Статьи журнала - Тропа. Современная британская литература в российских вузах
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Adam Thorpe is the author of Ulverton, one of the novels in the ORF project. He has also just published a translation of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Although he is concerned specifically with the problems of translating Flaubert's French prose into English, his thoughts on the responsibilities of the literary translator should be of interest to all our readers. This article was originally published in The Guardian newspaper. We are grateful for permission to reprint it.
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The creative process seems to be the eternal attempt of the author - Orpheus - to find inspiration - Eurydice. In this attempt, respect for the past is intertwined, both on a social scale and on an equally significant personal scale. Vivid examples open the door to the writer's creative laboratory, help to connect the past with the present.
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Our material for the commentary of Testing the echo
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The article focuses on teaching David Edgar's play Testing the Echo. The author discusses some possible approaches to reading and discussing this play in an EFL class with students who study Pedagogy.
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Penelope Lively's novel "The house in Norham Gardens" and its invisible character
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The article explores complex interrelations between literary time and text categories. The author of the novel expresses through her individual conception a certain model of time which is structured with the help of various linguistic and compositional means. Time in all its manifestations is the focus of Penelope Lively's attention. She creates unconventional narrative time structure so naturally embedded in her work and integrating all the elements into the whole.
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Postwar literature, 1950 to 1990, the York Notes Companion, by William May
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A review of the textbook of an English literary critic is given. The structure of the manual is analyzed, its content features; the author's methodology is considered. Key words: Will May; British literature; novel; poetry; Murdoch; Barnes; Graham Swift
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Psychology and the chronotope of consciousness in Emma Healey's Elizabeth is missing
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The paper explores psychological experimentation in fiction: a dual narration technique when the protagonist qualifies memories to synchronize with the present. Reconstruction provides polyphonic contexts.
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Punk, prog rock, and thatcherism in Jonathan Coe's The Rotters’ club
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Jonathan Coe’s The Rotters Club is analysed in political and social terms by showing its relationship to opposing musical youth sub-cultures in the 1970s.
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Pushing back frontiers in Hilary Mantel's Beyond black
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The frontiers of science being constantly pushed back, those of the spiritual world still remain obscure leaving many questions unsettled and lacunas unfilled. Set in modern England, Beyond Black explores the frontiers of human psychic, telling a story of a medium who is both highly professional and sensitive.
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Reading David Hare's Stuff happens with business majors
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The article discusses the experience of using Stuff Happens to expand on Business English course. Having provided a rationale for reading literature with business majors, the author offers a new perspective for discussing the book.
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Realism? Modernism? Postmodernism? On contemporary British fiction by Nick Bentley
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The review of N. Bentley's monograph "Contemporary British Prose" (2008) analyzes the structure of the book, its main problematic and research premises. The analysis examines some of the essential aspects of the modern British literary process, in particular, a kind of synthesis of three literary and aesthetic paradigms - realistic, experimental modernist and postmodern, with the former clearly dominating.
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Remember vs. forget in Emma Healey's Elizabeth is missing and Pat Barker's Regeneration
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Review of the Magicians of Edinburgh by Ron Butlin
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The article is a review of the structure and poetics of collections of poems The Magicians of Edinburgh, written by the contemporary poet, novelist and short-story writer Ron Butlin.
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Review of the Only story by Julian Barnes
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The novel by Julian Barnes The Only Story, written in 2018, is under review. The author shows some essential peculiarities of the writer’s art in the novel.
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Review of the White woman on the green bicycle by Monique Roffey
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The author presents a review on the novel The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by contemporary writer Monique Roffey. The author praises the unusual structure of the novel, the depiction of local settings, psychological insight and variety of social problems raised in the novel.
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Review of О.Г. Сидорова современная литература Великобритании и контакты культур
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The monograph Современная литература Великобритании и контакты культуры (Contemporary British literature and the contacts of cultures) is reviewed. The book contains articles about contemporary British writers and also touches the problems of translation and intercultural communication.
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