The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing

Contemporary writing is arguably the most exciting and attractive reading-matter to the majority of readers - and by its nature the least charted. The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing - uniquely international in range and up-to-date in coverage - provides in 28 chapters an accessible, informative, and fluent account of all that is most significant and worth reading in the mass of writing since 1960. It covers cultures as various as Australian and Spanish-American, French, Israeli, and Canadian, New Zealand and Russian, as well as American, English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish. Written by experts, but demanding no specialist knowledge of the reader, it concentrates on fiction and poetry, but is generously inclusive in its scope; each chapter provides a wealth of biographical and background information, informed criticism, and a lively, sometimes controversial, view of contemporary writing and its development.