York Notes Companions: New Directions(English, Paperback, Tolan Fiona)

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York Notes Companions: New Directions(English, Paperback, Tolan Fiona) is written by Tolan Fiona and published by Pearson Education Limited. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1408204770 (ISBN 10) and 9781408204771 (ISBN 13).

A York Notes Companion for students of contemporary literature, this volume looks at the literature of our own times, shaped by recent experiences from millennial anxieties to the events of 9/11. Placing texts within a cultural and critical context, the book discusses emerging genres such as multicultural and post-colonial writing, contemporary theatre, autobiography and the neo-Victorian novel. Established writers such as A. S. Byatt, Salman Rushdie, and Carol Ann Duffy are featured alongside the newer voices of Zadie Smith, Alan Hollinghurst and Sarah Waters in a volume which offers an essential overview of the contemporary literary scene in Britain and further afield.