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  • Youth Subcultures in Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

    Making a Scene

    de Nick Bentley ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This bookoffers a unique interdisciplinary examination of how youth subcultures have been articulated and constructed in selected fiction from the post-war period to the twenty-first century. It provides a theoretical underpinning for the analysis of subcultures and scenes in literary fiction, identifying approaches set against key theories from subcultural studies, sociology, and criminology as ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • The 2010s

    A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

    Series series The Decades Series
    This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends, such as the rise of a new working-class fiction, the ongoing development of separate national literatures of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and shifts in modes of attention and reading.From the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash to ... Leer más

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  • Contemporary British Fiction

    de Nick Bentley ...
    Series series Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
    This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a range of British novelists including Monica Ali, Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson. ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

    How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction?The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and 2010. This volume explores how the socio-political and economic turns of the decade, bookended by the beginning of a millennium and an economic crisis, transformed the act of writing and reading. ... Leer más

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  • The 1950s

    A Decade of Modern British Fiction

    Series series The Decades Series
    How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction?As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media

    Teenage Dreams

    Series series History (R0)
    This collection explores the representation, articulation and construction of youth subcultures in a range of texts and contexts. It brings together scholars working in literary studies, screen studies, sociology and cultural studies whose research interests lie in the aesthetics and cultural politics of youth. It contributes to, and extends, contemporary theoretical perspectives around youth and ... Leer más

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  • British Fiction of the 1990s

    Edición de Nick Bentley ...
    The 1990s proved to be a particularly rich and fascinating period for British fiction. This book presents a fresh perspective on the diverse writings that appeared over the decade, bringing together leading academics in the field. British Fiction of the 1990s:traces the concerns that emerged as central to 1990s fiction, in sections on millennial anxieties, identity politics, the relationship ... Leer más

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    Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders

    Edición de Martyn Colebrook, Katharine Cox ...
    This collection of 12 new essays brings together prominent literary experts to explore the importance of Scottish writer Iain (M.) Banks, both his mainstream and science fiction work. It considers Banks as a habitual border crosser who makes things fresh and new by subversive and transgressive strategies. The essays are divided into four thematic areas--the Scottish context, the geographies of his ... Leer más

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  • The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom

    Borders, Intimacy, Terror

    de Bruce Bennett ...
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    This comprehensive study of prolific British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom explores the thematic, stylistic, and intellectual consistencies running through his eclectic and controversial body of work. This volume undertakes a close analysis of a TV series directed by Winterbottom and sixteen of his films ranging from television dramas to transnational co-productions featuring Hollywood stars, and ... Leer más

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  • Children's Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

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    Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Leer más

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  • Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema

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    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen. ... Leer más

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  • Post-Apocalyptic Culture

    Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel

    In Post-Apocalyptic Culture, Teresa Heffernan poses the question: what is at stake in a world that no longer believes in the power of the end? Although popular discourse increasingly understands apocalypse as synonymous with catastrophe, historically, in both its religious and secular usage, apocalypse was intricately linked to the emergence of a better world, to revelation, and to disclosure.In ... Leer más

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