David James

Gebundenes Buch

Discrepant Solace

Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation

Beschreibung

Discrepant Solace studies some of the most challenging works of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and life-writing to consider narratives that engage with consolation as an enduring problem for writing concerned with personal or collective damage.

Autor

David James is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, before which he was Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Author, most recently, of Modernist Futures (Cambridge University Press, 2012), his edited volumes include The Legacies of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2012), The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Modernism and Close Reading (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He is Associate Editor for the journal Contemporary Literature, and for Columbia University Press he co-edits the book series 'Literature Now'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780198789758
• ISBN-10: 0198789750
• Artikelnr.: 56256963