The Contemporary British Novel Since 1980

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Introduction
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   Chapter 2 Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro
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   Chapter 3 Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas
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   Chapter 4 The Unnatural Scene: The Fiction of Irvine Welsh
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   Chapter 5 Angela Carter’s Magic Realism
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   Chapter 6 Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman
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   Chapter 7 One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis’ Fiction
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   Chapter 8 Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions
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    Chapter 9 Salman Rushdie’s Fathers
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    Chapter 10 Postcolonialism and ‘The Figure of the Jew’: Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith
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    Chapter 11 Mingling and Metamorphing: Articulations of Feminism and Postcoloniality in Marina Warner’s Fiction
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    Chapter 12 Regeneration, Redemption, Resurrection: Pat Barker and the Problem of Evil
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    Chapter 13 ‘Partial to Intensity’: The Novels of A. L. Kennedy
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    Chapter 14 Gender and Creativity in the Fictions of Janice Galloway
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    Chapter 15 Appetite, Desire and Belonging in the Novels of Rose Tremain
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    Chapter 16 Desire for Syzygy in the Novels of A. S. Byatt
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    Chapter 17 Jeanette Winterson and the Lesbian Postmodern: Story-telling, Performativity and the Gay Aesthetic
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    Chapter 18 (Re) Constituted Pasts: Postmodern Historicism in the Novels of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes
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    Chapter 19 Colonising the Past: The Novels of Peter Ackroyd
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    Chapter 20 Player of Games: Iain (M.) Banks, Jean-François Lyotard and Sublime Terror