Granta and the Advent of the Contemporary

Rather than purely aesthetic or conceptual matters, literary periods may be understood in terms of literary-institutional arrangements, with the shifts between them occasioned by changes in these arrangements. Granta magazine's “Best of Young British Authors” list from 1983 exemplifies one such...

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Published inJournal of modern literature Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 150 - 168
Main Author Oldershaw, Myles
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bloomington Indiana University Press 22.09.2019
Subjects
Aesthetics
Authorship
Bookstores
British & Irish literature
British literature
British writers
Contemporary literature
Critics
English literature
Fiction
Indian literature
Literary canon
Literary criticism
Literary history
Literary influences
Literary movements and periods
Literature
Logic
Marketing
Modern literature
Modernism
Modernism (Literature)
Novels
Publishing
Publishing industry
Rushdie, Salman
Todd, Richard
Writers
United Kingdom
United Kingdom > UK
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Summary:Rather than purely aesthetic or conceptual matters, literary periods may be understood in terms of literary-institutional arrangements, with the shifts between them occasioned by changes in these arrangements. Granta magazine's “Best of Young British Authors” list from 1983 exemplifies one such shift within the British field; tracing the list's history reveals the advent around 1980 of a new, contemporary period in British literature, defined not by particular writers or styles but by certain institutional practices.
ISSN:0022-281X
1529-1464
DOI:10.2979/jmodelite.43.1.09