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Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape – Random House) Sebastian Barry On Canaan’s Side (Faber) Carol Birch Jamrach’s Menagerie (Canongate Books) Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers (Granta) Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues (Serpent’s Tail – Profile) Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld) Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger’s Child (Picador – Pan...
Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction

Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction

This volume is the first book of criticism to provide a systematic analysis of a corpus of emblematic contemporary British fictions from the combined perspective of trauma theory and ethics. Although the fictional work of writers such as Graham Swift has already been approached from this perspective, none of the individual works or authors under...
EBC 40

EBC 40

    Sommaire:     Acheter EBC 40 sur le site des PULM.
Colloque SEAC/SAIT 2011: Ruins

Colloque SEAC/SAIT 2011: Ruins

RUINS IN 20TH CENTURY ART AND LITERATURE November 4-5, 2011 School of Advanced Study, Institute of English studies, University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Friday November 4 9h : Registration I.    From the picturesque to 20th century ruins Chair: Isabelle Gadoin (Poitiers) – Catherine Lanone (Paris III) 9h30-9h50 : David Shackleton...
EBC

EBC

  Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines is a bi-yearly journal which publishes both the proceedings of SEAC conferences and papers focusing on writers and themes of contemporary British literature and all aspects of contemporary British culture. The journal welcomes a variety of critical approaches and will also include book reviews, abstracts of recent theses and news concerning...
Autonomy and Commitment

Autonomy and Commitment

This collection of essays means to explore the interaction between autonomy and commitment in an attempt at revisiting and possibly, revising conventional literary history. Until recently, literary history has indeed tended to present twentieth-century British literature as either autonomous or committed, but such a position certainly needs qualification. By addressing the joint issues of autonomy...
EBC 39

EBC 39

Etudes britanniques contemporaines 39 « Rhythm in Contemporary British Poetry » In Defence of the Dolnik: Twentieth-Century British Verse in Free Four-Beat Metre –   Derek Attridge A Non-Modular Theory of Text-Setting in Folksong -  Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez Rhythm in Thomas Hardy’s Verse: “New Continuities of Meaning” -  Laurence Estanove An Experience with Rhythm: W. S. Graham-  David...
Neo-Victorian Tropes of Trauma

Neo-Victorian Tropes of Trauma

Neo-Victorian Tropes of Trauma: The Politics of Bearing After-Witness to Nineteenth-Century Suffering Edited by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben This collection constitutes the first volume in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, which explores the prevalent but often problematic re-vision of the long nineteenth century in contemporary culture. Here is presented for the first time an extended analysis...

2010 SEAC Conference « Playfulness and Painfulness »

The  2010 SEAC Conference,  » Playfulness and Painfulness »,  will be  held at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, with the support of  CIRCPLES. The conference will take place on 5-6 November 2010, and we  have the pleasure to announce that  Graham Swift will attend the  conference as our guest of honour. Having lost faith in hegemonic...

SEAC 2009 Conference: Rhythm in Twentieth-Century British Poetry

The proceedings of the conference have been published in EBC 39 Programme // Friday 13 November // Room F08 9.30 // Registration and Coffee 10.00 // Catherine Lanone (Toulouse 2, Chair of the Société d’études anglaises contemporaines) // Opening remarks Panel 1 // Poetic rhythm: history and theory Chair // Paul Volsik 10.15 // Lacy...