http://hdl.handle.net/2436/8718 null Mon, 20 May 2013 16:55:37 GMT 2013-05-20T16:55:37Z 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/2436/51159 Title: Did You Hear the One About God? Representations of Religion in Post-war Jewish-American Comedy Authors: McDonald, Paul Abstract: THE BOOK: The essays in this volume range widely and includes topics such as the role of religion in shaping American diversity: the lasting legacy of Puritanism in a multicultural society; the appropriation of religious space and national symbolism; the changing intersections of religion, race, and gender in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; religious paradigms in ethnic autobiographies; religion and consumer culture; the religious imagination of American and European women; and the religious exchange between Europe and the United States as shown in illustrations, hymns, evangelism and contemporary worship practices. Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51159 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z