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008			130220s2013 enka b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2013000014
020			_a9781107006911 (hardback)
020			_a9780521187299 (paperback)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dDLC
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPR889 _b.B69 2013
082	0	0	_a823.9209 BOX-P _223
100	1		_aBoxall, Peter
245	1	0	_aTwenty-first-century fiction : _ba critical introduction / _cPeter Boxall
260			_aNew York _bCambridge University Press _c2013
300			_a266 p.
365			_aUSD _b29.99.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-258) and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction: twenty-first century fiction; 1. Late culture in the early twenty-first century; 2. Inheriting the past: literature and historical memory in the twenty-first century; 3. The limits of the human; 4. A curious knot: terrorism, radicalism, the avant-garde; 5. Sovereignty, democracy, globalization; Bibliography; Index.
520			_a"The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament - one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge established notions of democracy, humanity, and national and global sovereignty. Peter Boxall traces formal and thematic similarities in the novels of contemporary writers including Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, as well as David Mitchell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, Ali Smith, Amy Waldman and Roberto Bolaño. In doing so, Boxall maps new territory for scholars, students and interested readers of today's literature by exploring how these authors narrate shared cultural life in the new century"--
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y21st century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _y21st century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aCommonwealth fiction (English) _y21st century _xHistory and criticism.
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955			_brg16 2013-02-20 _irg16 2013-02-20 ONIX to Dewey _axn09 2013-08-01 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
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