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British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s

Autor Joseph Darlington
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2018
This book discusses British novels published during the 1970s which feature terrorists either as main characters or a major plot points. The focus on terrorism’s literary depiction provides insight into the politics of the decade. The book analyses texts from Gerald Seymour, Anthony Burgess, V.S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, B.S. Johnson, Tom Sharpe, and Eric Ambler, among others, in order to engage with the IRA, the end of Empire, counterculture and environmentalism. The book provides a brief history of terrorism as a concept and tactic before discussing British literature’s relationship with terrorism. It presents a “standard terrorist morphology” by which to analyse terrorist narratives along with other insights into the British post-war imagination, writing and extremism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030085674
ISBN-10: 3030085678
Pagini: 152
Ilustrații: V, 152 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction.- 2. A Short History of Terrorism as Concept and Tactic.- 3. The Terrorist Novel, Thriller and Postcolonial Britain.- 4. Writing the IRA from the Mainland.- 5. Counter-cultural Writers and the Angry Brigade.- 6. Environmentalists and Conservationists.- 7. Conclusion.

Recenzii

“The structure and clarity of this book is superb. … The point to make is that this book is as useful to film studies as it is to literature studies and politics. It would also serve a more avid but non-academic cineaste well. … I finish the book feeling that the limits of my world are the limits of what I can know … . A historical and philosophical work then, too. Highly recommended.” (Steve Hanson, manchesterreviewofbooks.wordpress.com, November, 2018) 

Notă biografică

Joseph Darlington is Programme Leader for BA(Hons) Digital Animation with Illustration at Futureworks Media School. His completed a PhD in 2014 on British experimental novelists, was awarded a Harry Ransom Fellowship and is co-editor of BSJ: The B.S. Johnson Journal. He has published widely on literature, culture and technology.

Caracteristici

Examines works by well-known authors such as Graham Greene and Doris Lessing, alongside works from lesser-studied writers such as Eric Ambler and Fredrick Forsyth
Considers a wide variety of terrorist groups, from the Provisional IRA to The Angry Brigade
Situates and rationalises the wealth of 1970s terrorism novels in their historical and political contexts