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Literature Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10-12, October-December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines David Lodge's novel Deaf Sentence (2008), which focuses on the life of Desmond, a retired professor of linguistics. I argue that this text offers a standpoint through which readers can visualise the global phenomenon of population ageing and address the question of global responsibility. I look at Deaf Sentence within the
Stefano Rossoni
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“Fourth‐wall breakiness or whatevs”: Presumed self‐awareness in American superhero comics
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 56, Issue 3-4, Page 673-688, June/August 2023., 2023 Abstract Studies on reflexivity in the field of comics studies have been scarce and, more often than not, disconnected from each other, which has resulted in overlapping, and sometimes even contradicting, classifications of reflexive devices. Therefore, this article analyzes different instances of self‐awareness in American superhero comics, as it has ...
Lucía Bausela Buccianti
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THE (QUEER) AESTHETICS OF JEAN PAUL'S SIEBENKÄS
German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 198-221, April 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article proposes that the eighteenth‐century novel Siebenkäs contains the formulation of an aesthetic theory that embraces same‐sex desire. The novel's author, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, still relatively unknown among literary scholars today, uses the myth of Narcissus as an aesthetic blueprint for the novel.
Anchit Sathi
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A Woman's Lot: Realism and Gendered Narration in Russian Women's Writing of the 1860s
The Russian Review, Volume 80, Issue 2, Page 229-245, April 2021., 2021 This article examines the issue of realist literary narration portrayed as male privilege in Russian women's writing of the 1860s, specifically in Avdot'ia Panaeva's novel A Woman's Lot (Zhenskaia dolia). A Women's Lot was published in 1862, under Panaeva's male pen name Nikolai Stanitskii, and, taking advantage of this indeterminacy of gender, Panaeva'
MARGARITA VAYSMAN
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An Atmosphere of Malaise: Failures of Detection in Friedrich Glauser's Matto regiert (1936)
The German Quarterly, Volume 94, Issue 1, Page 99-115, Winter 2021., 2021 Friedrich Glauser's Motto regiert (1936) tells a story with parabolic qualities: Sergeant Studer must investigate a murder that has taken place in a Swiss psychiatric clinic. The social and political issues that are roiling Europe in the years leading up to World War Two find condensed expression in this microcosm.
Martin Rosenstock
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Postmodern Reading of Urdu Novel "Chakiwara Mein Wisal"
بازیافت, 2019 Muhammad Khalid Akhtar is a renowned Urdu novelist. He has written many novels. Novel Chakiwara mein Wisal counts in his best novels. In this novel the author tries to address many social issues most importantly he uses various postmodern techniques ...
Bureeda Hamdani, Ghulam Farida
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“You will see the logic of the design of this”: from historiography to taxonomography in the contemporary metafiction of Sarah Waters’s Affinity [PDF]
, 2013 Although, in some ways, Sarah Waters’s Affinity looks akin to historiographic metafiction, M.-L. Kohlke has persuasively argued that the text is more accurately dubbed “new(meta)realism”, a mode that demonstrates the exhausted potential of the form. This
Eve, Martin Paul
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Introduction : Penser la métanarrativité dans le roman de l’extrême contemporain
Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 2019 La notion de métafiction ou de métanarativité a été introduite en 1970 par William Gass et implique l’auto-observation textuelle et l’autoréflexion. Ce terme est souvent explicitement lié au postmodernisme, mais de fait la métafiction est une constante ...
Sabine van Wesemael
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“some kind of thing it aint us but yet its in us”: David Mitchell, Russell Hoban, and metafiction after the millennium [PDF]
, 2014 This article appraises the debt that David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas owes to the novels of Russell Hoban, including, but not limited to, Riddley Walker. After clearly mapping a history of Hoban’s philosophical perspectives and Mitchell’s inter-textual genre-
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Still here: post-millennial metafiction and crypto-didacticism [PDF]
, 2012 A piece on mutations in metafiction and the didacticism ...
Eve, Martin Paul
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