Vol. 35, 2020
Special issue: Writers of the Millennium: Trends and Challenges,
Guest Editor: ANA RAQUEL FERNANDES, Universidade Europeia, Lisbon, ULICES – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Portugal.
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the New Millennium
ANA RAQUEL FERNANDES 1
The Destruction of Nationalism in Twenty-First
Century Canadian Apocalyptic Fiction
MATTHEW CORMIER 5
Sea Imagery in Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses
YOUSEF AWAD 23
“I Have This Kind of Grief for the Earth”: A.S. Byatt’s
Ecopoetics in Ragnarök, “Thoughts on Myth”
and “Sea Story”
ALEXANDRA CHEIRA 44
You’re an Orphan When Science Fiction Raises You
JENNI G. HALPIN 68
“Catastrophically Romantic”: Radical Inversions of Gilbert
and Gubar’s Monstrous Angel in Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl
ASHLEY E. CHRISTENSEN 86
Mystified Life: Joyce Carol Oates’ Adaptation of
Wonderland
RATHINASAMY NAGALAKSHMI &
KULAMANGALAM THIAGARAJAN TAMILMANI 111
Becoming a Legend: Edna O’Brien and
Her Life-Long Journey
ZUZANNA ZAREBSKA 133
Transgression and Empowerment in
Sarah Hall’s Short Fiction
ANA RAQUEL FERNANDES 152
Reviews
Vanessa Guignery and Wojciech Drąg, eds. The Poetics of
Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction
CORINA SELEJAN 173
Kathleen Gallagher and Jonothan Neelands, eds.
Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts
DIANA BENEA 177
Olivia Chirobocea-Tudor. History and Fiction in
American Postmodernist Novels: Kurt Vonnegut,
Joseph Heller and Thomas Pynchon
RALUCA-NICOLETA ROGOVEANU 183