EBOOK Studies In 20th Century Literaty/Cultural Britain

Książka traktuje o rozwoju literatury i obyczajowości brytyjskiej w XX wieku. Całość w języku angielskim.
Introductory Note  9
Acknowledgments  13
Preface: Studying literature and culture today: estimating gains or losses  15
Introduction I: In the age of diversity (developments until 1968)  17
Introduction II: Passing of an Age  19
Realism - still an issue? Modernism - a significant minority?  27
Drama - overcoming critical harshness  29
The First Wave  31
The Second Wave  35
The novel in the (brave ?) new world  37
Wilde, postmodernism and other dangerous practices  42
Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Mr. W.H.  43
Lawrence Durrell, Justine  47
John Fowles, The Ebony Tower  55
Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring  69
Conclusion  72
Culture and/in society. From Arnold to the Present  74
Culture - definitions and mutations  74
Literary Studies - Cultural Studies  93
Popular culture  97
Multiculturalism in multicultural / multi-ethnic society. Are all hopes gone?  100
Revolutions in theatre - phases and faces  105
British playwrights go East  109
Stoppard turns political  110
Howard goes Far East  115
David Hare goes East  121
Generalising the issue: Harold Pinter's One for the Road, Mountain Language, Party Time and The New World Order  126
David Hare and his 'state of the nation' plays  130
Politics in the mainstream  139
Trevor Griffiths' revolutions old and new  143
Howard Brenton: politics of terrorism  148
A word from Bond  152
History of the present - war and revolution in Eastern Europe  156
Conclusion  162
National history as drama  167
Writing history - rewriting history  168
The most spectacular downfall of King Arthur, Cromwell and Others  177
'The People's War' in the theatre and on TV  187
Politicizing recent history: Griffiths versus Edgar  196
History as madness, disease and cruelty  202
History and contemporaneity - selective raids into history  205
Conclusion  208
Feminist theatre and... after  212
Beginnings  213
Her story revised  221
His story of her  233
...and After  246
John Osborne, Jimmy Porter and J.P.  246
Tom Stoppard and Arcadia  248
Conclusion  250
Drama in adaptation. From King Lear to Lear's Daughters  251
King Lear - looking for contemporary relevance  252
Peter Brook and his anniversary King Lear  255
Edward Bond and Lear  256
Women rewriting women - Lear's Daughters  265
More experiments  269
Conclusion  271
'Creeping counterrevolution' or Hamlet behind the Iron Curtain  273
Hamlet in Poland - a survey of (pre) history  274
Poland in Hamlet  277
Hamlet our contemporary  283
Exit Hamlet, enter Fortinbras  285
Hamlet like sponge (absorbing and/or parasitizing?)  289
Hamlet as a topic for poetry  292
Conclusion  295
Narrating foreign culture in the age of globalization. British writers on Poland  298
Polish themes in drama  303
Fictitious Poles in their fictitious country  311
Conclusion  323
Sex, gender and female body awareness in popular European novels  324
Victorian controversies. From Swinburne to Mrs. Humphrey  325
Continental heroines. From Courths-Mahler to Orzeszkowa  330
Conclusion  338
From 'cold meats' to floating signifiers. On food in drama  339
Cold meats, hot ginger and a 'hot bard'  340
A cup of tea and a floating signifier  347
A word for Kipling  351
Between the heritage of modernism and postmodern condition.
The case of V.S. Naipaul  369
From (wasted) values to human litter or do clones have souls? (Kazuo Ishiguro and Doris Lessing)  390
The times are a-changin'  401
Bibliography  409
Texts  409
Criticism  416
Cinema and Internet Films  440