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Title History, politics, identity : reading literature in a changing world / edited by Marija Knezevic and Aleksandra Nikcevic-Batricevic
Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008

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Description 1 online resource ([ix], 178 pages)
Contents Teaching English/teaching literature? Changing conceptions of language in the Anglophone academy / Michael Bell -- The genealogy of postmodernist morals in Shakespeare's King John / Boris Berić-- "How do you sew the night?" Longing and belonging as poetic travails in troubled times : the politics of Michael Longley / Stephen Rowley -- The tragedy of English imperialism and Irish nationalism in Brian Friel's Translations / Robert Sullivan -- Montenegro : a novel by Starling Lawrence / Marija Knežević -- Memories of identity in Simić's Yesterday's people / Vesna Lopic̆ić and Milena Kostić -- Victorianism in recent Victorian fiction / Peter Preston -- Sexual politics and textual strategies in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Ginnette Katz-Roy -- The single girl and the city : gender issues and role models / Vladislava Gordić Petković -- Challenging the borders : Truman Capote's In cold blood / Goran Radonjić -- Coping with 9/11 : history in the making in Don DeLillo's and Paul Auster's fiction / Zoran Paunović
Summary Contributions reprinted in this book highlight some of the wide ranging ways in which the issues of culture and identity can be approached in a literary text, while focusing on the ways in which cultural encounters have been changing both the world and its reflection in literature. The beginning of the twenty first century is an appropriate time to repay careful attention to these issues. Understanding how our perception of the Other changes Other the concept of the world we inhabit, we want t ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English language -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Political aspects
Literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Political aspects -- English-speaking countries
Literature and society.
English literature -- History and criticism.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Canadian literature -- History and criticism
Politics and literature.
Society in literature.
Literary theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Society in literature
American literature
Canadian literature
English literature
Literature and society
Politics and literature
Politik Motiv
Identität Motiv
Literatur
English-speaking countries
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Knezevic, Maria, 1963-
Nikcevic-Batricevic, Alexsandra
ISBN 9781847185099
1847185096
9781443808842
1443808849