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Pynchon’s Against the Day: Bilocation, Duplication, and Differential Repetition [PDF]
, 2018 In Against the Day, Pynchon is obsessed with twoness, double worlds, as well as dual realities, and like Deleuze’s concept of repetition, these duplications and twinships are not merely repetition of the same, rather they allow for creativity ...
Rahmani, Razieh, Salami, Ali
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Literatura Niewidocznego — wizje i rewizje urban fantasy
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 A discussion Literature of the Unseen—Visions and (Re)visions of Urban Fantasy collects theoretical reflections upon the subgenres of urban fantasy and paranormal romance, along with a brief commentary on the body of text representative for both ...
Stefan Ekman +4 more
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‘Legally Recognised Undead’: Essence, Difference, and Assimilation in Daniel Waters’s Generation Dead [PDF]
, 2016 Vampire literature since Le Fanu at least has been conspicuously about ‘Otherness’, that crucial term of identity politics, and has thus rendered itself most obligingly to interpretation in terms of those politics—at least, since the rise of that ...
Bill Hughes
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Creatio Fantastica, 2018 Reviewed book: Oblicza wampiryzmu, ed. Anna Depta, Szymon Cieśliński i Michał Wolski Wrocław: Stowarzyszenie Badaczy Literatury i Kultury Popularnej „Trickster” 2018, ISBN 978-83-64863-12 ...
Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk
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Magia, miłość, miasto. Prolegomena do źródeł popularności urban fantasy
Colloquia Litteraria, 2023 The urban fantasy genre is currently receiving increasing attention from audiences and researchers. One of the factors contributing to this is the growing reception of fantasy per se.
Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk
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Love in a Cold Climate? Teaching Popular Romance at a Swedish University
Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2020 This article describes and discusses experiences of teaching popular romance in Sweden, a country where the genre has been more or less invisible until recent years. Starting with an overview of the status and visibility of popular romance in Sweden, our
M. Nilson
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Urban fantasy — literatura Niewidocznego
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 This article analyses the nature of urban fantasy by aggregating the claims, suggestions, and observations made by several different accounts of what urban fantasy is.
Stefan Ekman
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Achille Ngoye et Jean-Roger Essomba : le renouveau du polar africain francophone
Itinéraires, 2019 In African literary history, whether in the colonial novel, the family romance, or the novel of solitary revolt, the African novel has generally been considered realistic.
Hervé Tchumkam
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Scary Mask/Local Protector: The Curious History of Jero Amerika
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 279-300, December 2020., 2020 Summary “Jero Amerika,” a mask/tutelary god, protects the people of Ubud, a former kingdom of Bali, Indonesia, and today a tourist mecca. Jero Amerika operates within the logic of empowered Balinese temple masks, but Jero Amerika is also eccentric. Returned to Bali from abroad after uncanny events, the mask makes remarkable appearances during temple ...
Laurel Kendall, Ni Wayan Pasek Ariati
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The Use of Free Indirect Discourse in J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series
Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, 2019 Although the romance genre has received a lot of attention in feminist and gender studies, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, it is still largely ignored by narratologists and other literary theorists.
Evie Kendal
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