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« My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part pirate » : nomination et appel(lation) dans Lighthousekeeping et dans la fiction de Jeanette Winterson

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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A Posthuman Approach to BrexLit and Bordering Practices through an Analysis of John Lanchester’s The Wall

Humanities
Kristen 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.
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The Talmudic Tradition in Contemporary British-Jewish Fiction: Silence versus Talking

Crossroads, 2018
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that contemporary British-Jewish fiction turns away from silence which is understood as a means of preventing problems in the community and that it depicts this kind of silence as harmful to family bonds ...
Anita Chmielewska
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What Happened to the ‘Truth Universally Acknowledged’? Translation as Reception of Jane Austen in France

Humanities, 2022
There are now, in 2022, sixteen French translations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The incipit includes one of the most famous statements in the English language, as well as a modal auxiliary, the rendering of which constitutes a minor challenge ...
Isabelle Bour
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