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02886aam a2200397 i 4500 001 4692C2D845E811E3A4FDE4CADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20131105010132 008 130220s2013 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013000014 020 $a 052118729X (paperback) 020 $a 9780521187299 (paperback) 020 $a 1107006910 (hardback) 020 $a 9781107006911 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)828181711 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CDX $d IUL $d CHVBK $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR889 $b .B69 2013 082 00 $a 823/.9209 $2 23 100 1 $a Boxall, Peter. 245 10 $a Twenty-first-century fiction : $b a critical introduction / $c Peter Boxall, University of Sussex. 264 1 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2013. 300 $a x, 266 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament - one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge established notions of democracy, humanity, and national and global sovereignty. Peter Boxall traces formal and thematic similarities in the novels of contemporary writers including Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, as well as David Mitchell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, Ali Smith, Amy Waldman and Roberto BolanÌo. In doing so, Boxall maps new territory for scholars, students and interested readers of today's literature by exploring how these authors narrate shared cultural life in the new century"-- Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-258) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: twenty-first century fiction -- 1. Late culture in the early twenty-first century -- 2. Inheriting the past: literature and historical memory in the twenty-first century -- 3. The limits of the human -- 4. A curious knot: terrorism, radicalism, the avant-garde -- 5. Sovereignty, democracy, globalisation -- Conclusion: the future of the novel. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Commonwealth fiction (English) $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Fiction $x History and criticism $y 21st century. $2 idszbzes 941 $a 4 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724071749.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220802021542.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180125021951.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20140531010730.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4692C2D845E811E3A4FDE4CADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search