Reassessing the twentieth-century canon : from Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith / edited by Nicola Allen, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and David Simmons, University of Northampton, UK.

• 1. Snags in the Fairway: Reading Heart of Darkness / David Bradshaw -- 2. 'Hasn't got any name': Aesthetics, African Americans and Policemen in The Great Gatsby / Nicolas Tredell -- 3. Urban Spaces, Fragmented Consciousness, and Indecipherable Meaning in Mrs Dalloway / Andrew Harrison -- 4. D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in the New Century: Literary Canon and Bodily Episteme / Richard Brown -- 5. A Handful of Dust: Realism: Modernism/Irony: Sympathy / Richard Jacobs -- 6. Studied Ambivalence: The Appalling Strangeness of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock / Susie Thomas -- 7. "Come Down from Your Thinkin' and Listen a Minute": The Multiple Voices of The Grapes of Wrath / Jennifer Butler Keaton -- 8. Faulkner's Go Down, Moses Revisited / Linda Wagner-Martin -- 9. Time, Space, and Resistance: Re-Reading George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four / Lawrence Phillips -- 10. Lucky Jim: The Novel in Unchartered Times / Wasfi Shoqairat -- 11. Six Myths of On the Road, and Where These Might Lead Us / R. J. Ellis -- 12. 'Hundred-per-Cent American Con Man': Character in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / David Simmons -- 13. Herzog's Masculine Dilemmas, and the Eclipse of the Transcendental "I," / Gloria L. Cronin -- 14. Beyond Postmodernism in Alasdair Gray's Lanark / Claire Allen -- 15. Gender Vertigo: Queer Gothic and Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus / Sarah Gamble -- 16. Whole Families Paranoid at Night: Don DeLillo's White Noise / Martyn Colebrook -- 17. Hooked on Classics: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 Years On / Sonya Andermahr -- 18. Remembering and Disremembering Beloved: Lacunae and Hauntings / Gina Wisker -- 19. Embracing Uncertainty: Hanif Kureishi's Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album / Susan Alice Fischer -- 20. Samad, Hancock, the Suburbs, and Englishness: Re-reading Zadie Smith's White Teeth / Philip Tew.

Ämnesord

Engelsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

English fiction  -- History and criticism -- 20th century. (LCSH)

1900-talet  (sao)

Klassifikation

PR881 (LCC)

823.923 (DDC)