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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction (Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature)

By Brian W. Shaffer , Patrick O'Donnell , David W. Madden , Justus Nieland , John Clement Ball

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2011
ISBN
1405192445, 9781405192446
LCC
PR881 .E48 2011
Google Books ID
am1PhEWMqdIC
Open Library ID
OL24913841M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17718190 bytes)
Series
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature volume 1-3
Edition
1
Pages
1554\1554
Topic
Literature Literary
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-14 18:00:00
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Description

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 Ng?g? 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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