From Greenwich to Pittsburgh: the Americanisation of Graham Swift’s Waterland in Stephen Gyllenhaal’s 1992 Cinematic Adaptation of the Novel

In Graham Swift’s fictions, History (more particularly WWII) is often seen through the stories and the memories of the different narrators. As Swift himself put it however, ‘we do not remember things in straight sequence, we remember haphazardly’ and in his writing he tries to mimic this process. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Isabelle Roblin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2011-12-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/2344