Listar por autor "Bryla, Martyna Marika"
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‘A Feast for the [Cold-War] Imagination’: Liminal Eastern Europe in the Writings of John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth
Bryla, Martyna Marika
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-06-06)
Inspired by the well-established trope of Eastern Europe’s in-betweenness, this article uses the notion of liminality to explore the images of Eastern Europe during the Cold War in the works of three American authors: ... -
"A Journey into History: Eastern Europe as a Liminal Landscape in Joyce Carol Oates' Short Stories"
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2013-12-03)
This paper approaches a selection of Joyce Carol Oates’ short stories about the post-war Eastern Europe from the perspective of liminality. In the stories, Oates takes her readers for a tour of a world that no longer exists, ... -
“Constructing selfhood and otherness in the East-West context"
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2018-06-11)
Since his debut in 2002, Gary Shteyngart, a Russian-American author of Jewish extraction has not only garnered popularity among readers, but also inspired critical interest from reviewers and scholars. While Shteyngart’s ... -
Eastern Europe as a Liminal Space in the Life and Fiction of Philip Roth
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2013-10-25)
In the present paper, the concept of liminality is applied to study the portrayal and significance of the post-war Eastern Europe, and Czechoslovakia in particular, in the life and fiction of one of the best contemporary ... -
“[I]t was a cost priced into living in America:” Exploring normalization of selective social privilege and economic inequality in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2023)
This paper argues that Gary Shteyngart uses his protagonist's privileged position as a departure point for exploring the ongoing corruption of the formative narrative of the US identity, the American Dream, in contemporary ... -
Mapping Fear and Potentiality in American Cold-War Narratives of Eastern Europe
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2021)
"Mapping Fear and Potentiality in American Cold-War Narratives of Eastern Europe" analyses literary representations of Eastern European capitals under communism in the fiction of prominent American authors, John Updike, ... -
Mapping the Liminal Experience of Eastern Europe in Selected American Works, 1965-2002
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgación Científica, 2015)
The purpose of this dissertation is to study literary representations of Eastern Europe in the works of celebrated and less-known American authors, who visited and narrated the region between the mid-1960s and early 2000s. ... -
Mapping transnational spaces of contemporary Europe: A look at the post-2004 fiction by Polish migrant authors
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2019-04-29)
Poland’s accession to the European Union in 2004 is commonly regarded as a watershed in the history of Polish emigration. The massive inflow of Poles to the EU countries, most notably the United Kingdom, has been amply ... -
Producing (In)hospitality: A Post-Brexit perspective
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2022)
This paper is based on the premise that hospitality “does not just take place in space, but rather produces certain spaces as more or less welcoming, more or less hospitable” (Lynch et al. 25). In other words, hospitality’s ... -
Weed-ing the Roots: Constructing Immigrant Identity in A.M. Bakalar’s Madame Mephisto (2012)
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2014-07-21)
Poles are one of the three largest non-UK born ethnic groups in all countries and most regions of the United Kingdom. Since Poland’s accession to the European Union in May 2004, thousands of Poles have come to the UK in ...