The encyclopedia of twentieth-Century fiction

This Encyclopedia is an indispensible reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over 1 millionwords, 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 3 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, RaymondChandler, 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 Ng g Wa Thiong'o) and their key works * Covers 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 avantegarde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field (censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, Diaspora, and exile). ÍNDICE: Volume I: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction List of entries Preface to The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors to Volume I Introduction to Volume I British and Irish Fiction A-Z Volume II: Twentieth-Century American Fiction List of entries Noteson Contributors to Volume II Introduction to Volume II American Fiction A-Z Volume III: Twentieth-Century World Fiction List of entries Notes on Contributors to Volume III Introduction to Volume III World Fiction A-Z Index

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-9244-6
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 1536
• Fecha Publicación: 05/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 3
• Idioma: Inglés