Anglojęzyczny wykład dr Fiony Peters z Bath Spa University

Katedra Kultur i Literatur Anglojęzycznych

w Instytutcie Anglistyki i Amerykanistyki

zaprasza na wykład:

Dr Fiony Peters z Bath Spa University, Wielkiej Brytania

pt. “Ruth Rendell: Dark Shadows of the Past”

17.02.2016, o godz. 9:45 w sali 365 

(wykład w języku angielskim)

Ruth Rendell (1930-2015), also known as Barbara Vine, was a British writer of mystery novels, psychological crime novels, and short stories. Her first novel, From Doon with Death (1964), introduced Chief Inspector Wexford and his stodgy associate Mike Burden. The pair appear in more than 20 additional novels, among them No More Dying Then (1971), An Unkindness of Ravens (1985), and No Man’s Nightingale (2013). Rendell’s psychological thrillers typically present the inner lives of complex characters as they move incrementally toward violent actions. Sexual obsession, immaturity, exaggerated fantasy lives, and the gap between parent and child are recurring elements in such novels as A Judgement in Stone (1977), The Lake of Darkness (1980), and The Bridesmaid (1989). Rendell also wrote tense short stories such as the Edgar Award-winning “The New Girl Friend”. She produced several novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, including A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986), The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy and The Child’s Child (2012). Rendell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996.

Dr Fiona Peters is a Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University, UK. She is the author of Evil and Anxiety in the Writings of Patricia Highsmith (Ashgate, 2011) and has edited and contributed to many books and journals in the areas of Crime Fiction, Literature and Evil and Psychoanalysis. She runs the Captivating Criminality conference series at BSU and is the founder and director of the Captivating Criminality Network. She is currently working on a monograph  on Ruth Rendell.