"Labelling / Naming / Addressing"

2008

This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fi elds of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the fi eld.

2009

The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge the century's pre-and postwar halves and presents leading critical ideas about English fiction's themes and forms. The essays examine the endurance of modernist style throughout the century, the role of nationality and the contested role of the English language in all its forms, and the relationships between realism and other fictional modes: fantasy, romance, science fiction. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to the history of the English novel.

2016

Dans la préface de son recueil de nouvelles parues pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale, Bowen parle de son œuvre comme d'une séries de photographies: “Taken singly, they [the short stories] are disjected snapshots – snapshots taken from close up, too close up, in the middle of the mêlée of a battle”. Que Bowen assume et minimise l'influence de la photographie sur son œuvre simultanément est typique de son commentaire critique ; ainsi, par exemple, elle parle de ses nouvelles comme des esquisses visuelles, mais met aussi l'accent sur le fait que cet aspect visuel existe souvent au détriment de la nature narrative de la nouvelle. Toutefois, dans un certain nombre de ses nouvelles, la photographie est l'élément central de la trame, la source et l'incarnation de l'écriture elle-même : elle ne retire rien de l'écriture, mais crée un cadre pour la narration, dont elle devient ainsi un élément structurant essentiel. Les clichés donnent une forme concrète au prin...

2019

1 Overlapping generations of writers with diverse ambitions, backgrounds, and commitments have ensured that British fi ction since the Second World War evades neat portraits of affi liation or progression, in mode as well as in matter. Classifi cations become hard to justify, because of the multiple ways in which late twentieth-and twenty-fi rst-century writers have imaginatively responded to the era's changing social realities, and because '[c] reativity itself', as British-Guyanese writer Fred D'Aguiar observes, 'cannot be contained for long in any fashion or vice-hold which the process of naming and compartmentalizing seeks to promote'. 1 Moreover, the very construction of this fi eld faces one obvious logistical consideration: the ever-expanding end-dates for 'post-1945' as a periodising rubric make comprehensive accounts of so many decades of cultural transformation seem increasingly unviable. Still, undaunted, this Companion provides its own atlas of an era whose unwieldy temporality and perpetually moving horizon do nothing to discredit its usefulness in framing some of the most signifi cant developments in British fi ction.

2019

Organised by: Research Project Intersections: Gender and Identity in the Short Fiction of Contemporary British Women Writers (FEDER/AEI – FEM2017-83084-P). Research Project Eco-fictions: Emergent Discourses on Woman and Nature in Galicia and Ireland (MINECO/FEDER FEM2015-66937-P) Research Group Discourse and Identity (GRC2015/002, GI_1924), Xunta de Galicia. Research Network ‘English Language and Literature, and Identity’ (ED431D 2017/17).

2020

All references to "When We Were Nearly Young" are from Mavis Gallant, Selected Stories. London, Bloomsbury, 1997, and will be incorporated into the text of the article. 6. As Liz Stanley points out, the term auto/biography refuses any easy distinction between biography and autobiography, and recognises, instead, their symbiosis (127). 7. William H. New, Modern Canadian Essays. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976. 8. Señor Pinedo", her other story about Spain, however, does include some oblique and understated criticism about Franco's dictatorship.

2011

Victorian Literature. The second part of the second volume offers a selection of the writing of authors starting with Tennyson and Browning and finishing with the light verse of Lear and Carroll. English Literature – An Anthology for Students. Volume 2 - From the Romanticism to the Twentieth Century. Poznań: Dom Wydawniczy Rebis, 2011, pp. 536.