Search results for "Contemporary fiction"

Myth Migrations and Bodily Inscriptions in Michèle Roberts’s Subversive Fiction

2009

“The drops which fell from Shakespear’s Pen”: Hamlet in Contemporary Fiction

2012

Questions of gender, ethnicity and sexuality have all been raised by novelists intent on rewriting Shakespeare from the position of what have been seen as cultural margins. While discussions of such rewritings are ongoing, few concerted efforts have been made to trace a pattern in the treatment of Shakespearean allusion and adaptation at the hands of British and American writers of the literary mainstream. The present essay sets out to investigate the way in which three such writers —Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, and John Updike— employ allusion to/adaptations of Hamlet in their novels and what their respective stances reveal about their understanding of their role as canonical writers.

Meanderings around the image of the hole. The Transition in the Scripts of the Body of

2018

El presente artículo se propone indagar acerca de la escritura del cuerpo femenino en la obra de la escritora Marta Sanz, a propósito de la relectura de la Transición española que contienen buena parte de sus novelas. Para ello, partiremos del análisis de la metáfora del agujero en varios de los textos de la autora. Este trabajo busca llamar la atención sobre la crítica a la evolución de las formas de violencia y de control ejercidas sobre el cuerpo femenino que contiene la obra de Marta Sanz, a partir de los textos Los mejores tiempos (2001), La lección de anatomía (2008), Daniela Astor y la caja negra (2013) y Éramos mujeres jóvenes. Una educación sentimental de la Transición española (20…