A Decade of Discontent - British Fiction of the Eighties

Hrsg. von Hans-Jürgen Diller, Stephan Kohl, Joachim Konelius, Erwin Otto und Gerd Stratmann. Ten essays by Wolfgang Riedel, Werner Wolf, Susanne Fendler, Thomas Michael Stein, Gerd Stratmann, Beate Neumeier, Susanne Becker and Klaus Börner.

Contents: Wolfgang Riedel: Introduction: Dream into Nightmare - the Thatcher Years. - Werner Wolf: The Fiction of David Lodge in the Eighties - Discontent with Life and Literature Expressed from a Moderate, Liberal and Undogmatically Christian Point of View. - Susanne Fendler: Thatcherism in Anita Brookner's Novels. - Thomas Michael Stein: 'The Imperial Fantasy': John le Carre's "A Perfect Spy" and "The Russia House". - Wolfgang Riedel: Black and/or British. Writing in a Multicultural Society. - Gerd Stratmann: Constructions of Childhood and the Thing Itself: Ian McEwan's "The Child in Time". - Beate Neumeier: Postmodern Gothic: Desire and Reality in Angela Carter's Writing. - Susanne Becker: The Haunted Voices of Fay Weldon. - Thomas Michael Stein: "From Purgatory to Full Inferno": Martin Amis's Novels of the Eighties. - Klaus Börner: Salman Rushdie: Observations on Cultural Hybridity. 168 Seiten, broschiert (Anglistik & Englischunterricht; Band 48/Universitätsverlag Winter 1992)