Footpath Issue No. 8 (3) A Journal of Contemporary British Literature in Russian Universities January 2014 – December 2014 Научный журнал ISSN 2304-9146 2014. <...> Выходит 1 раз в год ТРОПА Современная британская литература в российских вузах Выпуск 8 (3) Январь 2014– Декабрь 2014 Журнал содержит статьи и материалы, подготовленные участниками постоянного международного семинара «Современная британская литература в российских вузах», проводимого в Пермском государственном национальном исследовательском университете с сентября 2005 г. <...> Статьи обобщают опыт внедрения в учебный процесс произведений современных британских писателей, а также дают культурологический, историко-литературный, теоретиколитературный, стилистико-языковедческий, переводоведческий и методический материалы для использования в вузовском преподавании английской литературы и английского языка. <...> Выпуск подготовлен при финансовом содействии фонда «Оксфорд – Россия». <...> Проскурнин (ПГНИУ) Footpath: A Journal of Contemporary British Literature in Russian Universities. <...> January 2014 – December 2014 Editorial Board Karen Hewitt Oxford University Boris Proskurnin Perm State University Svetlana Pitina Chelyabinsk State University Olga Sidorova Urals Federal University Sandie Byrne Oxford University Natalia Eydelman Novosibirsk State University Catherine Brown London: New College of the Humanities Jonathan Miles Cultural Historian and writer Oleg Sulitsa Ryazan State University Elena Maryanovskaya Ryazan State University Technical Director Varvara Byachkova Subscriptions Manager Viktoria Zadorina For details about ordering and paying for Footpath please see page 151. <...> Address of Footpath: Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty, Perm State University, 15 Bukireva Street, Perm, 614990 For initial funding for this journal we are grateful to the Oxford Russia Fund. © ФБГОУ ВПО «Пермский государственный национальный исследовательский университет» 3 CONTENTS EDITORIAL Karen Hewitt On the Literary Dangers of Searching for Russians . 6 SECTION 1. <...> ESSAYS ON LITERARY TOPICS Olga Sudlenkova English Literature at the End of the Twentieth Century . 13 Marina Ragachewskaya ‘Analyze This’, or the Way with Shrinks in British Literature . 19 Olga Sidorova The Crimean <...>
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Footpath
Issue No. 8 (3)
A Journal
of Contemporary British Literature
in Russian Universities
January 2014 – December 2014
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Научный журнал
ISSN 2304-9146
2014. Выпуск 8 (3)
Основан в 2006 г.
Выходит 1 раз в год
ТРОПА
Современная британская литература
в российских вузах
Выпуск 8 (3)
Январь 2014– Декабрь 2014
Журнал содержит статьи и материалы, подготовленные
участниками постоянного международного семинара «Современная
британская литература в российских вузах», проводимого в Пермском
государственном национальном исследовательском университете с
сентября 2005 г. Статьи обобщают опыт внедрения в учебный
процесс произведений современных британских писателей, а также
дают культурологический, историко-литературный, теоретиколитературный,
стилистико-языковедческий, переводоведческий и
методический материалы для использования в вузовском преподавании
английской литературы и английского языка.
Выпуск подготовлен при финансовом содействии фонда
«Оксфорд – Россия».
Ответственный за выпуск — профессор Б.М. Проскурнин
(ПГНИУ)
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Footpath: A Journal of Contemporary British Literature in
Russian Universities. Issue Number 8 (3).
January 2014 – December 2014
Editorial Board
Karen Hewitt Oxford University
Boris Proskurnin Perm State University
Svetlana Pitina Chelyabinsk State University
Olga Sidorova Urals Federal University
Sandie Byrne Oxford University
Natalia Eydelman Novosibirsk State University
Catherine Brown London: New College of the
Humanities
Jonathan Miles Cultural Historian and writer
Oleg Sulitsa Ryazan State University
Elena Maryanovskaya Ryazan State University
Technical Director Varvara Byachkova
Subscriptions Manager Viktoria Zadorina
For details about ordering and paying for Footpath please see
page 151.
Address of Footpath: Modern Languages and Literatures
Faculty, Perm State University, 15 Bukireva Street, Perm,
614990
For initial funding for this journal we are grateful to the Oxford
Russia Fund.
