Literature in society / edited by Regina Rudaitytė.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; LITERATURE IN SOCIETY / SOCIETY AND ITS LITERATURE; NATURE, LAW AND KINGSHIP IN JOHN DRYDEN'S ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL; COMMEMORATING THE "QUEEN OF UNION"; WRITINGS ON MANNERS AND MORALS IN EARLY STUART TIMES; PEOPLE IN THE CROWD; GENDER, IDENTITY, AND THE CITY IN ANN PATCHETT'S THE MAGICIAN'S ASSISTANT; POETRY GOES PUBLIC; WALES IN A MIRROR; SHAPING THE PRESENT THROUGH REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PAST; THE SOCIAL, THE SPECTRAL AND THE SPECULAR IN MICHAEL ONDAATJE'S RUNNING IN THE FAMILY; 9/11 NOVEL; WHO SETS THE AGENDA; THEMATIC SHIFTS IN CRIME FICTION.

"AND NOW, WHAT DAYS ARE THESE?"IAN MCEWAN'S SOLAR, OR LITERATURE AND CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LITERARY INTERPRETATION OF SOCIETY IN THE PERIOD OF SOVIET OCCUPATION; CONTRIBUTORS.

The essays in this volume focus on the text-world dichotomy that has been a pivotal problem since Plato, implicating notions of mimesis and representation and raising a series of debatable issues. Do literary texts relate only to the fictional world and not to the real one? Do they not only describe but also perform and thus create and transform reality? Is literature a mere reflection/expression of society, a field and a tool of political manipulations, a playground to exercise ideological a ...

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