Elisabeta Simona Catană

TL;DR: The authors analyzed Graham Swift's Waterland and showed that history and identity are subject to a process of reconstruction within stories which evince their author's power to build on the past based on his vision and cultural experience.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed Graham Swift's Ever After and showed that the concepts of time and identity are fictional constructs which stand for a palimpsestic world presented as an eternal stage of past and present stories.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the concept of the past in Graham Swift's "Out of this World", a novel organized like a collection of revisited mental photographs, and associate the characters' piecemeal accounts with their mental photographs of past, evincing their vision upon their remembered past experiences and upon their perceived reality.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed Barnes's England, England and showed that it recreates England as a palimpsest, presenting to us a parody of the past and circulating an ironic story of a possible version of this country with a rewritten history.