Reading the Novel in English 1950 - 2000ISBN: 978-1-4051-0113-4
Hardcover
276 pages
September 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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“This is an excellent introductory study, consisting of a
series of essays concerning various important Anglophone novels
from the period of the post-war to the present day. The selection
of texts is intriguing. The volume is well-informed by criticism of
the field and Shaffer’s close reading is exemplary. His
interpretations cast fresh light on some novels that have become
canonical and therefore this study is of great use to students
generally and for those teaching them.” Philip Tew,
University College Northampton; Director, UK Network for Modern
Fiction Studies
“This is a main theme to a comprehensive study of ten
novels: Kingsley Amis’s Luck Jim; William Golding’s
Lord of the Flies; Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart; Muriel
Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Jean Rhys’s Wide
Sargasso Sea; J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians;
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale; Kazuo
Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day; Patrick McCabe’s The
Butcher Boy; and Graham Smith’s Last Orders…[Reading
the Novel in English 1950-2000] is an asset to anyone who
teaches any of these novels.”
English Literature in Transition 1880 – 1920