The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing

Name: The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing
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In 1963 President John F. Kennedy was shot, Sylvia Plath published The Bell Jar , and the Beatles were in their prime. This was a changing world, which British and Irish writers both contributed to and reflected in drama, poetry and prose. The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing tells the story of British and Irish writing from 1963 to the present. From the first performance of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in the 1960s to lad novels and Chick Lit in the twenty-first century, the authors guide the reader through the major writers, genres and developments in English writing over the past forty years. Providing an in-depth overview of the main genres and extensive treatment of a wide range of writers including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Angela Carter, Benjamin Zephaniah and Nick Hornby, this highly readable handbook also offers notes on language issues, quotations from selected works, a timeline and a guide to other works. Drawing on the prize-winning The Routledge History of Literature in English (second edition 2001) by the same authors, The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing is essential reading for all those interested in contempora

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November 20th, 2003

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General (US: Trade)
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

232

Dimensions

129x198x19

ISBN-13

9780415286374

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1682080

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