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METAFICTION IN THE NOVELS NIŠAN (2007) BY BLAŽE MINEVSKI AND KNJIGA O TARI (2004) BY ZDENKO LEŠIĆ
The subject of this text are metafictional elements in the novels Nišan (2007) by Blaže Minevski and Knjiga o Tari (2004) by Zdenko Lešić. Starting from the theoretical models of metafiction (Linda Hutcheon, Patricia Waugh, Mark Currie), our comparative ...
Marija Gjorgjieva Dimova
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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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Historical geography II: traces remain [PDF]
The second report in this series turns to focus on the trace in relation to life-writing and biography in historical geography and beyond. Through attention to tracing journeys, located moments and listening to the presence of ghosts (Ogborn, 2005), this
Anderson J +29 more
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Attention and Mind-Wandering in Contemporary German Children’s and Young Adult Metafiction
In this article, we draw upon cognitive sciences, narratology, and media studies to investigate the interrelation between metafiction, attention, and mind-wandering in two works of German children’s and young adult metafiction: Michael Ende’s Die ...
Amandus Hopfgarten, Theresa Krampe
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Subverting or Reasserting? Westworld (2016-) as an Ambiguous Critical Allegory of Gender Struggles
This article analyses the first three seasons of HBO’s Westworld (2016-2020) by considering them a critical allegory of gender relations. In so doing, the text pays special attention to the self-reflexive construction of its SF worlds, and to two of the ...
Miguel Sebastián-Martín
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This article examines two American books for children: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (1851) and Elizabeth Stoddard’s Lolly Dinks’s Doings (1874).
Maria Holmgren Troy
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Dodging the Literary Undertaker – Biographic Metafiction in Hanif Kureishi’s The Last Word
Hanif Kureishi’s 2014 novel, The Last Word, involves most of the author’s idiosyncratic themes, such as ethnicity, racism, sexual identity, examination of interpersonal relationships and the crucial role of the creative imagination in human life.
Chalupský Petr
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Brief Interviews with Liminality: The Case of David Foster Wallace [PDF]
The beginning of the twenty first century can be described as a liminal period of discarding old interests and preoccupations in preparation for the arrival of something new. This feeling of standing on a threshold is also visible in literature where the
Więckowska, Katarzyna
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The Monstrous Cosmos of Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein
In her 2019 novel Frankissstein: A Love Story, Jeanette Winterson weaves an intricate transtemporal and trans-spatial multiplicity, the coding of which is governed by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818).
Mojca Krevel
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Metaficción. Revisión histórica del concepto en la crítica literaria colombiana
Resumen: a manera de historia conceptual, se revisa el concepto de metaficción en la crítica literaria colombiana. Para tal propósito, se presenta una aproximación, desde la teoría literaria, del concepto de metaficción y una revisión de la manera ...
Clemencia Ardila J.
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