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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Contemporary British Literature"”.
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Contemporary British Literary Culture, Higher Education, and the Diversity Scandal
Sociologists have demonstrated that neoliberal British education policies reproduce cultural and racial homogeneity in creative industries workforces. These policies have made fine art and design programs key pathways to work in the creative economy. Yet escalating tuition and the reliance on …
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Freedom and the city: contemporary British fiction and the cultural politics of disenfranchisement
Established approaches to contemporary British literature frequently focus on how novelists from the UK have engaged with the complex account of culture that was developed on the Left during the 1980s as a response to Thatcherism. Freedom and the City shifts the terms of this debate in a new …
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"This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth
<p>This thesis considers how contemporary British literature helps us negotiate better ways of being in an increasingly diverse world. Britain understood itself as a relatively homogenous white society and reacted badly when commonwealth citizens unexpectedly began to “return” following World War …
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"This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth
<p>This thesis considers how contemporary British literature helps us negotiate better ways of being in an increasingly diverse world. Britain understood itself as a relatively homogenous white society and reacted badly when commonwealth citizens unexpectedly began to “return” following World War …
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From isolation to incorporation : medical-theological imagery in the work of T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, and Gwyneth Lewis.
… imagery in the work of three modern and contemporary British Christian authors: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) and Gwyneth Lewis (b.1959). Through a detailed analysis of each author's medical-theological imagery, I argue that all three authors interweave medical and …
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Connectivity and Contemporaneity in Ali Smith’s Oeuvre: A Critical Study
… study of the complete works (to date) of the contemporary Scottish writer Ali Smith. I explore the remarkable but diffuse critical attention to Smith's writing while positing an original single-author approach gleaned from sustained attention across her experimentation with literary forms and …