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Subverting or Reasserting? Westworld (2016-) as an Ambiguous Critical Allegory of Gender Struggles
452ºF, 2021 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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NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2016 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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The Monstrous Cosmos of Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein
ELOPE, 2021 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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Dodging the Literary Undertaker – Biographic Metafiction in Hanif Kureishi’s The Last Word
Prague Journal of English Studies, 2017 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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Metaficción. Revisión histórica del concepto en la crítica literaria colombiana
Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, 2011 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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History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 342-365, September 2024.ABSTRACT Revisiting the remarkable experimental work of the pioneering early twentieth‐century psychologist Mary Cheves West Perky (1875–1940), this article argues for the historiographical significance of her counterintuitive findings concerning the human imagination and the phenomenon of “reverse hallucination.” By means of an exhaustive and forensic
D. GRAHAM BURNETT
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Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2018 This article outlines the consequences and conditions of emergence of a meta-narrative in Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Mehrige, 2000), a film which invents an alternate version of the shooting of F.W Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922).
Julian Caradec
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The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 3, Page 378-398, July 2024.Abstract Early Soviet society featured clear nutrition guidelines and a robust plan for streamlined logistics in food processing, distribution, and consumption, all of which was aimed at building a stronger state through a virtuous transformation of calories into labor power. Such rhetoric appeared even in children’s illustrated books, such as Vladimir
Elena Fratto
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Postmodernisme: doelgerig of vrolike fuif? 'n Polisieroman en 'n moorddroom
Literator, 1994 The incredulity towards metanarratives in the postmodernist era holds serious implications for historiography. Two "historiographic metafictional novels" (Hutcheon's term), one Flemish and one Afrikaans, are discussed in this article.
W. Burger
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British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 106-130, January 2024.Abstract This study examines how news images of refugees in the context of the war in Ukraine mobilize intergroup relations. A visual rhetorical analysis is used to examine the rhetorical strategies employed in news images of Ukrainian refugees in a mainstream Finnish national newspaper from February 25 to May 31, 2022. The data consisted of 465 images.
Jari Martikainen, Inari Sakki
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