Статьи журнала - Тропа. Современная британская литература в российских вузах
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The role of fairy tale motifs in the children's book by A.S.Byatt
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The article examines the phenomenon of processing and borrowing fairy tales and images, which is significant for modern literature, and also analyzes various methods of processing borrowed elements and their functions in the novel of the modern English writer A.S. Byatt "Children's Book". The author of the novel revises the tales of C. Perrault, G.H. Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, E.T.A. Hoffman, and also uses the motives of the works of J. Barry, K. Graham, L. Carroll, R. Kipling. It is emphasized that most often the writer uses such processing techniques as allusions and reminiscences, which allows A.S. Byatt to create new, unique characters based on the already known ones.
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The role of photographic images in contemporary novels
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The article examines a phenomenon that has become widespread in English literature in recent decades - the use of photographs as a plot-forming element. The article touches upon the problem of ekphrasis - the ratio of visual and verbal images. In Beryl Bainbridge's novels, Georgie the Master and Jonathan Coe, Before It Rains, the story is centered around a series of photographs. The plot of the novel Out of this World by Graham Swift is based on the life story and family collisions of a professional photographer. The stories of the heroes, based on photographic images, become a way of self-disclosure. Photos play an important role in the lives of the characters in the three short stories that make up Rachel Seyfert's novel, while serving as pivotal points for the plot.
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The state of the nation in Sebastian Faulk's "A week in December"
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The article shows the author's impressions of the novel by Sebastian Faulks, A Week in December. The numerous issues raised in the novel are treated from the point of view of their role in creating the image of Britain in the very beginning of the twenty-first century. It shows how Faulks structures his novel to represent contemporary Britain with its mixture of nationalities and groups of people with different educational level and financial background.
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The study of professional mind in Ian McEwan's Saturday and the children act
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These novels reconstruct the work of a professional mind and the discourses it uses and share a similar plot structure, the third person limited narrative and the type main characters' type.
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The unknowability of Andrew Miller, or in search of 'some more satisfactory form’
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This is a review of Andrew Miller’s The Crossing - his seventh novel, written in search of ‘some more satisfactory form’ after fiction began to seem to him ‘like a rather hollow formula’.
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The article discusses the novel ‘H’ is for Hawk (2014) by Helen Macdonald as a piece of new nature writing, which strives to offer a radically new perspective on the human-nature dichotomy.
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The ‘talking cure’ and feelings of guilt and duty in Pat Barker's novel Regeneration
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The article deals with the term war neurosis, the contrasting points of view on the idea of duty as well as ethical issues of the phenomenon guilt.
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Themes of power and politics in David Hare's Stuff happens
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The article examines the play Stuff Happens by David Hare. The author explores the themes of power, politics and how they manifest themselves within the play.
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This Michael Frayn is so... Russian!
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The article deals with a number of works by Michael Frayn, which demonstrate a certain interest of the author in Russian literature, history and culture and reveal traces of influence and bright examples of intercultural communication.
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Thomas Cromwell - ‘the man for his seasons’ in Hilary Mantel's novel Wolf hall
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The essay brings up the image of Thomas Cromwell in Hilary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall where he is described as a prominent politician and enigmatic personality.
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Tom Stoppard: the coast of utopia a trilogy of plays
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(Editor's Note: Peter Kemp is a well-known British literary critic who is the Fiction Editor for the Sunday Times newspaper. He lectures and writes on modern fiction, and frequently takes part in literary discussions on BBC programmes and elsewhere. He has been an adviser on. the selection of novels for our Contemporary British Literature project. In response to one of the letters in our new 'Letters Section' we decided to publish an article on contemporary drama. This review of Tom Stoppard's trilogy of plays was first published in The Times Literary Supplement in 2002, and we are grateful for their permission to reprint it. Towards the end of the article are some paragraphs discussing the 2002 production which closed six years ago. However, the editors decided that the comments were sufficiently interesting for our readers and should therefore not be cut from Peter Kemp's original review.)
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Translation of poetry as a means of teaching interlinguistic and intercultural penetration
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The article dwells upon the issue of poetry translation as a means of cross-cultural penetration both on linguistic and extralinguistic levels. The article presents a variant of an 'universal' plan of translation analysis of a poem, illustrated by the poem 'January 1, 1941' by Yaroslav Smelyakov. The author also offers bits of the poem's translation into English proceeding from the analysis performed.
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