Böcker av Pia Brinzeu

FROM SHAKESPEARE TO POSTCOLONIALISM: CRITICAL ESSAYS is a collection of academic studies offering a diverse array of subjects related to literature and semiotics. The book has four large parts, dedicated to the dilemmas of postmodernism and postcolonialism, to visual and verbal semiotics, to Shakespeare, and to the various techniques used in recent British and American literary works. It introduces novel concepts, challenges established paradigms, and paves the way for new avenues of exploration, hoping to encourage researchers to continue the critical analyses started in these pages.

This work examines the notion of Europe as expressed in Romanian and British fiction. It surveys symbolic notions of the common cultural links which seem to embody "European identity". In particular, the author examines the shift in post-Iron Curtain literary concepts of this ancient identity.