Limits of Orality and Textuality in Ciaran Carson's Poetry

Grzegorz Czemiel

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 3
• This book analyses the poetry of Ciaran Carson, a Northern-Irish writer. In particular, it discusses the tension between orality and textuality. The a... Lees meer

The Contemporary Academic Mystery Novel

Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 19
• The book analyses the contemporary academic mystery novel through the lenses of the classical detective novel and the university novel. The authors of... Lees meer

The Stage Career of Cicely Hamilton (1895-1914)

Seán Moran

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 13
• Drawing on recently released or previously neglected archive material, this book is the first dedicated to the stage career of Cicely Hamilton (1872-1... Lees meer

Welcome to the Chemical Theatre

Marta Komsta

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 6
• The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author. The examined narratives... Lees meer

Playing Games of Sense in Edwin Morgan's Writing

Monika Kocot

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 12
• Monika Kocot's book on Edwin Morgan's literary achievement, both poetry and drama, foregrounds the themes of cultural transgression, dialogism of the ... Lees meer

Expanding the Gothic Canon

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 2
• This monograph contains analyses of Gothic texts: literary works, films, and video games. It shows the expansion of the convention across the ages and... Lees meer

Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers

Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 7
• Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of the English country house. The book analyses co... Lees meer

Mediating the World in the Novels of Iain Banks

Katarzyna Pisarska

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 1
• The book offers a detailed analysis of all mainstream novels of Iain Banks. It explores the question of mediation, the process of a semiotic (re)const... Lees meer

Characters in Literary Fictions

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 9
• The book focuses on the category of character in fiction. It analyses characters in individual texts by authors ranging from Conrad to Coetzee conside... Lees meer

(Im)perfection Subverted, Reloaded and Networked

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 8
• The volume explores intersections between the traditional utopian discourse and recent media: music, comics, TV series, feature films, documentaries, ... Lees meer

H. G. Wells

Halszka Leleń

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 10
• The book offers a thorough study of the literary tensions and two-world structure of the fantastic short stories by H. G. Wells (1866-1946). It expose... Lees meer

Intertextual Transactions in Contemporary British Fiction

Patrycja Podgajna

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 18
• This study focuses on emblematic intertextual strategies in contemporary British fiction. Analysing the process of adaptation, pastiche, transworld id... Lees meer

Sanctity as a Story

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 17
• The book analyzes the changing story-related patterns of constructing the figures of the saint and/or some concepts of sanctity, as recorded in a vari... Lees meer

Painted Devils, Siren Tongues

Justyna Galant

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 5
• The book is a semiotic study of Jacobean drama, examining both canonical texts by Thomas Middleton, John Webster and less known dramas such as Anonymo... Lees meer

Space in Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 15
• The study focuses on the problem of spatiality in literature. Organized around three defining problems - spatial topoi, genres and methods - the volum... Lees meer

Forms and Shadows

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 14
• This book is a cognitive-poetic study of the seven novels of Charles Williams (1886-1945). The author approaches the multidimensional narratives with ... Lees meer

Mediated Utopias

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 4
• The work comprises adaptation studies of selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the last century. It focu... Lees meer

Strange Vistas

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 16
• The volume demonstrates the scope of utopian thinking and the enduring significance of past utopian fictions and historical events. The essays examine... Lees meer

Reading Contemporary TV Series

Milosz Wojtyna, Barbara Miceli

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 20
• This book observes how rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and soc... Lees meer

The Uncanny House in Elizabeth Bowen's Fiction

Olena Lytovka

• Hardcover | Engels | Mediated Fictions | nr. 11
• The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to ex... Lees meer