Faces of Crisis in 20th- and 21st- Century Prose
An Anthology of Criticism
Edited by: Katarzyna Biela, Aleksandra Kamińska, Alicja Lasak, Kinga Latała, Sabina Sosin
Pages: 168
Book format: 15,8x23,5 cm
Publication date: 2020
Publication date: 02.10.2020
E-book publication date: 11.06.2021
Book description
In one way or another, crisis has always been a part of our lives and it is still a central aspect of contemporary world, ridden by recurring economic, environmental, and health threats. Faces of Crisis in 20th- and 21st-Century Prose. An Anthology of Criticism offers a unique overview of the motif of crisis tackled by 20th- and 1st-century writers.
The main value of this anthology lies in its unique array of perspectives. The contributors focus on literary works which may have been analysed by other scholars, but never before have they been examined from the perspective of crisis and its different forms. Many of the discussed works were written, or rediscovered, in the last two decades. To the best of my knowledge, there is no other study like this volume.
From the review by Professor Aleksandra Kędzierska, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin
The main value of this anthology lies in its unique array of perspectives. The contributors focus on literary works which may have been analysed by other scholars, but never before have they been examined from the perspective of crisis and its different forms. Many of the discussed works were written, or rediscovered, in the last two decades. To the best of my knowledge, there is no other study like this volume.
From the review by Professor Aleksandra Kędzierska, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin
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English
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first
Edited by
Katarzyna Biela
, Aleksandra Kamińska
, Alicja Lasak
, Kinga Latała
, Sabina Sosin
ISBN: 978-83-233-4881-8
e-ISBN (pdf): 978-83-233-7170-0
Country of producer: Poland
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Richard Brown, Literature as Crisis
PART I: SELVES IN CRISIS
Dagmara Kottke, “He Was a Full Man, and She but an Empty Woman”. Woman’s Experience of Existential Crisis in Vita Sackville-West’s Family History
Kinga Latała, “I Felt I Was a German, and Proud to Be a German”. A Crisis of Allegiance in the Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley
Ewa Skał, Crisis of Identity in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
Sabina Sosin, Dissociation of the Female Protagonist in Ann Quin’s Passages
PART II: BONDS IN CRISIS
Katarzyna Biela, Meeting as a Cure for Crisis: B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates and Emmanuel Levinas’s Concept of the Other
Małgorzata Kosałka, The Representation of the National Identity Crisis in Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Alicja Lasak, Family Crisis Triggered by World War II. Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room
Aleksandra Sadowska, “And There Was Nothing Left in His Inner World but a Silent, Devastated Landscape”. Dissolution of Moral Values in Sarah Waters’s and Diane Setterfield’s Haunted House Novels
PART III: WORLDS IN CRISIS
Mateusz Dudek, 2084. The End of the World. Subjectivity and Power in Boualem Sansal’s Vision of an Islamist Totalitarian Society
Marta Fossati, South Africa, Scotland, and Displacement. Crisis in Zoë Wicomb’s The One That Got Away
Aleksandra Sieradzka, Crisis of Humanity. Various Faces of the Other in the Novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Adriana Simoncelli, The Maximum City. Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta as an Apocalyptic Vision of Multiple Crises of Human Values
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
FOREWORD
Richard Brown, Literature as Crisis
PART I: SELVES IN CRISIS
Dagmara Kottke, “He Was a Full Man, and She but an Empty Woman”. Woman’s Experience of Existential Crisis in Vita Sackville-West’s Family History
Kinga Latała, “I Felt I Was a German, and Proud to Be a German”. A Crisis of Allegiance in the Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley
Ewa Skał, Crisis of Identity in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
Sabina Sosin, Dissociation of the Female Protagonist in Ann Quin’s Passages
PART II: BONDS IN CRISIS
Katarzyna Biela, Meeting as a Cure for Crisis: B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates and Emmanuel Levinas’s Concept of the Other
