The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 12: The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950

Herausgeber: Howells, Coral Ann; Turcotte, Gerry; Sharrad, Paul

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Produktbeschreibung

This multi-authored volume offers a comprehensive account of English language novels and related prose fiction since 1950 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. The essays within explore the repositioning of these national literatures in a world literary context, through a focus on the novel and short story.

Produktdetails

• Oxford History of the Novel in
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1338g
• ISBN-13: 9780199679775
• ISBN-10: 0199679770
• Artikelnr.: 47869826

Autorenporträt

Coral Ann Howells is Professor Emerita of English and Canadian Literature at the University of Reading, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London Paul Sharrad is Associate Professor of English Literatures at the University of Wollongong Gerry Turcotte is Executive Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Provost of the Sydney Campus at the University of Notre Dame, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

* General Editor's Preface
* Introduction
* Editorial Note
* Part I: Book History
* 1: Katherine Bode: Australia
* 2: George L. Parker: Canada
* 3: Elizabeth Caffin: Aotearoa/New Zealand
* 4: Linda Crowl: South Pacific
* Part II: Identities in Transition
* 5: Brigid Rooney: Australia
* 6: Cynthia Sugars: Canada
* 7: Kirstine Moffat: Aotearoa/New Zealand
* 8: Paul Sharrad: South Pacific
* 9: Janet Wilson: Transnational Movements: Australia, Canada, New
Zealand
* Part III: Fictional Modes
* 10: Donna Coates: Realist Fiction since 1950 (Australia, Canada, New
Zealand, South Pacific)
* 11: Lydia Wevers: Historical Fiction (Australia, Canada, New Zealand,
South Pacific)
* 12: Anouk Lang: Modernist Fiction/Alternative modernisms (Australia,
Canada, New Zealand)
* 13: Gerry Turcotte: Postcolonial Gothic (Australia, Canada, New
Zealand, South Pacific)
* 14: Victoria Kuttainen and Greg Manning: Postmodernist and Literary
Experiments (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific)
* 15: Clare Bradford: Children's and Young Adult Novels (Australia,
Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific)
* Part IV: Australia
* 16: Margaret Harris: Major Authors: Christina Stead, Patrick White,
David Malouf
* 17: Elizabeth Webby: The Short Story in Australia
* 18: Peter Minter and Belinda Wheeler: Aboriginal novels
* 19: Robyn Morris: Multicultural and Transnational Novels
* 20: Roslyn Weaver: Popular Fiction
* Part V: Canada
* 21: Coral Ann Howells: Major Authors: Robertson Davies, Margaret
Atwood, Michael Ondaatje
* 22: W. H. New: The Short Story in Canada
* 23: Tara Hyland-Russell: First Nations Novels
* 24: Isabel Carrera-Suárez: Multicultural and Transnational Novels
* 25: Marilyn Rose and Jeannette Sloniowski: Popular Fiction
* Part VI: New Zealand
* 26: Lawrence Jones: Major Authors: Janet Frame, Patricia Grace and
Maurice Gee
* 27: Dougal McNeill: The Short Story in Aotearoa/ New Zealand
* 28: Christine Prentice: Maori Novels in English
* 29: James Meffan: Multicultural and Transnational Novels
* 30: Jenny Lawn: Popular Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Crime
Fiction)
* Part VII: South Pacific
* 31: Michelle Keown: Major Authors: Albert Wendt, Epeli Hau'ofa and
Sia Figiel
* 32: Steven Winduo: Indigenous Pacific Fiction in English: the 'first
wave'
* 33: Mohit Prasad: Indigenous Pacific Fiction in English: the 'niu
wave'
* Part VIII: Critical Reception
* 34: Linda Crowl, Susan Fisher, Elizabeth Webby, and Lydia Wevers:
Newspapers and Journals (across all four areas)
* 35: Eva-Marie Kröller: Literary Histories (across all four areas)
* Bibliography
* Index of Novelists Since 1950
* General Index