%0 Book %T polyphonic novel in contemporary British fiction: neoliberal individualism and collective narratives %A Yeşilbaş, Emre %D 2020 %C Rostock %C Universität Rostock %G English %F 1787311953 %O vorgelegt von Emre Yeşilbaş %O GutachterInnen: Christian Schmitt-Kilb (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Universität Rostock) ; Elahe Haschemi Yekani (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) ; Dirk Wiemann (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Universität Potsdam) %O Dissertation Universität Rostock 2020 %X This thesis offers an alternative history of contemporary British fiction by centralizing the conception of genre as a ‘way of seeing and conceptualizing the world. By recontextualizing and reintroducing the polyphonic novel as a distinctive, emergent (cf. Williams) genre that mediates the contradictions of neoliberal individualism and its cultural manifestation, postmodernism, this thesis offers a distinctive perspective on cultural diversity and social fragmentation in contemporary Britain and aims to complement aesthetic and postmodernist literary histories that prioritize diversity. %L 420 %9 theses %9 Text %9 Hochschulschrift %R 10.18453/rosdok_id00003466 %U http://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00003466 %U https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-rosdok_id00003466-2 %U https://d-nb.info/1293536458/34 %U https://doi.org/10.18453/rosdok_id00003466