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Envisioning Posthuman Existence in Han Song's 'Subway': An Ecocritical Approach [PDF]

Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2020
Chinese science fiction writer Han Song (韩松) is frequently compared with Can Xue, Lu Xun, and Franz Kafka in the literary style of his unnerving stories, which traverse magical realism, dystopian science fiction, and allegories of post-human existence ...
Ni Fan
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Symbolic Consumption and Media in Bret Easton Ellis’s Less than Zero

Critical Literary Studies, 2021
The present paper seeks to argue that consumption and media wield an unparalleled influence over contemporary American society, in a way that these drives constitute the primary means through which identity is constituted.
Mohsen Khaleseh Dehghan, Bakhtiar Sadjadi   +1 more
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Mentor souriant

Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises, 2014
Deux traditions confluent dans le thème du sourire de la sagesse, que Fénelon illustre dans le personnage de Mentor : d’un côté, la tradition philosophique de Socrate rieur, dont il est fait mention aussi dans les Dialogues des morts ; de l’autre, la ...
Benedetta Papàsogli
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Ennui

, 2018
Ennui (French, from Lat. in odio esse, to be an object of hate) is an existential form of boredom, a weary state of constant disaffectedness with oneself and the world, associated with a profound loss of meaning.
Christine Jungen, Isabelle Rivoal
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Raging Ennui: On Boredom, History, and the Collapse of Liberal Time

Open Philosophy
This article aims to outline a theory of political boredom based on the concept of the liberal temporal dispositive. According to this concept, modern politics is characterized by the reduction of political time consumption to enable the growing temporal
Dikovich Albert
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„We can be heroes, just for one day“

Cahiers d’Études Germaniques
The fragile insularity of West Berlin in the early 1980s created fertile Ground for a “camp” subculture that sought to locate itself between eccentric self-affirmation and a fleeting form of itinerancy – beyond any bourgeois lifestyle. The essay reflects
Hanne BERGIUS
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Il topos del viaggio deludente: fine dell’esotismo?

Between, 2011
As the term ‘exoticism’ describes an aesthetic appreciation of the foreign,  irrespective of any substantial knowledge of it as such, the actual experience of the much longed-for Elsewhere may result in a bitter disappointment, even in a catastrophe for ...
Lucia Claudia Fiorella
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The Phenomenon of Adultification in R. Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

American and British Studies Annual
This article examines the representation of adultification in Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011), focusing on how the narrative positions children within adult roles and responsibilities.
Nikola Kmošková Bajerová
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L’ENNUI DES SYRTES OR THE BOREDOM OF EMPIRES

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
The paper presents the phenomenon of boredom in Julien Gracq’s novel Le Rivage des Syrtes (The opposing shore). The book describes Orsenna, oligarchic city-state loosely based on Venetian republic and empire, which is in a state of phoney war with ...
Mariusz Finkielsztein
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“The Land That He Saw Looked Like a Paradise. It Was Not, He Knew”: Suburbia and the Maladjusted American Male in John Cheever’s Bullet Park

European Journal of American Studies, 2016
This essay explores the issue of masculinity in John Cheever’s somewhat critically overlooked novel, Bullet Park (1969), so as to call attention to the inevitable conflict between the conformist ideologies of the postwar corporate world and the dormant ...
Harriet Poppy Stilley
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