Статьи журнала - Тропа. Современная британская литература в российских вузах
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The article concerns itself with the innovative Unreliable Narrators in the two novels by Haddon and by Faulks. After providing a classification of those narrators in the tradition it shows certain new departures.
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Analyze this', or the way with shrinks in British literature
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The article offers a review of characters who are psychoanalysts in some significant novels in twentieth century British literature. Such characters undergo a transformation from caricature to an important conceptual subject in recent novels.
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Another you/another I: alterity as a focus of contemporary British literature
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The article renders the literary aspects of alterity as a philosophical category in the textual structures of contemporary British prose. In most general terms alterity denotes the sphere of interrelation between the Self and the Other. Alterity is represented in fiction in different aspects such as racial, ethnical, religious, social and sexual (gender).
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Archetypal themes in Julian Barnes' A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
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The article explores the relationship between archetypes and their analysis in Julian Barnes' contemporary novel, a brilliant example of myth-making in contemporary British literature.
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Art as the search for true meaning
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The article deals with the analysis of J. Barnes'' interpretation of relationship between history and art, factual and fictional. The author problematizes the idea of objective knowledge and true meaning about the past.
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Art versus stunt: art as stunt in John Lanchester's Capital
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The paper concerns itself with the role of Contemporary Art and its creators in John Lanchester's Capital. The Contemporary Art sub-plot is quite important in the novel and plays, among others, a detective role which has been so far underrated by the critics.
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Authorless narratives in Black swan green and Cloud atlas by David Mitchell
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This essay defines the interpretation of an ''authorless narrative'' - detached from an external author - in reference to David Mitchell''s first-person narratives in Cloud Atlas, arguing that the same effect is present in Black Swan Green.
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Unlike Russian tradition, British authors writing for children and adolescents pay much attention to the problem of tolerance, creating a vast number of books, where a child or teenager with special needs acts as a protagonist.
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Using the examples of Ian McEwan and Ali Smith, the article shows how British writers draw on overt realist and modernist influences to articulate and challenge an uncertain literary and political future.
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Caryl Churchill's A number: multiple personalities in contemporary tragedy
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The article dwells on Caryl Churchill's view of human identity as reflected in the play A Number. The main plot features a number of the protagonist's clones becoming aware of their «copy» status. However, analysis of the piece reveals that the ethics of cloning is not the playwright's major focus. Churchill is rather concerned with the very mechanism of self-definition and the features making every individual unique in the epoch of copies and consumerism. The writer puts forward the idea that the difficulty of self-identification nowadays is probably caused by distorted interpersonal relations and the destruction of family ties.
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