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Twenty-First Century Fiction: What Happens Now by S. Adiseshiah

This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David Peace, Margaret Atwood, and Hilary Mantel, and identifications of 21st-century themes, tropes and styles combine to produce a timely critical intervention into genuinely contemporary fiction.

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Alice Bennett, Liverpool Hope University, UK. Wolfgang Funk, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany Jennifer Hodgson, postgraduate researcher, Durham University, UK Emily Horton, Brunel University, UK. Dean Lockwood, University of Lincoln, UK Maria Jesus Martinez-Alfaro, University of Zaragoza, Spain Florian Niedlich, University of Wurzburg, Germany Daniel O'Gorman, postgraduate researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Lucy Perry, An-Najah National University, Palestine Lin Pettersson, University of Malaga, Spain Phil Redpath, University of Lincoln, UK Jude Roberts, postgraduate researcher, University of Nottingham, UK Iain Robinson, University of East Anglia, UK

1. Introduction: What Happens Now; Sian Adiseshiah and Rupert Hildyard 2. Such a Thing as Avant Garde Has Ceased to Exist: The Hidden Legacies of the British Experimental Novel; Jenny Hodgson 3. Tough Shit Erich Auerbach: Contingency and Estrangement in David Peace's Occupied City and Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher ; Phil Redpath 4. When the Two Sevens Clash: David Peace's Nineteen Seventy-Seven as 'Occult History'; Dean Lockwood 5. Remaindered Books: Glen Duncan's Twenty-First-Century Novels; Alice Bennett 6. 'The journey creates us. We become the frontiers we cross': Stepping Across Lines in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown ; Daniel O'Gorman 7. 'The Private Rooms and Public Haunts': Theatricality and the City of London in Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White ; Lin Pettersson 8. 'This is my Opa. Do you remember him killing the Jews?': Rachel Seiffert's ' Micha ' and the Transgenerational Haunting of a Silenced Past; Maria Jesus Martinez-Alfaro 9. A Voice without a Name: Gothic Homelessness in Ali Smith's Hotel World and Trezza Azzopardi's Remember Me ; Emily Horton 10. Ghosts of Postmodernity - Spectral Epistemology and Haunting in Hilary Mantel's Fludd and Beyond Black ; Wolfgang Funk 11. Intimations of Immortality: Semiologies of Ageing and the Lineaments of Eternity in Contemporary Prose; Lucy Perry 12. Crosshatching: Boundary Crossing in the Post-millennial British Boom; Jude Roberts 13. 'You just know when the world is about to break apart': Utopia, Dystopia, and New Global Uncertainties in Sarah Hall's The Carhullan Army ; Iain Robinson 14. Finding the Right Kind of Attention: Dystopia and Transcendence in John Burnside's Glister; Florian Niedlich Introduction: Glister, Romantic Thought and the Religious Turn Dystopia and Transcendence Conclusion: A Form of Reading

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9781349442171

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Title

Twenty-First Century Fiction: What Happens Now by S. Adiseshiah

Author

S. Adiseshiah

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year published

2013-01-01

Number of pages

239

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Twenty-First Century Fiction S. Adiseshiah

Twenty-First Century Fiction by S. Adiseshiah

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