Crossroads in Literature and Culture

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
I See a Voice…....Pages 3-10
A New Territory? Literary Criticism as a Literary Genre....Pages 11-23
Cutting into a New World: Reading The Cut Through Slavoj Žižek....Pages 25-33
Internal (Post)Coloniality in Anglo-Irish Literature: Crossing the Boundaries in Postcolonial Comparative Studies....Pages 35-44
A Post-Battle Landscape: Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and The Cleft ....Pages 45-55
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Near the Riverbank: Women, Danger and Place in Dickens....Pages 59-72
“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....Pages 73-83
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Complexities of Gender....Pages 85-93
“Outlaw Emotions”: Carol Ann Duffy’s “Eurydice”, Dramatic Monologue and Victorian Women Poets....Pages 95-104
“The One Great Drawback to the Life of Women is That They Cannot Act in Politics”? Political Women in Anthony Trollope’s Fiction....Pages 105-114
Transgressing Boundaries to Metamorphose: The Outlander by Gil Adamson....Pages 115-126
Forbidden Territories: the Sexual and the Social in Allan Hollinghurst’s Novel The Line of Beauty ....Pages 127-133
What Haunts Hundreds Hall? Transgression in Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger ....Pages 135-145
Crossing the “Gender Frontier”: Cross-dressing and Male Impersonation in Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet (1998)....Pages 147-155
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“Black Women are the Most Fascinating Creations in the World” or How (not) to Translate Alice Walker’s The Color Purple ....Pages 159-168
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Female pioneers, Good Indians, and Settler Nostalgia: Colonial Ambivalence in Sally Armstrong’s The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor ....Pages 171-180
Crossing the Frontiers of Death: A Journey Through War Memories and Continents in Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces....Pages 181-189
India Re-loaded: Vikas Swarup’s Slumdog Millionaire as a Postcolonial Novel....Pages 191-198
Narration and Representation of Race in Matthew Kneale’s English Passengers....Pages 199-207
A Dominican-American Experience of Not Quite Successful Assimilation: Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ....Pages 209-220
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Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal as a Place of Asylum in Space and an Archive in Time....Pages 223-233
Aldous Huxley and Evolving Borders of Social Space: The Changing 20th Century Society in His Essays from the 1920s....Pages 235-246
Re-vision of London in Iain Sinclair’s White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings ....Pages 247-256
Philip K. Dick: One Man’s Illusion Might Invade the Reality of Others....Pages 257-267
The Idea of Ambition as a Social Process Based on Role Transition Theory: Dyadic Power Relations in Coriolanus and Macbeth ....Pages 269-277
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Genius and Madness Mirrored: Rossetti’s and Yeats’ Reception of William Blake....Pages 281-291
Between Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Peter Ackroyd’s Clerkenwell Tales : A Dialogue of the Contemporary Novel and Medieval Literary Conventions....Pages 293-305
Thomas MacGreevy and Samuel Beckett. Affinity and Controversy....Pages 307-315
False Memories, Forged Identities and Murders: Macbeth for the Twenty-First Century....Pages 317-328
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Beyond the Confines of Realism: Seeking New Metaphors for Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans ....Pages 331-340
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.’....Pages 341-350
Poe Goes Pop, or Adapting “The Fall of the House of Usher” in the 21st Century....Pages 351-363
Adaptation and the Idea of the Death of the Author: The Case of Samuel Beckett....Pages 365-375
From Commodification to Communal Art: “Above Sex… Above Politics”....Pages 377-384
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The Subversive Power of Father Matthias. The Poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski as Vehicle for Political Propaganda in England of the 17th Century....Pages 387-397
Early Modern Travel Writing and Thomas More’s Utopia : An Attempt at Literary Interpretation....Pages 399-410
Beryl Bainbridge’s The Birthday Boys : Travelling Towards the Pole of Death....Pages 411-420
Crossing Racial Frontiers in the Quest for Cultural Acceptance as Seen Through Selected Works by Jackie Kay....Pages 421-431
The Flying Dutchman’s Mimetic Desire. Crossing Geographical and Moral Frontiers in Frederick Marryat’s The Phantom Ship ....Pages 433-441
Forays into the Scientific Mindset: The Two Cultures in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Solar ....Pages 443-449
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Trying to Cross Frontiers of Fortress Europe: Rose Tremain’s Novel The Road Home (2007)....Pages 451-461
Carnivalesque Pop. Representations of the Commonplace in British Pop Art....Pages 463-472
Representation of Identities in the British Arts Policy of the 1980s....Pages 473-480
The Coenesque Zones: Alternative American Settings Beyond the Constraints of Everyday Logic in the Cinematic Works of Joel and Ethan Coen....Pages 481-492
Crossing Frontiers, Staking Out New Territories: Hollywood Remaking British Crime Locations in Get Carter ....Pages 493-503
From the New Right to the Da Vinci Code : Transformations of the Conspiracy Theorist After the Second World War....Pages 505-517
The “Cultural Turn” and the Changing Face of the Humanities in Poland....Pages 519-530