1st Edition
The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing
232 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
In 1963 President John F. Kennedy was shot, Sylvia Plath published The Bell Jar , and the Beatles were in their prime. This was a changing world, which British and Irish writers both contributed to and reflected in drama, poetry and prose. The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing tells the story of British and Irish writing from 1963 to the present. From the first performance of Tom... Read more
Introduction Setting the scene 1 Drama and the theatre: old anger, new violence 2 The novel – the 1960s and beyond: old guardians and new guards: ; Thatcherism and Blairism; Taboos and taboo words; Mapping past into present; 3 The novel – the 1970s and beyond: old empires and new Englishes; What is standard, who is standard, what is English? ; 4 The novel – the 1980s and beyond: old forms and ; new genres: City slang ; Voices and devolutions; Titles of the times; 5 Poetry – old pasts, new presents; The city and the country. Coda.
Biography
John McRae is Special Professor of Language in Literature Studies at the University of Nottingham, and has been a Visiting Professor and Lecturer in over forty countries. Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely in the fields of English Language and Literary Studies.
