The AfterMode. Significant Choices in Contemporary British Fiction
Publisher: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bucharest, Romania
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9789737378255
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: The AfterMode; title: The after-Modernist odd hero and his lyricism, stemming from the parallel reality of creation: Peter Ackroyd, The Great Fire of London; title: The parallel worlds of a dystopic mind: Peter Ackroyd, The Plato Papers; title: The text in the mirror, or the rewind technique: Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow; title: Morals and the fairy tale: Julian Barnes, Love, etc.; title: The academic fascist: Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man; title: The author and the academic fight for Possession of the text: A.S. Byatt, Possession; title: Rewriting and denying romance: A.S. Byatt, Still Life; title: Rewriting romance as fear: Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop; title: The after-Modernist Prince Charming disappoints the fairy tale: Tracy Chevalier, Girl With A Pearl Earring; title: The small-talk novel about the end of the human race: Jonathan Coe, The Accidental Woman; title: Can the interest in ‘They lived happily ever after’ be revived? Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary; title: A late after-Modernist Born Free novelist: Laura Hird, Born Free; title: The Jamesian suspense: Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans; title: Diabolically planned deferral of meaning: Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go; title: The awkward choice of the after-Modernist narrator: Tale or dystopia?  Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia; title: The self-sentimentalizing narrator and her Stream of Incidents: Doris Lessing, The Sweetest Dream; title: The text and the feeling: David Lodge, Thinks...; title: A rewriting of fear as terror: Ian Mc Ewan, Saturday; title: An elegy on violence: Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet; title: The narrative failure: Michelle Roberts, Daughters of the House; title: Love (fairy tale) thwarted by violence (dystopia): Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown; title: A primary of tenderness: Graham Swift, The Light of Day; title: The story restored: Rose Tremain, Restoration; title: The aggressively ambiguous text: Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body; title: Bibliography; title: Index