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Neal Stephenson’s Readme: a critique of gamification [PDF]

, 2016
Neal Stephenson’s writing has in many ways shaped post-cyberpunk science fiction as well as having a massive influence on real-world technology, so his move to realism with 2011’s Reamde offers an opportunity to understand science fiction’s changing ...
Mcfarlane, Anna
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Hardships of contemporary fiction

Gragoatá, 2008
In today’s world, in which we can see a radical transformation of things, nearly unprecedented crises emerge and affect all areas of activity, challenging culture, aesthetics, ethical values, notions of space and time, and the relations between public ...
Silvia Regina Pinto
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Book review: Literary Fiction Tourism by Nicola MacLeod

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Book review of Literary Fiction Tourism by Nicola MacLeod.  MacLeod, Nicola. (2024). Literary Fiction Tourism: Understanding the Practice of Fiction-inspired Travel. Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility. Routledge, London.
Evgenia Amey
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Cormac McCarthy and the Genre Turn in Contemporary Literary Fiction

European Journal of American Studies, 2017
The wholesale embrace of genre fiction by contemporary literary writers is currently reorganizing the literary field. This essay looks at the role that genre has played in Cormac McCarthy’s fiction since his turn to the Western with Blood Meridian (1985).
James Dorson
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Medieval Literature and Young Adult Fiction: A Comparison of Chaucer and Sarah J. Maas [PDF]

, 2017
The medieval works of Geoffrey Chaucer and the contemporary works of Sarah J. Maas employ three of the same themes: forbidden love, insta-love, and love triangles. These themes are based in the medieval literary tradition of courtly love as first written
Cuadrado, Dana
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Capital as Artificial Intelligence [PDF]

, 2015
This article examines science-fictional allegorizations of Soviet-style planned economies, financial markets, autonomous trading algorithms, and global capitalism writ large as nonhuman artificial intelligences, focussing primarily on American science ...
Canavan, Gerry
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The Function of Self-Consciousness in John Barth\u27s Chimera [PDF]

, 1984
Much recent American fiction has become increasingly self-conscious, displaying an awareness of itself as fiction, as artifice that diminishes the role of a central human consciousness or self in the fiction. The fictional process is in the foreground of
Edelstein, Marilyn
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Feverish fictions: William T. Vollmann and American literary history after postmodernism [PDF]

, 2018
The rise of the New Sincerity in contemporary American fiction has largely been read on terms provided by a handful of early proponents. This article contends that more complex formulations of the notion are necessary if it is to remain useful as a ...
Coffman, Christopher K.
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François Bon et la fiction comme pratique

Itinéraires, 2013
Some of contemporary French literature is characterized by a willingness to confront reality. In François Bon’s works, this approach is in vivid contrast with fiction as an act of invention. However, Bon does not give up fiction, but rather reveals it as
Ludovic Bichler
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Writing Dirty: Paradoxical Embodiments of Nazism in Bataille\u27s Le Bleu du Ciel [PDF]

, 2004
Since his death in 1962, and particularly in the last twenty-five years, Georges Bataille has become a major figure in intellectual circles. Critics such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers, to name ...
Vanbaelen, Sylvie
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