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Rebirth of the Nouveau Roman: 9/11 as a Crisis of Confidence in American Literary Aesthetics

Altre Modernità, 2011
This article argues that 9/11 created a crisis of confidence amongst writers of American fiction by problematizing literary realism’s claims to verisimiltude and so undermining it as a plausible and credible mode of fiction.
Daniel Davis Wood
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ISU-ISU KRISIS DALAM NOVEL-NOVEL DYSTOPIAN SCIENCE FICTION AMERIKA

Jurnal Poetika, 2017
This paper focuses on issues and discourses about the crisis that existed in the dystopian science fiction (dystopian sf) novels. In this case, Hunger Games Trilogy (2008-2010), Maze Runner Trilogy (2009-2011), Divergent Trilogy (2011-2013) are the main ...
Muajiz Muallim
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Alice Curry, Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction. A Poetics of Earth.

Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2014
Review of Alice Currys"Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction. A Poetics of Earth"
Pia Maria Ahlbäck
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HYBRID SPECULATIVE FICTION AS A GENRE PHENOMENON IN MODERN LITERATURE OF THE U.S. AND RUSSIA

Многоязычие в образовательном пространстве, 2022
The article is devoted to theoretical exploration of modern hybrid speculative fiction. This term comprises a huge body of creative works which are written at the intersection of genres related to speculative prose.
Malykh V. S.
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Guardando dallo Steinhof verso Centaurus. Pratiche della nostalgia a cavallo di due mondi = Looking fron Steinhof for Centaurus. Melancholy practices between two worlds

H-ermes: Journal of Communication, 2016
Melancholy – or nostalgia – is a tipical state of mind of Modernity, specially of the period that runs from XIX to XX century – and of this beginning of XXI.
Adolfo Fattori
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Environmental Crisis, Cli-fi, and the Fate of Humankind in Richard Jefferies’ After London and Robert Harris’ The Second Sleep

Exchanges, 2021
This article discusses two instances of ‘Anthropocene fiction’ (Trexler, 2015: 4) that engage with the environmental crisis that industrial modernity has generated: Richard Jefferies’ After London (1885), and Robert Harris’ The Second Sleep (2019), which
Adrian Tait
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Making Science, Making Scientists, Making Science Fiction: On the Co-Creation of Science and Science Fiction in the Social Imaginary

Socio, 2019
Most work on the relationship between science and science fiction focuses on how science fiction can advance science by speculatively elaborating scientific theories. This text, to the contrary, argues that we should understand some science fiction texts
Brad Tabas
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The Post-War Novel in Crisis: Three Perspectives [PDF]

, 2005
Three major novelists of the period following the second world war, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul, have pondered the question of why the post-war novel is unable to achieve the heights of its nineteenth-century predecessors. Each of these
Dooley, Gillian Mary
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Humanities Fiction: Translation and ‘Transplanetarity’ in Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life” and Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2019
One of the more interesting science fiction movies of recent years, at least to Humanities academics, is Denis Villeneuve’s 2016 alien-invasion movie, Arrival.
Nicol Bran
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How Can My Poem Be True?

Art/Research International, 2021
How can a poem be true? This autoethnographic study uses poetic inquiry to explore the boundaries between fiction and reality within poetic experience.
John L. Hoben
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