Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue: The Narrative Construction of Russian Cultural Memory

ISBN-13: 9781032379746 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Elena Bollinger

Opis

This book addresses the narrative construction of Russian cultural memory in the work of Julian Barnes. It investigates how Barnes's texts tend to display a memory process as a transcultural mode of the creation of English and Russian national identities.

O autorze

Elena Bollinger holds a PhD in English and American Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon. She is currently a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, and a member of the interdisciplinary project entitled ‘Shared Memories: Literatures and Cultures in English and Portuguese’. Close to both the Centre for Slavic Languages and Cultures and the Centre for Comparative Studies, she has been working on intercultural research involving memory, history and (trans)national identity within the scope of literary representations. She is also a member of Memory Studies Association.