Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2013
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349442171
Full citation:
Siân Adiseshiah, Rupert Hildyard (eds), Twenty-first century fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Twenty-first century fiction
Contents
"Such a thing as avant-garde has ceased to exist"
the hidden legacies of the British experimental novel
Jennifer Hodgson
15-33
Tough shit Erich Auerbach
contingency and estrangement in david peace's occupied city and kate Summerscale's the suspicions of mr Whicher
Phil Redpath
34-48
"The private rooms and public haunts"
theatricality and the city of London in Michel Faber's the crimson petal and the white
Lin Pettersson
97-114
"Tthis is my opa. do you remember him killing the Jews?"
Rachel Seiffert's "micha" and the transgenerational haunting of a silenced past
Maria J. Martínez-Alfaro
115-131
A voice without a name
gothic homelessness in Ali Smith's Hotel world and Trezza Azzopardi's Remember me
Emily Horton
132-146
Ghosts of postmodernity
spectral epistemology and haunting in Hilary Mantel's Fludd and beyond black
Wolfgang Funk
147-161
Intimations of immortality
sémiologies of ageing and the lineaments of eternity in contemporary prose
Lucy Perry
162-182
"You just know when the world is about to break apart"
utopia, dystopia and new global uncertainties in Sarah Hall's The Carhullan army
Iain Robinson
197-211
Finding the right kind of attention
dystopia and transcendence in John Burnside's Glister
Florian Niedlich
212-223