Bøker av Peter Boxall

Integrates the fields of strategic management and HRM by examining how HR strategy impacts on an organisation's chances of survival and its relative success, and with understanding how it varies across important organisational, industry and societal contexts.

"An essential collection from a singular voice in contemporary literary studies. Assembling key compositions from the last twenty-five years, and several new pieces, Boxall demonstrates the changing fate of literary thinking over the first decades of this century while giving critical expression to the imaginative possibilities of literature itself"--

Presents an account of Don DeLillo's writing, situating his oeuvre within an analysis of the condition of contemporary fiction, and dealing with his work in relation to contemporary political and economic concerns. This book provides a reading of DeLillo's ambivalent engagement with American and European culture.

Peter Boxall's The Value of the Novel offers a reappraisal of the ethical, political and literary value of the novel as a genre at turning point in the history both of literature and of criticism. As the dominant critical concerns of the twentieth century faded, and new cultural and technological environments emerged, Boxall argues that we lost our collective sense of the purpose of the novel. This book responds to this predicament by demonstrating why and how the novel matters to us today. Ranging from Daniel Defoe to Zadie Smith, Boxall shows how the formal properties of the novel allow us to imagine the worlds in which we live. This is a vibrant, compelling and richly informed critical perspective that asks us to see anew how central fiction is to our idea of the world, and how richly the novel informs our attempts to understand our present and our future.