Bøger af Dominic Head

The modernist period saw a revolution in fictional practice, most famously in the work of novelists such as Joyce and Woolf. Dominic Head shows that the short story, with its particular stress on literary artifice, was a central site for modernist innovation.

The most up-to-date survey of the leading British novelist of his generation, offering the fullest account to date of McEwan's sources, especially concerning his interest in popular science.

Dominic Head discusses Nadine Gordimer's novels in the contexts of events and situations of the real world, and of Gordimer's own development as a writer. Her work is seen as a distinctive contribution to twentieth-century fiction, and to the creation of a literature that challenges apartheid.