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Towering Figures: Reading the 9/11 Archive
Sven Cvek. Towering Figures: Reading the 9/11 Archive. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2011.The book analyzes US literary representations of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, focusing on the works of Jonathan Safran Foer, Art Spiegelman, Don DeLillo, and Thomas Pynchon. The book is an attempt to articulate the fundamental relation of the 9/11 cultural […]
Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion
Mario Brdar, Stefan Gries, Stefan, and Milena Žic Fuchs (eds). Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011. Cognitive Linguistics is not a unified theory of language but rather a set of flexible and mutually compatible theoretical frameworks. Whether these frameworks can or should stabilize into a unified theory is open to debate. […]
Reading Joyce after the Postcolonial Turn
Borislav Knežević. Reading Joyce after the Postcolonial Turn. Zagreb: FF-press, 2012.The book examines the impact of postcolonial theory on interpretations of Joyce’s fiction. It seeks to elucidate critically some of the limitations of historiographic discourse in postcolonial criticism. It also seeks to call attention to some underanalyzed issues in Joyce’s fiction, such as the issue […]
Cognitive linguistics between universality and variation
Mario Brdar, Ida Raffaelli, and Milena Žic Fuchs (eds). Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.The present volume contains a collection of contributions originally presented as keynote talks or as regular papers at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation, held in Dubrovnik (Croatia), 30 September–1 October, […]
Razvoj književne proze australskih Aboridžina
Iva Polak. Razvoj književne proze australskih Aboridžina: od nevidljive do postkolonijalne priče. Biblioteka književna smotra, ur. Irena Lukšić, Zagreb: Hrvatsko filološko društvo, 2011. Knjiga se bavi u nas nepoznatim korpusom australske aboridžinske književnosti na engleskom jeziku. Imajući na umu hrvatskog čitatelja, autorica u uvodnome dijelu knjige objašnjava problem pristupanja kulturološki specifičnome tekstu kojem istraživač ne […]
