http://hdl.handle.net/2436/1332 null Mon, 20 May 2013 00:02:12 GMT 2013-05-20T00:02:12Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51196 Title: Cuckoo's eggs in the bureaucratic nest: Brigitte Reimann's Siberia diaries Authors: Steinke, Gabriela Abstract: Cross-Cultural Travel presents the proceedings of a major international conference on literature and travel held in November 2002 at the National University of Ireland, under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy. The contributors, including such leading scholars as Joep Leerssen and Luigi Monga, illustrate the remarkable scope and vitality of work currently undertaken in the field. Cross-Cultural Travel is a multidisciplinary crossroads where literature, cultural studies and history engage with a variety of other disciplines. Topics range from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century and from constructions in fiction and poetry to the testimonies of explorers, diplomats, servants of Empire, journalists, artists, tourists, or established writers. Among the authors featured are Rousseau, Heine, Hugo, Sand, Svevo, Cela, Ingeborg Bachmann, Barthes, Tabucchi, Chatwin, Allende, and Sebald. Taken together, these fifty essays illuminate the processes of identity formation, whether the great lines of national identity or the personal edges of awareness. They explore over time differing relationships to the physical world, experiences of cultural difference, and the interplay between the subject's mobility and its textualization. Description: Series: Travel Writing Across the Disciplines - Theory and Pedagogy Vol. 7 Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51196 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51162 Title: Fiction from the Furnace: A Hundred Years of Black Country Writing Authors: McDonald, Paul Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51162 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51161 Title: Student Guide to Philip Roth Authors: McDonald, Paul Abstract: Philip Roth's career has spanned more than 40 years, in which he has produced more than 20 books and wom almost major literary award. The Jewish-American writer's work is a search for form that takes him from social realism, through comedy and fantasy, to pseudo-confessional and a postmodern aesthetic. Paul McDonald explores each of Roth's works in turn, from his first book "Goodbye Columbus" to "The Dying Animal". He shows that although Roth writes about the human condition in often provocative and unusual ways, his treatment is witty and always based on values.Paul McDonald lectures in English and has a special interest in modern American literature. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51161 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51160 Title: The Utopias and Dystopias of Generation X Authors: McDonald, Paul Abstract: THE BOOK: The book explores the fundamental and multifaceted dialectic between utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares within American culture. The utopian mindset in constructing and imagining different futures for society is reflected in a wide range of differential cultural texts and narratives such as novels, short stories, political discourses and treatises, journalism and scholarly and intellectual debates. Often these combine social criticism and satire, political rhetoric, religious belief systems, and biblical metaphors. Approaching the topic from various angles and throughout different historical periods, the essays in this volume collectively show how fascinating and rewarding the exploration of this utopian discourse of for an understanding of American culture. Description: European Contributions to American Studies Series Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51160 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z