Articles on individual authors. Рубрика в журнале - Тропа. Современная британская литература в российских вузах
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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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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The essay rewievs the latest novel by Ron Butlin, the former Edinburgh Makar (2008-2014)and an awarg-winning Scottish Writer.
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Self-honesty and self-betrayal: Charles and Harry in king Charles III
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In this essay the characters of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III are viewed as opposite examples: one is honest to himself, the other lies to himself and, consequently, to the others.
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Shutter' from Adam Thorpe's Ulverton: its twofold relation to history
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The article analyzes the peculiarities of depicting village life in the eighth chapter of Adam Thorpe's novel Ulverton and of reflecting the status of photography in the first decades after its advent.
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Subjective realism in Emma Healey's novels
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The article discusses the novels Elizabeth is Missing (2014) and The Whistle in the Dark (2018) by Emma Healey, arguing that she develops a new method that can be called ‘subjective realism’ and showing two strategies of dealing with time as internal experience (synchronicity and rhythmicity).
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The dream of becoming a British citizen
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This article observes the problems of intercultural communication between the ESOL teachers and students-immigrants revealed in the play by David Edgar. It speculates on the difficult situations in which all the main heroes occur.
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The dynamic character of happiness in Capital by John Lanchester
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The article focuses on the various perceptions of happiness in Capital by John Lanchester. The author claims that characters of the novel change their attitude to what they perceive as their own well-being when their values change.
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The functions of the narrative structure in David Mitchell's Cloud atlas
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This article explores the Russian doll structure employed by David Mitchell in his novel Cloud Atlas, its benefits for the narration and its connections with other types of composition. The effects of the changes to the narrative structure applied when making the film are discussed.
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The narrator in Martin Amis' House of meetings: alluding to Russia or eluding it
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The article deals with the perception of the original national identification of the fictional character (the narrator) by readers and, therefore, with the reliability of the narration in general.
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The state of the nation in Sebastian Faulk's "A week in December"
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The article shows the author's impressions of the novel by Sebastian Faulks, A Week in December. The numerous issues raised in the novel are treated from the point of view of their role in creating the image of Britain in the very beginning of the twenty-first century. It shows how Faulks structures his novel to represent contemporary Britain with its mixture of nationalities and groups of people with different educational level and financial background.
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The study of professional mind in Ian McEwan's Saturday and the children act
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These novels reconstruct the work of a professional mind and the discourses it uses and share a similar plot structure, the third person limited narrative and the type main characters' type.
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The article discusses the novel ‘H’ is for Hawk (2014) by Helen Macdonald as a piece of new nature writing, which strives to offer a radically new perspective on the human-nature dichotomy.
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The ‘talking cure’ and feelings of guilt and duty in Pat Barker's novel Regeneration
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The article deals with the term war neurosis, the contrasting points of view on the idea of duty as well as ethical issues of the phenomenon guilt.
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Themes of power and politics in David Hare's Stuff happens
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The article examines the play Stuff Happens by David Hare. The author explores the themes of power, politics and how they manifest themselves within the play.
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Thomas Cromwell - ‘the man for his seasons’ in Hilary Mantel's novel Wolf hall
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The essay brings up the image of Thomas Cromwell in Hilary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall where he is described as a prominent politician and enigmatic personality.
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Whirligig by Magnus Macintyre as a specimen of the eco-psychological novel
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The article offers an overview of Whirligig by Magnus Macintyre defined as an eco-psychological novel for its main conflict is based on the controversy about the use of wind farms - one of the renewable sources of energy. All the characters turn out to be involved in the polemics but their motives are diverse, their opinions range very widely thus representing various psychological types and degrees of ecological consciousness.
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Women without men in Jane Rogers's Hitting trees with sticks
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The paper explores stylistic features of Jane Rogers's book Hitting Trees with Sticks. The key elements of her short story are a multiple-perspective narration, zooming technique, abrupt and unpolished language, unexpected images, conflicting evidence contexts.
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