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Tytuł:
Reality in the Margins, Pseudo-Reality in the Main Frame: The Posthuman in Steven Hall’s "The Raw Shark Texts"
Autorzy:
Guenther, Shawna
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/653531.pdf
Data publikacji:
2018
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Tematy:
posthumanism
pseudoreality
British fiction
Opis:
I contend that, at its core, Stephen Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts is an allegory of reading that illustrates how composite realities exist in the increasingly electronically-dominated world of posthumanism. Hall succinctly identifies how words act upon readers intellectually and psychologically. Readers take the written words from the page and turn them into actual people, places, things, and events within their minds, bringing their own past narratives to create their versions of the text’s pseudoreality. However, the text’s main character, Eric, is disabled by his repeated episodes of complete amnesia – his reality is constantly being erased and rewritten, just like computer memory, leaving Eric with no past narrative to inform his present and future. Hall, very much aware of the conflict between reality and pseudoreality, conflates the worlds of written and digital text, and of human and computer memory in ways that both celebrate their coexistence and warn of one’s potential to eliminate the other. Thus, the allegory of reading exemplifies the potential destruction of reading and the end of electronic posthumanism. As digital text and the mainframe threaten to destroy the act of reading in the twenty-first century, the death of the reader looms large.
Źródło:
Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre; 2018, 5, 1; 1-10
2353-6098
Pojawia się w:
Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
An interregnum: masculinity and British fiction at the turn of the century
Autorzy:
Więckowska, Katarzyna
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/632484.pdf
Data publikacji:
2015
Wydawca:
Projekt Avant
Tematy:
feminism
gender
masculinity
masculinity crisis
British fiction
Opis:
The article offers a reading of the representation of the masculinity crisis at the end of the 20th century in selected British novels. The works by Irvine Welsh, Graham Swift, Niall Griffiths, and Ian McEwan are situated against the development of pro-feminist men’s writing and masculinity studies, as well as the mythopoetic men’s movement and Robert Bly’s bestselling Iron John: A Book About Men (1990). The article foregrounds the sense of an impasse that permeates the novels and that echoes the general feeling of in-betweenness characteristic for the turn of the century.
Źródło:
Avant; 2015, 6, 1
2082-6710
Pojawia się w:
Avant
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Hercule Poirot and the Tricky Performers of Stereotypes in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
Autorzy:
Eckert, Kenneth
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2032734.pdf
Data publikacji:
2021-11-22
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Tematy:
Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
Hercule Poirot
detective fiction
British fiction
prejudice
stereotypes
Opis:
Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (1934) remains well-read, and its hero Hercule Poirot continues to enjoy popular currency. Yet the text has not aged well due to some of its now clichéd plot developments and dialogue, as well as Christie’s depiction of class, ethnic and national prejudices in it and her other novels. This study hopes to re-energize discussion on Murder by finding defensible reasons for its apparent flaws. Not only do the stereotypical behaviors of the passengers narratively distract Poirot and the reader from a solution, but their flaws serve as foils against which Poirot’s heroic gravitas and cultural values are positively contrasted. Further, criticism often misses the point that the passengers are performing their behaviors, and if so, the deployment of stereotypes as only acted performances destabilizes them as permanent aspects of national or ethnic identity. Can Murder then be read as an anti-racist text?
Źródło:
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture; 2021, 11; 186-203
2083-2931
2084-574X
Pojawia się w:
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
A minor apocalypse? The apocalyptic in Charles Williams’s Shadows of Ecstasy
Mała apokalipsa? Elementy apokaliptyczne w powieści Shadows of Ecstasy Charlesa Williamsa
Autorzy:
Kowalczyk, Andrzej Sławomir
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1886420.pdf
Data publikacji:
2015
Wydawca:
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
Tematy:
Charles Williams
apokalipsa
powieść brytyjska XX w.
