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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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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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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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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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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.
روشنک پاشایی
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Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance Between Fact and Fiction [PDF]
, 2015 The contested field of lesbian history exists along a continuum, with undisputed evidence on one end and informed speculation on the other. Lesbian historical fiction extends the spectrum, envisioning the lives of lesbian pirates, war heroes, pioneers ...
Garber, Linda
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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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[Review of] Sabine R. Ulibarri. El gobernador Glu Glu y otros cuentos (Governor Glu Glu and Other Stories) [PDF]
, 1990 Sabine R. Ulibarrí is a prolific and engaging story teller whose works portray the people, the landscape, the folklore, and the tenacious yet evolving way of life in Hispanic northern New Mexico. His previous bilingual collections include Tierra Amarilla
Shirley, Carl R.
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