Julian Barnes / Peter Childs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Childs, Peter, 1962- author.

Series:

Contemporary British novelists.

Contemporary British novelists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barnes, Julian--Criticism and interpretation.

Barnes, Julian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but along the way it also shows how certain key thematic preoccupations and obsessions seem to tie Barnes's oeuvre together (love, death, art, history, truth, and memory). Chapters provide detailed readings of each major publication in turn while treating the major concerns of Barnes's fiction, including art, authorship, history, love and religion.

Contents:

9780719081064; 9780719081064.; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Pleasure in form; 1 About to be less deceived: Metroland; 2 Silly to worry about: Before She Met Me; 3 What happened to the truth is not recorded: Flaubert's Parrot; 4 Intricate rented world: Staring at the Sun; 5 Safe for love: A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters; 6 Tell me yours: Talking It Over and Love, etc; 7 We won't get fooled again:The Porcupine; 8 History doesn't relate: England, England

9 Retrospectively imagined memorials: Cross Channel and The Lemon Table10 Conviction and prejudice: Arthur & George; Select bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781847797612

184779761X

9781781700020

1781700028

9781847794567

1847794564

OCLC:

818847426