Статьи журнала - Тропа. Современная британская литература в российских вузах
Все статьи: 256
Harold Fry's pilgrimage to himself and to the world
Статья научная
The article deals with the main character of the novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce and his attempts to rediscover his own self and to answer the question ‘Who am I?’ through his thoughts, memories and collaboration with the others.
Бесплатно
Hilary Mantel's historical novels about Thomas Cromwell: traditions and innovations
Статья научная
The article explores what traditions and novelties of the genre of historical novel Mantel develops in her very original narrative approach to history and character-making.
Бесплатно
Identity and nationalism in Magnus Macintyre's Whirligig
Статья научная
This article deals with the phenomenon of identity in Magnus Macintyre’s novel Whirligig. Identity issues in Whirligig are often rendered through the phenomenon of Scottish nationalism because nationality is one of the easiest ways to define a person.
Бесплатно
Images of the urban space in A week in December by Sebastian Faulks
Статья научная
The article deals with the image of London in Sebastian Faulks' novel A Week in December. The key components of the urban space are analyzed, as well as characters' attitude to them.
Бесплатно
Images of women in contemporary British fiction by women
Статья научная
The essay contains the discussion of recent English novels exploring defiant young women, anger and identity.
Бесплатно
Статья научная
The article discusses the problem of the inadequate mother in McEwan’s Atonement, Mantel’s Experiment in Love and Faulks Week in December and how mother’s inadequacy correlates with the theme of a child’s food.
Бесплатно
Статья научная
The article deals with the key plot parts of About a Boy (Nick Hornby) and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) for the depiction of the protagonists'' initiation into adulthood.
Бесплатно
Irony as a means of characterization in Wolf hall by Hilary Mantel
Статья научная
The article analyses aspects of irony in Wolf Hall and its influence on character description.
Бесплатно
John Lanchester's ''Capital'': rethinking city spaces and identities
Статья научная
The article explores the novel Capital by John Lanchester from the space perspective. It shows how the characters in the novel reshape London and how London in turn reshapes their identities. It suggests a framework for the study of the novel from this perspective.
Бесплатно
Julian Barnes' A history of the world in 10 and a half chapters: travelling through time
Статья научная
The article is devoted to the study of the problem of the temporal organization of artistic space in the novel by J. Barnes "The Story of Mar in Ten and a Half Chapters." We are talking about the analysis of those linguistic means that allowed the author to create a multidimensional perspective of the described events, to combine them into the complex fabric of a work of art.
Бесплатно
Just so stories: on the novels of Graham Swift
Статья научная
The article provides an overview of the novelistic work of Graham Swift (b. 1949). In it, with the involvement of the material of all his novels, the cross-cutting themes of the writer's works are described: love, relations between children and parents, death, history. Then the key methods and techniques of his work with the form are considered - such, for example, as pseudo-documentary and the creation of phantasmagorias, the use of several narrators (up to the polyphony of "The Last Orders"), shifts of time layers, allusibility.
Бесплатно
Legal and illegal immigrants in John Lanchester's Capital
Статья научная
The article examines John Lanchester's attitude to immigrants in Capital through the behaviour of the main characters in challenging situations and their mutual sympathy or antipathy.
Бесплатно
Literary and sociological aspects in state-of-the-nation novels
Статья научная
This article explores correlations between the origin and social position of the characters and the issues investigated with their help in A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks and Capital by John Lanchester. In this respect yhe novels feature some similarities and differences.
Бесплатно
