TY - BOOK AU - Acheson, James, ed. AU - Ross, Sarah C. E., ed. TI - The contemporary British novel since 1980 SN - 0748618953 U1 - 813 PY - 2005/// CY - Edinburgh: PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - English Fiction, 20th Century KW - Novel KW - History and Criticism KW - English Fiction, 21th Century N1 - Realism, dreams, and the unconscious in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro / Frederick M. Holmes -- Ian McEwan : contemporary realism and the novel of ideas / Judith Seaboyer -- The unnatural scene : the fiction of Irvine Welsh / Alan Riach -- Angela Carter's magic realism / David Punter -- Facticity, or something like that : the novels of James Kelman / Laurence Nicoll -- One nation, oneself : politics, place, and identity in Martin Amis' fiction / Daniel Lea -- Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi : failed revolutions / Bruce King -- Salman Rushdie's fathers / Hermione Lee -- Postcolonialism and the 'figure of the Jew' : Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith / Bart Moore-Gilbert -- Mingling and metamorphing : articulations of feminism and postcoloniality in Marina Warner's fiction / Chantal Zabus -- Regeneration, redemption, resurrection : Pat Barker and the problem of evil / Sarah C.E. Ross -- 'Partial to intensity' : the novels of A.L. Kennedy / Glenda Norquay -- Gender and creativity in the fictions of Janice Galloway / Dorothy McMillan -- Appetite, desire and belonging in the novels of Rose Tremain / Sarah Sceats -- Desire for syzygy in the novels of A.S. Byatt / Katherine Tarbox -- Jeanette Winterson and the lesbian postmodern : story-telling, performativity and the gay aesthetic / Paulina Palmer -- (Re)Constituted pasts : postmodern historicism in the novels of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes / Daniel Bedggood -- Colonising the past : the novels of Peter Ackroyd / David Leon Higdon -- Player of games : Iain (M.) Banks, Jean François Lyotard and sublime terror / Cairns Craig ER -