E. L. Doctorow

Paul Levine

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 20
• During his lifetime E. L. Doctorow was a remarkable phenomenon among contemporary American novelists. He was a serious writer who was popular, a polit... Lees meer

Iris Murdoch

Richard Todd

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 25
• Originally published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation at the time, was undoubtedly one o... Lees meer

In Defence of Fantasy

Ann Swinfen

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 22
• The modern fantasy novel might hardly seem to need a defence, but its position in contemporary literature in the 1980s was still rather ambivalent. Ma... Lees meer

A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 26
• Academic attention to science fiction and fantasy began in 1958, when the Modern Language Association scheduled its first seminar on science fiction a... Lees meer

Patrick White

John Colmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 9
• Patrick White is a giant among the moderns. His massive novels, which chart the lonely paths to truth, challenge orthodox notions about fiction and re... Lees meer

Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction

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• Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction (26 volume set) contains titles, originally published between 1977 and 1997. It includes titles on the role... Lees meer

Margaret Drabble

Joanne V Creighton

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 12
• Margaret Drabble is a writer who plays a lively role in both popular and literary culture. Widely read and studied throughout the world her novels att... Lees meer

John Fowles

Peter Conradi

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 10
• John Fowles had gained great popularity as a contemporary novelist on both sides of the Atlantic. In this comprehensive study of his work, originally ... Lees meer

Alain Robbe-Grillet

John Fletcher

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 16
• Alain Robbe-Grillet had traditionally been seen as an austere experimentalist in fiction, addicted to arid and interminable descriptions of objects li... Lees meer

Iris Murdoch

Elizabeth Dipple

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 14
• Originally published in 1982, this brilliant study provides a perceptive and up-to-date assessment of the novels of Iris Murdoch, up to and including ... Lees meer

Adolescent Female Portraits in the American Novel 1961-1981

Jane S Bakerman, Mary Jean Demarr

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 1
• Originally published in 1983, this title lists and annotates reference sources which will help readers select primary materials useful in studies of t... Lees meer

Magical Realism and the Fantastic

Amaryll Beatrice Chanady

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 5
• Every reader of literature interprets the literary text on the basis of information they have acquired from previous reading, and according to norms t... Lees meer

John Le Carré

Eric Homberger

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 18
• Since the heyday of Ian Fleming's fantasy superspy James Bond, the novels of John le Carré have held up to readers across the world a sombre, fascinat... Lees meer

Novelists in Interview

John Haffenden

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 17
• Originally published in 1985, fourteen foremost writers of fiction give detailed accounts of their writings in this absorbing collection by John Haffe... Lees meer

Donald Barthelme

Maurice Couturier, Régis Durand

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 11
• In the early 1980s Donald Barthelme was widely recognized in the United States as one of the major figures in contemporary postmodernism, a key and ce... Lees meer

Richard Brautigan

Marc Chénetier

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 6
• Few contemporary American writers have been subjected to as much laudatory abuse as Richard Brautigan who, having become famous in the 1960s, was made... Lees meer

Lord Jim

John Batchelor

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 2
• Published in 1900, Conrad's Lord Jim can in many ways be seen as the first 'modern' novel. This important full study of the book, originally published... Lees meer

Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 24
• Since The Grass is Singing was published in 1950, Doris Lessing has commanded a widespread and heterogeneous readership. Written from a feminist polit... Lees meer

Becoming a Woman Through Romance

Linda K Christian-Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 8
• A woman is incomplete without a man, motherhood is a woman's destiny, and a woman's place is in the home. These conservative political themes are wove... Lees meer

The Unresolvable Plot

Elizabeth Dipple

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 13
• Originally published in 1988, the last few decades had seen the appearance of some brilliant and complex new kinds of fiction. The ambitious experimen... Lees meer

Narrative Authority and Homeostasis in the Novels of Doris Lessing and Carmen Martín Gaite

Linda E Chown

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 7
• This study, originally published in 1990, assesses a shift in the presentation of self-consciousness in two pairs of novels by Doris Lessing and Carme... Lees meer

Doris Lessing

Lorna Sage

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 21
• Doris Lessing was one of the most impressive, prolific and vital of twentieth century writers. Her fiction is obsessed with the workings of cultural c... Lees meer

Kurt Vonnegut

Jerome Klinkowitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 19
• Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to... Lees meer

The Myth of Superwoman

Resa L Dudovitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction | nr. 15
• Reviled by critics but loved by the readers, the bestseller has until recently provoked little serious critical interest. In The Myth of Superwoman , ... Lees meer