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The Essentials of Literature in English, post-1914 |
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Ian Mackean |
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Paperback |
| RRP: £16.99 |
ISBN: 9780340882689
ISBN-10: 0340882689 |
| Published: 31/03/2005 |
| Extent: 352 pages |
| Illustrations: 100 b/w drawings and 50 b/w halftones |
| Series: Essential Reference |
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Summary:
The reading, study and criticism of books has always been popular and never more so than now, with the rise of reading groups and the success of TV shows such as Oprah's Book Club giving literature a high profile. This book covers the leading works and authors in modern literature in English and in doing so gives the reader an engaging and knowledgeable insight into the books, their writers and the connections between them. From Graham Greene to Margaret Atwood and covering contemporary favourites such as Nineteen Eighty Four, Catcher in the Rye and Midnight's Children, The Essentials of Literature in English, post-1914 is a delightful introduction to works written in English after the First World War and which are already, or look set to become, part of the classic canon. The book is arranged A-Z by author and each entry gives an opening quotation from a key text, brief biographical details and a list of major works as well as a more general discussion of the writer's work. The book also contains an extremely useful set of contextual essays, giving an important overview of modern literature in English and comprehensively cross-referenced to the entries on authors. There is also a glossary of literary terms and a timeline for instant reference.
- Exciting and accessible overview of modern literature in English
- Everything you need to know about modern literature in a single book
- Easy to use A-Z structure with extensive cross-references
- Attractive two colour design with illustrations incorporated throughout
Table of Contents:
| Introduction and acknowledgements |
| Albee Edward |
| Amis, Kingsley |
| Amis, Martin |
| Atwood, Margaret |
| Auden, W. H. |
| Bainbridge, Beryl |
| Baldwin, James |
| Beckett, Samuel |
| Bellow, Saul |
| Bishop, Elizabeth |
| Bukowski, Charles |
| Carey, Peter |
| Carter, Angela |
| Carver, Raymond |
| Cather, Willa |
| Coetzee, J. M. |
| Dove, Rita |
| Eliot, T. S. |
| Emecheta, Buchi |
| Faulkner, William |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
| Fitzgerald, Penelope |
| Forster, E. M. |
| Fowles, John |
| Frost, Robert |
| Galsworthy, John |
| Ginsberg, Allen |
| Golding, William |
| Greene, Graham |
| Heaney, Seamus |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley |
| Housman, A. E. |
| Hughes, Langston |
| Hughes, Ted |
| Huxley, Aldous |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo |
| Joyce, James |
| Kerouac, Jack |
| Kesey, Ken |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
| Larkin, Philip |
| Lawrence, D. H. |
| Lee, Harper |
| Lessing, Doris |
| Lowry, Malcolm |
| Mansfield, Katherine |
| McCarthy, Cormac |
| McEwan, Ian |
| Miller, Arthur |
| Mistry, Rohinton |
| Morrison, Toni |
| Munro, Alice |
| Murdoch, Iris |
| Nabokov, Vladimir |
| Naipaul, V. S. |
| Narayan, R. K. |
| O'Connor, Flannery |
| Orwell, George |
| Pinter, Harold |
| Plath, Sylvia |
| Porter, Katherine Anne |
| Pound, Ezra |
| Powell, Anthony |
| Rhys, Jean |
| Roy, Arundhati |
| Rushdie, Salman |
| Salinger, J. D. |
| Shields, Carol |
| Sillitoe, Alan |
| Steinbeck, John |
| Stevens, Wallace |
| Stoppard, Tom |
| Thomas, Dylan |
| Waugh, Evelyn |
| West, Nathanael |
| West, Rebecca |
| Williams, Tennessee |
| Winterson, Jeanette |
| Woolf, Virginia |
| Yeats, W. B. |
| PART 2: Studies in Modern Literature in English |
| Part 2a - British Literature |
| A survey of modern British fiction and poetry |
| The poetry of the First World War |
| The Bloomsbury Group |
| British writers of the 1930s |
| The Liverpool poets |
| Part 2b - Modern Drama |
| A survey of modern British, Irish, and American drama |
| Part 2c - Critical Studies of Modern Literature |
| Modernism and popular literature |
| Language in Modern literature |
| Part 2d - Postmodern Literature |
| Introduction to postmodern literature |
| Part 2e - Postcolonial Literature |
| Introduction to postcolonial literature |
| Part 2f - Feminist Literature |
| Women's rewritings: Margaret Atwood's 'Gertrude Talks Back' |
| Postcolonial feminist theory |
| Part 2g - American Literature |
| A survey of Modern American fiction and poetry |
| Modern American poetry: Elizabeth Bishop and her influence |
| Part 2h - Australian Literature |
| Postcolonialism and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs |
| Part 2i - Canadian Literature |
| A survey of modern Canadian literature |
| Part 2j - Caribbean Literature |
| Identity and Caribbean literature |
| Part 2k - Indian Literature in English |
| Rabindranath Tagore's English Gitanjali: Defining Modernity in the East |
| Indian women writers |
| Part 2l - Irish Literature |
| The Irish Cultural Revival, W. B. Yeats, and Postcolonialism |
| Part 2m - South African Literature |
| A survey of South African literature |
| PART 3: Reference Materials |
| Part 3a - Glossary |
| Part 3b - Awards, prizes, and laureateships |
| Part 3c - Chronological list of writers of modern literature in English |
| Part 3d - Time chart |
| Index |
About the Author(s):
Ian Mackean, Tutor on distance learning course in English Literature at London School of Journalism
Readership:
The educated general reader plus students on modular or short courses
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