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- catalog abstract "Keeping track of contemporary writing is by its nature difficult. What are the recent developments in Chinese or Israeli fiction? What has happened to poetry in Russia since the fall of Communism? Are we even up to date with the best novels or plays of English-speaking countries round the world? Every year, so much is published which we feel we should know about, that there's a strong need for a volume to evaluate it and put us on the track of what is best worth reading. This new Guide - the only work of its kind to cover world literature of the last thirty years - does just that: in twenty-eight lively and trenchant chapters it assesses the most important and interesting literature developments in all five continents. Taking 1960 as its starting-point, and coming right up to date, the book explores the recent writing of cultures as various as Australian and Spanish-American, French, Japanese, and Czech, Indian and New Zealand - and of. Course American, English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh. Each chapter discusses the literary and cultural contexts for authorship in its particular area, throwing light on a great number of significant writers - including household names such as Mishima, Toni Morrison, Derek Walcott, Patrick White, and Gunter Grass, but setting alongside them many others who may be less familiar but whose work is often just as well worth reading. Combining hard information with intelligent. Opinion, the Guide offers a discriminating - and sometimes controversial - view of a broad range of contemporary literatures.".
- catalog contributor b9627236.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "African countries / Jeremy Harding -- Arab countries / Robert Irwon -- Australia / Peter Craven -- Brazil / John Gledson -- Canada / Sandra Djwa -- China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong / Alison Bailey -- Czech Republic and Slovakia / Igor Hajek -- England / James Wodd -- France / John Taylor -- German-speaking countries / Rhys Williams -- Greece / Peter Mackridge -- Hungary / Richard Aczel -- INdai / Richard Cronin -- Ireland / Patricia Craig -- Israel / Bryan Cheyette -- Italy / Peter Hainsworth -- Japan / Mark Morris -- New Zealand / Iain Sharp -- Poland / George Hyde, with Wieslaw Powaga -- Portugal / Maria Guterres -- Russia / Robert Porter / Scandanavia / Janet Garton -- Scotland / Kasia Boddy -- Spain / Abigail Lee Six -- Spanish America / Michael Wood -- United States / Wendy Lesser -- Wales / Ned Thomas -- West Indies / Al Creighton.".
- catalog description "Course American, English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh. Each chapter discusses the literary and cultural contexts for authorship in its particular area, throwing light on a great number of significant writers - including household names such as Mishima, Toni Morrison, Derek Walcott, Patrick White, and Gunter Grass, but setting alongside them many others who may be less familiar but whose work is often just as well worth reading. Combining hard information with intelligent.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Keeping track of contemporary writing is by its nature difficult. What are the recent developments in Chinese or Israeli fiction? What has happened to poetry in Russia since the fall of Communism? Are we even up to date with the best novels or plays of English-speaking countries round the world? Every year, so much is published which we feel we should know about, that there's a strong need for a volume to evaluate it and put us on the track of what is best worth reading.".
- catalog description "Opinion, the Guide offers a discriminating - and sometimes controversial - view of a broad range of contemporary literatures.".
- catalog description "This new Guide - the only work of its kind to cover world literature of the last thirty years - does just that: in twenty-eight lively and trenchant chapters it assesses the most important and interesting literature developments in all five continents. Taking 1960 as its starting-point, and coming right up to date, the book explores the recent writing of cultures as various as Australian and Spanish-American, French, Japanese, and Czech, Indian and New Zealand - and of.".
- catalog extent "x, 492 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Oxford guide to contemporary writing.".
- catalog identifier "0198182627 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Oxford guide to contemporary writing.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Oxford guide to contemporary writing.".
- catalog subject "809/.04 20".
- catalog subject "Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN771 .O97 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "African countries / Jeremy Harding -- Arab countries / Robert Irwon -- Australia / Peter Craven -- Brazil / John Gledson -- Canada / Sandra Djwa -- China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong / Alison Bailey -- Czech Republic and Slovakia / Igor Hajek -- England / James Wodd -- France / John Taylor -- German-speaking countries / Rhys Williams -- Greece / Peter Mackridge -- Hungary / Richard Aczel -- INdai / Richard Cronin -- Ireland / Patricia Craig -- Israel / Bryan Cheyette -- Italy / Peter Hainsworth -- Japan / Mark Morris -- New Zealand / Iain Sharp -- Poland / George Hyde, with Wieslaw Powaga -- Portugal / Maria Guterres -- Russia / Robert Porter / Scandanavia / Janet Garton -- Scotland / Kasia Boddy -- Spain / Abigail Lee Six -- Spanish America / Michael Wood -- United States / Wendy Lesser -- Wales / Ned Thomas -- West Indies / Al Creighton.".
- catalog title "The Oxford guide to contemporary writing / edited by John Sturrock.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".