in esse: English Studies in Albania

Table of Contents

Introduction

BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE

The Making of Nation and National Identity: A Study of Early English Novels (abstract)
Sutapa Dutta                                                                       

Destruction and Reconstruction in Utopia and Science Fiction. The Chance of a New Beginning?(abstract)
Dieter Wessels                                                                        

I Like It Here—National Identity in Kingsley Amis’s Novels (abstract)
Wojciech Klepuszewski                                                             

Tragic Existential Nationalism in the Novels of Iris Murdoch (abstract)
Fiona Tomkinson                             

(Dis)Unity of ‘One Nation’ in the island: Durrell’s “Bitter Lemons” (abstract)
Yildiray Cevik

AMERICAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE

“A nation is only an individual multiplied.”: Whitman’s “Song of Myself” (abstract)
Armela Panajoti                            

American National Character: The Role of Tall Tales in the Creation of National Identity (abstract)
Anna Samborowska  

The Creation of the Modern Cowboy Myth: ‘The Virginian’ and ‘Shane’ (abstract)
Artur Jaupaj                  

The Claim for Identity of the American Jewish Post-War Fictional Individual in the Modern World (abstract)
Elonora Hodaj

From the Chameleon’s Back: John Trudell on the Civilization of ‘Name Callers’ (abstract)
Marija Krivokapić  

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/LITERARY CRITICISM

The Image Building of a Nation: from Illyria to Skiperia to Elbonia, Albania as an Imaginary Country in Fictional Representations (abstract)
Olimpia Gargano                                  

The Question of Belonging: Gendered Concepts of Identity and Nation in Yael Dayan’s Prose (abstract)
Viktoria Pötzl    

National, Ethnic and Social Axes of Suggestive Impact in ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ by Agatha Christie (abstract)
Elena Yakovleva and Ruben Agadzhanyan                                                                

Published: Biannual ISSN: 2078 – 7413