Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers: The English Country House in the Contemporary Novel
Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga
<I>Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers </I>is the first study of contemporary literary representations of one of the most iconic topoi in English literature and culture - the country house. The book analyses nine contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro’s <I>The Remains of the Day</I>, Ian McEwan’s <I>Atonement</I>, Sarah Waters’s <I>The Little Stranger </I>and Alan Hollinghurst’s <I>The Stranger’s Child</I>, by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition. Analysing the different traditions of the novel of manners, gothic fiction and postmodern metafiction, the book identifies three principal variants of the manorial topos, which expound the country house as the locus of varied, often contradictory meanings.<BR>
年:
2015
出版:
1st
出版社:
Peter Lang
语言:
english
页:
268
ISBN 10:
3631657153
ISBN 13:
9783631657157
系列:
Mediated Fictions
文件:
PDF, 723 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2015