当代文学的核心概念

General Editors' Preface
General Introduction
1 Contexts: History, Politics, Culture
  Introduction
  British Empire, decline and loss
  Censorship
  Class structure
  Cold War
  Counter-culture
  Feminism and the role of women
  Holocaust
  Migrant experience and multiculturalism
  Northern Irish 'troubles'
  Political protest
  Popular culture
  Religion
  Science and technological innovation
  Sex and sexuality
  War
  Youth culture
2 Texts: Themes, Issues, Concepts
  Introduction
  Absurdist theatre
  Alternative theatre
  Anglo-Welsh literature
  'Angry young men'
  Avant-garde poetry
  Black British literature
  Campus novel
  Class
  Concrete poetry
  Empire, end of
  Englishness
  Epic theatre
  Gay and lesbian writing
  Genre fiction
  History
  Holocaust literature
  Irish literature
  'Kitchen sink' drama
  Language poetry
  London, literary representations of
  Magic realism
  Marketing of literature
  Modemism, legacy of
  Movement, the
  Nature
  New voices in 21 st-century literature
  Performance poetry
  Political commitment
  Postcolonial literature
  Postmodern literature
  Realism
  Regional identity
  Scottish literature
  Theatre of Cruelty
  Underground poetry
  Urban experience
  Women's writing
3 Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice
  Introduction
  Cultural materialism
  Deconstruction
  Dialogic theory
  Feminist criticism
  Gender criticism
  Leavisite criticism
  Marxist criticism
  Narratology
  New Criticism
  New Historicism
  Postcolonial criticism
  Postmodernist theory
  Poststructuralism
  Psychoanalytic criticism
  Reader-response criticism
  Structuralism
Notes
Chronology
General Index
Index of Works Cited