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Introduction: Material Realisms in Contemporary British Fiction
Études Britanniques ContemporainesCatherine Bernard, Jean-Michel Ganteau
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Review: Lucy Arnold, Reading Hilary Mantel: Haunted Decades. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2023 A review of 'Reading Hilary Mantel: Haunted Decades' by Lucy Arnold.
Hywel Rowland Dix
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Exchanges, 2022 Anita Mason was a Booker Prize-nominated novelist who taught Creative Writing at the University of Warwick from 2007 until 2009. At the time of her death in September 2020, she left behind three unpublished short novels that provide a powerful, if ...
Colin Hutchinson
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Introducing the David Mitchell special edition of C21 Literature
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2018 Rose Harris-Birtill introduces the David Mitchell special edition of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings. Harris-Birtill provides a critical introduction to David Mitchell’s complete works, before discussing her experiences as organiser of ...
Rosemary Harris-Birtill
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The Legacy of Nineteen Eighty-Four: British Dystopias, from 1984 to the present day
Sillages Critiques, 2022 This introductory piece looks back at the “Orwellian moment” that was the year 1984, which prompted a re-examination of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s potential prophecies and witnessed a dystopian resurgence in literature, then asks whether an Orwellian ...
Claire Wrobel
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Alienation in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting
Literator, 2010 This article examines how Melvin Seeman’s theory of alienation (1959) and modern alienation research manifest in Irvine Welsh’s “Trainspotting”. This is an important novel, not only because of its commercial success, but also because it depicts a ...
B.A. Senekal
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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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