Realism? Modernism? Postmodernism? Post-postmodernism? On contemporary British fiction

In the review of the monograph by N.Bentley «Contemporary British Fiction» (2008), the structure of the work and its frame of reference are analyzed. In the course of the analysis some fundamental aspects of the Modern British Literary process are considered, particularly the specific synthesis of the three literary and aesthetic paradigms - realistic, experimentally modernistic and postmodernistic - with the obvious dominance of the realistic one.