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Contemporary Crisis Fictions: Affect and Ethics in the Modern British Novel
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A review of contemporary crisis fiction with an emphasis on overlap between the works at a Discursive Level Bibliography Index is given in this paper, where the authors present a new approach to the writing of Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro.Abstract:
Introduction: Contemporary Crisis Fiction: A New Approach to the Writing of Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro 1. Contemporary Crisis Fiction: Constructing a New Genre 2. Curiosity and Civilisation: Reassessments of History in the Fiction of Graham Swift. 3. Reassessing the Two-Culture Debate: Popular Science in the Fiction of Ian McEwan 4. Shifting Perspectives and Alternate Landscapes: Culture and Cultural Politics in the Fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro Epilogue: A Review of Contemporary Crisis Fiction with an Emphasis on Overlap Between the Works at a Discursive Level Bibliography Indexread more
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