Listar por autor "Bryla, Martyna"
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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, ... -
Charting the Liminal Geographies of Eastern Europe in Joyce Carol Oates’s Short Stories.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Peter Lang, 2017)
Framed by imagology and geocriticism, this chapter analyses American imaginative geographies of the European East in Joyce Carol Oates’s short stories (1984).1 I argue that Berlin, Warsaw and Budapest turn into liminal ... -
Chekhov in the Times of Lockdown: Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends as a “Fable of Our Broken Time”.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2023)
Inspired by the theme of the 2023 PAAS Conference, this paper approaches Our Country Friends (2021) by Russian-American author Gary Shteyngart as a novel which is at once atemporal and painfully contemporary. -
“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 ... -
Eastern or Central? Tracing Poland’s Place in the American Literary Representations and Cultural Discourses on Europe.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2024)
In this paper, I attempt to explore Poland’s place within the American imaginative geographies of East-Central Europe by looking at selected American texts and discourses from the second-half of the twentieth century and ... -
Gendered Geographies of the European East in the American Cold-War Literary Imaginary
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Open Edition Journals, 2023)
In the American Cold-War imaginary, the representation of Eastern Europe was strongly influenced by male intellectuals and writers from the region, whose works were celebrated in the US not only for their artistic merits ... -
“[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 ... -
Orientation towards otherness in the social and literary spaces of today’s Europe
Arias-Doblas, María Rosario; Bryla, Martyna Marika (Palgrave Communications, 2018)
This paper addresses current narratives on refugees and Muslim others within the social and literary spaces of today’s Europe. Drawing on Sara Ahmed and others, it sets out to better comprehend what lies behind European ... -
El paisaje y las emociones en la obra del autor británico Ian McEwan
Arias-Doblas, María Rosario; Bryla, Martyna Marika (Comares, 2018)
Este estudio profundiza en la interrelación entre paisaje y emociones en la obra de Ian McEwan, aportando un enfoque interdisciplinar que combina literatura y geografía emocional. A través del análisis de Atonement y On ... -
Postdependent Eastern Europe: Critical Avenues and Literary Representations.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2020)
Is Eastern Europe postcolonial? This question has animated scholarly debate in the region and beyond for two decades, and while there is no conclusive answer to it, postcolonial theory has been used to illuminate Eastern ... -
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 ... -
Rewriting the American Dream for the Trump Era and Beyond in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. AEDEAN, 2022)
This essay analyses Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018) as an inquiry into the formative narratives of the American identity—the American Dream and self-making—through the story of a hedge-fund manager, Barry, who abandons ... -
Tracking the transnational trickster: Gary Shteyngart and his protagonists
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Nordic Association of English Studies, 2018-12-31)
The purpose of this paper is to analyze Gary Shteyngart’s protagonists in the light of his works, particularly his debut work, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002) and his memoir, Little Failure (2014). Drawing on the ... -
Under Bech's eyes: emotional geographies of the European East in John Updike's short stories.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Universidad de Sevilla, 2018)
John Updike’s short stories about Henry Bech’s diplomatic adventures in the European East have been analysed mainly in the context of the Cold-War balance of power and Updike’s ambivalent attitude to communist Russia. While ... -
Understanding the Other Europe: Philip Roth’s Writings on Prague.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Editorial de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2013)
The aim of this essay is to explore the representation and significance of post-war Prague in the works of one of the finest contemporary American authors, Philip Roth. Kafka’s hometown is the locale ...