An Introduction to Contemporary Fiction
Subtitle: International Writing in English Since 1970
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: July 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780745619576
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Literary Criticism; English fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literature: Classics; General; ENGLISH LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_20TH CENTURY; FICTION_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_20TH CENTURY; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Commonwealth fiction (English); 20th century; American fiction; History and criticism
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.