The encyclopedia of twentieth-century fiction. Volume III, Twentieth-century world fiction

Rok: 2011
ISBN: 9781405192446
OKCZID: 110878282

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The encyclopedia of twentieth-century fiction. 1st pub. Editor Brian W. SHAFFER. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 1479 s. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature. ISBN 978-1-4051-9244-6.

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This Encyclopedia is an indispensible reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over 1 million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language.Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholarsArranged in 3 volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the fieldEntries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngūgī Wa Thiong’o) and their key worksCovers the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, sci fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avante garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field (censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, Diaspora, and exile)

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