Languages & Literatures 2011 | 1 | - Peter Lang

20 English Language and Literatures · Anglistik · Langue et littératures anglaises
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Ilana Shiloh
raditional detective fiction celebrates
the victory of order and reason over the
senseless violence of crime . Yet in spite of its
apparent valorization of rationality, the detective
genre has been associated from its inception
with three paradoxical motifs – the
double, the labyrinth and the locked room .
Rational thought relies on binary oppositions,
such as chaos and order, appearance and reality
or truth and falsehood . Paradoxes subvert
such customary distinctions, logically proving
as true what we experientially know to be
T
The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room
Metaphors of Paradox in Crime Fiction and Film
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011 .
X, 186 pp .
pb . ISBN 978-0-8204-6843-3
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Liliana Sikorska (ed .)
his volume contains a selection of papers
presented at the Medieval English
Studies Symposium held in Poznań (Poland),
in November 2009 . The papers cover a wide
range of approaches to the issue of the afterlife,
heaven and hell in Old and Middle English
as well as post-medieval literature .
ContentS: Michael Alexander: The landscape
of the afterlife in medieval and postmedieval
imagination • Rafał Borysławski:
Between ofergyhg and wræclastas: Pride and
exile in the speculative afterlife of Christ and
Satan • Anna Czarnowus: Muhammad in Hell,
or Dante and William Langland on the prophet’s
afterlife • Sabine Heinz: Afterlife and
Celtic concepts of the Otherworld • Dwight
Holbrook: The ‘after’ in medieval afterlife: A
vertical or horizontal arrow of time? • Łukasz
Hudomięt: Unreal wonderlands – The quest
for Paradise in late medieval and Victorian
imagination • Barbara Kowalik: Inklings of
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false . The present book explores detective and
crime-mystery fiction and film from the perspective
of their entrenched metaphors of
paradox . This new and intriguing angle yields
fresh insights into a genre that has become
one of the hallmarks of postmodernism .
ilana Shiloh received her PhD in American
literature from Tel Aviv University, where
she taught detective fiction in the Department
of English . Her previous book, Paul
Auster and Postmodern Quest, has gained critical
acclaim .
Thise Stories Beren Witnesse
The Landscape of the Afterlife in Medieval
and Post-Medieval Imagination
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010 .
137 pp .
Medieval English Mirror . Vol . 7
Edited by Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska
hb . ISBN 978-3-631-60551-6
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afterlife: Images of Hell in C .S . Lewis’ The great
divorce and Charles Williams’ Et in sempiternum
pereant • Joanna Ludwikowska-Leniec:
Access denied: The female «wild zone» in visions
of Purgatory by Christina Mirabilis •
Jacek Olesiejko: The Anglo-Saxon idea of locus
amoenus: The Paradise in the Old English
Judgement day II and The Phoenix • Liliana
Sikorska: Reading and writing a medievalist
text: Adam Thorpe’s Hodd . An advertisement
in five acts • Andrzej Wicher: Some gender
aspects of the motif of penance in selected
Middle English romances .
liliana SiKoRSKa , PhD in 1994, D . Litt,
in 1996; visiting scholar at the University of
Florida, Brown University and the University
of California, Los Angeles; visiting professor
at the American University, Washington, DC,
Fulbright professor at Cornell University;
head of the Department of English Literature
and Literary Linguistics .
Jane Statlander
Philip Roth’s Postmodern
American Romance
Critical Essays on Selected Works
Foreword by Derek Parker Royal
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles,
Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2010 . 120 pp .
Twentieth-Century American Jewish Writers .
Vol . 15
General Editor: Daniel Walden
hb . ISBN 978-1-4331-0598-2
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T
he central thesis of this book is that
Philip Roth’s work is most accurately
viewed as postmodernist American Historical
Romance, rather than marginalized as
Jewish-American . Four works are analyzed
in relation to this thesis and to the specific
idea that Roth’s contribution is entirely within
mainstream American literature and culture .
Emphasizing the importance and influence
of Hebrew Scripture, the author demonstrates
that, paradoxically, Roth’s Jewishness locates
him squarely within the canon of (a Hebraic)
America and its letters .
Jane StatlandeR received her PhD in
American literature and culture from the
University of New England in New South
Wales, Australia . She is currently Professor
of English at Miami International University
of Art and Design .
Michael Szczekalla (Hrsg ./ed .)
Britannien und Europa
Studien zur Literatur-, Geistes-
und Kulturgeschichte
Festschrift für Jürgen Klein
Britain and Europe
Studies in Literary
and Cultural History
Festschrift for Jürgen Klein
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010 . 287 pp ., 1 ill .
hb . ISBN 978-3-631-58628-0
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T
he contributions to this bilingual Festschrift
reflect recent research in the
study of English literature and culture . They
cover subjects as diverse as the late medieval
and early modern reception of antiquity,
Shakespeare, eighteenth-century literature,