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Литература двух Америк, 2020 Whitman’s reception is crucial to the history of World Literature in the 20th century. It involves especially transatlantic and hemispheric circulation.
Delphine Rumeau
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Introduction: Playing Metafictional Games with Percival Everett
Orbit, 2023 This introduction to the special issue on Percival Everett provides a general overview of his work for new readers and then discusses it in terms of metafiction and play, focusing especially on his 2022 novel Dr. No.
Sascha Pöhlmann
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The Power of Patriarchy: Everett’s Work on the Dionysus Myth in Frenzy
Orbit, 2023 This interpretation of Percival Everett's novel Frenzy focuses on the author's rewriting of the myth of Dionysus and other Greek myths referenced in the text, as it is through the revisions of classical versions of the myths that Everett expresses his ...
Christa Buschendorf
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Orbit, 2021 Book Reviews, of: Baskin – Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster WallaceÖzcan – Understanding William T. VollmannEve – Thomas Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault, AdornoCrews – Books are Made of
Ali Dehdarirad +7 more
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Melodramatic Tradition vs Colorblind Casting for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Plays [PDF]
Литература двух АмерикThe article concerns with the plays An Octoroon and Gloria by contemporary American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The dramaturgy of one of the most notable authors, writing for the US theatre at the present time, is thematically varied; besides, it ...
Elena G. Dotsenko
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The United States of America in Nikolay Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? and Sergey Yesenin’s Biography: the Way over the Ocean and the Folklore Motif of Wanderings [PDF]
Литература двух АмерикThe article discusses possible sources of Yesenin’s acquaintance with Nikolay Chernyshevsky’s novel What Is to Be Done? and its critical evaluation.
Elena A. Samodelova
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20th Century Two Poetic Paradoxes: Gertrude Stein vis-a-vis Alexey Kruchenykh [PDF]
Литература двух АмерикIn this article, we will begin with two almost simultaneously written paradoxes of modernism / avant-garde. The first paradox is Gertrude Stein’s miniature “Sacred Emily”, a one-line poem that reads “Rose is a rose is a rose”.
Anna V. Shvets
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Secrets of Vertical Art. Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Simon Armitage [PDF]
Литература двух АмерикA Vertical Art. On Poetry is a collection of essays in literary criticism by Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate of Great Britain, who based them on a series of his lectures delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry.
Natalia K. Polosina
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Unholy “Saint Dave”: Critical Reception of David Foster Wallace’s Personality and Works. A Review [PDF]
Литература двух АмерикThe review examines the critical reception of David Foster Wallace’s personality and works. A particular attention is paid to the appreciation of David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) in foreign criticism as an intellectual, religious writerphilosopher and a ...
Violetta A. Kaiavo
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V2 to Bomarc: Reading Gravity’s Rainbow in Context
Orbit, 2014 In this article I argue that while Thomas Pynchon’s 1973 novel, Gravity’s Rainbow, is set primarily between 1944-1946 in Europe, it also simultaneously addresses itself to its own authorial context—that of the “Long Sixties” in America.
Joshua Comyn
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