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Trailing Postmodernism: David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Zadie Smith’s NW, and the Metamodern (2018)
Journal Article
Bentley. (2018). Trailing Postmodernism: David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Zadie Smith’s NW, and the Metamodern. English Studies, 723-743. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2018.1510611

This article examines David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) and Zadie Smith's NW (2012) against recent theories of the post-postmodern. It argues that although both texts can be seen to be gesturing towards a reconstructive relationship with the absolu... Read More about Trailing Postmodernism: David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Zadie Smith’s NW, and the Metamodern.

'Unanchored fragments of print': Lessing’s Experiments with Drama and Poetry in the Late 1950s (2015)
Journal Article
Bentley, & Bentley, N. (2015). 'Unanchored fragments of print': Lessing’s Experiments with Drama and Poetry in the Late 1950s

The latter years of the 1950s represent a period in which Lessing is experimenting with literary forms that extend beyond narrative fiction. In 1958 she produced the play Each to His Own Wilderness and the following year published Fourteen Poems. Bot... Read More about 'Unanchored fragments of print': Lessing’s Experiments with Drama and Poetry in the Late 1950s.

Writing 1950s London: Narrative Strategies in Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners (2003)
Journal Article
Bentley, N. (2003). Writing 1950s London: Narrative Strategies in Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners. Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London, 1(2),

Colin MacInnes is a 1950s writer who has largely been overlooked in recent critical analyses of the period.[1] His writing represents a radical experiment with narrative forms and genres that corresponds to his investigation of the submerged worlds... Read More about Writing 1950s London: Narrative Strategies in Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners.