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Twenty-first-century fiction : a critical introduction /

"The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contem...

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Main Author: Boxall, Peter
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction: twenty-first century fiction; 1. Late culture in the early twenty-first century; 2. Inheriting the past: literature and historical memory in the twenty-first century; 3. The limits of the human; 4. A curious knot: terrorism, radicalism, the avant-garde; 5. Sovereignty, democracy, globalization; Bibliography; Index.