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020			_a9781405192446
040			_cIITK
041			_aeng
082			_a823.910903 _bEn19
245	0		_aThe encyclopedia of twentieth century fiction [3 volumes set] _cedited by Brian W. Shaffer
260			_aChichester _bWiley Blackwell _c2011
300			_axxxiii, 1479p
440			_aThe Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia Of Literature
505			_aContents: v.1. Twentieth-century British and Irish fiction -- v.2. Twentieth-century American fiction -- v.3. Twentieth-century world fiction
520			_aThis encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth–century fiction in the english–language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth–century fiction in the english language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000–3000 words written in lucid, jargon–free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub–genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci–Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant–garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile
650			_aEnglish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Encyclopedias
650			_aAmerican fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Encyclopedias
650			_aCommonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism -- Encyclopedias
700			_aShaffer, Brian W. [ed.]
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