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Index
Cover Table of Contents Volume I
Title Page Copyright Page Contributors Notes of Vol. I Preface PART ONE
1 Before Now: An Essay on Pre‐Contemporary Fiction and Poetry 2 British Literature Today
REFERENCES
3 Introduction to Contemporary Irish Writing
REFERENCES
4 Overview of Modern/Contemporary Drama
PART TWO
5 Aidan Higgins
Introduction: Higgins’ counter‐realist experimentalism REFERENCES
6 Brian Friel
Friel’s Early Life and Artistic Growth Apprentice Works and Inspirations The Birth of Modern Irish Drama The ‘Troubles’, Field Day, and Friel’s Wild(e) Side Internationalizing Irish Drama The Later Years REFERENCES
7 Alan Bennett
REFERENCES
8 Edward Bond1
The Future BIBLIOGRAPHY
9 Seamus Heaney
REFERENCES
10 Michael Moorcock 11 Angela Carter
REFERENCES
12 Christina Reid
Biography and Background Plays Themes and Technique Conclusion REFERENCES
13 Bernard MacLaverty
REFERENCES
13a Eavan Boland’s Poetry
Introduction Rewriting the Political Poem The Ethical Contemplation of Violence and Death A Lost Community No Longer Fusional: Erasures and Silences Conclusions REFERENCES
14 I Am, Therefore I Think
Introduction Long Lankin: ‘Where’s the Little Heir of This House?’ The Artistic Process: When We Dead Awaken … We Find That We Have Never Lived The Infinities and The Plight of Being Non‐human PRIMARY READING SECONDARY READING INTERNET SOURCE
15 Julian Barnes
REFERENCES
16 Where They Are
Language Place Conclusion James Kelman: Published Novels and Short Story Collections BIBLIOGRAPHY
17 Howard Barker (and « the Art of Theatre »)
Biographical Landmarks The Sociopolitical Premises of the Theatre of Catastrophe The Theatre of Catastrophe: The Necessity of Tragedy The Art of Theatre: Tragedy and Intimacy REFERENCES
18 Marina Lewycka
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19 Dermot Healy
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20 David Edgar
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21 Ian McEwan
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22 Tom Paulin
Paulin’s Literary and Critical Work Paulin’s Attitude Towards Politics Understanding Northern Ireland through Other Cultures Paulin’s Interest in Russia Paulin’s Translation and Transformation of Poetry REFERENCES WEBSITES
23 Graham Swift
REFERENCES
24 Martin Amis
Introduction The Making of a Writer: The Biographical Background Writing against the Father: The Early Fiction London Fields: Postmodernism and the End of Jane Austen Lionel Asbo: Atavism and the Yob Within The Progress of Time The Zone of Interest Flaws and Foibles: Summarizing Amis’s Talents Conclusions REFERENCES
25 PETER ACKROYD
REFERENCES1 WORKS BY PETER ACKROYD NOVELS POETRY BIOGRAPHIES OTHER NONFICTION WORKS CRITICISM AND THEORY
26 Patrick McGrath
REFERENCES
27 Medbh McGuckian*
Background Critical Reception, Major Themes Reading the Work WORKS CITED
28 Paul Muldoon
1 2 3 4 5 6 Abbreviations
29 William Boyd
Life and Work Critical Reception Conclusion REFERENCES VIDEO WEBPAGE
30 ‘Some of These Things Are True, and Some of Them Lies. But They Are All Good Stories’
REFERENCES
31 Linton Kwesi Johnson
REFERENCES
32 Hanif Kureishi
Postcolonial and Multicultural Issues to Postethnic Bricolage Background and Beginnings My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia The Black Album and ‘My Son the Fanatic’ Short Stories and Postethnicity Recent Fiction and Essays REFERENCES KUREISHI
33 Colm Tóibín
Introduction Cultural and Political Background Essential Silence The Testament of Mary (2011/2) REFERENCES
34 Janice Galloway
REFERENCES AND SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
35 Martin Crimp
Fringe Playwright: The Orange Tree Plays New‐Writing Playwright: Royal Court Plays Innovative Modernist: Attempts and After Theatre Translator: Other Plays Late Work: Returns and Reformulations Conclusion REFERENCES
36 Adam Thorpe
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37 Benjamin Zephaniah
II III IV V REFERENCES
38 Jeanette Winterson1
REFERENCES
39 Jonathan Coe
REFERENCES
40 From the Living Dead of Crouch End to the Brexiteers of Wolverhampton
Introduction: The Consistency of Voice and Tone ‘Mother’s Suburban Necro‐Utopia’: The Quantity Theory of Insanity (Short Stories) ‘Nyum, Nyum, Nyum’: Cock and Bull (A Novel) ‘Disseminators of Drek’: The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (Novella) ‘The Greasy, Greasy Kebabs of Home’: The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker (Non‐Fictional Prose) ‘I don’t think Jesus would have moved the soup kitchen’: Will Self’s Great British Bus Journey (Audio Travelogue)
Volume I
Title Page Copyright Page Contributors Notes of Vol. II Preface PART TWO
41 Jackie Kay
BIBLIOGRAPHY
42 Kathleen Jamie
