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The making of London London in contemporary literature /

London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of work by writers who have committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations, tracing a major shift in the representation of the capi...

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Main Authors: Groes, Sebastian.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
English literature > History and criticism > 20th century.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > English.
Literary studies: from c 1900 - > English.
Literature.
London (England) > In literature.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230306011
Summary: London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of work by writers who have committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations, tracing a major shift in the representation of the capital city.
'Groes has produced an impressive book, wide-ranging in its scope, subtle in its analysis and adept at keeping numerous intellectual balls in the air. It will, I have little doubt, become a standard text for students and academics working on 'contemporary' London literature, and English literature more generally.' - Alex Murray, University of Exeter, UK.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230234789, 2011.
Carrier Form: 336 p. : 30 b&w, halftones, 30.
ISBN: 9780230234789
9780230306011 :
0230306012 :
CLC: I561.064
Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction From 'ellowen deeowen' to 'Babylondon': London is a Language 'Fabricked Out Of Literature and Myth': Maureen Duffy's Londons 'Of Real Experience Mixed with Myth': Michael Moorcock 'A Zoo fit for Psychopaths': J.G. Ballard versus London 'Struck Out of Pure Invention': Iain Sinclair's London 'In Pre-ordained Patterns': Peter Ackroyd's London Palimpsests 'Beyond the Responsibility of Place': Ian McEwan's Londons 'In a Prose so Diagonal and Mood Warped': Martin Amis's London Scatology 'Through a Confusion of Languages': Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi 'Kyan you imagine dat?': The New London Languages of Zadie Smith and Monica Ali Conclusion: London Undone? Chronology of Contemporary London Notes Bibliography Index.

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