchanan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanif Kureishi is one of the most controversial contemporary British writers. This introduction places his fiction in historical context and explores his relevance to contemporary culture. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author, this clear guide offers an overview of the varied critical reception his work has provoked.