Essays on literary topics. Рубрика в журнале - Тропа. Современная британская литература в российских вузах
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An essay discusses the propriety and effectiveness of writing about sexual experiences in fiction. The author discusses historical examples and examples from books in the ORF Contemporary Literature project.
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State of play (on postwar British theatre)
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The article discusses five 'waves' of playwriting in the British theatre since 1945. It considers social attitudes, dissent, changes in the relationship between state and the theatres, and the importance of the written word.
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The Crimean war in British literature: from nineteenth century poetry to twentieth century fiction
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The Crimean war image in the XIX century poetry and its influence on the contemporary novels by B. Bainbridge and J. G. Farrell is analyzed.
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An account of how writers persuade their readers to ‘believe’ in their stories with examples taken from contemporary British fiction.
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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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What if? Or the alternate history genre
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The article is devoted to a relatively new, but quite popular genre of alternative history. As an illustration, the author examines three examples of this type of literature - the novels Milton in America (1996) by Peter Ackroyd, Operation (1976) by Kingsley Amis, and Motherland (1992) by Robert Harris.
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An article is on how recent British authors have explored the border between the self and fiction by ‘writing lives’. Special attention is given to the trilogy by Rachel Cusk.
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‘The two cultures’: science in Ian McEwan's novel Enduring love
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The article explores the artistic integration of scientific theories into contemporary fiction using the example of I. McEwan’s novel Enduring Love. It reveals the author’s skepticism about the findings of neurobiology and psychology.
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