Naomi Adam
List of John Benjamins publications in which Naomi Adam is involved.
2026 Chapter 21: Vignette. Alternating focalisation in Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell (eds.), pp. 269–278 | Chapter
The final vignette in this book is an exploration of focalisation in Prophet Song, the Booker Prize-winning dystopian novel by Irish writer Paul Lynch. Pinpointing three excerpts, Adam demonstrates how a focused stylistic analysis can draw out, align, and enrich overarching literary responses… read more
2025 “The twain is crossing”: Overlapping ontologies in Gerwig’s Barbie (2023) Journal of Language and Pop Culture 1:1, pp. 109–140 | Article
The storyworld presented in the 2023 fantasy-comedy film Barbie is predicated upon a simple ontological binary: there is the Real World, in which humans reside, and Barbie Land, populated by plastic dolls, and it is roundly accepted that “never the twain shall cross”. However, throughout the… read more
2024 More than ‘ignorant bushbaby bullshit’: The racialised metaperspective as mind style in Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) English Text Construction 17:1, pp. 83–105 | Article
According to the social psychologists R. D. Laing, H. Phillipson and A. R. Lee, we human beings are constantly speculating about the view that others have upon us, thereby forming a metaperspective (Laing et al. 1966). Yet despite the fact that literature is grounded in some of the most… read more