Timothy Bewes Books
Cynicism and Postmodernity
Melancholic and introspective, ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. A casualty of modernization? Or a product of postmodernism? In this original and provocative book, Tim...
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Reification
Of all the concepts which have emerged to describe the effects of capitalism on the human world, none is more graphic or easily grasped than “reification”—the process by which men...
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Free Indirect: The Novel In A Postfictional Age
By W. G. Sebald, Timothy Bewes
Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of ear...
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