Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2310074
Lucy Benjamin
Drawing on James Clammer’s novel Insignificance, this paper explores the intersection of inheritance and repair. Marking its difference from 20th century concerns with the historiographical conditi...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2311740
Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga
The article analyses the nightmarish vision of the near future in Dave Eggers’s 2021 novel The Every as a digital dystopia. Read as a dialogue with George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Every i...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2312232
Jinan F. B. Al-Hajaj, Salma Abdul Hussein Dawood
Two contemporary novels, namely, Hari Kunzru’s Gods Without Men (2011) and Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel (2020) are given a Bakhtinian reading in an attempt to trace the presence of carni...
哈里-昆兹鲁(Hari Kunzru)的《没有男人的神》(2011)和艾米莉-圣约翰-曼德尔(Emily St. John Mandel)的《玻璃酒店》(2020)这两部当代小说被赋予了巴赫金式的解读,以试图追溯肉欲的存在。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2312251
Jack Weizhe Cao
Roberto Bolaño’s posthumously published 2666 is a novel split into five parts without a clear logic of organization. I argue that its unity lies in the way each section takes up and then dissolves ...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2308692
Anni Shen
The first four works of the Japanese-British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro were all ghost stories, and they are crucial to shaping his signature unreliable narratives and writing of memory. Based on the ...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-22DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2307896
Dale Pattison
This essay addresses the neoliberal turn in the humanities through Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never Let Me Go, which describes a world in which human clones have been created for the purpose of ha...
这篇文章通过石黑一雄 2005 年出版的小说《永不让我走》来探讨新自由主义在人文学科中的转向。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-19DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2305262
Berthold Schoene
Tapping into Australian writing on arboreality, with a focus on Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus (1998), this investigation intervenes in Critical Plant Studies by exploring a dendrographic alternative to ...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-18DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2023.2294805
Lorna Burns
This article explores “literature sickness”, a term coined by the contemporary Iranian-American writer Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi and developed, I suggest, in her novel Call Me Zebra (2018). In d...
本文探讨的 "文学病 "是当代伊朗裔美国女作家阿扎琳-范德弗利特-奥洛米(Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi)创造的一个术语,我认为这个术语在她的小说《叫我斑马》(Call Me Zebra,2018)中得到了发展。在她的小说《叫我斑马》(2018 年)中,...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-16DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2304178
Yi Cai
Centering on the precarious bodies that are diseased or faced with health problems in Danticat’s oeuvre, this article from a biopolitical perspective examines how the malfunction of power exacerbat...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2023.2298815
María Laura Arce Álvarez
The aim of this article is to analyze Paul Auster’s Moon Palace through the lens of philosopher and critic Maurice Blanchot, whose literary theory provides a theoretical frame to study this novel a...
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