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Produktbeskrivelse

The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of culture novel. Reading across and against the grain of received patterns of literary association, tracing a line from Hardy and Forster, through Woolf, Waugh and Bowen, to Barstow, Fowles, Rendell, Naipaul, Amis, Kureishi and Smith, he elucidates the recurring topics and narrative logics of the genre, showing how culture emerges as a special ground of social conflict, above all between classes. The narrative evaluations of culture's ends-the aspirations and the destinies of those whose lives are the subject of these novels-grow steadily darker over time, and the writing itself grows more introverted.

A concluding discussion elicits the characteristics of the English condition of culture novel, in an international setting, and closes in, finally, on the central conundrum of the genre: its uncanny reprise, in its own plane, of the historical arc of the modern labour movement in Britain, from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century through its post-war heyday to the seemingly inexorable decline of recent decades.

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Funktioner

Genre

Klassikere

Sprogversion

Engelsk

Bogomslagstype

Indbundet

Antal sider

176 Sider

Skrevet af

Francis Mulhern

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Verso

Udgivelsesdato

26/01/2016

International standard bookingnummer (ISBN)

9781784781910

Mindste ordremængde

1 stk

Figures of Catastrophe

204 kr.

204 kr.

Tidligere laveste pris:

206 kr.

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Fre., 18 juli - ons., 23 juli


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14 dages åbent køb


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Adlibris