The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing
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The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing by John Sturrock
This text provides an account of significant contemporary writing since 1960. It covers cultures such as Australian, American-Spanish, French and Israeli and concentrates on fiction and poetry. Biographical and background information is included, along with criticism.
the clarity with which the national is distinguished from the international is one of the striking successes of the Guide * Times Literary Supplement *
I hope that the delegates of OUP will encourage John Sturrock to keep his guide up to date, in several subsequent editionsThere is nothing quite like it. * Robert McCrum, The Observer *
we ... have to be grateful to Oxford University Press and John Sturrock for allowing us to evaluate Scottish writing in the context of world literature in this indispensable guide * Lorn Macintyre, Glasgow Herald *
A mammoth-seeming task but ... well done ... the project has a general air of thoughtfulness, and now and then permits small bursts of critical discrimination. * Ian Hamilton, The Sunday Telegraph *
This is a guide of enormous scope, covering the contemporary writing of most of the globe since the 1960s ... sharply informative and crisply written. It is most stimulating and informative. Its greatest virtue is that it makes us lift our heads above our own parochialism. * Joan Bridgman, Contemporary Review *
performs a useful, difficult task with aplomb * John Rylke, The Guardian *
a guide of enormous scope, covering the contemporary writing of most of the globe since the 1960s ... sharply informative and crisply written ... The discussions of national literatures are frequently penetrating and provocative. It is most stimulating and informative. Its greatest virtue is that it makes us lift our heads above our own parochialism. * Joan Bridgman, Contemporary Review, Vol. 269, No. 1570, Nov '96 *
I hope that the delegates of OUP will encourage John Sturrock to keep his guide up to date, in several subsequent editionsThere is nothing quite like it. * Robert McCrum, The Observer *
we ... have to be grateful to Oxford University Press and John Sturrock for allowing us to evaluate Scottish writing in the context of world literature in this indispensable guide * Lorn Macintyre, Glasgow Herald *
A mammoth-seeming task but ... well done ... the project has a general air of thoughtfulness, and now and then permits small bursts of critical discrimination. * Ian Hamilton, The Sunday Telegraph *
This is a guide of enormous scope, covering the contemporary writing of most of the globe since the 1960s ... sharply informative and crisply written. It is most stimulating and informative. Its greatest virtue is that it makes us lift our heads above our own parochialism. * Joan Bridgman, Contemporary Review *
performs a useful, difficult task with aplomb * John Rylke, The Guardian *
a guide of enormous scope, covering the contemporary writing of most of the globe since the 1960s ... sharply informative and crisply written ... The discussions of national literatures are frequently penetrating and provocative. It is most stimulating and informative. Its greatest virtue is that it makes us lift our heads above our own parochialism. * Joan Bridgman, Contemporary Review, Vol. 269, No. 1570, Nov '96 *
John Sturrock is Consulting Editor of The London Review of Books, and former Deputy Editor of The Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of The French New Novel (OUP 1969); Paper Tigers: The Ideal Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges (OUP l977); and the editor of Structuralism and Since (OUP l980).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198182627 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198182627 |
| Title | The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing |
| Author | John Sturrock |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1996-08-29 |
| Number of pages | 504 |
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