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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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A self-conscious Kurt Vonnegut: an analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions [PDF]
, 2014 The works of Kurt Vonnegut stand as seminal in the American literary canon. Looking at three of his most influential novels, namely Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, this study aims to better understand the mechanisms which ...
Langdon, Gareth
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The turn to precarity in twenty-first century fiction [PDF]
, 2014 This is an open access article. Copyright © 2014 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.Recent years have seen several attempts by writers and critics to understand the changed sensibility in post-9/11 fiction through a variety of new -isms.
Morrison, J
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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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II—Fictional, Metafictional, Parafictional [PDF]
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2018 Fictional uses of fictional proper names are the uses one finds in the fiction in which the names in question are introduced. Such uses are not genuinely referential : they rest on pretence. Metafictional uses of proper names ('Sherlock Holmes was created by Doyle in 1887') are genuinely referential : they refer to a cultural artefact.
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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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David Foster Wallace's treatment of therapy after postmodernism [PDF]
, 2017 Despite the critical consensus that a major part of David Foster Wallace’s project was to challenge the paradigms of postmodernism, there is an assumption that, when it comes to therapy, Wallace did little more than tell the same postmodern jokes.
Redgate, Jamie
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Elementos metaficcionales en at swim-two-birds, de flann o’brien [PDF]
, 2013 Following a visit to the MNHN in Paris, and from the study of four types of the Dresden Museum as well as from personal observations, we provide some new synonymies as a result of types comparisons.Suite à une visite effectuée par l'un de nous aux ...
Asensio Peral, Gérman
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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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Exposing social constructions in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle through metareligion [PDF]
, 2013 Bokononism is a fictional religion Vonnegut brings into his narrative, Cat’s Cradle (1963), to create a self-conscious novel known as metafiction. This innovative mode of writing narratives, along with providing a critique of their own methods of ...
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