The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing-Ronald Carter, Joh

Taylor & Francis

This book is a user-friendly guide to English literature from 1960 to the present.\nFrom Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney to Caryl Churchill, Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett, the book is essential reading for all readers of contemporary writing. > \nIn 1963 President John F. Kennedy was shot, Sylvia Plath published The Bell Jar, and the Beatles were in their prime. This was a changing world, which British and Irish writers both contributed to and reflected in drama, poetry and prose.\nThe Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing tells the story of British and Irish writing from 1963 to the present. From the first performance of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in the 1960s to lad novels and Chick Lit in the twenty-first century, the authors guide the reader through the major writers, genres and developments in English writing over the past forty years. Providing an in-depth overview of the main genres and extensive treatment of a wide range of writers including Phil.