"Do you consider yourself a postmodern author?": Interviews with Contemporary English Writers (Erlanger Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik)

This book presents a collection of twelve interviews with eminent English contemporary writers held over a period of four years. The book presents an illuminating insight into a very lively and thought-provoking literary culture, stirred not only by recent ideas about postmodernism but also by issues of nationality, culture, and gender that have been subjected to permanent redefinitions towards the end of the twentieth century. Among those interviewed are Peter Ackroyd, John Banville, Julian Barnes, Alain de Botton, Maureen Duffy, Tibor Fischer, John Fowles, Romesh Gunesekera, Tun Paiks, Terry Pratchett, Jane Rogers, and Adam Thorpe. The interviews cover topics such as the relationships between writer and public, the role of the literary tradition, the relevance of contemporary literary theory for the production of literature, images of nationality, intertextuality, changes in the attitude towards language and meaning, and the reception of literary texts by critical reviewers and literary critics."Do you consider yourself a postmodern author?": Interviews with Contemporary English Writers (Erlanger Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), was published 1999 under ISBN 9783825843953 and ISBN 3825843955.