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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: ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Writing Prague: Philip Roth's and John Updike's Literary Takes on the Czech Capital.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Purdue University Press, 2020)
In this essay, a productive critical dialogue is established between Philip Roth’s and John Updike’s representations of Prague under communism in The Prague Orgy (1985) and “Bech in Czech” (1987). Focusing on two central ...