Ex-changes : comparative studies in British and American cultures /

Ex-changes: Comparative Studies in British and American Cultures is a collection of articles exploring a variety of cultural texts - such as fiction, film, drama, poetry, and critical thought - in order to present the on-going transfer of ideas and processes of complementation that characterise cult...

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Other Authors: Wieckowska, Katarzyna, Lorek-Jezinska, Edyta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781443846448
1443846449
1299646700
9781299646704
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Table of contents; introduction; part i; sameness and change of human identity; "in so narrow a space you must choose your note and strike it firmly"; "they are never so good as i meant them to be"; women and children last; mourning the impossibility of mourning? facing melancholia in graham swift's ever after; part ii; british and slovak media narratives in comparison; in the eye of the critic; contesting the (in)visibility of class; in comparison; part iii; correspondences and differentiations in selected early anglophone new woman fiction.
  • Poetically realistic juxtapositions of anglo-american old and new world experiences portrayed in toni morrison's a mercythe fairy tale visions of the world; "no black male show"; carnival and the carnivalesque in aphra behn's the rover and caryl churchill's cloud nine; part iv; characters versus authors; jean luc godard's king lear in the light of existentialism; chasing zebras; the literary animal bites; contributors.