A Strong Scots Accent of Mind Change Is Our Resting State Persona Political, But Not in the Grand Sense A Wildness Which is Smaller, Darker, More Complex and Interesting REFERENCES
43 Ali Smith
REFERENCES
44 A.L. Kennedy
REFERENCES
45 Monica Ali
REFERENCES
46 Sarah Waters
BIBLIOGRAPHY FURTHER READING
47 David Greig
Cosmopolitan Itineraries: Europe, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message, San Diego Protean Nation: Victoria, Outlying Islands, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart Rough Theatre: The American Pilot, Dunsinane, The Events A Dissensual Theatre REFERENCES
48 David Mitchell 49 Emma Donoghue
Introduction Dramatist Historical Novelist Contemporary Novelist and Fabulist Recent Fiction: Room Conclusion REFERENCES ADDITIONAL SOURCES
50 Hari Kunzru
REFERENCES
51 Mark O’Rowe
O’Rowe’s Background and Its Impact on His Work An Overview of O’Rowe’s Career The Future REFERENCES
52 Conor McPherson
Introduction Dublin, Masculinities, Monologues‚ and Films Speculative Spectralities Haunted Tigers/Un‐Bidden Dragons Gender in McPherson’s Drama Conclusion REFERENCES
53 China Miéville
REFERENCES
PART THREE
54 Zadie Smith
Formalisms or No Form at All NW ’s Thinking Forms REFERENCES
55 Experiment and Tradition in Contemporary Poetry
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
56 Reproducing the Nation
Introduction The Cultural Reproduction of the Nation in Scottish Literature: Nationed Social Imaginaries and Banal Nationalism Imagining the Social Reproduction of the Nation in Scottish Literature: Nationed Social Imaginaries and Essentialism Scottish Literature and the Political Reproduction of the Nation: Nationed Social Imaginaries and Contextualism Conclusion REFERENCES
57 Welsh Writing in English
REFERENCES
58 Eccentrics, Gentlemen, Officers‚ and Spies
Decentring Englishness: The Rise of the Ex‐Centric Performing Englishness: Gentlemen and Spies Locating Englishness: Identity in Absentia Conclusion: Englishness as a Symptom of Nostalgia, or the Confusion between Absence and Loss REFERENCES
59 LGBT Fiction
Introduction: 1990 Literature, Community, History Language and Identity Pretended Family Relationships: Standing on Ceremony Pretended Family Relationships: Christmases and Classrooms REFERENCES
60 British Science Fiction 1990–2017
Introduction: Cool Britannia New Millennium and Technology Fiction Conclusion: Who We Want to Become WORKS CITED
61 British Influences on the Graphic Novel
‘The British Are Coming’: The Myth of a ‘Second British Invasion’ A Critical Commentary on the ‘Invasion’ Interpretation Conclusion REFERENCES
62 The Girl‐Hero for the New Millennia
Victorian Heritage Twentieth‐Century Antecedents Contemporary British Children’s Fantasy Recent British Fantasy REFERENCES
63 Contemporary British Gothic
Kate Mosse: The Winter Ghosts (2009) Catriona Ward: Rawblood (2015) Peter James: The House on Cold Hill (2015) David Mitchell: Slade House (2015) Conclusion REFERENCES
64 Post‐Troubles Northern Irish Fiction
REFERENCES
65 Globalization and Its Discontents in Twenty‐First‐Century British and Irish Crime Fiction
Multicultural Britain and Ireland The New Global Order of Britain and Ireland Regionalism Redux – Local Luddites The Country and the City and the City Border Backstop Blues Blinkered Breviloquence due to Brexit REFERENCES
66 British Psychogeographical Fiction
London through Time Future Imperfect REFERENCES
67 Representing Gender
Introduction Reclaiming the Past: Neo‐Victorian Cross‐Dressing Dialogic Narratives and the Role of the Other Essential Identities and Bodily Constraints BIBLIOGRAPHY
68 Approaches to Modern Contemporary Drama
Introduction The Gay Play: Volcano; Bent; Beautiful Thing; Bomber’s Moon The Campus Play: Butley, The Philanthropist, Educating Rita The Irish Storytelling Play: Friel, McGuinness, McPherson Conclusion: Past, Present‚ and Future
69 Verbatim Theatre
Pre‐history The Mid‐1990s to the Present Challenging and Conforming to the Mainstream Documentary Realism and Beyond In Search of Justice: Voicing the Marginalized Critical and Audience Reception Conclusion REFERENCES
70 ‘It Had Stopped Being History and Turned into Experience’
REFERENCES
71 Global Literature and the Death of the Novel
The Novel in the Digital Age World Literature and the Decline of Utopia The Rise and Rise of the Global Novel and the Waning of the Aesthetic A Plea for the Slow Novel REFERENCES
72 Strange Metaphors
Introduction: Metaphors of Arrival Conclusions: Black Writing in Britain and Marketing Aesthetics REFERENCES
73 Public‐Facing Literature
Introduction ‘The Priziest Prize’ Literary Prizes Literary Festivals Social Media Commingling Public Institutions Conclusion REFERENCES
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