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LEADER: 02513cam a2200313 i 4500
001 2013000014
003 DLC
005 20130926075933.0
008 130220s2013 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013000014
020 $a9781107006911 (hardback)
020 $a9780521187299 (paperback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR889$b.B69 2013
082 00 $a823/.9209$223
100 1 $aBoxall, Peter.
245 10 $aTwenty-first-century fiction :$ba critical introduction /$cPeter Boxall, University of Sussex.
264 1 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2013.
300 $ax, 266 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament - one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge established notions of democracy, humanity, and national and global sovereignty. Peter Boxall traces formal and thematic similarities in the novels of contemporary writers including Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, as well as David Mitchell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, Ali Smith, Amy Waldman and Roberto Bolaño. In doing so, Boxall maps new territory for scholars, students and interested readers of today's literature by exploring how these authors narrate shared cultural life in the new century"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-258) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction: twenty-first century fiction; 1. Late culture in the early twenty-first century; 2. Inheriting the past: literature and historical memory in the twenty-first century; 3. The limits of the human; 4. A curious knot: terrorism, radicalism, the avant-garde; 5. Sovereignty, democracy, globalization; Bibliography; Index.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aCommonwealth fiction (English)$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.