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No Experiments Please, We're British: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction in Britain
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1990 --
Randall Stevenson
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Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2021 In its six episodes, the British series Years and Years (2019) calls on images that resonate in the collective imagination of the contemporary media, although some of them have their roots in visual motifs with a strong tradition in Western visual ...
Teresa Sorolla-Romero
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Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain [PDF]
, 2010 This is a monograph analysing the symbolic role played by contemporary fiction in the break-up of political and cultural consensus in British public life. This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers.
Dix, Hywel
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Queer cryptograms, anarchist cyphers: decoding Dennis Cooper's The marbled swarm: a novel [PDF]
, 2012 Concentrating on Dennis Cooper’s latest work, The Marbled Swarm: A Novel, a fiendishly complex, experimental tale of murder and cannibalism in Cooper’s adopted home city of Paris, I show that both the subject of the text and its formal architecture are ...
Hester, Diarmuid
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Flexible Memory: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.Flexible memory technology is crucial for flexible electronics integration. This review covers its historical evolution, evaluates rigid systems, proposes a flexible memory framework based on multiple mechanisms, stresses material design's role, presents a coupling model for performance optimization, and points out future directions.
Ruizhi Yuan +5 more
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‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2007 This essay is centrally concerned with the ambivalent politics of the last antebellum invasion novel, Saki’s When William Came (1913). Saki radically disrupts the English fantasy of dominance and imagines the end of the British Empire culminating not ...
Petra Rau
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Lively Lanscapes of Literature [PDF]
, 2007 The present work deals with the production of the contemporary British novelist Penelope Lively. The aim is that of tracing an outline of the author and her several novels through a problematizing approach.
Lottini, Annalisa
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe +2 more
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Fiction in a fictionalized society [PDF]
, 2015 Book synopsis: The new millennium has been a period of rapid change and under this stimulus British fiction has evolved in new and sometimes unpredictable directions. It is the mercurial nature of its subject matter, which makes the study of contemporary
Brooker, Joseph
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The turn to precarity in twenty-first century fiction [PDF]
, 2014 This is an open access article. Copyright © 2014 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.Recent years have seen several attempts by writers and critics to understand the changed sensibility in post-9/11 fiction through a variety of new -isms.
Morrison, J
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