Twenty-First Century Fiction : What Happens Now / edited by Siân Adiseshiah, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Lincoln, UK and Rupert Hildyard, Principal Lecturer in English, University of Lincoln, UK.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-231) and index.
Contents:
Finding the right kind of attention : dystopia and transcendence in John Burnside's Glister / Florian Niedlich. Tough shit Erich Auerbach : contingency and estrangement in David Peace's Occupied city and Kate Summerscale's The suspicions of Mr Whicher / Phil Redpath -- When the two sevens clash : David Peace's Nineteen seventy-seven as "occult history" / Dean Lockwood -- Remaindered books : Glen Duncan's twenty-first century novels / Alice Bennett -- "The journey creates us. We become the frontiers we cross" : stepping across lines in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the clown / Daniel O'Gorman -- "The private rooms and public haunts" : theatricality and the city of London in Michel Faber's The crimson petal and the white / Lin Petersson -- "This is my opa. Do you remember him killing the Jews?" : Rachel Seiffert's "Micha" and the transgenerational haunting of a silenced past / María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro -- A voice without a name : gothic homelessness in Ali Smith's Hotel world and Trezza Azzopardi's Remember me / Emily Horton -- Ghosts of postmodernity : spectral epistemology and haunting in Hilary Mantel's Fludd and Beyond black / Wolfgang Funk -- Intimations of immortality : semiologies of ageing and the lineaments of eternity in contemporary prose / Lucy Perry -- Crosshatching : boundary crossing in the post-millennial British boom / Jude Roberts -- "You just know when the world is about to break apart" : utopia, dystopia, and new global uncertainties in Sarah Hall's The Carhullan army / Iain Robinson -- Finding the right kind of attention : dystopia and transcendence in John Burnside's Glister / Florian Niedlich.
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