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==Gender Relations== | ==Gender Relations== | ||
| + | *A.L Kennedy, ''Looking for the Possible Dance''(1993). | ||
*J.M. Coetzee, ''Disgrace'' (1999). | *J.M. Coetzee, ''Disgrace'' (1999). | ||
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==Sexuality== | ==Sexuality== | ||
*[[John Cleland, Fanny Hill (1749)]]. | *[[John Cleland, Fanny Hill (1749)]]. | ||
| − | *Jeanette Winterson, '' | + | *Jeanette Winterson, ''The Passion'' (1987). |
*Alan Hollinghurst, ''The Line of Beauty'' (2004). | *Alan Hollinghurst, ''The Line of Beauty'' (2004). | ||
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==Postcolonial Fiction== | ==Postcolonial Fiction== | ||
*Chinua Achebe, ''Things Fall Apart'' (1958). | *Chinua Achebe, ''Things Fall Apart'' (1958). | ||
| − | *Salman Rushdie, ''Midnight's Children'' (1981) | + | *Salman Rushdie, ''Midnight's Children'' (1981). |
*Caryl Phillips, ''The Final Passage'' (1985). | *Caryl Phillips, ''The Final Passage'' (1985). | ||
*V. S. Naipaul, ''The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections'' (1987). | *V. S. Naipaul, ''The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections'' (1987). | ||
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==Adolescence== | ==Adolescence== | ||
| − | *Hanif Kureishi, ''The Buddha of Suburbia'' (1990) | + | *Jeanette Winterson, ''Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'' (1985). |
| + | *Hanif Kureishi, ''The Buddha of Suburbia'' (1990). | ||
*Roddy Doyle, ''Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha'' (1993). | *Roddy Doyle, ''Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha'' (1993). | ||
| + | *Hilary Mantel, ''An Experiment in Love'' (1995). | ||
*DBC Pierre, ''Vernon God Little'' (2003). | *DBC Pierre, ''Vernon God Little'' (2003). | ||
*Jonathan Trigell, ''Boy A'' (2004). | *Jonathan Trigell, ''Boy A'' (2004). | ||
Revision as of 13:08, 7 March 2008
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Contents
Gender Relations
- A.L Kennedy, Looking for the Possible Dance(1993).
- 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, The Passion (1987).
- 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 Fiction
- 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 Fiction
- 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).
Campus and Academic
- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945).
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1957).
- David Lodge, Small World: An Academic Romance (1984).
- Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985).
- A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990).
- Zadie Smith, On Beauty (2005).
Adolescence
- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985).
- Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990).
- Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993).
- Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love (1995).
- DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little (2003).
- Jonathan Trigell, Boy A (2004).
