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The encyclopedia of twentieth century fiction [3 volumes set]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia Of LiteraturePublication details: Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2011Description: xxxiii, 1479pISBN:
  • 9781405192446
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.910903 En19
Contents:
Contents: v.1. Twentieth-century British and Irish fiction -- v.2. Twentieth-century American fiction -- v.3. Twentieth-century world fiction
Summary: This encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth–century fiction in the english–language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth–century fiction in the english language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000–3000 words written in lucid, jargon–free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub–genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci–Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant–garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Reference Reference PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur Reference 823.910903 En19 v.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) v. 1. Twentieth century British and Irish fiction Not for loan A177395
Reference Reference PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur Reference 823.910903 En19 v.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) v. 2. Twentieth century American fiction Reference A177396
Reference Reference PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur Reference 823.910903 En19 v.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) v. 3. Twentieth century World fiction Reference A177397
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Contents:
v.1. Twentieth-century British and Irish fiction -- v.2. Twentieth-century American fiction -- v.3. Twentieth-century world fiction

This encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth–century fiction in the english–language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth–century fiction in the english language.

Contains over 500 entries of 1000–3000 words written in lucid, jargon–free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars
Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field
Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong o) and their key works
Examines the genres and sub–genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci–Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant–garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

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