Pub Date : 2024-06-26DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2372449
Guanghui Shang
This article examines Paul Harding’s representation of natural agency in Tinkers as a response to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalist perspective on nature, as articulated in his landmark essay...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-26DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2371962
Shenghao Hu
In his recent novel Pure (2012), Timothy Mo maps the complex interaction between memory and identity in the post-9/11 context. The novel interweaves the memory narratives of four protagonists and m...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-23DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2371017
Oliver Haslam
This article explores how Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger (2022) and Stella Maris (2022) cement a reliance on Gothic literary minimalism. Although minimalism and the Gothic are traditionally positi...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-20DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2370244
Yuan Yuan
This article delves into the environmental consciousness and criticism present in Kazuo Ishiguro’s eighth novel Klara and the Sun. Ishiguro depicts AI robots reliant on solar energy, with smoke bei...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2339515
Tatiana Konrad
This article focuses on two postcolonial novels, Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People and Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death, and argues that through the novels’ explorations of sex, both narratives reconst...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2338829
Kieran Brown
How should the relation between Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and J.M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986) be theorised? Using the paradigm of angels and cann...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2339516
Hyoung Min Lee
Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half is an unconventional passing narrative in that it not only deals with both racial passing and gender transition but also escapes the tragic passing narrative struc...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2336947
Sally Robinson
No contemporary author has spent as much time and energy theorizing the literary field than Jonathan Franzen, and no author has generated as much controversy over that theorizing. That controversy ...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2327418
Dominika Oramus
Reading fiction by Angela Carter and Olga Tokarczuk side by side is a fascinating but eerie experience: the celebrated British fabulist and the Nobel-winning Polish writer-cum-public intellectual s...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2331152
William Taylor
This essay addresses the problem of how to formally differentiate between oppressive and emancipatory infrastructures. In doing so, it develops an analysis of speculative science-fiction novel The ...
本文探讨了如何正式区分压迫性和解放性基础设施的问题。为此，文章分析了推理科幻小说《...
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