The Demotic Voice in Contemporary British Fiction (Hardcover)

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: A Story so Far? Paradigms: a Taxonomy of Narrative Technique Antecedents: 'The Right to Write a Voice' Graham Swift's Last Orders : the Polyphonic Novel How Late It Was, How Late for James Kelman's 'Folk Novel' Alan Warner: Art-speech and the Morvern Paradox The Demotic, the Mandarin and the Proletentious: Martin Amis, Will Self and English Art-speech Pitfalls and Potentialities: Niall Griffiths and Anne Donovan Conclusions: the Clamouring Continues... Bibliography Index