Crossroads in Literature and Culture

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 I See a Voice…
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   Chapter 2 A New Territory? Literary Criticism as a Literary Genre
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   Chapter 3 Cutting into a New World: Reading The Cut Through Slavoj Žižek
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   Chapter 4 Internal (Post)Coloniality in Anglo-Irish Literature: Crossing the Boundaries in Postcolonial Comparative Studies
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   Chapter 5 A Post-Battle Landscape: Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and The Cleft
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   Chapter 6 Near the Riverbank: Women, Danger and Place in Dickens
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   Chapter 7 “Women with Iron in’em. Women Who Wanted Land and a Home”: Female Pioneers Staking Out New Territories in the American Popular Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s
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   Chapter 8 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Complexities of Gender
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    Chapter 9 “Outlaw Emotions”: Carol Ann Duffy’s “Eurydice”, Dramatic Monologue and Victorian Women Poets
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    Chapter 10 “The One Great Drawback to the Life of Women is That They Cannot Act in Politics”? Political Women in Anthony Trollope’s Fiction
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    Chapter 11 Transgressing Boundaries to Metamorphose: The Outlander by Gil Adamson
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    Chapter 12 Forbidden Territories: the Sexual and the Social in Allan Hollinghurst’s Novel The Line of Beauty
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    Chapter 13 What Haunts Hundreds Hall? Transgression in Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger
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    Chapter 14 Crossing the “Gender Frontier”: Cross-dressing and Male Impersonation in Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet (1998)
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    Chapter 15 “Black Women are the Most Fascinating Creations in the World” or How (not) to Translate Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
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    Chapter 16 Female pioneers, Good Indians, and Settler Nostalgia: Colonial Ambivalence in Sally Armstrong’s The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor
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    Chapter 17 Crossing the Frontiers of Death: A Journey Through War Memories and Continents in Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces
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    Chapter 18 India Re-loaded: Vikas Swarup’s Slumdog Millionaire as a Postcolonial Novel
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    Chapter 19 Narration and Representation of Race in Matthew Kneale’s English Passengers
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    Chapter 20 A Dominican-American Experience of Not Quite Successful Assimilation: Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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    Chapter 21 Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal as a Place of Asylum in Space and an Archive in Time
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    Chapter 22 Aldous Huxley and Evolving Borders of Social Space: The Changing 20th Century Society in His Essays from the 1920s
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    Chapter 23 Re-vision of London in Iain Sinclair’s White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings
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    Chapter 24 Philip K. Dick: One Man’s Illusion Might Invade the Reality of Others
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    Chapter 25 The Idea of Ambition as a Social Process Based on Role Transition Theory: Dyadic Power Relations in Coriolanus and Macbeth
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    Chapter 26 Genius and Madness Mirrored: Rossetti’s and Yeats’ Reception of William Blake
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    Chapter 27 Between Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Peter Ackroyd’s Clerkenwell Tales: A Dialogue of the Contemporary Novel and Medieval Literary Conventions
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    Chapter 28 Thomas MacGreevy and Samuel Beckett. Affinity and Controversy
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    Chapter 29 False Memories, Forged Identities and Murders: Macbeth for the Twenty-First Century
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    Chapter 30 Beyond the Confines of Realism: Seeking New Metaphors for Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans
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    Chapter 31 Between a Fragment and a Whole. A Cognitive Analysis of the Gothic Fragment as a Literary Genre. A Case Study of Anna Letitia Aikin’s ‘Sir Bertrand: A Fragment.’
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    Chapter 32 Poe Goes Pop, or Adapting “The Fall of the House of Usher” in the 21st Century
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    Chapter 33 Adaptation and the Idea of the Death of the Author: The Case of Samuel Beckett
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    Chapter 34 From Commodification to Communal Art: “Above Sex… Above Politics”
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    Chapter 35 The Subversive Power of Father Matthias. The Poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski as Vehicle for Political Propaganda in England of the 17th Century
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    Chapter 36 Early Modern Travel Writing and Thomas More’s Utopia: An Attempt at Literary Interpretation
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    Chapter 37 Beryl Bainbridge’s The Birthday Boys: Travelling Towards the Pole of Death
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    Chapter 38 Crossing Racial Frontiers in the Quest for Cultural Acceptance as Seen Through Selected Works by Jackie Kay
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    Chapter 39 The Flying Dutchman’s Mimetic Desire. Crossing Geographical and Moral Frontiers in Frederick Marryat’s The Phantom Ship
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    Chapter 40 Forays into the Scientific Mindset: The Two Cultures in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Solar
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    Chapter 41 Trying to Cross Frontiers of Fortress Europe: Rose Tremain’s Novel The Road Home (2007)
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    Chapter 42 Carnivalesque Pop. Representations of the Commonplace in British Pop Art
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    Chapter 43 Representation of Identities in the British Arts Policy of the 1980s
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    Chapter 44 The Coenesque Zones: Alternative American Settings Beyond the Constraints of Everyday Logic in the Cinematic Works of Joel and Ethan Coen
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    Chapter 45 Crossing Frontiers, Staking Out New Territories: Hollywood Remaking British Crime Locations in Get Carter
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    Chapter 46 From the New Right to the Da Vinci Code: Transformations of the Conspiracy Theorist After the Second World War
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    Chapter 47 The “Cultural Turn” and the Changing Face of the Humanities in Poland