Welcome to the Chemical Theatre - The Urban Chronotope in Peter Ackroyd's Fiction

The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author. The examined narratives illustrate the transformation from the postmodern tenets of historiographic metafiction into a unique urban mythopoetics by means of a semiotic analysis.

List of contents

Contents: Peter Ackroyd - London - City - Chronotope - Semiosphere - Semiotics - Contemporary English literature.

About the author

Marta Komsta is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (Poland). She published on space as well as utopian and Gothic conventions in contemporary British and American literature and film.

Product details

• Authors: Marta Komsta
• Assisted by: Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783631626184
• ISBN: 978-3-631-62618-4
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 19 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 400 g
• Series: Mediated Fictions; Mediated Fictions
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies