Download or read book Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction written by Thom Dancer and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the idea of critical modesty in twenty-first-century fiction and criticism, with a focus on works by Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, J.M. Coetzee, and David Mitchell, to show that attitudes of acceptance, compromise, limitation, and entanglement become crucial means of minor, yet significant, intervention in the world.