“Tales and Adventures”: G.A. Henty’s Union Jack and the Competitive World of Publishing for Boys in the 1880s’ [PDF]
, 2008 In the competitive publishing environment of the late nineteenth century, writers and magazines had to distinguish themselves carefully from potential rivals. This article examines how G.A. Henty’s quality boys’ weekly, Union Jack (1880-83), attempted to
A. Moncrieff +21 more
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His eyes narrowed — her eyes downcast: contrastive corpus-stylistic analysis of female and male writing [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2017 This study presents a comparative and cross-linguistic (English and Czech) examination of female and male characters in contemporary British and Czech fiction texts written by female and male authors.
Anna Čermáková, Lenka Fárová
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Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2014 Starting from the suggestions ‘packed’ in the first lines of Lighthouseekeeping, this paper examines the paradoxes that surround the question of naming in the novel and in Jeanette Winterson’s œuvre as a whole.
Pascale Tollance
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Brainfucked about Britain: Sibylle Berg’s Transnational Novel GRM
Open Library of Humanities, 2021 In 2019, Sibylle Berg’s novel GRM Brainfuck was published to considerable acclaim. Berg, a German writer based in Switzerland, uses a contemporary British setting for a satirical speculation on the future of Western societies. The novel represents the UK
Barbara Korte, Christian Mair
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Philosophy of perception as a guide to aesthetics [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of this paper is to argue that it is a promising avenue of research to consider philosophy of perception to be a guide to aesthetics. More precisely, my claim is that many, maybe even most, traditional problems in aesthetics are in fact about ...
Nanay, Bence
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HumanitiesKristen Sandrock (2020) connects John Lanchester’s 2019 Brexit novel The Wall with what she refers to as ‘British border epistemologies’; that is, a radical process of re-bordering due to global warming and its impact on human mobility.
María Alonso Alonso
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Lieu et non-lieu dans Wish You Were Here de Graham Swift
Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2014 This article examines how the tension between place and ‘no-place’ (in the writer’s own words) manifests itself in Swift’s latest novel to date—as it does, in different ways, in the rest of his work.
Pascale Tollance
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Narratives of Arab Anglophone Women and the Articulation of a Major Discourse in a Minor Literature [PDF]
, 2014 “It is important to stress that a variety of positions with respect to feminism, nation, religion and identity are to be found in Anglophone Arab women’s writings.
Sarnou, Dalal
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Horizons de l’inassimilable : du réalisme traumatique dans le roman britannique contemporain
Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2011 A spectre haunts contemporary British fiction. Whether it concern sexual trauma in Anne Enright’s or John Banville’s novels, the trauma of the Great War or of the Second World War as observed by Pat Barker or Martin Amis among others, or the trauma of ...
Jean-Michel Ganteau
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Living between languages: The politics of translation in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers [PDF]
, 2012 This is the author's final draft post-refereeing as published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2012 47: 207 DOI:10.1177/0021989412440433.
Aboulela L +50 more
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