TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaffer, Brian W. [ed.]
TI  - The encyclopedia of twentieth century fiction [3 volumes set]
SN  - 9781405192446
U1  - 823.910903 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chichester
PB  - Wiley Blackwell 
KW  - English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Encyclopedias
KW  - American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Encyclopedias
KW  - Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism -- Encyclopedias
N1  - Contents: 
v.1. Twentieth-century British and Irish fiction  -- v.2. Twentieth-century American fiction -- v.3. Twentieth-century world fiction
N2  - 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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