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GHANAIAN FOLK THOUGHT, AKAN RELIGION AND AN ETHIC OF CARE IN SHARON DODUA OTOO'S ADAS RAUM*

open access: yesGerman 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
wiley   +1 more source

"I' ll tell you a story that will make you believe" in narratives: the role of metafiction in the novel and in the film Life of Pi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2015.Recentes estudos propõem que adaptações cinematográficas sejam
Bronislawski, Patricia
core  

Écriture et trauma dans “The Giant Wistaria” : Quand Charlotte Perkins Gilman revisite le gothique

open access: yesSillages 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
doaj   +1 more source

Bequeathing “new sincerity” in the age of the homo digitalis: Confessionalism and authorial self‐consciousness in David Foster Wallace and Bo Burnham

open access: yesLiterature 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
wiley   +1 more source

Los pájaros en Juan José Millás: análisis de la simbología aviar en el universo metaficcional de Que nadie duerma (2018)

open access: yesAla 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
doaj  

Nabokov and Metapsychology

open access: yesCoSMO, 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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فراداستان، زبان انگیزش تفکر در ادبیات کودک ایران: بررسی سه اثر از فرهاد حسن زاده

open access: yesNaqd-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
doaj  

Metafiction in Turkish novel (1980-2000) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Üstkurmaca, 1980 sonrası Türk romanının en çok başvurulan tekniklerinden biridir. Üstkurmacanın kavramsallaşması yeni olsa da uygulamaları oldukça eskidir.
Bolat, Tuncay
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« You know, when you suspect something, it’s always better when it turns out to be true » : Mémoire et média dans l’épisode « The Entire History of You » (S01E03) de Black Mirror (2011-)

open access: yesTV 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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Le conte voltairien : un parasite des textes sacrés

open access: yesFééries, 2020
One of the essential elements of the genesis of the great Voltairian tale is found in his “philosophical” texts of the years 1720-1730: indeed, there are remarkable narrative incrustations, of which a double point in common is to announce some of the ...
Marc Hersant
doaj   +1 more source

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