A Woman's Lot: Realism and Gendered Narration in Russian Women's Writing of the 1860s
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)
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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The Metafiction analysis of the novel Harb al-Kulb al-Thani [PDF]
Introduction: Fiction literature is constantly changing, and various schools have emerged in this field. The novel is the most prominent type of fiction and the product of a new era that has been accompanied by a wide range of progress and innovation in ...
Mohamadreza Shirkhani, Moslem Khezeli
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“Zindagi aik Naraz Matan”: A Postmodern Study
Shahida Dilawar's novel “Zindagi aik naraz Matan” was published in 2023 by Akas Publications Lahore, offers a unique exploration of contemporary social realities through the lens of postmodern literature.
Dr. Naeema Bibi
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Postmodern Reading of Urdu Novel "Chakiwara Mein Wisal"
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]
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
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]
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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In Theories of Forgetting the protagonists’ drive to put down in writing their own personal and existential thoughts reflects the psychological and psychosomatic troubles from which all three of them suffer, albeit at different levels of intensity ...
Anthony Remy
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Still here: post-millennial metafiction and crypto-didacticism [PDF]
A piece on mutations in metafiction and the didacticism ...
Eve, Martin Paul
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