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A Horror and a Beauty, the World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2017 .
Ladislav Nagy
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The Rules of How Reality Works Through the Prism of Post-Postmodern Prose
Czytanie Literatury, 2020 The reviewer analyses the monograph Problematic-Thematic Units and Philosophical-Esthetical Parameters of the British Post-Postmodern Novel (Kyiv, 2020) written by Dmytro Drozdovskyi, a Ukrainian scholar from Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of
Mykoła Zymomria
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Hravá autentičnost fiktivní historie v románu Jeho krvavé dílo Graeme Macrae Burneta [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2020 Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project (2015) is formally a historical novel with elements of detective fiction and the thriller. The book playfully presents itself as a dossier consisting of ostensibly authentic documents related to the case of a ...
Petr Chalupský
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Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2002 This paper sets out to argue that contemporary British fiction, by using palinodes, palindromes and palimpsests both on the micro- and macro-structural levels, favours a logic of association of contraries which ipso facto deconstructs any monologic ...
Christian Gutleben
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Is Puffin a Plus for Diversity in Young Adult Literature? The Move from Peacock to Puffin Plus
International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2023 From 1981 to 1994, Penguin Books published literature for young adults under the ‘Puffin Plus’ imprint. Although Penguin had been publishing young adult literature since 1962, through its ‘Peacock’ imprint, Puffin Plus’s editors tried to radically alter ...
Karen Sands-O'Connor
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Science fiction: źródła i kontynuacje
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 A discussion addresses general problems associated with studying science fiction narratives today. What does it take to make a believable illusion of the scientific out of literary fiction?
Pawel Frelik +6 more
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Re-Presenting the Past in the Hindi Novel: The Darkness in Bhīṣma Sāhnī’s Tamas
Cracow Indological Studies, 2021 While the modern literary novel in Hindi has traditionally grappled with contemporary issues impacting society in north India, Bhīṣma Sāhnī’s famous novel Tamas (“Darkness”) may be considered a unique endavour to revisit the horrific events that marked ...
Richard Delacy
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Alien nation: contemporary art and black Britain [PDF]
, 2011 About the book: This fascinating text introduces readers to postcolonial theory using the context of British media culture in ethnic minority communities to explain key ideas and debates.
Wainwright, Leon
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The gothic coast: Boundaries, belonging, and coastal community in contemporary British fiction
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2018 This essay argues that recent British gothic fiction is characterized by the detailed attention it pays to coastal landscapes, giving particular focus to Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney, Wyl Menmuir’s The Many, and Daisy Johnson’s Fen.
Jimmy Packham
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Analyzing Use of Thanks to You: Insights for Language Teaching and Assessment in Second and Foreign Language Contexts [PDF]
, 2011 This investigation of thanks to you in British and American usage was precipitated by a situation at an American university, in which a native Arabic speaker said thanks to you in isolation, making his intended meaning unclear.
Crompton, Peter, Lanteigne, Betty
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