Mediated Fictions – serie
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21 produkter
Mediating the World in the Novels of Iain Banks
The Paradigms of Fiction
Inbunden, 2014
984 kr
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This book offers a detailed analysis of all mainstream novels of Iain Banks. It explores the question of mediation, the process of a semiotic (re)construction of the world on the part of Banks’s characters, with reference to the four directions of fictional worldmodelling, i.e. the four types of …
Welcome to the Chemical Theatre
The Urban Chronotope in Peter Ackroyd’s Fiction
Av Marta Komsta
Inbunden, 2015
782 kr
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The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author. The examined narratives illustrate the transformation from the postmodern tenets of historiographic metafiction into a unique urban mythopoetics by means of a semiotic …
Painted Devils, Siren Tongues
The Semiotic Universe of Jacobean Tragedy
Inbunden, 2015
741 kr
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The book outlines the semiotic universe of Jacobean drama, examining both canonical tragedies by Thomas Middleton, John Webster and less known dramas such as Anonymous Lust’s Dominion, Markham and Sampson’s Herod and Antipater or Thierry and Theodoret by Beaumont and Fletcher.
Expanding the Gothic Canon
Studies in Literature, Film and New Media
Av Anna Kędra-Kardela, Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk
Inbunden, 2014
1005 kr
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This volume offers a survey of analyses of Gothic texts, including literary works, feature films, a TV serial, and video games, with a view to showing the evolution and expansion of the Gothic convention across the ages and the media. The temporal scope of the book is broad: the chapters cover …
Mediated Utopias: From Literature to Cinema
Av Artur Blaim, Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim
Inbunden, 2014
845 kr
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The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20th and 21st centuries: Things to Come, Lost Horizon, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies, The Andromeda Nebula, Brave New World, Total Recall, The Secret …
(Im)perfection Subverted, Reloaded and Networked: Utopian Discourse across Media
Av Barbara Klonowska, Grzegorz Maziarczyk
Inbunden, 2015
907 kr
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This study explores various intersections between the traditional utopian discourse and such media as music, comic books, TV series, feature films, documentaries, fan fiction, computer games and web projects, bringing to focus the transformative role of the media used for the presentation and …
Characters in Literary Fictions
Inbunden, 2015
1045 kr
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The book focuses on the category of character in fiction. It provides a general outline of different approaches to literary character followed by nineteen essays on individual authors from Conrad to Coetzee, on various genres from utopia, fantasy and gothic fiction to academic novel, and on …
Limits of Orality and Textuality in Ciaran Carson’s Poetry
Inbunden, 2014
863 kr
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Following the evolution of Ciaran Carson’s work, this book aims to trace the tension between orality and textuality, which can be discerned in the poetry of the Northern-Irish writer. Assuming these forces to be the two major sources of all literature, the author delineates, using deconstruction, …
H. G. Wells: The Literary Traveller in His Fantastic Short Story Machine
Inbunden, 2016
963 kr
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The book offers a thorough study of the literary tensions and two-world structure of the fantastic short stories by H. G. Wells (1866–1946). It exposes trickster games in the storytelling and pinpoints Wells’s staple methods of artistic composition – the mounting of various literary tensions built …
Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers
The English Country House in the Contemporary Novel
Inbunden, 2015
944 kr
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Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of one of the most iconic topoi in English literature and culture – the country house. The book analyses nine contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Ian McEwan’s …
Uncanny House in Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction
Inbunden, 2016
480 kr
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The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowens fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to examine the image of the house in Bowens prose and to analyse its uncanniness in relation to the characters identity.In her book, Olena Lytovka focuses …
Intertextual Transactions in Contemporary British Fiction
Av Patrycja Podgajna, Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim
Inbunden, 2021
663 kr
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This study focuses on presenting the techniques of reworking and incorporating intertextual material into contemporary British fiction. Analysing emblematic intertextual strategies: adaptation, pastiche, transworld identity, and historiographic metafiction, the study provides a good insight into …
Playing Games of Sense in Edwin Morgan’s Writing
Av Monika Kocot
Inbunden, 2016
884 kr
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Monika Kocot’s book on Edwin Morgan’s literary achievement, both poetry and drama, foregrounds the themes of cultural transgression, dialogism of the author’s creative design, and various, potentially subversive games of sense creation: «verbivocovisual» constellations, mythopoetic …
Space in Literature
Method, Genre, Topos
Inbunden, 2018
929 kr
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This study focuses on the problem of spatiality in literature. Evoking a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, the book demonstrates that the analysis of the spatial aspect of the literary text encompasses a variety of textual elements and structures. Organized around three …
Forms and Shadows: A Cognitive-Poetic Reading of Charles Williams’s Fiction
Inbunden, 2017
984 kr
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This book is a cognitive-poetic study of the seven novels of Charles Williams (1886–1945), a British author of spiritual fiction and non-fiction, a poet, playwright and a literary critic. It approaches his multidimensional narratives with reference to cognitive phenomena and mechanisms such as the …
Strange Vistas
Perspectives on the Utopian
Av Justyna Galant, Marta Komsta
Inbunden, 2019
734 kr
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The volume demonstrates the scope of utopian thinking and the enduring significance of past utopian fictions and historical events as potentially contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the contemporary reality. The essays examine the concept of utopia in a variety of contexts, such …
Sanctity as a Story
Narrative (In)Variants of the Saint
Inbunden, 2020
740 kr
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The book analyzes the changing story-related patterns of constructing the figures of the saint and/or some concepts of sanctity, as recorded in a variety of artistic and historic texts. The book offers systematic insight into multiple transformations and transpositions of the narrative variants, …
Contemporary Academic Mystery Novel
A Study in Genre
Av Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik, Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim
Inbunden, 2021
656 kr
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The book focuses on contemporary staff-centred mystery novels set in the academic domain, written by scholars who enrich the generic convention of the detective novel with their academic expertise. The author delineates the academic mystery genre conventions and their connection with the …
Reading Contemporary TV Series
Aesthetics, Themes, and Reception
Av Miłosz Wojtyna, Barbara Miceli m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
657 kr
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The rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends. The development has influenced both the mainstream of popular culture and reception practices of audiences across nations and platforms. This book observes …
Human Rights in Dystopian Novels
A Literary Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Av Katarzyna Ginszt, Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim
Inbunden, 2025
719 kr
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This book bridges international human rights law and literary studies by examining dystopian novels through the lens of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The author analyses classical dystopias and a selection of feminist dystopias, exploring depictions of human rights violations …
Spatial Modeling in David Foster Wallace's Short Stories
Av Maja Wojdyło
Inbunden, 2026
610 kr
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"The author's remarkably perceptive analysis of the complex, demanding story "Here and There" is a true tour de force: first, it carefully disentangles the hierarchically organized worlds and narrative levels, then it masterfully weaves them back together like a skilled prestidigitator."- Dr. hab. …
