FIFA - Artículos

(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 ...

Postdependent Eastern Europe: Critical Avenues and Literary Representations.

(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 ...

Rewriting the American Dream for the Trump Era and Beyond in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)

(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 ...

Weeding out the Roots? Migrant Identity in A.M. Bakalar’s Polish-British Fiction

(Universidad Complutense, 2020)

Poles are one of the 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 migrated to the UK, hoping ...

Gendered Geographies of the European East in the American Cold-War Literary Imaginary

(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.

(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 ...

Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative.

(Open Edition Journals, 2022)

Book review of Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual (editors)'s Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative.”, European journal of American studies

Piecing Together: Body Control, Mutability and Entertainment Technology in Infinite Jest.

(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)

The aim of this essay is to explore body representation and its significance in David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest (1996). By doing so, it will correlate (ab)use and domination of entertainment to the description ...

Jaded selves and body distance: a case study of Cotard’s syndrome in “Infinite Jest”.

(Universidad de La Rioja, 2020-12-23)

his article attempts to betoken the relevance of emotions and sensations arousing from the body for the reviving of the self in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The novel discerns a world where the oversaturation of ...

Representations of Human and Environmental Vulnerability in North American Literature.

; Bennett, Lucía (Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)

Since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center somberly inaugurated the new millennium, critical discourses on trauma, grieving and vulnerability have gained relevance in the academic sphere. The global dimension of ...

Bodies in the Novel Infinite Jest

; Chapman, Silvia; Cosentino, Stephanie (2021)

This manuscript provides a literary analysis of the use of bodies in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. The novel describes a world where oversaturation of external stimulation leads to the perception of mind ...

Tracking the transnational trickster: Gary Shteyngart and his protagonists

(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 ...

Understanding the Other Europe: Philip Roth’s Writings on Prague.

Arias-Doblas, María Rosario

(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 ...

Orientation towards otherness in the social and literary spaces of today’s Europe

; 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 ...

Border-Crossing Experience in Refugee Tales IV.

(MDPI, 2024-02-08)

The year 2021 witnessed the publication of the latest volume of Refugee Tales, which chronologically coincided with the seventieth anniversary of the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention by the UK and other countries. ...

La transición hacia el envejecimiento femenino sobre el trasfondo del arte: la narrativa breve de A.S. Byatt.

(Manuel Brito, 2023)

Este artículo aborda la narrativa breve de A.S. Byatt desde la perspectiva de la representación del envejecimiento femenino en su conexión con el arte. Para ello, toma como punto de partida la publicación en 2021 de la ...

Liminal Encounters between Literature and Music in Contemporary British Women's Short Stories.

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020-01-03)

This chapter examines how the short story offers a fertile ground not just for the depiction of the crossing of national, ethnic, and cultural boundaries, but also for the challenge to the barriers traditionally dividing ...

Pictures Worth a Thousand Words: Metaphorical Images of Textual Interdependence.