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An engaging series of reflections on the literary landscape of our time―from the writings of Roland Barthes to those of Stephen King―Wood explores such issues as the shift of interest from novel to story, the blurring of the line between fiction and criticism, the persistence of the notion of paradise, the lure of horror, and the tendency of fiction both to reflect and to resist contemporary history. Wood casts his net wide: a brilliant dissection of Beckett's prose comedy is followed by an absorbing sequence of essays on Kundera, Calvino and García Márquez. Chapters on Toni Morrison and on Angela Carter lead us to chapters on Kazuo Ishiguro and Jeanette Winterson.
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Reflecting on the literary landscape of our time―from the writings of Roland Barthes to those of Stephen King, from Gabriel García Márquez to Kazuo Ishiguro―Michael Wood explores such issues as the shift of interest from novel to story, the blurring of the line between fiction and criticism, the persistence of the notion of paradise, the lure of horror, and the tendency of fiction to simultaneously reflect and resist contemporary history.
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Michael Wood writes film and literary criticism for the London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. He is Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English at Princeton University, a frequent teacher at the Middlebury Breadloaf School of English, and the author of many books, including America in the Movies (Columbia 1989).
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0712673563
- ISBN 13 9780712673563
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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