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CONTENTS
The AfterMode
The after-Modernist odd hero and his lyricism, stemming from the parallel reality of creation: Peter Ackroyd, The Great Fire of London
The parallel worlds of a dystopic mind: Peter Ackroyd, The Plato Papers
The text in the mirror, or the rewind technique: Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow
Morals and the fairy tale: Julian Barnes, Love, etc.
The academic fascist: Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man
The author and the academic fight for Possession of the text: A.S. Byatt, Possession
Rewriting and denying romance: A.S. Byatt, Still Life
Rewriting romance as fear: Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
The after-Modernist Prince Charming disappoints the fairy tale: Tracy Chevalier, Girl With A Pearl Earring
The small-talk novel about the end of the human race: Jonathan Coe, The Accidental Woman
Can the interest in ‘They lived happily ever after’ be revived? Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
A late after-Modernist Born Free novelist: Laura Hird, Born Free
The Jamesian suspense: Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
Diabolically planned deferral of meaning: Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
The awkward choice of the after-Modernist narrator: Tale or dystopia? Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
The self-sentimentalizing narrator and her Stream of Incidents: Doris Lessing, The Sweetest Dream
The text and the feeling: David Lodge, Thinks...
A rewriting of fear as terror: Ian Mc Ewan, Saturday
An elegy on violence: Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet
The narrative failure: Michelle Roberts, Daughters of the House
Love (fairy tale) thwarted by violence (dystopia): Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown
A primary of tenderness: Graham Swift, The Light of Day
The story restored: Rose Tremain, Restoration
The aggressively ambiguous text: Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Bibliography
Index

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