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Literature in society /

The essays in this volume focus on the text-world dichotomy that has been a pivotal problem since Plato, implicating notions of mimesis and representation and raising a series of debatable issues. Do literary texts relate only to the fictional world and not to the real one? Do they not only describe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rudaitytė, Regina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; LITERATURE IN SOCIETY / SOCIETY AND ITS LITERATURE; NATURE, LAW AND KINGSHIP IN JOHN DRYDEN'S ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL; COMMEMORATING THE "QUEEN OF UNION"; WRITINGS ON MANNERS AND MORALS IN EARLY STUART TIMES; PEOPLE IN THE CROWD; GENDER, IDENTITY, AND THE CITY IN ANN PATCHETT'S THE MAGICIAN'S ASSISTANT; POETRY GOES PUBLIC; WALES IN A MIRROR; SHAPING THE PRESENT THROUGH REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PAST; THE SOCIAL, THE SPECTRAL AND THE SPECULAR IN MICHAEL ONDAATJE'S RUNNING IN THE FAMILY; 9/11 NOVEL; WHO SETS THE AGENDA; THEMATIC SHIFTS IN CRIME FICTION.
  • "AND NOW, WHAT DAYS ARE THESE?"IAN MCEWAN'S SOLAR, OR LITERATURE AND CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LITERARY INTERPRETATION OF SOCIETY IN THE PERIOD OF SOVIET OCCUPATION; CONTRIBUTORS.