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Allegories of Telling: Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction has as its founding premise Ross Chambers's notion that "one of the important powers of fiction is its power to theorize the act of storytelling in and through the act of storytelling." In this critical study, Lynn Wells presents detailed readings of novels by five prominent British authors - John Fowles, Angela Carter, Graham Swift, A.S. Byatt and Salman Rushdie - with an emphasis on how the texts' self-referential aspects illuminate the acts of reading and writing fiction in contemporary Britain and, by extension, around the world. The book begins by situating contemporary British fiction historically as the product of an "aesthetics of compromise" arising from the "realism versus experimentalism" debate that consumed the English literary establishment during the 1960s. In her discussion of the texts, Lynn Wells then draws on a wide range of theoretical approaches, from narrative and psychoanalytic theory to existentialist philosophy and the historiographic ideas of thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault and Giambattista Vico. These original readings challenge superficial "postmodern" interpretations of contemporary British fiction as pessimistically anti-historical, and reassert the value of readerly engagement and narrative reconstruction of the past.

Allegories --- 820-3 "19" --- Engelse literatuur: proza--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 820-3 "19" Engelse literatuur: proza--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- English fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Self-awareness in literature --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism

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The Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments. Systematic chapters address ̒The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genreʼ, ̒The Novel in the Economy', ̒Genres', ̒Gender' (performativity, masculinities, feminism, queer), and ̒The Burden of Representationʼ (class and ethnicity). Extended contextualized close readings of more than twenty key texts from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015) supplement the systematic approach and encourage future research by providing overviews of reception and theoretical perspectives.

American fiction --- History and criticism. --- American literature --- 820-3 --- English fiction --- 820-3 Engelse literatuur: proza --- Engelse literatuur: proza --- English literature --- History and criticism --- Littérature anglaise --- Histoire et critique.

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820 <71> --- 820 "20" --- 820-3 --- 820-3 Engelse literatuur: proza --- Engelse literatuur: proza --- 820 "20" Engelse literatuur--21e eeuw. Periode 2000-2099 --- Engelse literatuur--21e eeuw. Periode 2000-2099 --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Engelse literatuur--Canada

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820-3 "18" --- English fiction --- -820-3 "18" Engelse literatuur: proza--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Engelse literatuur: proza--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- History and criticism --- 820-3 "18" Engelse literatuur: proza--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Fiction --- English literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- History and criticism. --- 19th century --- ROMAN ANGLAIS --- 19E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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Fiction --- English literature --- 82-3 --- 820-3 --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Engelse literatuur: proza --- English fiction --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Theory, etc --- 820-3 Engelse literatuur: proza --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- History and criticism&delete& --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative