{"product_id":"dreams-nightmares-and-empty-signifiers-the-english-country-house-in-the-contemporary-novel-9783631657157","title":"Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers: The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers \u003c\/i\u003eis the first study of contemporary literary representations of one of the most iconic topoi in English literature and culture – the country house. The book analyses nine contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro’s \u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e, Ian McEwan’s \u003ci\u003eAtonement\u003c\/i\u003e, Sarah Waters’s \u003ci\u003eThe Little Stranger \u003c\/i\u003eand Alan Hollinghurst’s \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger’s Child\u003c\/i\u003e, by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition. Analysing the different traditions of the novel of manners, gothic fiction and postmodern metafiction, the book identifies three principal variants of the manorial topos, which expound the country house as the locus of varied, often contradictory meanings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConfigured against a rich background of the existing theoretical and critical reflection, the book \u003ci\u003eDreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers \u003c\/i\u003eby Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga successfully attempts to integrate the often ambivalent ideologies and contradictory political stances ascribed to the country house in various critical readings by approaching it as an element of the semiosphere with dynamic shifts of discourses, values and meanings. Presenting the country-house topos as part of broadly conceived literary tradition, Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga boldly redefines the theoretical paradigms so far dominant in the critical discourse.\u003cbr\u003e (Jadwiga Węgrodzka, University of Gdańsk)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: English country house in literature – Country house novel – Contemporary novel – Novel of manners – Gothic fiction – Metafiction – Julian Fellowes \u003ci\u003eSnobs\u003c\/i\u003e – Alan Hollinghurst \u003ci\u003eThe Line of Beauty – \u003c\/i\u003eAlan Hollinghurst \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger’s Child\u003c\/i\u003e – Kazuo Ishiguro \u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e – Sarah Waters \u003ci\u003eFingersmith\u003c\/i\u003e – Sarah Waters \u003ci\u003eThe Little Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e – Ian McEwan \u003ci\u003eAtonement\u003c\/i\u003e – Toby Litt \u003ci\u003eFinding Myself.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044292985175,"sku":"9783631657157","price":54.63,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783631657157.jpg?v=1750961166","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dreams-nightmares-and-empty-signifiers-the-english-country-house-in-the-contemporary-novel-9783631657157","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}