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New Aspects of A Level English: Post-2000 Fiction Online resources added at the end!

Benefits? Literature ‘found alive!’ Present Different kinds of resources Not ‘established’ More: the opportunities of form…

Form, or, what’s contemporary about contemporary fiction? The Baton Form Realism… …and its opposition

Opposed to realism Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy James Joyce and Virginia Woolf/ Modernism writers Experimental writers of 1960s Magical realism Postmodernism – Experimentalism – Retelling

That was then, this is… ‘ Post-postmodern ’ – ‘Domesticated postmodernism’/return to narrative – Pastiches of genre Return to Modernism – Formal constraints e.g. ‘In a day novels’ – Modernist experimentalism Reality Hunger – “etymology of fiction is from fingere… meaning to ‘shape, fashion, form, or mould’ – Authenticity?

resources Highly-rated online journal of 21 st C criticism Another one: not all on-line but much of it is… Much of my talk was adapted from: Robert Eaglestone, The Very Short Introduction to Contemporary Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).