{"title":"Berthold Schoene","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cosmopolitan-novel-book-berthold-schoene-9780748640034","title":"The Cosmopolitan Novel","description":"The Cosmopolitan Novel Berthold Schoene 'The Cosmopolitan Novel offers what is - to my mind - the best explanation to date for the continuing success of British fiction. Boldly counterintuitive and always intelligent, this book forces us to consider how contemporary fiction might be refiguring the modern subject for the twenty-first century and whether, in doing so, it also continues the novel's generic mission of mimicking the world.' Professor Nancy Armstrong, Duke University 'Berthold Schoene offers us a refreshing look at creative world-making in the contemporary cosmopolitan novel. Schoene's elegant readings - of pre-canonical and better-known writers - establish a cosmopolitan tradition that effectively disaggregates common conceptions of the monolithic West. The reach of this work is ambitious; yet Schoene carries off an eminently convincing argument, provocative in its incitements for future literary studies of global culture.' Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California at Santa Barbara While traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, Schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the novel that is adept at imagining global community. The book introduces a new generation of contemporary British writers (Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru, Jon McGregor and David Mitchell) whose work is read against that of established novelists Arundhati Roy, James Kelman and Ian McEwan. Each chapter explores a different theoretical key concept, including 'glocality', 'glomicity', 'tour du monde', 'connectivity' and 'compearance'. Berthold Schoene is Professor of English and Director of the English Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (EUP, 2007) and author of Writing Men: Literary Masculinities from Frankenstein to the New Man (EUP, 2000).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49561588171025,"sku":"GOR013203425","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0748640037.jpg?v=1768561563"},{"product_id":"edinburgh-companion-to-irvine-welsh-book-berthold-schoene-9780748639182","title":"The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh","description":"The subcultural enfant terrible of devolutionary protest and rebellion, Irvine Welsh is now widely acknowledged as the founding father of a whole new tradition in post-devolution Scottish writing. The unprecedented worldwide success of Trainspotting, magnified by Danny Boyle's iconic film adaptation, revolutionised Scottish culture and radically remoulded the country's self-image from dreamy romantic hinterland to agitated metropolitan hotbed. Although Welsh's career is very much an ongoing phenomenon, his influence on contemporary Scottish literary history is already indisputable and enduring. The Companion provides a thorough, up-to-date and critical evaluation of Welsh's work. New innovative readings address questions of class, subculture and drug use, nationhood, gender and narrative experimentation with reference to broader developments - such as devolution and globalisation - within contemporary Scottish, British and world culture. Features: * Covers all of Welsh's fiction, his dramatic work for the stage and for television, plus a detailed analysis of Danny Boyle's Trainspotting * Traces the author's critical and popular reception at home, abroad and overseas, and analyses the popular 'cult' and media hype surrounding his work * Examines Welsh's relations to other writers, both Scottish and non-Scottish, and his contentious position within the Scottish literary canon * Aims throughout to amalgamate a critical assessment of the work, the writer and the 'phenomenon'","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49626383122705,"sku":"GOR010099418","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0748639187.jpg?v=1768561782"},{"product_id":"edinburgh-companion-to-contemporary-scottish-literature-book-berthold-schoene-9780748623969","title":"The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature","description":"This textbook makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism.In more than 40 essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume positions Scottish literature within the broadest possible cultural framework, from history, politics and economics to new creative technologies, ecology and the media.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49990150324497,"sku":"GOR002611658","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52111235711249,"sku":"NGR9780748623969","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52768896614673,"sku":"GOR012624259","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53127655751953,"sku":"GOR014758661","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0748623965.jpg?v=1768562153"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-berthold-schoene.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}