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Reading the Novel in English 1950 - 2000

Brian W. Shaffer

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft

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Reading the Novel in English 1950-2000; "This is an excellent introductory study. The selection of texts is intriguing. The volume is well-informed by criticism of the field and Shaffer's close reading is exemplary. His interpretations cast fresh light on some novels that have become canonical and therefore this study is of great use to students generally and for those teaching them." Philip Tew, University College Northampton; Director, UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of English-language novel writing in the second half of the twentieth century. It focuses equally on British and Irish novelists, and on Anglophone novelists from other countries (exclusive of the US). The text provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of ten influential novels. It maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding the fiction of the period, considering subjects such as the aftermath of literary modernism and the end of the British Empire. Novels discussed in depth include Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. The author treats the English-language novel of this period as a socially-engaged and exploratory genre, one that challenges and stretches the prevailing canons of knowledge and literary representation in its bid to depict and probe an evolving present.

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(Year's Work in English Studies, 2008)
"Shaffer provides an informative and contextualizing introduction that deals with issues of form and the shift from the 'English novel' to the 'novel in English' that was an important change in English literary studies over the period covered. The book is written in an accessible style that reflects its status as an introduction to the fiction of the period. The novels are well chosen, take an international focus, and provide a representative snapshot of fiction in English over the period ... .There is a sensitive reading of each novel that takes into account the historical and cultural contexts informing them. Taken all in all, the book is a good introduction to the period and thus achieves what it sets out to do."
(English Literature in Transition 1880 - 1920)
"This is a main theme to a comprehensive study of ten novels: Kingsley Amis's Luck Jim; William Golding's Lord of the Flies; Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea; J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians; Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day; Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy; and Graham Smith's Last Orders...[Reading the Novel in English 1950-2000] is an asset to anyone who teaches any of these novels."

"This is an excellent introductory study, consisting of a series of essays concerning various important Anglophone novels from the period of the post-war to the present day. The selection of texts is intriguing. The volume is well-informed by criticism of the field and Shaffer's close reading is exemplary. His interpretations cast fresh light on some novels that have become canonical and therefore this study is of great use to students generally and for those teaching them."

-Philip Tew, University College Northampton; Director, UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies
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Literaturwissenschaft, Literature, Literaturkritik u. -geschichte, Englische Literatur / 20. Jhd., 20th Century English Literature, Literary Criticism & History