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Mediating the World in the Novels of Iain Banks
The Paradigms of Fiction
Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)
The 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 four paradigms of fictional worlds established by the author’s first novel,
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Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers
The English Country House in the Contemporary Novel
Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)
is the first study of contemporary literary representations of the English country house. The book analyses contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro’s
, Ian McEwan’s
and Sarah Waters’
by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition.
80,20 € inkl. MwSt.
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(Im)perfection Subverted, Reloaded and Networked: Utopian Discourse across Media
Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)
The volume explores intersections between the traditional utopian discourse and recent media: music, comics, TV series, feature films, documentaries, fan fiction, computer games and web projects. It shows the variety of forms of expression of utopian impulses and their relocation and reinterpretation in the contemporary culture of convergence.
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Characters in Literary Fictions
Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)
The book focuses on the category of character in fiction. It analyses characters in individual texts by authors ranging from Conrad to Coetzee considered from rhetorical, structural, functional and cognitive perspectives; in genre contexts from utopia and fantasy to campus fiction; and in extra-textual contexts from intertextuality to autobiography.
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Mediated Utopias: From Literature to Cinema
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The work comprises adaptation studies of selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the last century. It focusses on ways of constructing fictional realities as well as on techniques of rendering literary utopias/dystopias into film and allows a deep insight into the history of cinema.
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Playing Games of Sense in Edwin Morgan’s Writing
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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 «writings-through,» and intersemiotic translations.
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Painted Devils, Siren Tongues
The Semiotic Universe of Jacobean Tragedy
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The book is a semiotic study of Jacobean drama, examining both canonical texts by Thomas Middleton, John Webster and less known dramas such as Anonymous
, Markham and Sampson's
or
by Beaumont and Fletcher. Combining Bakhtinian concepts with Jurij Lotman’s theory of semiosphere, the author offers new readings of eleven tragedies.
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