<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper explores the way in which Romanian readers, experts in literary studies, react to how Romania, Romanians are perceived by British foreigners travelling to Romania for the first time as instantiated in Olivia Manning’s The Balkan Trilogy. The trilogy is based on the author’s experience of living in Bucharest during WW II as wife of a British Council officer. The theoretical frame underpinning the study draws on reader-oriented theory and the role of stereotypes which are viewed as culturally and historically rooted.</p></abstract>

The paper explores the way in which Romanian readers, experts in literary studies, react to how Romania, Romanians are perceived by British foreigners travelling to Romania for the first time as instantiated in Olivia Manning’s The Balkan Trilogy. The trilogy is based on the author’s experience of living in Bucharest during WW II as wife of a British Council officer. The theoretical frame underpinning the study draws on reader-oriented theory and the role of stereotypes which are viewed as culturally and historically rooted.

Through a Reader Looking Glass. Olivia Manning’s <italic>the Balkan Trilogy</italic>

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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Through a Reader Looking Glass. Olivia Manning’s 

The paper explores the way in which Romanian readers, experts in literary studies, react to how Romania, Romanians are perceived by British foreigners...

Through a Reader Looking Glass. Olivia Manning’s the Balkan Trilogy

Published Online: Dec 05, 2019

Page range: 54 - 64

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2019-0007

Keywords
reader-orientdness, stereotypes, qualitative research

© 2019 Codruța Goșa, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Through a Reader Looking Glass. Olivia Manning’s the Balkan Trilogy

Published Online: Dec 05, 2019

Page range: 54 - 64

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2019-0007

Keywordsreader-orientdness, stereotypes, qualitative research

© 2019 Codruța Goșa, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
reader-orientdness, stereotypes, qualitative research