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Narrative Desire and Historical Reparations A.S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, and Salman Rushdie
By Timothy Gauthier
Copyright 2006
226 Pages
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Routledge
222 Pages
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Routledge
222 Pages
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Routledge
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This book examines and explains the obsession with history in the contemporary British novel. It frames these historical novels as expressions of narrative desire, highlighting the reciprocal relationship between a desire to disclose and to rid ourselves of anxieties elicited by the past. Scrutinizing representative novels from Byatt, McEwan and Rushdie, contemporary fiction is revealed as capable... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER 1 HISTORY, ANXIETY, AND NARRATIVE DESIRE CHAPTER 2 TO SPEAK WITH THE DEAD: POSSESSION AND A. S. BYATT'S NEO-VICTORIAN FICTION CHAPTER 3 BLACK DOGS: IAN MCEWAN'S POST-HOLOCAUST ANXIETY CHAPTER 4 THE PALIMPSEST OF HISTORY: SALMAN RUSHDIE'S MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biography
Timothy S. Guathier is Assistant Professor in Residence in University College, a college offering an interdisciplinary degree, at UNLV. His primary are of interest is contemporary fiction, specializing in English and Irish literature. Presently he is working on a study of closure in the contemporary novel.
