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LIVING ANOTHER LIFE – OTHERNESS IN DÉSORIENTALE BY NÉGAR DJAVADI and GARÇON MANQUÉ BY NINA BOURAOUI
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2019)
Djavadi’s novel Désorientale was inspired by her life as an Iranian exiled with her family to France after Khomeini’s rise to power. Putting different forms of “otherness” in perspective is the driving force of the book, ...
THE FAMILY AND THE PROBLEM OF IDENTITY IN CHARLES DICKENS’ BLEAK HOUSE
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2019)
The problem of selfhood in the context of family, especially as regards self-identification according to one’s unique position in a family, seems to be present in almost everything that Dickens wrote – either as a central ...
“SHE BE DEAD:” BLACK FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY IN TONI MORRISON’S HOME
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2019)
Toni Morrison’s Home explores the effect of trauma and abandonment on people’s decisions, life and desire for self-fulfillment and self-actualization. The two focal fields in the novel, army and medical, are subjected to ...
SOCIETY AND IDENTITY IN CHARLES DICKENS’ HARD TIMES
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2020)
One major aspect featured in Charles Dickens’ novels that has been of high interest throughout the years is society. It is present in almost everything that Dickens wrote, in the same way that the search for one’s identity ...
CHILDREN CROSSING BORDERS: EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE IN ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING’S JUVENILE CAUTIONARY TALES
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2020)
This paper focuses on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s juvenile cautionary prose-fiction tales in the period 1814 – 1818: Sebastian or the Lost Child, The Way to Humble Pride, Disobedience, Julia or Virtue, and Charles de ...
IDENTITY AND EXISTENTIAL LONELINESS IN JONATHAN FRANZEN’S THE CORRECTIONS
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2021)
In The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen introduces the reader to the Lamberts: a dysfunctional family of highly individualistic characters whose goals and ideas never intersect. Throughout the course of the novel, the elderly ...
“BARDELL V. PICKWICK”: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM IN CHARLES DICKENS’ THE PICKWICK PAPERS
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2021)
This paper is an introduction to the importance of the legal system in Dickens’ writing. Dickens’ early beginnings as a clerk at a law office and as a journalist reporting on civil law cases are very much intertwined with ...