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Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction [PDF]
Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez +2 more
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No Experiments Please, We're British: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction in Britain
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Randall Stevenson
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This article focuses on the lexical-semantic features of the language means of contemporary British military fiction. Despite the sustained philological attention to fictional texts of different genres, the relative disregard of the lexical patterning in
Iryna Shainer +4 more
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Introduction: Material Realisms in Contemporary British Fiction
Catherine Bernard, Jean-Michel Ganteau
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Review: Lucy Arnold, Reading Hilary Mantel: Haunted Decades. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
A review of 'Reading Hilary Mantel: Haunted Decades' by Lucy Arnold.
Hywel Rowland Dix
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Anita Mason was a Booker Prize-nominated novelist who taught Creative Writing at the University of Warwick from 2007 until 2009. At the time of her death in September 2020, she left behind three unpublished short novels that provide a powerful, if ...
Colin Hutchinson
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Introducing the David Mitchell special edition of C21 Literature
Rose Harris-Birtill introduces the David Mitchell special edition of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings. Harris-Birtill provides a critical introduction to David Mitchell’s complete works, before discussing her experiences as organiser of ...
Rosemary Harris-Birtill
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The Legacy of Nineteen Eighty-Four: British Dystopias, from 1984 to the present day
This introductory piece looks back at the “Orwellian moment” that was the year 1984, which prompted a re-examination of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s potential prophecies and witnessed a dystopian resurgence in literature, then asks whether an Orwellian ...
Claire Wrobel
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Alienation in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting
This article examines how Melvin Seeman’s theory of alienation (1959) and modern alienation research manifest in Irvine Welsh’s “Trainspotting”. This is an important novel, not only because of its commercial success, but also because it depicts a ...
B.A. Senekal
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