Narratives of Spaces, Places, and People: M.C. Beaton’s Highlands and Highlanders

• Authors: Magda Danciu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper attempts to suggest re-reading literary texts from the perspective of the interconnections between settings and individuals in the process of forging the latter’s place-identity. This environmental concept, meant to foreground the importance of the place for the development of the sense of the self, is to be operated with in a selection of books authored by the Scottish mystery writer, M.C. Beaton.

Keywords

EN

emplacement; otherness; place-identity; the self

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 235-242

Dates

published

2013-03-01

online

2013-02-22

Contributors

author

Magda Danciu

• University of Oradea

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2013-0022