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Decline of British Fiction, The

Synopsis
Patrica Waugh and Jennifer Hodgson discuss their motivations for writing their article ‘On the Exaggerated Reports of a Decline in British Fiction,' published in The White Review arts journal. In this podcast, they explain how we look at twentieth century literature through a series of historical phases, such as modernism and postmodernism and argue that this blinds us to the stylistic and formal continuities that can be found running through innovative British fiction from the nineteenth century to the present literary moment. [41 minutes]
Series
Research in English at Durham (Read) Podcast
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Subjects
English language and literature
Keywords
Fiction in English; Modernism; novelists; novels; experimental fiction

Online availability

URI
https://readdurhamenglish.wordpress.com/podcasts/literature-history-culture/
Price
free
Delivery
Streamed

Credits

Contributor
Jennifer Hodgson; Patricia Waugh

Distributor

Name

University of Durham, Department of English Studies

Web
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