20th—21st Century ‘British’ Literature: Recent Critical Trends

Abstract

This panel was meant to initiate a series of similar encounters to be organized during the Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines’ conferences and workshops to come. This first panel gave the participants the occasion to embrace a broad spectrum of critical issues ranging from New Modernist studies to ‘world literature’. It was meant to be deliberately far-ranging, as a way of laying the general foundations the panels to come and possibly engage with issues relating to world literature and the cultural remit of contemporary “British” literary production.

Keywords

• critical theory
• British Literature
• contemporary novel
• Short story
• New Modernist Studies
• world-literature