duchowość w literaturze
the apocalyptic
20th-century British fiction
the spiritual in literature
Opis:
Artykuł zawiera analizę elementów apokaliptycznych w nietłumaczonym na język polski utworze Shadows of Ecstasy (1933) Charlesa Williamsa (1886-1945) – brytyjskiego poety, dramaturga, świeckiego teologa, krytyka literackiego i autora siedmiu powieści określanych jako „thrillery metafizyczne”. Bazując na teoretycznych ustaleniach takich badaczy jak Barry Brummett (1991) czy Douglas Robinson (1998), Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk analizuje „apokaliptyczność” świata powieści zarówno w odniesieniu do aspektów społeczno-politycznych, jak i religijnych/ duchowych. Autor artykułu podkreśla fakt, że mimo licznych podobieństw do Księgi Apokalipsy, powieść nie pozwala na automatyczne „przeniesienie” biblijnych interpretacji konfliktu dobra i zła. Wynika to m. in. z ambiwalencji w konstrukcji kluczowych postaci (zwłaszcza typu „Antychrysta” Nigela Considine’a), z dominującego punktu widzenia, oraz z otwartego zakończenia powieści. Zdaniem badacza taka kompozycja jest swego rodzaju Williamsowskim zaproszeniem czytelnika do przeżycia jego własnej „małej apokalipsy” czy „objawienia” – w sensie odkrywania pierwiastka duchowego w dominującym na początku XX w. materialistycznym obrazie świata.
The study examines Shadows of Ecstasy (1933), the earliest novel of Charles Williams (1886-1945)—British poet, playwright, theological writer, literary critic, bibliographer, and author of seven works of fiction—in the context of the apocalyptic as discussed by Barry Brummett (1991), Douglas Robinson (1998), and other scholars. Based on the characteristics presented by Brummet, Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk traces apocalyptic motifs in the novel, drawing attention to both its socio-political and religious/spiritual aspects. Kowalczyk comes to the conclusion that despite some evident allusions to the biblical apocalyptic, Williams’s text is more ambiguous than its biblical hypotext in terms of its ideological/moral significance, raising a number of open-ended questions. This, in turn, extends its apocalyptic “revelation” onto the reader, who is invited to rethink her/his perception of Western culture/civilization, making room for some spiritual/metaphysical elements in the materialistic outlook predominant in the 20th century.
Źródło:
Roczniki Humanistyczne; 2015, 63, 11; 245-257
0035-7707
Pojawia się w:
Roczniki Humanistyczne
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Mr, what’s-his-name, have the goodness to — what-do-ye-call- ‘em, — the, —the thingumbob. Some Remarks on the Sailors Language Terminology and Related Issues in British and American Nautical Fiction
Autorzy:
Blaszak, M.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1008899.pdf
Data publikacji:
2006
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Opolski
Tematy:
BRITISH AND AMERICAN NAUTICAL FICTION
SAILORS' JARGON IN LITERARY FICTION
SEA LANGUAGE TERMINOLOGY
Opis:
The article follows the rise and development of the sea novel on both sides of the Atlantic, and in this context the sailors' language terminology used by prominent nautical writers, among others Capt. Frederick Marryat, J. F. Cooper, Herman Melville, Jack London, Joseph Conrad and Nicholas Monsarrat. Among the terms used for the said language by these writers there are 'sea language', 'marine talk', 'sailors' parlance', 'vernacular', 'dialect', 'nautical jargon', 'lingo', 'seamen's cant' and 'slang'. The article also surveys problems connected with the use of such a language in works of literary fiction addressed to readers 'ashore' who are not familiar with specialized maritime dictionary.
