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Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers

By Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga

Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers

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Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers 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 The Remains of the Day, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger and Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child, 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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
268
Release Date:
2015-05-26
Publication Date:
2015-05-26
Publisher:
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3631657153
ISBN13:
9783631657157
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
460 g
Height:
148 cm
Width:
210 cm
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