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Twenty-first-century fiction : a critical introduction / Peter Boxall, University of Sussex.

By: Boxall, PeterContributor(s): Cambridge University Press [Wydawca]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. Description: X, 266 s. : il. ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781107006911 Subject(s): Literatura angielska -- historia -- 21 w | Literatura amerykańska -- historia -- 21 w | Literatura kanadyjska -- historia -- 21 w | Powieść -- historia -- 21 w | Kultura -- 21 w | English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism | American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction: twenty-first century fiction; 1. Late culture in the early twenty-first century; 2. Inheriting the past: literature and historical memory in the twenty-first century; 3. The limits of the human; 4. A curious knot: terrorism, radicalism, the avant-garde; 5. Sovereignty, democracy, globalization.
Summary: "The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament - one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge established notions of democracy, humanity, and national and global sovereignty. Peter Boxall traces formal and thematic similarities in the novels of contemporary writers including Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, as well as David Mitchell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, Ali Smith, Amy Waldman and Roberto Bolaño. In doing so, Boxall maps new territory for scholars, students and interested readers of today's literature by exploring how these authors narrate shared cultural life in the new century"--
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Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction: twenty-first century fiction; 1. Late culture in the early twenty-first century; 2. Inheriting the past: literature and historical memory in the twenty-first century; 3. The limits of the human; 4. A curious knot: terrorism, radicalism, the avant-garde; 5. Sovereignty, democracy, globalization.

"The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament - one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge established notions of democracy, humanity, and national and global sovereignty. Peter Boxall traces formal and thematic similarities in the novels of contemporary writers including Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, as well as David Mitchell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, Ali Smith, Amy Waldman and Roberto Bolaño. In doing so, Boxall maps new territory for scholars, students and interested readers of today's literature by exploring how these authors narrate shared cultural life in the new century"--

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