Źródło:
Stylistyka; 2006, 15; 331-350
1230-2287
2545-1669
Pojawia się w:
Stylistyka
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Crypts, Phantoms, and Cultural Trauma: A Hauntological Approach to Recent British First World War Fiction
Autorzy:
Branach-Kallas, Anna
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/632458.pdf
Data publikacji:
2017
Wydawca:
Projekt Avant
Tematy:
hauntology, British First World War fiction, trauma, mourning, commemoration, family memory
Opis:
In my article, I analyse selected British novels about the First World War published at the turn of the 20th century, from the theoretical perspectives proposed by Maria Torok and Nicolas Abraham in The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis. Pat Barker in Toby’s Room (2012) and Sue Gee in Earth and Heaven (2000) imagine their protagonists’ difficult evolution from melancholia to mourning after the loss of brothers and/or lovers, at the front. The concepts of incorporation and illness of mourning are used to explore the complicated process of bereavement in Barker’s novel, where hauntology becomes a form of honte-ology, from the French honte, shame. In Gee’s beautifully melancholic novel, the haunting trauma of loss is subtly evoked by images of empty fields, neglected farms, urban vistas filled with spectral figures of unemployed veterans. Moreover, Earth and Heaven affects the reader so deeply because the understated pain of loss becomes movingly tangible after the accidental death of the central protagonist’s six-year-old son, which seems to “condense” the pain of war bereavements a decade after the conflict. My intention is also to demonstrate that Sebastian Faulks in Birdsong (1993), Esther Freud in Summer at Gaglow (1997) and Pat Barker in Another World (1998) approach the Great War as a phantom haunting their contemporary protagonists. The persistence of the unknown past has a profound impact on these characters and only by trying to relate to the Great War do they find answers to their existential dilemmas. This directs our attention to the incomplete processes of First World War mourning, the persistence of endless grief and the potential continuity of unresolved trauma(s) in transgenerational memory. The five novels under consideration also problematise the issue of silence-the unsayable family secret and/or the collective disregard for the national past. The psychoanalytic concept of crypt illuminates the relation between present and past in these fictions and makes it possible to draw a connection with the sociological concept of cultural trauma, referring to certain foundational events constructed as traumatic from the point of view of the British collectivity. 
Źródło:
Avant; 2017, 8, 2
2082-6710
Pojawia się w:
Avant
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Review: Anna Branach-Kallas and Piotr Sadkowski Comparing Grief in French, British and Canadian Great War Fiction (1977–2014) (Katarzyna Więckowska)
Autorzy:
Więckowska, Katarzyna
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/888992.pdf
Data publikacji:
2018
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Tematy:
The Great War
grief
trauma
French Great War fiction
Canadian Great War fiction
British Great War fiction
cultural memory
Opis:
Comparing Grief in French, British and Canadian Great War Fiction (1977–2014) (2018) by Anna Branach-Kallas and Piotr Sadkowski attests to the widespread and continuing impact of the First World War, which it examines in a selection of British, French, English-Canadian, and French-Canadian novels written in the last forty years. Signifi cantly, in contrast to the prevailing analytical framework, Branach-Kallas and Sadkowski do not focus on literary representations of combat and front life, but on texts that depict the long-lasting aftermath of the war in order to investigate the psychological and social eff ects of the confl ict and to inquire into why the war refuses to be buried in the past. Comparing Grief explores the “changed reality” after the Great War and analyses the cultural trauma produced by the war in France, Canada, and Britain, focusing on shell-shock and the ensuing disintegration of individual identity and communal bonds.
Źródło:
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies; 2018, 27/3; 249-255
0860-5734
Pojawia się w:
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
“THEY ALL KNOW WHAT I AM”: LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN AND ALCOHOL
Autorzy:
Klepuszewski, Wojciech
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/444492.pdf
Data publikacji:
2018-12-01
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
Tematy:
Women’s fiction
alcohol
British literature
J. Rhys
A.L. Kennedy
Opis:
Drink literature is something which has been drawing critical attention for a few decades. This is most transparent in the number of studies concerning various attempts to literarise alcohol, in whatever form or genre. What is immediately striking, though, is that most literary works fitting this thematic context are written by male writers, to mention Malcolm Lowry or Charles Jackson, and they usually feature male protagonists. Women seem to be inconspicuous here, both as authors and as literary characters, the latter usually limited to marginal figures who are victims of male drunkenness. This article targets the ‘neglected’ gender in the fictional representations of alcohol by briefly surveying the motif in the literature written on the British Isles and then focusing on two women writers, Jean Rhys and A.L. Kennedy.
Źródło:
Acta Neophilologica; 2018, XX/2; 85-88
1509-1619
Pojawia się w:
Acta Neophilologica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
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