READING THE NOVEL IN ENGLISH 1950 - 2000 by Brian W. Shaffer ( 9781405101134 )

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READING THE NOVEL IN ENGLISH 1950 - 2000

By:

Brian W. Shaffer

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JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

16 August, 2005

Series:

Reading the Novel

Pages:

276

Description:

An engaging introduction to the English-language novel writing in the second half of the twentieth century. Focuses on British and Irish novelists, and on Anglophone novelists from other countries (exclusive of the US).

Synopsis:

Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century.An engaging introduction to the English-language novel from 1950-2000 (exclusive of the US).Provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of selected seminal texts.Maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding this fiction.Features readings of ten influential English-language novels including Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Kazuo Ishiguro s Remains of the Day and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.

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