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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ben Masters (Assistant Professor in English Literature, University of Nottingham)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.494kg ISBN: 9780198766148ISBN 10: 0198766149 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 21 December 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The Higher Morality: Anthony Burgess and 'The Business of Moral Choice' 2: Ifs, Buts, and Maybes: Angela Carter's Grammar of Curiosity 3: The King in his Countinghouse': Martin Amis and the Decorum of Excess 4: Twenty-First-Century Excess: Levels of Narration in Contemporary Fiction CodaReviewsBen Masters Novel Style is indeed a masterly critical achievement. His close readings of writings by Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, and others are superb in their sensitivity and acuity. Not only does Masters develop fresh insights into how such authors relate ethics and prose style so that style itself becomes an ethical matter, he also draws on a diverse range of literary criticism and theory to present original thinking about the intimacy of literature to ethics and morality more generally. * Alex Houen, University Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge * The work of Angela Carter, Martin Amis, and other stylists of excess, has become difficult to read in recent years, as our capacity to account for the effects of literary style has weakened. To respond to these stylists — to respond to style — requires us now to invent a new critical vocabulary, and to forge a new kind of critical voice. Ben Masters, in Novel Style, has achieved both of these things. He has a striking critical voice that is as revealing as it is original, and his work offers a new way of understanding the ethical power of style. This book will become a necessary reference point for any discussion of literary fiction in the modern and contemporary period. * Peter Boxall, Professor of English, University of Sussex * The work of Angela Carter, Martin Amis, and other stylists of excess, has become difficult to read in recent years, as our capacity to account for the effects of literary style has weakened. To respond to these stylists - to respond to style - requires us now to invent a new critical vocabulary, and to forge a new kind of critical voice. Ben Masters, in Novel Style, has achieved both of these things. He has a striking critical voice that is as revealing as it is original, and his work offers a new way of understanding the ethical power of style. This book will become a necessary reference point for any discussion of literary fiction in the modern and contemporary period. * Peter Boxall, Professor of English, University of Sussex * Ben Masters Novel Style is indeed a masterly critical achievement. His close readings of writings by Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, and others are superb in their sensitivity and acuity. Not only does Masters develop fresh insights into how such authors relate ethics and prose style so that style itself becomes an ethical matter, he also draws on a diverse range of literary criticism and theory to present original thinking about the intimacy of literature to ethics and morality more generally. * Alex Houen, University Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge * Ben Masters Novel Style is indeed a masterly critical achievement. His close readings of writings by Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, and others are superb in their sensitivity and acuity. Not only does Masters develop fresh insights into how such authors relate ethics and prose style so that style itself becomes an ethical matter, he also draws on a diverse range of literary criticism and theory to present original thinking about the intimacy of literature to ethics and morality more generally. * Alex Houen, University Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge * The work of Angela Carter, Martin Amis, and other stylists of excess, has become difficult to read in recent years, as our capacity to account for the effects of literary style has weakened. To respond to these stylists - to respond to style - requires us now to invent a new critical vocabulary, and to forge a new kind of critical voice. Ben Masters, in Novel Style, has achieved both of these things. He has a striking critical voice that is as revealing as it is original, and his work offers a new way of understanding the ethical power of style. This book will become a necessary reference point for any discussion of literary fiction in the modern and contemporary period. * Peter Boxall, Professor of English, University of Sussex * Author InformationBen Masters is a novelist, critic, and Assistant Professor in English Literature, 1880 to the present, at the University of Nottingham. His first novel, Noughties, was published in 2012, and he has written for The Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, New York Times, and Five Dials, amongst other publications. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |