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001 2013497623
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005 20150116091644.0
008 141021s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a9781137350190
020 $a1137350199
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn881511247
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050 00 $aPR881$b.H675 2014
082 04 $a823.91409$223
100 1 $aHorton, Emily.
245 10 $aContemporary crisis fictions :$baffect and ethics in the modern British novel /$cEmily Horton.
246 1 $aAffect and ethics in the modern British novel
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 265 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Contemporary crisis fiction: A new approach to the writing of Graham Swift, Ian McEwan and Kazou Ishiguro -- Contemporary crisis fiction: Consturcting a new genre -- Curiosity of civilisation: Reappraisals of history in the fiction of Graham Swift -- Reassessing the two-culture debate: Popular Science in the fiction of Ian McEwan -- Shifting perspective and alternate landscapes: Culture and cultural politics in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro -- Epilogue: A review of contemporary crisis fiction with an emphasis on overlap between the works at a discursive level.
520 $a"Offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. All writing at the forefront of a generation, these authors sought to resuscitate the novel's ethico-political credentials, at a time which did not seem conducive to such a project."--Publishers website
650 0 $aCrisis in literature.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aSwift, Graham,$d1949-$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aMcEwan, Ian$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aIshiguro, Kazuo,$d1954-$xCriticism and interpretation.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1503/2013497623-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1503/2013497623-t.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1503/2013497623-b.html