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Embodiments of history and delayed confessions: Graham Swift's Waterland as trauma fiction.(Report)
March 22, 2009... "Reality's already imposed itself in the form of a sodden corpse. And it's going to get more pressing, more palpable still... "--Graham Swift, Waterland Daniel Lea has recently remarked that [Graham] Swift is a problematic figure amongst post-modernist writers largely because...

The diegetic achievement of Patrick O'Brian.(Report)
March 22, 2009... To date, criticism of Patrick O'Brian's fiction, never extending beyond the "Aubrey-Maturin" novels that form the bulk of his oeuvre, has emphasized the first part of their classification as "historical function," the mimetic accuracy of his depictions of life and writing, ashore and asea, in...

Telling positions: country, countryside, and narration in The Remains of the Day.(Report)
March 22, 2009... There is, in retrospect, a certain inevitability about the 1993 Merchant/Ivory cinematic adaptation of The Remains of the Day. The novel itself seemed made to order for the team's literary sensibilities: an opulent period piece centered on the gradual coming to emotional consciousness of a...

A new way of looking at older women writers.(Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Devoney Looser. Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2008. 252 pages. Hardcover $55.00. "Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force." --Dorothy L. Sayers ...

Iceland's grand master of literature.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Halldor Gudmundson. The Islander: A Biography of Halldor Laxness. Trans. Philip Roughton. London: Quercus Publishing, 2008. 400 pages. Nobel Prize winning Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness was rescued from obscurity by novelist and academic Brad Leithauser with the publication of "A Small...