Essays on literary topics. Рубрика в журнале - Тропа. Современная британская литература в российских вузах
"Politically correct" themes in nice work and white teeth
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The article examines the implementation of the phenomenon of political correctness, or rather politically correct topics, in the novels by Zadia Smith "White Teeth" and David Lodge "Good Job", shows the dual representation by the authors of the main components of political correctness of issues in the works of modern British literature.
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Age, memory and unreliable narrators
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The present article is an attempt to explore how such concepts as age and memory are portrayed in a range of contemporary British novels, with special emphasis being made on the books from the ORF project.
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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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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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Concrete poetry: a word design in a designed world
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The article raises the problem of revealing the meaning with the help of visual effects of "concrete poetry" and their influence on the perception of this poetry by the reader.
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English literature at the end of the twentieth century
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The article traces some of the leading themes and tendencies of the late twentieth century English literature: the writers'' preoccupation with history and their ways of dealing with it, multiethnicity, introduction and popularity of metafiction.
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English literature on the theme of the Second World War
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The article presents ideas about three periods in English literature after the Second World War, periods that differ from each other in themes, problems, manner of narration, etc.
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Environment and nature in contemporary British fiction and poetry
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An essay is on new concerns for the survival of the natural world in contemporary British literature. Writers question society's relationship with nature, celebrate its diminishing areas, and imagine ecological catastrophe.
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Formal experimentation in the British postmodern novel
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The essays explores a variety of experiments in style and technique associated with post-modernist writing. The materials for the analysis are the novels of Amis, Barnes, Fowles, Graham Swift, McEwan, etc.
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Images of women in contemporary British fiction by women
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The essay contains the discussion of recent English novels exploring defiant young women, anger and identity.
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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.
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Literary and sociological aspects in state-of-the-nation novels
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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.
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Migrants and migrant writers in English literature
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The article traces the depiction of migrants in English literature. It concentrates on the voices of immigrants and their descendants as both authors and characters in contemporary fiction such as White Teeth.
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New violence' in British drama of the war on terror
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In modern British drama, cruelty is again actively brought to the scene. The reason for this can be largely attributed to the global political instability of the 1990s - 2000s, even if playwrights do not seek to portray specific military conflicts in their works. The article analyzes the plays of S. Kane, M. Ravenhill, J. Lichtenstein, N. Wright, G. Edam.
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