The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature

By John Sturrock

Keeping track of contemporary writing can be difficult. What are the recent developments in Chinese or Israeli fiction? What has happened to poetry in Russia since the fall of Communism? Are we even up to date with the best novels or plays of English-speaking countries around the world? Every year, so much is published which we feel we should know about, that there's a strong need for a volume to evaluate it and put us on the track of what is best worth reading. This new Guide--the only work of its kind to cover world literature of the last thirty-five years--does just that: in twenty-eight lively and trenchant chapters it assesses the most important and interesting literary developments in all five continents.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192833189
• ISBN13: 9780192833181
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.4"