The Demotic Voice in Contemporary British Fiction

1. Introduction: A Story So Far?
Jeremy Scott

2. Paradigms: A Taxonomy of Narrative Technique
Jeremy Scott

3. Antecedents: ‘The right to write a voice’
Jeremy Scott

4. Graham Swift’s Last Orders: The Polyphonic Novel
Jeremy Scott

5. How Late It Was, How Late for James Kelman’s ‘Folk Novel’
Jeremy Scott

6. Alan Warner: Art-Speech and the Morvern Paradox
Jeremy Scott

7. The Demotic, the Mandarin and the Proletentious: Martin Amis, Will Self and English Art-Speech
Jeremy Scott

8. Pitfalls and Potentialities: Niall Griffiths and Anne Donovan
Jeremy Scott

9. Conclusions: The Clamouring Continues …
Jeremy Scott

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction