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Dr Helena Chadderton, Lecturer in French School of Languages
1 Dr Helena Chadderton, Lecturer in French School of Languages, Linguistics & Cultures University of Hull Cottingham Rd Hull HU6 7RX Tel: 01482 462043 [email protected] Dr Helena Chadderton is Lecturer in French at the University of Hull. Her monograph Marie Darrieussecq’s Textual Worlds: Self, Society, Language, came out with Peter Lang’s Modern French Identities series in 2012. She works on engagement in the contemporary French novel and is currently co-editing with Angela Kimyongür a book entitled Engagement in 21st Century French & Francophone Culture: Countering Crises, to be published with UWP in 2017. Her second current project is on the transnational exchange (France – UK) of contemporary writers. 2 Translating Class in Jonathan Coe Abstract: This article looks at the translation and reception in France of the contemporary British author Jonathan Coe. Coe’s work is four times more popular in France than in the UK and is particularly enjoyed for its treatment of contemporary social and political issues in a largely realist setting. Coe’s self-confessed writing project is to represent the plurality of British society as faithfully as possible. Through an analysis of the transposition of social class in the French translations of his novels, this article will reveal that a particular understanding of Britishness is created, which through use of standardization and domestication of British specificity, in fact dilutes the markers of British social class. The consequences of this are both social, in its impact on French understanding of Britain, and cultural, in its impact on the consumption of the contemporary British novel in France. -
The Search for Identity and Creating Parallel Worlds in the House of Sleep by J
Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích Pedagogická fakulta Katedra anglistiky Bakalářská práce The Search for Identity and Creating Parallel Worlds in The House of Sleep by J. Coe Hledání identity a vytváření paralelních světů v románu J. Coea Dům spánku Vypracovala: Bc. Michaela Krpalová, AJ-NJ, III. ročník Vedoucí práce: Mgr. Alice Sukdolová, Ph.D. České Budějovice 2013 Prohlašuji, že svoji bakalářskou práci jsem vypracovala samostatně pouze s použitím pramenů a literatury uvedených v seznamu citované literatury. Prohlašuji, že v souladu s § 47b zákona č. 111/1998 Sb. v platném znění souhlasím se zveřejněním své bakalářské práce, a to v nezkrácené podobě fakultou elektronickou cestou ve veřejně přístupné části databáze STAG provozované Jihočeskou univerzitou v Českých Budějovicích na jejích internetových stránkách, a to se zachováním mého autorského práva k odevzdanému textu této kvalifikační práce. Souhlasím dále s tím, aby toutéž elektronickou cestou byly v souladu s uvedeným ustanovením zákona č. 111/1998 Sb. zveřejněny posudky školitele a oponentů práce i záznam o průběhu a výsledku obhajoby kvalifikační práce. Rovněž souhlasím s porovnáním textu mé kvalifikační práce s databází kvalifikačních prací Theses.cz provozovanou Národním registrem vysokoškolských kvalifikačních prací a systémem na odhalování plagiátů. Datum : Podpis: 2 Acknowledgement I would like to thank Mgr. Alice Sukdolová, Ph.D. for her valuable advice, support and confidence in my skills. Devoted to my dear Jaroslav Remta, the first reader and critic of this work. Poděkování Ráda bych poděkovala paní Mgr. Alici Sukdolové, Ph.D. za její cenné rady, podporu a důvěru v mé schopnosti. Věnováno mému drahému Jaroslavu Remtovi, prvnímu čtenáři a kritikovi této práce. -
Merritt Moseley, Understanding Jonathan Coe (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2016)
Postgraduate English Journal, No. 35 (Autumn 2017) Merritt Moseley, Understanding Jonathan Coe (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2016). £30.86 / $39.99 (Hardback). 135pgs. ISBN: 978-1-61117-650-6. Reviewed by Anthony Walker-Cook, University College London Author of eleven novels, the contemporary British writer Jonathan Coe has enjoyed a career that is characterised by its variety and success, yet critical attention has tended to focus explicitly on his 1994 novel What a Carve Up!.1 Merritt Moseley’s Understanding Jonathan Coe (2016), however, offers a full discussion of Coe’s fictional and non-fictional work. Moseley presents ‘one of the most important and most consistently rewarding novelists of his generation’, drawing particular attention to the variety of Coe’s oeuvre: ‘His output includes vertiginously experimental fictions, broad- canvassed depictions of British society, political satire, and careful delineations of lonely or frustrated individuals’.2 On the 17th August 2016 Coe tweeted, ‘So this book came in the post today and it turns out I’m much harder to understand than I thought.’3 With the tweet is a picture of Coe hooked in a literary selfevaluation with an open copy of Understanding Jonathan Coe. Coe’s plots are simultaneously funny, emotive and didactic, but the exaggerated claim that his work is difficult is typical of Coe’s wry 1 This criticism has offered multiple ways of interpreting Coe’s novel. For example, Michael Shallcross’s ‘‘The Parodist’s Game’: Scrutiny of Cultural Play in Jonathan Coe’s What a Carve Up!’. Adaptation 9.2 (2016): pp. -
Mémoire M2 COE 2905
MEMOIRE DE MASTER 2 RECHERCHE ETUDES ANGLOPHONES Imad Zrari Année universitaire 2016-2017 The Blurring of Politics, Postmodernist Aesthetics and Writing in What a Carve Up! and Number 11 , Jonathan Coe Sous la direction de Laurent Mellet Professeur des Universités en Littérature et Cinéma Britanniques REMERCIEMENTS La réalisation de ce mémoire a été possible grâce au concours de plusieurs personnes à qui je voudrais témoigner toute ma reconnaissance. Je voudrais tout d’abord adresser toute ma gratitude au directeur de ce mémoire, Laurent Mellet, pour sa patience, sa disponibilité et ses précieux conseils, qui ont contribué à alimenter ma réflexion. Je voudrais également exprimer ma reconnaissance envers mes amies et collègues, Jacqueline Kempton et Blandine Michel, pour leur soutien moral et intellectuel. Enfin, une grande pensée pour ma mère qui a toujours valorisé l’éducation. 2 Table of contents Introduction ................................................................................................................... 5 I. Satire, Engagement and Humor in Coe’s Novels ................................................ 9 1. Coe as a Political Satirist .............................................................................. 9 a. Coe’s Background and Influence ................................................................................. 9 b. WACU : an Acrid Criticism of Thatcherism ................................................................ 12 c. N11 : A Dark Portrait of Blairism and Cameronism in the Same Vein as WACU -
The Blurring of Politics, Postmodernist Aesthetics and Writing in What a Carve Up! and Number 11, Jonathan Coe Imad Zrari
The blurring of politics, postmodernist aesthetics and writing in What a carve up! and Number 11, Jonathan Coe Imad Zrari To cite this version: Imad Zrari. The blurring of politics, postmodernist aesthetics and writing in What a carve up! and Number 11, Jonathan Coe. Sciences de l’Homme et Société. 2018. dumas-01858669 HAL Id: dumas-01858669 https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-01858669 Submitted on 21 Aug 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives| 4.0 International License MEMOIRE DE MASTER 2 RECHERCHE ETUDES ANGLOPHONES Imad Zrari Année universitaire 2016-2017 The Blurring of Politics, Postmodernist Aesthetics and Writing in What a Carve Up! and Number 11 , Jonathan Coe Sous la direction de Laurent Mellet Professeur des Universités en Littérature et Cinéma Britanniques REMERCIEMENTS La réalisation de ce mémoire a été possible grâce au concours de plusieurs personnes à qui je voudrais témoigner toute ma reconnaissance. Je voudrais tout d’abord adresser toute ma gratitude au directeur de ce mémoire, Laurent Mellet, pour sa patience, sa disponibilité et ses précieux conseils, qui ont contribué à alimenter ma réflexion.