«Counterfeited Our Names We Haue, Craftily - All Thynges Vpright to Saue»: Self-Fashioning and Self-Representation in Literature in English

ISBN-13: 9783631608685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 118 str.

Sikorska, Liliana

Opis

Literature in English is a term that has recently appeared to include both English literature in the traditional sense of the word and all the newly emerging literatures written and published in English whose authors may represent various ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This series as well as our yearly Literature in English Symposium (LIES) organized by the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics, the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan (Poland), respond to the current interest in wider mapping of English literature. Each year the symposium is devoted to a particular topic linked with the interests of an invited writer, whose presentation we also publish. This volume is devoted to the issue of self-fashioning and self-representation as it is the main area of interest of Andrew Miller.

Spis treści

Contents: Liliana Sikorska: Andrew Miller. Some notes on a restless mind - Andrew Miller: Some thoughts on character - Samantha Tomasetto: Self-representation in Marivaux, Addison and Steele's periodicals: The idea of a fictitious spectator - Helena Whitbread: The Journals of Anne Lister - Leszek Drong: God's manicured fingernails: Self-fashioning and self-engendering in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man - Lee Baker: Making ourselves up as we go along? Self-fashioning as a way of living in Iris Murdoch's The sea, the sea - Pawel Stachura: Repetition of a strategy of self-representation: Giorgio Agamben, Søren Kierkegaard, and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing - Katarzyna Bronk: Ingenious and painful transformations in Andrew Miller's Ingenious pain and Casanova in love - Katarzyna Wieckowska: The mechanics of the mask: Identity and masquerade in James Kelman's and Irving Welsh's fiction - Natalia Peek: Cycling on the rope: Author Andrew Miller on characterization and the perils of writing - Liliana Sikorska: The road home : An interview with Rose Tremain.

O autorze

The Editor: Liliana Sikorska, Ph.D. in 1994, D. Litt. in 1996; professor of English Literature; visiting scholar at the University of Florida, Brown University and the University of California Los Angeles, visiting professor at the American University, Washington, DC; author or co-author of seven books on medieval English and Irish literature; head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics, School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland).