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Sillages Critiques, 2010 This paper explores some of the various mises en abyme and metatextual devices in Nabokov’s and Kubrick’s Lolita, so as to explore how such devices create a poetics of reflections, and themselves reflect the manner in which the relationship to the reader/
Marie Bouchet
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GHANAIAN FOLK THOUGHT, AKAN RELIGION AND AN ETHIC OF CARE IN SHARON DODUA OTOO'S ADAS RAUM*
German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 86-101, January 2024.ABSTRACT In this article I will analyse how cosmological myths, proverbs and pictorial symbols from Ghanaian folk thought and religion are adapted in Sharon Dodua Otoo's novel Adas Raum. I will focus primarily on the idea of the transmigration of the soul, which comes from the religion of the Akan people, and on the Sankofa symbol, which stands for a ...
Kyung‐Ho Cha
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Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1-3, January-March 2024.Abstract The notion of “New Sincerity” has become central to the study of David Foster Wallace's prose over the years. The present article explores how the tonal arrangement that characterises the movement has lived on to influence contemporary art, examining Bo Burnham's popular comedy musicals as a notable example of this influence.
Sergio Lopez‐Sande
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D’une manière l’autre de faire des mondes : science-fiction et savoirs de la fiction
ReS Futurae, 2013 Si l’on peut dire que toute fiction produit un monde dont la dimension référentielle fait plus ou moins question, il est des fictions qui font de cette question la matière même de leur discours et de leur forme.
Denis Mellier
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Le cadeau, témoin d’amour dans les contes de fées (xviie‑xviiie siècles) : un pacte ambivalent
Fééries, 2022 The key in Perrault’s “La Barbe bleue” is not a real gift, it is in reality a dangerous test that aims to reveal the truth about the spouse. But it is also a metaphorical key to the tale: it acts as a revelator on the one who offers it rather than on the
Guilhem Armand
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فراداستان، زبان انگیزش تفکر در ادبیات کودک ایران: بررسی سه اثر از فرهاد حسن زاده
Naqd-i Zabān va Adabīyyāt-i Khārijī, 2013 Children’s literature, according to some scholars, is not proper ground for the postmodern on account of the latter being too complicated for a child readership.
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Écriture et trauma dans “The Giant Wistaria” : Quand Charlotte Perkins Gilman revisite le gothique
Sillages Critiques, 2015 This article purports to highlight the relationship between text and trauma in Gilman’s, “The Giant Wistaria”, a short story based on one of the topoi of the gothic tradition: the haunted mansion.Gilman humorously introduces a “trouble in the genre ...
Paule Lévy
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Ala Este, 2023 The purpose of this article is to analyse the symbology in the metaficcional universe created by Juan José Millás in Que nadie duerma (2018). First, it will analyse the writer’s narrative as part of his generation and focalising on the novel concept and ...
Míriam García Villalba
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CoSMO, 2015 This essay offers a way of thinking beyond Nabokov's antagonism towards Freud by casting him as a self-ironising Freudian. Rather than just parodying Freud in his work, I argue that Nabokov practices an innately provisional form of psychology widely ...
Beci Carver
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TV Series, 2018 Posthuman memory, being and memory, memory and the senses – it is not so much these themes that account for the novelty of Black Mirror, a series that clearly assumes its cinematic, literary and televisual heritage. What makes the series so compelling is
David Roche
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