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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"postwar literature"”.
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Elegant Complexity: The Presence of Cold War Game Theory In Postmodern American Fiction
… American fiction by combining readings of postwar literature and the cultural and historical narrative of game theory. Recently described by Steven Belletto as an under-examined cultural narrative that promised "scientific redemption" during the Cold War, game theory is a branch of applied …
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After Orwell: Totalitarian Fears and the English Political Novel, 1950-2010
… totalization. Such fears reverberate throughout postwar English political fiction. To substantiate this claim, my project reads an assortment of political novels against the political convulsions and reorientations following the Second World War. Orwellian apprehensions over totalizing systems …
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American gadgets: cybernetics, consumer electronics, and twentieth-century us fiction
… citizenship, and individuality. In American postwar fiction and film, gadgets serve powerful functions that allow authors such as Thomas Pynchon, William S. Burroughs, Neal Stephenson, Pat Cadigan, and Richard Powers to explore the complexities of humankind’s responses to technological and …
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L'opera di Georges Brassens: «une petite fête de mots et de notes» fra tradizione e libertà
Il presente studio concerne l'opera del cantautore francese Georges Brassens e l'impatto ideologico e formale che la sua opera ebbe nel contesto musicale, letterario e sociale della Francia del secondo dopoguerra. Un primo capitolo cercherà di chiarire come Brassens s inserisca in tale contesto ed …