The Landscape of Trauma, Pain and Hope in Jim Crace's The Pesthouse
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11410%2F18%3A10387701" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11410/18:10387701 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aa-2018-0001" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aa-2018-0001</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aa-2018-0001" target="_blank" >10.1515/aa-2018-0001</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Landscape of Trauma, Pain and Hope in Jim Crace's The Pesthouse
Original language description
Jim Crace likes to refer to himself as a "landscape writer". Indeed, in each of his eleven novels he has created a distinct yet recognisable imaginary landscape or cityscape, which has led critics to coin the term "Craceland" to denote this idiosyncratic milieu that, due to its author's remarkable ability of both authentic and poetic geographic and topographic rendering, appears other and familiar at the same time. In The Pesthouse (2007), it is a devastated America of an imagined future, a country which has reversed and deteriorated into a pre-modern and pre-industrial wasteland so hostile to sustainable existence that most of its inhabitants have turned refugees travelling eastwards to sail for a new life on another continent. Franklin and Margaret, two such refugees, are leaving their homes behind not only to flee misery and destitution, but also trauma and pain from fateful losses of their relatives. Using geocriticism as a practice and theoretical point of departure, this article presents and analyses the various ways in which Crace's novel renders and explores its spaces, landscapes and places, as well as how it links them with the transformation of the protagonists' psyche and mental world.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ars Aeterna
ISSN
1337-9291
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Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
1-20
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85051187861