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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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The Voice Disrupted: Articulation, Hesitation, and Moral Seriousness in F. R. Leavis's Pedagogy
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Steven Cranfield
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Crystal Lake : un territoire horrifique, étude géographique de la saga Vendredi 13
Géographie et Cultures, 2018 Even if many geographical studies about cinema are recently published, the subject of horror movies – and even more mainstream horror movies – haven’t been tackle yet.
Milena Gobet‑Di Maggio
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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
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Forum, 2006 The purpose of this paper—perhaps really more a set of somewhat informal notes, in the manner suggested by David Bordwell (28)—is to provide a broad brushstroke picture of the terror film from its beginnings, arguably coeval with cinema itself, to the ...
Keith Brown
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Re‐evaluating the Rise of Anglophone Malaysian Historical Fiction in the Twenty‐First Century
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, anglophone Malaysian historical fiction has gained significant global recognition, so much so that it has become the dominant genre. However, notwithstanding this enviable evolution in the country's English‐language literature, it is not without issues, due to the genre's somewhat orientalist representation of ...
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
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JOE DANTE, O HORROR E O BAIXO ORÇAMENTO: PIRANHAS, GRITOS DE HORROR E DESENHOS ANIMADOS
Rebeca, 2016 Neste artigo estudaremos os dois primeiros longas que Joe Dante realizou após Hollywood Boulevard (codirigido por Allan Arkush), sua estreia no cinema: Piranha (1978) e Grito de horror (1981).
Sérgio Eduardo Alpendre de Oliveira
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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
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