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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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Alexander Payne's Nebraska and the return of the grand narratives [PDF]
, 2019 This article analyses Alexander Payne’s film Nebraska from the perspective of the paradigm shift produced after the much-debated passing of postmodernism, announced by theorists such as Ihab Hassan or Linda Hutcheon.
Bolaño Quintero, Jesús
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ReS Futurae, 2021 This paper is a problematized study of an atypical case of the contemporary Swiss theater scene: Vous êtes ici, a science-fiction theater series unfolding its 10 episodes over the 2020-2021 season.
Aurélien Maignant, Roberta Alberico
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Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2017 Review of Hanna Meretoja. The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xviii + 282 pp.
Charles R. Sullivan
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Environmental crisis in José Saramago's fiction
Anthropocenica. Revista de Estudos do Antropoceno e Ecocrítica, 2021 José Saramago, the Portuguese writer winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, was one of the fiercest critics of our time of the European economic, political, social and environmental crisis. The latter In particular, as well as its implications and consequences, was subjected to an attentive, detained and in-depth critical scrutiny in ...
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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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HISTORY, MYTH AND ALLEGORY IN AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; pp. 276–286 [PDF]
Trames, 2008 How can historical fiction tell the truth about the past? Focusing on the disciplinary boundaries between history and cultural theory, this article argues that, at moments of national crisis, historical fiction has the capacity to produce new forms of ...
Felicity Collins
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Where are all the climate change games? Locating digital games' response to climate change [PDF]
, 2017 The burgeoning genre of climate fiction, or ‘cli-fi’, in literature and the arts has begun to attract both scholarly and popular attention. It hasbeen described as ‘potentially [having] crucial contributions to make toward full understanding of the ...
Abraham, Benjamin, Jayemanne, Darshana
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Bistable Mechanisms 3D Printing for Mechanically Programmable Vibration Control
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This work introduces a 3D‐printed bistable mechanism integrated into tuned mass dampers (TMDs) for mechanically adaptive passive vibration suppression. Through optimized geometry, the bistable design provides adaptable vibration reduction across a broad range of scenarios, achieving effective vibration mitigation without complex controls or external ...
Ali Zolfagharian +4 more
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Fafnir, 2023 Kraatila, Elise. The Crisis of Representation and Speculative Mimesis: Rethinking Relations Between Fiction and Reality in 21st-century Fantasy Storytelling. Tampere University, 2021. ISBN 978-952-03-2159-8.
Anna Bark Persson
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