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作者简介：

Steve Padley is an Associate Lecturer with the Open University. He has held a teaching fellowship at Robinson College, Cambridge, and has also been a research fellow and Director of Studies in English at Wolfson College, Cambridge.

丛书书目

当代文学的核心概念

创意写作的核心概念

文学术语与批评（第三版）

中世纪文学的核心概念

现代主义文学的核心概念

后殖民文学的核心概念

文艺复兴时期文学的核心概念

浪漫主义文学的核心概念

维多利亚时代文学的核心概念

本书简介

Key Concepts in Contemporary Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the literature and critical debates of the period since 1945. Setting texts in their historical, political and cultural contexts, it demonstrates how literature has dealt with and been shaped by the changing face of the modern world. Divided into three clear sections, the volume serves to introduce the significant literary movements, themes and developments of the period since the Second World War and covers a full range of novels, poetry and drama as well as providing a guide to the major critical theories of recent times.

本书特色

Features include:

—An accessible and full overview of the texts, contexts and criticism of the contemporary period

—An alphabetical format that makes information quick and easy to find

—Cross-referencing and further reading suggestions that provide additional resources for study

Acting as the perfect accompaniment, this is an invaluable guide to anyone navigating their way through the contemporary era and the literature that defines it.

*本文内容来自《当代文学的核心概念》，有删节。

本书目录

General Editor’s Preface

General Introduction

1 Contexts: History, Politics, Culture

Introduction

British Empire, decline and loss

Censorship

Class structure

Cold War

Counter-culture

Feminism and the role of women

Holocaust

Migrant experience and multiculturalism

Northern Irish ‘troubles’

Political protest

Popular culture

Religion

Science and technological innovation

Sex and sexuality

War

Youth culture

2 Texts: Themes, Issues, Concepts

Introduction

Absurdist theatre

Alternative theatre

Anglo-Welsh literature

‘Angry young men’

Avant-garde poetry

Black British literature

Campus novel

Class

Concrete poetry

Empire, end of

Englishness

Epic theatre

Gay and lesbian writing Genre fiction

History

Holocaust literature

Irish literature

‘Kitchen sink’ drama

Language poetry

London, literature representations of

Magic realism

Marketing of literature

Modernism, legacy of

Movement, the

Nature

New voices in 21st-century literature

Performance poetry

Political commitment

Postcolonial literature

Postmodern literature

Realism

Regional identity

Scottish literature

Theatre of Cruelty

Underground poetry

Urban experience

Women’s writing

3 Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice

Introduction

Cultural materialism

Deconstruction

Dialogical theory

Feminist criticism

Gender criticism

Leavisite criticism

Marxist criticism

Narratology

New criticism

New Historicism

Postcolonial criticism

Postmodernist Theory

Poststructuralism

Psychoanalytic criticism

Reader-response criticism

Structuralism

Notes

Chronology

General Index

Index of Works Cited

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