"Like a Furnace Burning and Turning" - London in Peter Ackroyd's The Great Fire of London

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

"Like a Furnace Burning and Turning" - London in Peter Ackroyd's The Great Fire of London

Original language description

Unlike the two subsequent novels, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983) and Hawksmoor (1985), Peter Ackroyd's first novel, The Great Fire of London (1982), was not published to high critical acclaim. However, the novel establishes its author's conceptof his fictional London, which focuses primarily on the city's unofficial, off-the-record history. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that although it is a seemingly unambitious work and a relatively raw text, especially due to its explicit treatment of the theme of male homosexuality and the story's bleak ending, The Great Fire of London can be understood as a kind of a "proto-text" containing all the major defining aspects of its author's fictional city, which are explored in more in-depth ways in his later, more mature London novels.

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

World Journal of English Language

ISSN

1925-0703

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Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CA - CANADA

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

11-23

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