© ФБГОУ ВПО «Пермский государственный
национальный исследовательский университет»
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CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
Karen Hewitt On the Literary Dangers of Searching for
Russians ........................................................................................ 6
SECTION 1. ESSAYS ON LITERARY TOPICS
Olga Sudlenkova English Literature at the End of the Twentieth
Century ....................................................................................... 13
Marina Ragachewskaya ‘Analyze This’, or the Way with
Shrinks in British Literature ....................................................... 19
Olga Sidorova The Crimean War in British Literature: from
Nineteenth Century Poetry to Twentieth Century Fiction ......... 29
SECTION 2. ARTICLES ON INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS
Jonathan Miles Writing the Unwriteable: The First World War
and Pat Barker’s Regeneration .................................................. 39
Ekaterina Barinova ‘This Michael Frayn is so …
Russian!’ ..................................................................................... 57
Tatiana Kolesova Following a Length of Frayed Baler
Twine .......................................................................................... 68
Sergey Saveliev ‘Watching’ in McEwan’s Atonement and
Frayn’s Spies .............................................................................. 78
Alla Lysenko Destiny or Fortune: Fatalistic Motives in Making
History by Stephen Fry .............................................................. 85
Marina Karapetyan Art and the Search for Meaning in A
History of the World in ½ Chapters by Julian Barnes ............... 89
Simon Lowther Authorless Narratives in Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
and Black Swan Green ............................................................... 93
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Angelika Minka Constructing the World Through the Sense of
Smell in Crocodile Soup by Julia Darling ............................... 100
Anna Shevchenko and Dmitry Trashkov Irony as a Means of
Characterisation in Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel ...................... 106
SECTION 3. ABOUT YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Kirstie Blair Young Adult Literature ....................................... 114
Lyudmila Yegorova Malorie Blackman.
Noughts & Crosses ................................................................... 129
SECTION 4. TEACHING LITERATURE
Natalia Deriabina Why discussing poetry is never easy: a
Russian teacher’s point of view ............................................... 133
SECTION 5. STUDENTS ESSAYS
Anton Pereponov About a Boy: Problems in the Book I Got
Moved By ................................................................................. 140
Zinaida Ershova The Fear Theme in Black Swan Green ........ 142
Rimma Petrova Are Teenagers Looking for the Grail? ........... 145
END NOTES
Advice for contributors to Footpath ......................................... 149
How to order Footpath ............................................................. 151
List of Contributors ................................................................... 153
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EDITORIAL
On the Literary Dangers of Searching for Russians
Karen Hewitt
Oxford University
In Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, a novel with which all my
readers must be familiar, there is a wonderful episode in which
Dolly goes to visit her dear friend, Anna, who is living with
Vronsky on his country estate. On the drive to her friend, Dolly
broods over her endless family worries, and looks forward with
guilty excitement to meeting Anna who has dared to ‘live in
sin’ with Vronsky. When she arrives at the house she is greeted
with warmth and respect by her hosts but she starts to feel
uncomfortable. Their life is somehow false, although Dolly
cannot exactly define what is wrong and Tolstoy is careful to
keep her mood fluctuating from one encounter to another.
When they visit the nursery, Dolly is painfully struck by the
luxury of the solid English furniture, the supercilious English
nanny and the baby who seems to be inadequately dressed.
Then Anna and Dolly go downstairs to join the other guests.
What does this account have to do with Footpath or with our
project on English Literature? Let us suppose that I am writing
an article about Anna Karenina for English readers. The novel
is 800 pages long and I have 20 pages for my article. Should I
discuss Tolstoy’s attitude towards English nannies (or Dolly’s
attitude towards English furniture) because my readers are
English? To do so would be a gross and stupid distortion of a
great novel. That detail is only important because of what it
tells us about Anna – that she has lost her natural Russian
instincts, that she has somehow become alien and false. The
whole chapter explores this separation of Anna from normality
as seen through the simple decent eyes of Dolly. One could
certainly discuss Tolstoy’s exasperating mixture of
psychological truth and self-enforcing prejudices; but an
English nanny is but one tiny example.
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