Professor Philip Tew (born Enfield, Middlesex) is an English academic. A professor in English (Post-1900 Literature) in the School of Arts at Brunel University, Tew is a literary critic and theorist in the field of contemporary and modern British fiction after 1945, and of various strands of critical or 'high' theory, particularly metarealism and materialism. He has been an opponent of the essentialism and anti-realist orthodoxies underlying much of postmodernist and postcolonial criticism. Tew is the author of standard works on B.S. Johnson, Jim Crace, Zadie Smith, and the contemporary British novel. He has edited academic collections, series and journals. His recent work has focused on social gerontology and the use of narrative theories in social, cultural and policy analysis.
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