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| − | *Robert Coover, ''Pricksongs & Descants'' (1969). | + | *Robert Coover, ''Pricksongs & Descants'' (1969). (collection of short stories) |
*John Fowles, ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' (1969). | *John Fowles, ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' (1969). | ||
*Toni Morrison, ''Beloved'' (1987). | *Toni Morrison, ''Beloved'' (1987). | ||
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*Jonathan Franzen, ''The Corrections'' (2001). | *Jonathan Franzen, ''The Corrections'' (2001). | ||
*Nicola Barker, ''Darkmans'' (2007). | *Nicola Barker, ''Darkmans'' (2007). | ||
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| + | *Chinua Achebe, ''Things Fall Apart'' (1958). | ||
| + | *Salman Rushdie, ''Midnight's Children'' (1981) | ||
| + | *Caryl Phillips, ''The Final Passage'' (1985). | ||
| + | *V. S. Naipaul, ''The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections'' (1987). | ||
| + | *Ben Okri, ''The Famished Road'' (1991). | ||
| + | *Arundhati Roy, ''The God of Small Things'' (1997). | ||
Revision as of 19:16, 6 March 2008
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Contents
Gender Relations
- J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (1999).
Creating the Future
- Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733).
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred, [1771] translated from the French by W. Hooper, vol. 1 (London: G. Robinson, 1772).
- Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826).
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888).
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895).
Creating the Past
Sexuality
- John Cleland, Fanny Hill (1749).
- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985).
- Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (2004).
Religion
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988).
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001).
- Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights (2006).
The First Person
- Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
- Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991).
- Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001).
- John Banville, The Sea (2005).
Arthurian Literature and Movies
- Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1485).
- John Dryden, King Arthur (1691), opera composed by Henry Purcell.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King (1856-1885).
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889).
- Knights of the Round Table (USA, 1953), film directed by Richard Thorpe
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), film directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
- First Knight (1995), film directed by Richard Thorpe
Utopias and Distopias
Women Authors
- Aphra Behn, Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684-1687).
- A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990).
Postmodern
- Robert Coover, Pricksongs & Descants (1969). (collection of short stories)
- John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969).
- Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987).
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988).
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (2001).
- Nicola Barker, Darkmans (2007).
Postcolonial
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958).
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981)
- Caryl Phillips, The Final Passage (1985).
- V. S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections (1987).
- Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991).
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997).