Małgorzata Kosałka, The Representation of the National Identity Crisis in Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Alicja Lasak, Family Crisis Triggered by World War II. Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room
Aleksandra Sadowska, “And There Was Nothing Left in His Inner World but a Silent, Devastated Landscape”. Dissolution of Moral Values in Sarah Waters’s and Diane Setterfield’s Haunted House Novels
PART III: WORLDS IN CRISIS
Mateusz Dudek, 2084. The End of the World. Subjectivity and Power in Boualem Sansal’s Vision of an Islamist Totalitarian Society
Marta Fossati, South Africa, Scotland, and Displacement. Crisis in Zoë Wicomb’s The One That Got Away
Aleksandra Sieradzka, Crisis of Humanity. Various Faces of the Other in the Novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Adriana Simoncelli, The Maximum City. Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta as an Apocalyptic Vision of Multiple Crises of Human Values
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Faces of Crisis in 20th- and 21st- Century Prose
An Anthology of Criticism
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Richard Brown, Literature as Crisis
PART I: SELVES IN CRISIS
Dagmara Kottke, “He Was a Full Man, and She but an Empty Woman”. Woman’s Experience of Existential Crisis in Vita Sackville-West’s Family History
Kinga Latała, “I Felt I Was a German, and Proud to Be a German”. A Crisis of Allegiance in the Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley
Ewa Skał, Crisis of Identity in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
Sabina Sosin, Dissociation of the Female Protagonist in Ann Quin’s Passages
PART II: BONDS IN CRISIS
Katarzyna Biela, Meeting as a Cure for Crisis: B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates and Emmanuel Levinas’s Concept of the Other
Małgorzata Kosałka, The Representation of the National Identity Crisis in Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Alicja Lasak, Family Crisis Triggered by World War II. Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room
Aleksandra Sadowska, “And There Was Nothing Left in His Inner World but a Silent, Devastated Landscape”. Dissolution of Moral Values in Sarah Waters’s and Diane Setterfield’s Haunted House Novels
PART III: WORLDS IN CRISIS
Mateusz Dudek, 2084. The End of the World. Subjectivity and Power in Boualem Sansal’s Vision of an Islamist Totalitarian Society
Marta Fossati, South Africa, Scotland, and Displacement. Crisis in Zoë Wicomb’s The One That Got Away
Aleksandra Sieradzka, Crisis of Humanity. Various Faces of the Other in the Novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Adriana Simoncelli, The Maximum City. Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta as an Apocalyptic Vision of Multiple Crises of Human Values
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
FOREWORD
Richard Brown, Literature as Crisis
PART I: SELVES IN CRISIS
Dagmara Kottke, “He Was a Full Man, and She but an Empty Woman”. Woman’s Experience of Existential Crisis in Vita Sackville-West’s Family History
Kinga Latała, “I Felt I Was a German, and Proud to Be a German”. A Crisis of Allegiance in the Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley
Ewa Skał, Crisis of Identity in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
Sabina Sosin, Dissociation of the Female Protagonist in Ann Quin’s Passages
PART II: BONDS IN CRISIS
Katarzyna Biela, Meeting as a Cure for Crisis: B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates and Emmanuel Levinas’s Concept of the Other
Małgorzata Kosałka, The Representation of the National Identity Crisis in Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Alicja Lasak, Family Crisis Triggered by World War II. Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room
Aleksandra Sadowska, “And There Was Nothing Left in His Inner World but a Silent, Devastated Landscape”. Dissolution of Moral Values in Sarah Waters’s and Diane Setterfield’s Haunted House Novels
PART III: WORLDS IN CRISIS
Mateusz Dudek, 2084. The End of the World. Subjectivity and Power in Boualem Sansal’s Vision of an Islamist Totalitarian Society
Marta Fossati, South Africa, Scotland, and Displacement. Crisis in Zoë Wicomb’s The One That Got Away
Aleksandra Sieradzka, Crisis of Humanity. Various Faces of the Other in the Novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Adriana Simoncelli, The Maximum City. Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta as an Apocalyptic Vision of Multiple Crises of Human Values
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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