Theme parks, rainforests and sprouting wastelands : : European essays on theory and performance in contemporary British fiction / / edited by Richard Todd & Luisa Flora.
This lively and fascinating new collection of European essays on contemporary Anglophone fiction has arisen out of the ESSE/3 Conference, which was held in Glasgow in September 1995. The contributors live and work in University English Departments in Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ital...
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Superior document: | Costerus new series ; Volume 123 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Brill,, [2000] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2000 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Costerus ;
Volume 123. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Summary: | This lively and fascinating new collection of European essays on contemporary Anglophone fiction has arisen out of the ESSE/3 Conference, which was held in Glasgow in September 1995. The contributors live and work in University English Departments in Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain, as well as in the United Kingdom itself. Essays on general theoretical aspects of the subject head and conclude the collection, and there are also essays on individual writers or groups of writers, such as John Fowles, A.S. Byatt, Charles Palliser, Peter Ackroyd, William Golding, Doris Lessing, Daphne du Maurier, Angela Carter and Christina Stead. The performative aspect of the subject-matter of these essays is balanced by a locational aspect, including utopian and dystopian writing in authors as diverse as Michael Crichton, Jenny Diski and Salman Rushdie, and the travel literature of Bruce Chatwin. These essays show theoretical alertness, but no single theoretical position is privileged. The aim of the collection is to provide an indication of the range of work being carried out throughout European academe on Anglophone (mainly British) writing today. |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789004454941 9789042005020 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Richard Todd & Luisa Flora. |