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True Crime and Contemporary Crime Fiction

Crime Fiction Studies, 2022
The incorporation of thematic and formal references to true-crime texts in recent British and Irish crime novels shows fiction authors acknowledging that they share an audience with true-crime podcasts, documentaries and books.
Victoria Stewart
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Narratives of Disposability in Contemporary British Fiction: Monica Ali's In the Kitchen and John Lanchester's Capital

, 2020
The purpose of this article is to analyse Monica Ali's In the Kitchen (2009) and John Lanchester's Capital (2012). I draw on the notion of disposability (Evans and Giroux, Standing, and Bauman) to delve into the concepts of neoliberal subjectivity and ...
Silvia Caporale-Bizzini
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The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction

, 2019
In the twenty-first century, leading publishers are under intense pressure from their conglomerate owners and shareholders to generate growth and profits. This book shows how these pressures have transformed the contemporary novel.
Paul Crosthwaite
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Survey on Teaching Contemporary British Fiction

Changing English, 2007
The teaching of contemporary British fiction in English departments in the United Kingdom is reviewed. The study primarily focuses upon evaluative engagement with current teaching. The literary and theoretical texts taught on courses are considered, as are the use and availability of different kinds of supplementary literary‐critical materials.
Philip Tew, Mark Addis
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The Success and Ambiguity of Young Adult Literature: Merging Literary Modes in Contemporary British Fiction

Publije, 2018
This paper focuses on novels addressed to that category of older teenagers called “young adults”, a particularly successful category that is traditionally regarded as a subpart of children’s literature and yet terminologically insists on overriding the ...
V. Douglas
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The powers of exposure: risk and vulnerability in contemporary British fiction

Fiction in the Age of Risk, 2017
This article opens by exploring the evocations in Jonathan Coe’s novel, Number 11, of contemporary forms of social, economic and political precariousness.
Jean-Michel Ganteau
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Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction

2011
This volume is the first book of criticism to provide a systematic analysis of a corpus of emblematic contemporary British fictions from the combined perspective of trauma theory and ethics. Although the fictional work of writers such as Graham Swift has already been approached from this perspective, none of the individual works or authors under ...
Ganteau, Jean-Michel, Onega, Susana
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The polyphonic novel in contemporary British fiction

2020
This thesis offers an alternative history of contemporary British fiction by centralizing the conception of genre as a ‘way of seeing and conceptualizing the world. By recontextualizing and reintroducing the polyphonic novel as a distinctive, emergent (cf.
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