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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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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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«I Am Myself the mAtter of My Book»: the Historical Evolution of the Essayistic-Argumentative Genre
1616, 2017 The current work seeks to explore the development of the essay in western culture as a means of reflecting the identity of the author. In order to analyse said evolution, we draw on a model of literary text which establishes a basic distinction between ...
Alfonso MARTÍN-JIMÉNEZ
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‘AN AUSTRIAN FATE’: TRAUMA, REPRESSION AND WAR IN ADRIAN GOIGINGER'S DER FUCHS (2022)
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines one of the highest‐grossing films in recent years in Austria, Der Fuchs (Adrian Goiginger, 2022), which focuses on the friendship of the protagonist, a Wehrmacht soldier, with an abandoned fox cub, but in the process elides more than four years of the soldier's wartime experience.
Katya Krylova
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Die Gattungshybridität und Metaisierung im Roman Hoppe (2012) von Felicitas Hoppe
Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2013 The novel Hoppe (2012) written by a contemporary German writer Felicitas HOPPE asks about its genre already with its cover. The authors of this article are in search of the answer to this question by detailed narratological analysis of this novel ...
Martina Trombiková, Vojtěch Trombik
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L’hybridité dans La Steppe rouge de J. Kessel : limite ou complémentarité ?
Quêtes Littéraires, 2016 The Red Steppe of Joseph Kessel is a valuable work, insofar as it is mainly characterized by its generic hybridity. The six novellas oscillate between the biographical and autobiographical, between history and fiction, between the individual and the ...
Rached Chaabene
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“Queens of Ghost‐Land” 134 Years Later: Un‐Masking an Appalachian Witchcraft Accuser
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1891, newspapers across America printed a story about witches in the Appalachian Mountains and the alleged powers they possessed to control their small farming community. The article was scathing in accusation and ultimately contributed to continued othering of the women profiled, increasing their visible vulnerabilities of class, gender ...
Aíne Norris
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Evolutionary Potential of Metacriticism. Study Based on The Watchmen, Graphic Novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons [PDF]
, 2014 In this article I discuss the impact of self-awareness and metacritical tendencies within the texts of popular culture on the development of genres in the politypical chain.
Wróblewski, Michał
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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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