Introduction to Contemporary Fiction
Subtitle: International Writing in English Since, 1970
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: June 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780745619569
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; General; 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; 20th Century English Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; USA; History and criticism; FICTION_COLLECTIONS; Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); 20th century; American fiction; Commonwealth fiction (English); English fiction
First sentence: The 'question of the subject' is one of the most overt and recurring concerns of twentieth-century fiction, perhaps in part a result of the influence of psychological writings from James and Havelock Ellis to Freud, Lacan, Kristeva and Foucault.