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[Review of] Sabine R. Ulibarri. El Condor and Other Stories [PDF]

, 1990
This volume continues in the same vein as Governor Glu Glu, but Ulibarri here delves even more deeply into the world of fantasy. Many of the eleven stories in El Condor are like sugar-coated medicine: the sweetness prepares the reader for the lesson ...
Shirley, Carl R.
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Fantastic alterities and The Sandman [PDF]

, 2012
This article explores the ways in which the comics medium enhances our understanding of literary models of the Fantastic. It examines the presence and depiction of multiple worlds in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, with specific reference to the role of the ...
Round, Julia
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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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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 ...
Babaei, Abdolrazagh, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam   +1 more
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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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Od zabawy lalkami do zabawy słowami — tomiki wierszy dla dzieci Pawła Beręsewicza

Paidia i Literatura, 2020
The paper includes the analyses of three books of poems by Paweł Beręsewicz: Lalki Dorotki [Dorotka’s dolls] (2004), Czy pisarzom burczy w brzuchu? [Do writers’ stomachs grumble?] (2009) oraz Złota jedenastka… [The golden eleven…] (2018).
Krystyna Zabawa
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“Creative Control: Navigating Foreign Presence in Contemporary Dominican and Cuban Narrative and Film”

Latin American Literary Review, 2018
This article participates in debates surrounding the ethics of international travel through analysis of contemporary short fiction by Dominican writer Aurora Arias, and Cubans Alberto Guerra Naranjo and Mylene Fernández Pintado.
Andrea Easley Morris
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Embodied Ecologies and Metafictional Musings: The Limits of Writing Intersex in Middlesex [PDF]

, 2018
Breu critiques the limits of the intersex narrative of Middlesex and advocates for a non-reductive, materialist, and “muddled” approach to understanding sex and ...
Breu, Christopher
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“Yo iba a Auschwitz pero ya no”. El comprador de aniversarios de Adolfo García Ortega y las posibilidades de acercarnos a la Historia desde la (meta)ficción

Confluenze, 2010
Several theories on the Postmodernity have denied the absolute speeches that were establishing the Occidental Civilization. This way, the same History and his its traditional relation with novel is being questioned and there arise voices that claim the ...
Luis María Romeu Guallart
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Reinventing Female Fashion: From Victorian Apparel to Steampunk Expression of the Self [PDF]

, 2015
First impressions have always been said to be extremely important in most situations. Traditionally, outfit is linked to one’s conception of the society one lives in.
Alonso-Jerez, Marta
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