DSpace Kolekcja:http://hdl.handle.net/11320/154452026-06-14T02:16:43Z2026-06-14T02:16:43ZReview of Journalism and Celebrity by Bethany Usher, Routledge 2020, 216 pp. ISBN: 9780367200886, £36.99.Karczewska, Anna Mariahttp://hdl.handle.net/11320/154532023-11-15T09:03:45Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZTytuł: Review of Journalism and Celebrity by Bethany Usher, Routledge 2020, 216 pp. ISBN: 9780367200886, £36.99.
Autorzy: Karczewska, Anna Maria2023-01-01T00:00:00ZNarrating Canadian War Memorials, Understanding National IdentitySokołowska-Paryż, Marzenahttp://hdl.handle.net/11320/154522023-11-15T08:32:19Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZTytuł: Narrating Canadian War Memorials, Understanding National Identity
Autorzy: Sokołowska-Paryż, Marzena
Abstrakt: Pierre Berton writes that “Canada, more than most countries, is a nation of … memorials”. Yet, with the passage of time, war memorials inevitably tend to lose their original significance, becoming altogether ‘invisible’ for historically-estranged generations. Hence the need for re-remembering war memorials and monuments for the purposes of consolidating a (national) collective memory. The aim of this paper is a comparative analysis of Fields of Sacrifice (1963, dir. Donald Brittain), Herbert Fairlie Wood’s and John Swettenham’s Silent Witnesses (1974), Robert Shipley’s To Mark Our Place (1987), and Robert Konduras’s and Richard Parrish’s World War I: A Monumental History (2014) within the context of the theoretical distinction between memorial and monument cultures in order to discuss the defining ideological tropes of ‘Canadianness’.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZSir Isaac Newton and the Great Re-Coinage of 1696 in Philip Kerr’s Dark MatterOramus, Dominikahttp://hdl.handle.net/11320/154512023-11-15T07:48:30Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZTytuł: Sir Isaac Newton and the Great Re-Coinage of 1696 in Philip Kerr’s Dark Matter
Autorzy: Oramus, Dominika
Abstrakt: The aim of this paper is to show how in recent years a comparatively little-known period of Newton’s life, his work as the Warden and then Master of the Royal Mint, has entered the popular imagination. Analyzing Philip Kerr’s detective novel set in the 17th century, Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton, I discuss his depiction of the Great Re-Coinage and the criminal world of cockney counterfeiters and ‘clippers’ whom Newton so successfully prosecuted. Additionally, the paper demonstrates how the “Britishness” of Newton and of old London becomes commodified; Kerr sells the myth of British history, Britain’s greatest minds, and British urban folklore for the global market.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZEdward Thomas as a Travel Book WriterMoroz, Grzegorzhttp://hdl.handle.net/11320/154502023-11-14T12:30:28Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZTytuł: Edward Thomas as a Travel Book Writer
Autorzy: Moroz, Grzegorz
Abstrakt: The aim of this paper is to examine Edward Thomas’s literary representations of his walks and bicycle rides from the perspective of the development of the genre of the travel book in Britain. The paper provides a brief outline of the history of the synergy and friction of travel books with the genres of the novel and the autobiography, and the ways in which the developing naturalist and pedestrian discourses influenced travel books and travel accounts. A key argument constructed and developed in the second part of the paper is that the combination of Thomas’s dissatisfaction with the loose collage-like nebulousness of his early travel accounts from Beautiful Wales (1905) to The South Country (1909) and his wide knowledge of 19th-century British travel writers resulted in two ‘conventional’ travel books The Icknield Way (1913) and In Pursuit of Spring (1914), in which Thomas relied on such standard generic features as the diary format and the central role of the narrative persona.2023-01-01T00:00:00Z