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Paralelismo ideológico y perspectivismo en Tiempo de silencio, de Luis Martín Santos

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022
The novel Tiempo de silencio, by Luis Martín Santos, reflects the post-war Spanish society of the late 1940s. In previous studies, researchers and critics have focused their studies on the language, style, interior monologue, irony, the theme of poverty,
Salwa Ahmed
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Satirical Weekly “Iskra”: Post-Folklore, Post-Irony and Post-Modern

Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology, 2021
Purpose.The reputation of the satirical weekly Iskra is traditionally determined by the political context of the Russian Empire in 1860s. Despite the fact that in the first years of its existence, the publication attracted writers of various fractions, views, and convictions, Iskra was perceived as a radical magazine, “…another department of ...
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Nostalgia za klasyką w powieści Manaraga Władimira Sorokina

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2019
The article discusses Vladimir Sorokin’s novel Manaraga as a metafictional statement concerning the problem of the literary canon. The proposed interpretation places the novel in the post-ironic thinking, within which the value of high culture is still ...
Anna Stryjakowska
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Post-colonialism and Political Satire in South Africa [PDF]

Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-ādāb Ǧāmiʿaẗ Būrsaʿīd, 2020
South Africa suffered from the British colonial rule after which the Dutch settlers took over the country and exercised an excessive discriminatory regime.
Enas Abdallah Abdelwahab Abdelkader
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Post-Postmodernism, the “Affective Turn”, and Inauthenticity

Humanities, 2023
This article considers Rachel Greenwald Smith’s concept of the “Affective Turn” in contemporary fiction by looking at a constellation of novels published near the turn of the twenty-first century: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996), Jonathan ...
George Kowalik
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Taking Rorty’s Irony Seriously

Humanities, 2013
Richard Rorty’s Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (CIS) is an ambitious and provocative, but for many readers a deeply flawed work. This paper argues that many of its apparent flaws can be understood as integral to Rorty’s attempt to write a work of ...
Andrew Inkpin
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Wallace After Postmodernism (Again): Metamodernism, Tone, Tennis

English Literature, 2021
David Foster Wallace’s writing has come to be synonymous with post-postmodernism. Strategies that are often singled out in this respect include the return to epic forms of storytelling; a post-ironic attitude towards its subject matter; a concern with
Vermeulen, Timotheus
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“Here They Come to Save the Day” – The New Sincerity in 1990s American Superhero Comics

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2019
After the success of postmodern superhero comics that deconstructed heroism in post-Vietnam, post-Watergate USA, mid-1990s comics experienced a resurgence in unabashedly heroic narratives.
Rafael Alves Azevedo
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The function of irony in the composition of a neo-romantic short story [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология
This article raises the issue of ironic effects manifestation at the composition level. The novelistic part of the work of the neo-romanticist A. Grin was chosen as the research material, the ironic mode in whose artistic method has not previously been ...
Irina Klimenko
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RHETORIC OF DIGITAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEO, SHREK, AND THE EVOLUTION OF AGENCY IN THE AGE OF ALGORITHMS

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серия: Теорія культури та філософіі науки
The article examines the ontological transformations of rhetorical subjectivation under conditions of digital mediation. Through hermeneutic analysis of the archetypal figures of Neo («The Matrix») and Shrek (the eponymous animated narrative), the study ...
Yaroslav Halstyan, Artem Perchyk
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