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The book contains a selection of papers focusing on the idea of crossing boundaries in literary and cultural texts composed in English. The authors come from different methodological schools and analyse texts coming from different periods and cultures, trying to find common ground (the theme of the...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Second language learning and teaching. |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21994-8 |
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The book contains a selection of papers focusing on the idea of crossing boundaries in literary and cultural texts composed in English. The authors come from different methodological schools and analyse texts coming from different periods and cultures, trying to find common ground (the theme of the volume) between the apparently generically and temporarily varied works and phenomena. In this way, a plethora of perspectives is offered, perspectives which represent a high standard both in terms of theoretical reflection and in-depth analysis of selected texts. Consequently, the volume is addressed to a wide scope of both scholars and students working in the field of English and American literary and cultural studies; furthermore, it will be of interest also to students interested in theoretical issues linked with investigations into literature and culture. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
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9783642219948 (electronic bk.) 3642219942 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I0-05 |
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Crossing thresholds of literary theories and critical approaches -- I See a Voice... / A New Territory? Literary Criticism as a Literary Genre / 25-33 / 35-44 / A Post-Battle Landscape: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and The Cleft / Remapping women's. men's moral and social borders -- Near the Riverbank: Women, Danger and Place in Dickens / Women with Iron in'em. Women Who Wanted Land and a Home: Female Pioneers Staking Out New Territories in the American Popular Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s / Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Complexities of Gender / Outlaw Emotions: Carol Ann Duffy's "Eurydice", Dramatic Monologue and Victorian Women Poets / The One Great Drawback to the Life of Women is That They Cannot Act in Politics? Political Women in Anthony Trollope's Fiction / Transgressing Boundaries to Metamorphose: The Outlander by Gil Adamson / Forbidden Territories: the Sexual and the Social in Allan Hollinghurst's Novel The Line of Beauty / What Haunts Hundreds Hall? Transgression in Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger / Crossing the "Gender Frontier": Cross-dressing and Male Impersonation in Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet (1998) / Cross-language ventures -- Black Women are the Most Fascinating Creations in the World or How (not) to Translate Alice Walker's The Color Purple / Old world, new world and the space between -- Female pioneers, Good Indians, and Settler Nostalgia: Colonial Ambivalence in Sally Armstrong's The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor / Crossing the Frontiers of Death: A Journey Through War Memories and Continents in Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces / India Re-loaded: Vikas Swarup's Slumdog Millionaire as a Postcolonial Novel / Narration and Representation of Race in Matthew Kneale's English Passengers / A Dominican-American Experience of Not Quite Successful Assimilation: Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Private territories, social spaces -- Louis MacNeice's Autumn Journal as a Place of Asylum in Space and an Archive in Time / Aldous Huxley and Evolving Borders of Social Space: The Changing 20th Century Society in His Essays from the 1920s / Re-vision of London in Iain Sinclair's White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings / Philip K. Dick: One Man's Illusion Might Invade the Reality of Others / The Idea of Ambition as a Social Process Based on Role Transition Theory: Dyadic Power Relations in Coriolanus and Macbeth / Across literary epochs, bringing together writers -- Genius and Madness Mirrored: Rossetti's and Yeats' Reception of William Blake / Between Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Peter Ackroyd's Clerkenwell Tales: A Dialogue of the Contemporary Novel and Medieval Literary Conventions / Thomas MacGreevy and Samuel Beckett. Affinity and Controversy / False Memories, Forged Identities and Murders: Macbeth for the Twenty-First Century / Extending the boundaries of genre and medium -- Beyond the Confines of Realism: Seeking New Metaphors for Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans / Between a Fragment and a Whole. A Cognitive Analysis of the Gothic Fragment as a Literary Genre. A Case Study of Anna Letitia Aikin's 'Sir Bertrand: A Fragment.' / Poe Goes Pop, or Adapting "The Fall of the House of Usher" in the 21st Century / Adaptation and the Idea of the Death of the Author: The Case of Samuel Beckett / From Commodification to Communal Art: "Above Sex... Above Politics" / Countries and cultures at crossroads -- The Subversive Power of Father Matthias. The Poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski as Vehicle for Political Propaganda in England of the 17th Century / Early Modern Travel Writing and Thomas More's Utopia: An Attempt at Literary Interpretation / Beryl Bainbridge's The Birthday Boys: Travelling Towards the Pole of Death / Crossing Racial Frontiers in the Quest for Cultural Acceptance as Seen Through Selected Works by Jackie Kay / The Flying Dutchman's Mimetic Desire. Crossing Geographical and Moral Frontiers in Frederick Marryat's The Phantom Ship / Forays into the Scientific Mindset: The Two Cultures in Ian McEwan's Saturday and Solar / Trying to Cross Frontiers of Fortress Europe: Rose Tremain's Novel The Road Home (2007) / Carnivalesque Pop. Representations of the Commonplace in British Pop Art / Representation of Identities in the British Arts Policy of the 1980s / The Coenesque Zones: Alternative American Settings Beyond the Constraints of Everyday Logic in the Cinematic Works of Joel and Ethan Coen / Crossing Frontiers, Staking Out New Territories: Hollywood Remaking British Crime Locations in Get Carter / From the New Right to the Da Vinci Code: Transformations of the Conspiracy Theorist After the Second World War / The "Cultural Turn" and the Changing Face of the Humanities in Poland / |