This engaging book sets English literature since 1960 in its political and cultural context. From the end of empire in the sixties, through the attempts in the 1970s to maintain a "common culture" through education, good literature, and state subsidies for the Arts, to the 1980s when there was a shift toward the acknowledgement of a multiplicity of cultures, this was a period of considerable change and development. Waugh looks at the effects of the fragmentation of English culture and examines the new and varied voices that grew up as a result of this proliferation of cultures.

Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and Its Background 1960 to 1990 (Opus)

Literature & Fiction

Waugh, Patricia

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

Waugh presents an analysis of the relations between feminism and postmodernism both through a theoretical investigation and through readings of modern fiction. Authors discussed include Woolf, Drabble, Plath and Walker. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of modern fiction, women's studies, psychoanalysis, contemporary literature, literary theory.

Feminine fictions: Revisiting the postmodern

Routledge

Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Post Modern

History & Criticism

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (New Accents)

Metafication focuses on the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the political, social and economic factors which have an effet on the critical judgement of fiction.

Literary

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Metafiction (New Accents) (Volume 17)

Feminine Fictions (Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature)

‘Postmodernism’ and ‘feminism’ have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waugh addresses the relationship between feminist and postmodernist writing and theory through the insights of psychoanalysis and in the context of the development of modern fiction in Britain and America. She attempts to uncover the reasons why women writers have been excluded from the considerations of postmodern art. Her route takes her through the theorization of self offered by Freud and Lacan and on to the concept of subjectivity articulated by Kleinian and later object-relations psychoanalysts. She argues that much women’s writing has been inappropriately placed and interpreted within a predominantly formalist-orientated aesthetic and a post-Freudian/liberal, individualist conceptualization of subjectivity and artistic expression. This tendency has been intensified in discussions of postmodernism, and a new feminist aesthetic is thus badly needed. In the second part of the book Patricia Waugh analyses the work of six ‘traditional’ and six ‘experimental’ writers, challenging the restrictive definitions of ‘realist’, ‘modernist’, ‘postmodernist’ in the light of the theoretical position developed in part one. Authors covered include: Woolf (viewed as a postmodernist ‘precursor’ rather than a ‘high’ modernist), Drabble, Tyler, Plath, Brookner, Paley, Lessing, Weldon, Atwood, Walker, Spark, Russ, and Piercy.

Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern (Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature)

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‘Postmodernism’ and ‘feminism’ have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waugh addresses the relationship between feminist and postmodernist writing and theory through the insights of psychoanalysis and in the context of the development of modern fiction in Britain and America. She attempts to uncover the reasons why women writers have been excluded from the considerations of postmodern art. Her route takes her through the theorization of self offered by Freud and Lacan and on to the concept of subjectivity articulated by Kleinian and later object-relations psychoanalysts. She argues that much women’s writing has been inappropriately placed and interpreted within a predominantly formalist-orientated aesthetic and a post-Freudian/liberal, individualist conceptualization of subjectivity and artistic expression. This tendency has been intensified in discussions of postmodernism, and a new feminist aesthetic is thus badly needed. In the second part of the book Patricia Waugh analyses the work of six ‘traditional’ and six ‘experimental’ writers, challenging the restrictive definitions of ‘realist’, ‘modernist’, ‘postmodernist’ in the light of the theoretical position developed in part one. Authors covered include: Woolf (viewed as a postmodernist ‘precursor’ rather than a ‘high’ modernist), Drabble, Tyler, Plath, Brookner, Paley, Lessing, Weldon, Atwood, Walker, Spark, Russ, and Piercy.

Metafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social and economic factors which influence critical judgment of fiction. The author shows how, as the novel has been eclipsed by the mass media, novelists have sought to retain and regain a wide readership by drawing on the themes and preoccupations of these forms. Making use of contemporary fiction by such writers as Fowles, Borges, Spark, Barthelme, Brautigan, Vonnegut and Barth, and drawing on Russian Formalist theories of literary evolution, the book argues that metafiction uses parody along with popular genres and non-literary forms as a way not only of exposing the inadequate and obsolescent conventions of the classic novel, but of stuggesting the lines along which fiction might develop in the future.

Metafiction: The theory and practice of self-conscious fiction (New accents)

METHUEN

Explains how metafiction fits into the tradition of the novel, the relationship of fiction, reality, and truth, and looks at the work of contemporary writers

Book by 'Philip Rice, Patricia Waugh'

Modern Literary Theory: A Reader

Rice, Philip

Hodder Arnold

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Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and Its Background 1960 to 1990 (Opus)

Feminine fictions: Revisiting the postmodern

Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Post Modern

Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (New Accents)

Metafiction (New Accents) (Volume 17)

Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern (Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature)

Feminine Fictions (Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature)

Metafiction: The theory and practice of self-conscious fiction (New accents)

Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (New Accents)

Modern Literary Theory: A Reader