Description
Book SynopsisTHE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have c
Trade Review“With this astounding project and a joint effort of editors and scholars, the companion is of great help for students and scholars in need of an introduction to certain authors and a comprehensive view of the contemporary British and Irish literature.” - Review of Irish Studies in Europe 4 (2):144-49
Table of ContentsVolume One
Preface
Richard Bradford
Part One
1. Before Now: An Essay on Pre-Contemporary Fiction and Poetry
Richard Bradford
2. British Literature Today: 21st century British literature
Stephen Butler
3. Introduction to Contemporary Irish Writing
James Ward
4. Overview of Modern/Contemporary Drama
Kevin De Ornellas
Part Two
5. Aidan Higgins: Disguised Autobiographies
Neil Murphy
6. Brian Friel
Graham Price
7. Alan Bennett
Joseph H. O’Mealy
8. Edward Bond
Peter Billingham
9. Seamus Heaney
Adam Hanna
10. Michael Moorcock
Mark Williams
11. Angela Carter
Anja Muller-Wood
12. Christina Reid
Michal Lachman
13. Bernard MacLaverty
Richard Russell
13a. Eavan Boland's Poetry: The Inoperative Community
Pilar Villar-Argáiz
14. I am, therefore I think: being and thinking inside the world of John Banville’s fiction
Alisa Hemphill
15. Julian Barnes (born 1946)
Vanessa Guignery
16. Where They Are: Language and Place in James Kelman’s Fiction
Johnny Rodger
17. Howard Barker (and the Art of Theatre)
Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Vanasay Khamphommala
18. Marina Lewycka
Heather Fielding
19. Dermot Healy (1947-2014)
Keith Hopper
20. David Edgar
Sean Carney
21. Ian McEwan
Brian Diemert
22. Tom Paulin - Writer and Translator
Stephanie Schwerter
23. Graham Swift
Daniel Lea
24. Martin Amis
Andrew James
25. Peter Ackroyd
Jean-Michel Ganteau
26. Patrick McGrath
Sue Zlosnik
27. Medbh Mcguckian
Barbola Farago
28. Paul Muldoon
Alex Alonso
29. William Boyd: ‘Fiction… so real you forget it is fiction’
Christine Berberich
30. ‘Some of these things are true, and some of them lies. But they are all good stories’: the Historical Fiction of Hilary Mantel
Laura J Burkinshaw
31. Linton Kwesi Johnson
Emily Taylor Merriman
32. Hanif Kureishi
Laurenz Volkmann
33. Colm Tóibín
Kathleen Costello-Sullivan
34. Janice Galloway
Dorothy Mcmillan
35. Martin Crimp
Aleks Sierz
36. Adam Thorpe
Dominic Head
37. Benjamin Zephaniah
Graham MacPhee
38. Jeanette Winterson
Susana Onega
39. Jonathan Coe
Laurent Mellet
40. From the Living Dead of Crouch End to the Brexiteers of Wolverhampton: Surprising Humanity in the Corpus of Will Self
Kevin De Ornellas
Volume Two
Preface
Richard Bradford
Part Two
41. Jackie Kay
Nerys Williams
42. Kathleen Jamie
Heather Yeung
43. Ali Smith
Monica Germanà
44. A.L. Kennedy
Monika Szuba
45. Monica Ali
Michael Perfect
46. Sarah Waters
Natasha Alden
47. David Greig
Clare Wallace
48. David Mitchell
Patrick O’Donnell
49. Emma Donoghue
Abigail Palko
50. Hari Kunzru
Peter Childs
51. Mark O’Rowe
David Clare
52. Conor McPherson
Eamonn Jordan
53. China Miéville
Eric Sandberg
54. Zadie Smith
Chris Holmes
Part Three
55. Experiment and Tradition in Contemporary Poetry
David Wheatley
56. Reproducing the Nation: Nationed Social Imaginaries in Contemporary Scottish Literature
Arianna Introna
57. Welsh Writing in English (c. 1990 - present)
D.J. Howells
58. Eccentrics, Gentlemen, Officers And Spies: Englishness And Identity In The Contemporary British Novel
Elsa Cavalié
59. LGBT and Fiction
Joseph Ronan
60. British Science Fiction 1990-2017: Technology Themed Fiction in the Light of the New Millennium and Speculative ‘Singularity’
Dr Grace Halden
61. British Influences on the Graphic Novel: a Discussion of the ‘Invasion’ Model of Interpretation
Hugo Frey
62. The Girl-Hero for the New Millennia: Alice’s Great-great-granddaughters in Post-Gender Fantasy Worlds
Katharine Kittredge
63. Contemporary British Gothic: the C21st ghost story.
Katherine Byrne
64. Post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction
Dr. George Legg
65. Globalisation and its Discontents in Twenty-First Century British and Irish Crime Fiction
Stephen Butler
66. British Psychogeographical Fiction
Eva M. Pérez-Rodríguez
67. Representing gender: The Resurgence of Androgyny in Contemporary British Literature
Justine Goneaud
68. Approaches to Modern, Contemporary Drama
Kevin De Ornellas
69. Verbatim Theatre
Cyrielle Garson
70. ‘It had stopped being history and turned into experience’: An Approach to the Historical Novel.
Rebecca Devine
71. Global Literature and the Death of the Novel: Rushdie in Retro-Persepective
Madelena Gonzalez
72. Strange Metaphors: Contemporary Black Writing in Britain
Jenni Ramone
73. Public-Facing Literature: Festivals, Prizes, and Social Media
Millicent Weber
