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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Realism and other -isms -- 1. Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro -- 2. Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas -- 3. The Unnatural Scene: The Fiction of Irvine Welsh -- 4. Angela Carter's Magic Realism -- 5. Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman -- 6. One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis' Fiction -- Part II: Postcolonialism and other -isms -- 7. Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions -- 8. Salman Rushdie's Fathers -- 9. Postcolonialism and 'The Figure of the Jew': Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith -- 10. Mingling and Metamorphing: Articulations of Feminism and Postcoloniality in Marina Warner's Fiction -- Part III: Feminism and other -isms -- 11. Regeneration, Redemption, Resurrection: Pat Barker and the Problem of Evil -- 12. 'Partial to Intensity': The Novels of A. L. Kennedy -- 13. Gender and Creativity in the Fictions of Janice Galloway -- 14. Appetite, Desire and Belonging in the Novels of Rose Tremain -- 15. Desire for Syzygy in the Novels of A. S. Byatt -- 16 Jeanette Winterson and the Lesbian Postmodern: Story-telling, Performativity and the Gay Aesthetic -- Part IV: Postmodernism and other -isms -- 17. (Re)Constituted Pasts: Postmodern Historicism in the Novels of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes -- 18. Colonising the Past: The Novels of Peter Ackroyd -- 19. Player of Games: Iain (M.) Banks, Jean-François Lyotard and Sublime Terror -- Notes on Contributors -- Index GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618958);Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists: Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Janice Galloway, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, Hanif Kureishi, Ian McEwan, Caryl Philips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, Marina Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson.The book will be of interest not only to students, teachers and lecturers, but to the general reader seeking help in approaching the often baffling novels of the recent past.Key FeaturesLiterary critical 'isms' are described in clear, jargon-free language. Focuses on British fiction since 1980 giving coverage of established authors such as Angela Carter and Ian McEwan as well as little addressed novelists such as James Kelman and Zadie Smith. Essays are by leading scholars in contemporary fiction."
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