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Chargement... The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: 1960-2000: The Last of England?par Randall Stevenson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Well written and comprehensive, I'd recommend this to most people. Stevenson's obviously committed to all the lit department pieties about 'difference' and 'experiment' and naval gazing as a form of radical politics, but to his enormous credit that doesn't turn this book into a hot mess. His analysis of the ways that immigrant communities have hooked in nicely to postmodern literary methods was fascinating, although brief, and terrifying considering that this is meant to be an argument which supports both immigrant/post-colonial writing - a lot of which is fabulous enough not to need such dubious support - *and* said postmodern methods, which clearly need to be criticized far more severely than Stevenson seems willing to admit. Anyway, it's slow going to start with, but persist or just skip to the sections on poetry, drama and narrative, which are really great. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during the sixties, and throughout the rest of the century. Drama thrived on its rapidly rebuiltfoundations. New freedoms of style and form revitalised fiction. Poetry, too, gradually recovered the variety and inventiveness of earlier years.As well as comprehensively charting these changes in the literary field, Randall Stevenson persuasively pinpoints their origins in the historical, social, and intellectual pressures of the times. Literary developments are revealingly related to the wider evolution and profound changes in Englishexperience in the late twentieth century - to shadows of war and loss of empire; declining influences of class; shifting relations between the genders; emergent minority and counter-cultures; and the broadening democratization of contemporary life in general.Analyses of the rise of literary theory, of publishing and the book trade, and of the pervasive influences of modernism and postmodernism contribute further to an impressively thorough, insightful description of writing in the later twentieth century - a literary period Stevenson shows to be farmore imaginative and exciting than has yet been recognized. Lucid, accessible, and engaging, this volume of the Oxford English Literary History presents a unique illumination of its age - one we have lived through, but are only just beginning to understand. The first full account of its period, itwill set the agenda for discussion of late twentieth-century literature for many years to come. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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