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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Literary space"”.
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Biopolitics, Borders and the Populations of Literary Space in Two Post-millennial Black British Novels: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Andrea Levy’s The Long Song
… is an analysis of biopolitics, populations and space in two post-millennial black British novels: Adbulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Andrea Levy’s The Long Song (2010). In chapter one, I examine the regulation and control of migrant and asylum seeker populations in twenty-first century …
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Publishing the confidential: an ethnographic study of young Irish bloggers
… semiotic artifacts, defined by the presence of a literary space, a social space and a technological space as three interrelated layers within the chronotope of the blog. It also posits the existence of a trialogical relationship between the blogger, the reader and the technology related to the …
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Traces de terre, traces d'encre... La rappresentazione dello spazio nella letteratura caraibica. (Francofona e Anglofona)
This study concerns the representation of space in Caribbean literature, both francophone and Anglophone and, in particular, but not only, in the martinican literature, in the works of the authors born in the island. The analysis focus on the second half of the last century, a period in which the …
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Dynamika przestrzeni i dynamika w przestrzeni: wpływ nowej fizyki oraz technologii na obrazowanie czasoprzestrzenne w wybranych utworach pisarzy amerykańskich z lat 40. i 50.
… of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and outer space exploration on the creation of literary space-time imagery in selected works of American late modernist prose of the 1940s and 1950s. The paradigm shift induced by Einstein’s groundbreaking publication from 1905 ignited both scientific and …
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Empire Rules: Cultures of U.S. Imperialism in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
… peoples. Reckoning with U.S. Empire within the literary space of contemporary MELUS, I argue, illustrates how the symbolic and material rules of U.S. Empire were established and how these rules concurrently erase their authors and beneficiaries, thereby naturalizing or normalizing our social, …
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Femme Theory: Femininity's Challenge to Western Feminist Pedagogies
… is demonstrated through the designation of literary space and in an overview of dominant theories, such as how the feminine subject is maintained as the object of critique and as not able to be “properly” feminist. This assessment of gender studies course texts reveals a limited …
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Paulo Coelho: Transnational Literature, Popular Culture, and Postmodernism
… 80 languages, Paulo Coelho is an international literary phenomenon that moves “beyond culture of origin” (Damrosch 199) and inhabits the “world literary space” (Pascale 281). Would his novels, therefore, stand as materialization of Goethe’s humanist cosmopolitan vision upon the coinage of the …
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Transnational women’s poetry of the two World Wars: Lola Ridge, Winifred Letts, H.D., Sheila Wingfield
… in which this quartet of women poets creates a literary space of mutual understanding and shared concern in their responses to the trauma and upheaval of a world at war. This study explores how, thematically and formally, Ridge, Letts, H.D. and Wingfield fuse, reject and champion innovation and …
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At the Crossroads: African American and Caribbean Writers in the Interwar Period
… and vernacular culture across this U.S-Caribbean literary space. The "folk" emerge as a concept that varies across space and time, challenging anew the claims to authenticity, shared origins, and monolithic community that have persistently shaped understandings of the folk's place in the black …
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Reconsidering early modern English spiritual autobiography. Quaker women's self-writings in 17th-century England
… Quaker women authors had created a distinctive literary space by the end of the 17th century. The sources informing this research are a set of Quaker self-writings by Quaker women, belonging to different textual genres and written between the 1650s and 1690s. Quaker women’s self-writings are …
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Experiments in Decentralization: Suburban Spaces in the Writings of Early Twentieth-Century British Female Novelists
… perhaps best observed through an analysis of the literary texts of the period, which featured suburbs as Gothic spaces of otherness, or as feminized lands of monotonous domesticity. John Carey and Andreas Huyssen argue that various male modernists’ artistic projects were partly a reaction to the …
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Death as Poetics of Dislocation in the Global South: René Depestre, Maryse Condé, and Santiago Gamboa
… and secure entry into a larger world literary space. Whereas the Global South translates both a postcolonial condition and an emancipatory project, it can only accomplish its decolonial purpose when writers cease to locate themselves at the periphery and in reaction to former colonial …
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"Cuando lleguemos": Narrativas Latinx del siglo XXI
… in the Internet and in a corpus of US Latinx literary texts in the 21st century. In particular, I examine the formation of transnational “Latinx” identities, discourses, and micro-resistances in Days of Awe (2001) by Achy Obejas, Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties (2004) by Felicia Luna …
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"The Geography of Letters": Space and the Little Magazine in Bombay, 1960 - 1980
… Deploying a mixed methodology of book history, literary-historical analysis, data visualisation, and close reading, I argue that the Bombay little inaugurates unique interventions in questions of space, mapping, and belonging in a newly independent India. Alongside the primary geographical site …
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The Function of Physical Space in the Cuban Novel of the 1950s
… the 1950s have been confined to the backwater of literary analysis, often grouped together and dismissed as mere social realism like their Spanish counterparts, or described as inferior. The spatial has been similarly overlooked in literary analysis in favour of a focus on stylistic …
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The Matter of Gautland
The classification of late medieval literary cycles according to localised subject matter, such as the ‘Matter of France’, the ‘Matter of Britain’ and the ‘Matter of Rome’, has proven to be an enduring one in modern scholarship. This model has also been applied to Old Norse saga literature, …