Contemporary Fiction
A Very Short Introduction

Had we but world enough, and time, This pile of novels were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To pass our blissful reading day; My library should then grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go to praise The minor works of Casimiro Paiz; We’d have such long years to be......more

Nice, simply written overview of where we currently sit with the contemporary novel. Considers the step back from the high experimentalism of both Modernism & post-modernism that fiction seems to have taken with a modicum of humility & an awareness that it can't really effect change anymore (unlike......more

Three Very Short Introductions to Literary Criticism It does favor a few key topics and features over other possible ones (as these things, inevitably, must do, let alone one of this size), and I'm not that sold on that chapter about genres, but that said, it acknowledges the conundrums of criticism......more

الرواية بوصفها أحد أهم الابتكارات الفنية والثقافية اليوم ومنذ عصر التنوير، طرأت عليها (وما زالت تطرأ) عليها الكثير من التقلبات. ولا أزعم أن الكثير منها سهلاً مستساغاً ولكن يمكن أعتبار مراحل تطور الرواية الحديثة مثل درجات السلم، نرتقي ونصعد ونهبط ونراوح لا بأس في كل الأحوال الكتاب غني وفريد من نوعه، و......more

At first I didn't like this book. It's certainly a short introduction, but it didn't seem very simplified. I've got a degree in English (albeit not modern English literature), so I was surprised to find it as difficult as I did. Eaglestone seems to be in awe of Sarah Waters; the attention he gives h......more