- Hardcover: 328 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; 1st Edition edition (3 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199249326
- ISBN-13: 978-0199249329
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 18 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,030,358 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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On Modern British Fiction is to be welcomed by all kinds of readers. Anyone who cares about the nature and effect of current writing will want to read these very acute and well-researched essays. (Contemporary Review )
... the volume offers delights, insights and even a few personal memoirs. For this reason (the sheer eclecticism of the material) the result is a fascinating symposium ranging from artistic credos to revisionist perspectives ... an ambitious and learned collection of essays. (Contemporary Review )
... an enlightening collection. (Good Book Guide )
... lively and diverse collection. (Daily Telegraph )
Anyone at all interested in fiction (or indeed in what it is to be 'modern' or 'British') will find at least three or four of these essays worth the price of the book. (Caroline Moore, The Spectator )
This is a fine collection for sending a reader back to the sparkling source from whence it came. (Erica Wagner, The Times )
... a roll-call of contributors. (The Spectator )
With a range of contributors comprising the very pick of contemporary novelists, critics, essayists, jounalists and academics, if any book stands to illuminate [the state of modern British fiction], this is it. (William Sutcliffe, The Independent on Sunday )
... the volume offers delights, insights and even a few personal memoirs. For this reason (the sheer eclecticism of the material) the result is a fascinating symposium ranging from artistic credos to revisionist perspectives ... an ambitious and learned collection of essays. (Contemporary Review )
... an enlightening collection. (Good Book Guide )
... lively and diverse collection. (Daily Telegraph )
Anyone at all interested in fiction (or indeed in what it is to be 'modern' or 'British') will find at least three or four of these essays worth the price of the book. (Caroline Moore, The Spectator )
This is a fine collection for sending a reader back to the sparkling source from whence it came. (Erica Wagner, The Times )
... a roll-call of contributors. (The Spectator )
With a range of contributors comprising the very pick of contemporary novelists, critics, essayists, jounalists and academics, if any book stands to illuminate [the state of modern British fiction], this is it. (William Sutcliffe, The Independent on Sunday )
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I am always confused when I read the word "modern". What does it mean? Is it "modern" as in "modernism" as opposed to Postmodernism? Well, I am mainly interested in "Lad lit", and this lit is quite the opposite of "modernism". Modern here means today's literature, or today's fiction. But is it Literature?? Some say: NO, it is not!
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