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Serie: Mediated fictions
GebondenEngels9783631626146
28-1-2014
The book offers a detailed analysis of all mainstream novels of Iain Banks. It explores the question of mediation, the process of a semiotic (re)construction of the world on the part of Banks’s characters, with reference to four paradigms of fictional worlds established by the author’s first novel, The Wasp Factory. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631670682
10-2-2021
This study focuses on emblematic intertextual strategies in contemporary British fiction. Analysing the process of adaptation, pastiche, transworld identity and historiographic metafiction, the book demonstrates how the intertextual impulse can be inscribed not only in the structure and semantics of a given text but also in the narrative plane. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631657157
26-5-2015
Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of the English country house. The book analyses contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631653722
22-2-2016
The book offers a thorough study of the literary tensions and two-world structure of the fantastic short stories by H. G. Wells (1866–1946). It exposes Trickster games in the storytelling and pinpoints his staple methods of artistic composition. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631628447
29-12-2014
The work comprises adaptation studies of selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the last century. It focusses on ways of constructing fictional realities as well as on techniques of rendering literary utopias/dystopias into film and allows a deep insight into the history of cinema. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631647455
29-12-2014
This book analyses the poetry of Ciaran Carson, a Northern-Irish writer. In particular, it discusses the tension between orality and textuality. The author shows how it operates in Carson’s major subjects: memory, city and history. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631786666
30-9-2019
The volume demonstrates the scope of utopian thinking and the enduring significance of past utopian fictions and historical events. The essays examine the concept of utopia in a variety of contexts, such as philosophy, translation, music, social and political issues, and global utopian fiction. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631626184
27-1-2015
The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author. The examined narratives illustrate the transformation from the postmodern tenets of historiographic metafiction into a unique urban mythopoetics by means of a semiotic analysis. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631626399
29-4-2014
This monograph contains analyses of Gothic texts: literary works, films, and video games. It shows the expansion of the convention across the ages and the media. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631628485
30-4-2015
The volume explores intersections between the traditional utopian discourse and recent media: music, comics, TV series, feature films, documentaries, fan fiction, computer games and web projects. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631640562
31-5-2015
The book focuses on the category of character in fiction. It analyses characters in individual texts by authors ranging from Conrad to Coetzee considered from rhetorical, structural, functional and cognitive perspectives; in genre contexts from utopia and fantasy to campus fiction; and in extra-textual contexts from intertextuality to autobiography. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631934876
16-9-2025
This book links human rights law and literary studies, analysing dystopian novels through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It deconstructs oppression in dystopias exploring human rights violations and gender-based discrimination. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631718063
13-11-2018
The study focuses on the problem of spatiality in literature. Organized around three defining problems - spatial topoi, genres and methods - the volume gives the reader a good insight into a range of approaches to contemporary research on literary space in poetry, drama and fiction. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631942413
31-3-2026
Reading David Foster Wallace's short stories through the lens of spatiality, this book examines segmentation, zones, boundaries, strange loops, tangled hierarchies, and multimodality to reveal their semiotic potential in paradoxical crafting of both oppressive storyworlds and pathways to escape them. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631670255
3-2-2016
The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to examine the image of the house in Bowen’s prose and to analyse its uncanniness in relation to the characters’ identity. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631862469
25-5-2022
This book observes how rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631679111
4-10-2017
This book presents a pioneering survey of the professional career of a woman better known as a campaigner for women’s suffrage in the early twentieth century. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631671405
29-3-2016
Monika Kocot’s book on Edwin Morgan’s literary achievement, both poetry and drama, foregrounds the themes of cultural transgression, dialogism of the author’s creative design, and various, potentially subversive games of sense creation: «verbivocovisual» constellations, mythopoetic «writings-through,» and intersemiotic translations. Meer