The novel today : contemporary writers on modern fiction /

Britain's most important contemporary authors reflect intelligently and imaginatively on the nature and development of the modern novel.

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Other Authors: Bradbury, Malcolm, 1932-2000 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester [England] : Totowa, N.J. : Manchester University Press ; Rowman and Littlefield, 1977.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Malcolm Bradbury
  • Against dryness / Iris Murdoch
  • Writing American fiction / Philip Roth
  • Novel as research / Michel Butor
  • Some notes on recent American fiction / Saul Bellow
  • Literature of exhaustion / John Barth
  • Novelist at the crossroads / David Lodge
  • House of fiction / Frank Kermode
  • Notes on an unfinished novel / John Fowles
  • Introduction to Aren't you rather young to be writing your memoirs? / B.S. Johnson
  • Preface to The golden notebook / Doris Lessing
  • Scheherezade runs out of plots, goes on talking; the king, puzzled, listens : an essay on new fiction / Philip Stevick
  • Myth of the postmodernist breakthrough / Gerald Graff.