Showing papers in "Critique-studies in Contemporary Fiction in 2021"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe violence against women in science as a multitude of forms leaving survivors with psychological damage, including physical, sexual, and psychological, and sexual abuse in a variety of forms.
Abstract: Violence manifests itself in a multitude of forms leaving survivors with psychological damage. Gwyneth Jones’s Life (2004) portrays myriad acts of violence against women in science with a specific ...
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TL;DR: L Lerner's 2014 novel 10:04 as mentioned in this paper is a case study in literary metamodernism, though it also makes reference to Adam Thirlwell's 2011 novella Kapow! and Ruth Ozeki's 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being.
Abstract: Postmodernism has been characterized by a reductive presentism that suppresses historicity and neglects the possibility of the future If we have seen a shift from postmodernism to a different cultural logic and structure of feeling—as, indeed, many critics argue—it therefore follows that this may also entail a new dominant in temporal dynamics In this article, I take Ben Lerner’s 2014 novel 10:04 as a case study in literary metamodernism, though I also make reference to Adam Thirlwell’s 2011 novella Kapow! and Ruth Ozeki’s 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being Across these texts, and primarily in 10:04 as a quintessentially metamodernist fiction, I observe and explicate a metamodern temporality characterized, interconnectedly, by the aesthetics of heterochrony, sideshadowing, and the anticipation of retrospection Whilst this temporal dynamic emerges from the precarity and volatility of experience in the twenty-first century, anthropocenic climate change has been and remains—I suggest—the greatest catalyst in producing this new temporal experience which resurrects historicity and resuscitates the future as a field of possibilities
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TL;DR: The authors argue that Han Kang's novel The Vegetarian offers a model of radical non-mastery and transnational feminist world-being through protagonist Yeong-hye's will to arboreality and Kang's im...
Abstract: This essay argues that Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian offers a model of radical non-mastery and transnational feminist world-being through protagonist Yeong-hye’s will to arboreality and Kang’s im...
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TL;DR: The authors investigate the genre of hypertext fiction, analyzing some of its aspects, especially the domination of narrative nonlineari..., drawing upon the critical views of the hypertext theory.
Abstract: Drawing upon the critical views of hypertext theory, this paper seeks to investigate the genre of hypertext fiction, analyzing some of its aspects, especially the domination of narrative nonlineari...
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TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative reading of John le Carre's work is presented, in which the presupposition that the spy has a stable sense of self is challenged by a comparative analysis of the two works.
Abstract: This article seeks to problematize the presupposition, central to critical engagement with espionage fiction, that the spy has a stable sense of self. Through a comparative reading of John le Carre...
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TL;DR: This paper coin the term "transcultural trauma fiction" and propose that it constitutes a useful conceptual lens through which to examine the Finnish author Katja Kettu's 2018 novel, Rose on Pois...
Abstract: This article coins the term “transcultural trauma fiction,” proposing that it constitutes a useful conceptual lens through which to examine the Finnish author Katja Kettu’s 2018 novel, Rose on pois...
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TL;DR: The Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) has remained the most widely discussed of Vonnegut's novels in the five decades since its publication as mentioned in this paper. But the volume of critical work produced on it far ou...
Abstract: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) has remained the most widely discussed of his novels in the five decades since its publication. However, the volume of critical work produced on it far ou...
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TL;DR: This article explored the controversial reception of Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life (2015) through the framework of trauma theory, and found that the polarizing novel earned both acclaim and contempt for its ex...
Abstract: This article explores the controversial reception of Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life (2015) through the framework of trauma theory. The polarizing novel earned both acclaim and contempt for its ex...
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TL;DR: A defining feature of the current “golden age” of Irish literature is its attention to capitalism, online culture and precarity in contemporary society as mentioned in this paper, which brings together four "millennia...
Abstract: A defining feature of the current “golden age” of Irish literature is its attention to capitalism, online culture and precarity in contemporary society. This article brings together four “millennia...
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TL;DR: The authors argued that Tolstoy's What Is Art? had a direct influence on David Foster Wallace's conception of literature, and most specifically that Wallace appropriated the discourse (down) of the book.
Abstract: This article argues that Tolstoy’s What Is Art? had a direct influence on David Foster Wallace’s conception of literature, and most specifically that Wallace appropriated Tolstoy’s discourse (down
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TL;DR: This paper enumerated four locales as institutional "sites" from which a physician operating in a medical setting makes their discourse, but it is a typology that neglects somewhat recuperation.
Abstract: Michel Foucault has enumerated four locales as institutional “sites” from which a physician operating in a medical setting makes their discourse. Yet it is a typology that neglects somewhat recuper...
TL;DR: Coetzee's "Foe" as mentioned in this paper is one of the most ambiguous and controversial novels written by J.M. Coetzee, and has been discussed extensively by criticism from a great variety of theoretical positions.
Abstract: Foe (1986) is one of the most ambiguous and controversial novels written by J.M. Coetzee, and has been discussed extensively by criticism from a great variety of theoretical positions. This essay p...
TL;DR: Nuruddin Farah's Links as discussed by the authors questions the language of network often invoked in theories of globalization, the 2003 novel instead questions this discourse through its focus on the affe...
Abstract: Though the title of Nuruddin Farah’s Links suggests the language of network often invoked in theories of globalization, the 2003 novel instead questions this discourse through its focus on the affe...
TL;DR: Coetzee's late global fictions regularly offer formal experiments with fleetingness as discussed by the authors, works designed to become dated, superannuated, yet repeatedly return to the theme of enduring, almost tra...
Abstract: J.M. Coetzee’s late global fictions regularly offer formal experiments with fleetingness – works designed to become dated, superannuated – yet repeatedly return to the theme of enduring, almost tra...
TL;DR: The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (2020) as discussed by the authors serves as a case study to the COVID-19 pandemic in the city of New York.
Abstract: Released at an unintentionally timely moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit its setting, New York City, the novel The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (2020) serves this article as a case study to d...
TL;DR: This article showed that the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein exerted an important influence on David Foster Wallace's fictive representations of clinical depression, and that this influence was not recognized by the author.
Abstract: This article demonstrates that the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein exerted an important – and under-recognized – influence on David Foster Wallace’s fictive representations of clinical depression...
TL;DR: The authors argue that Danzy Senna's Caucasia is a satirical passing narrative that exposes the tragedy of traditional passing novels as archaic for relying on racial binaries and perpetuating racism.
Abstract: In this paper, I argue that Danzy Senna’s Caucasia is a satirical passing narrative that exposes the tragedy of traditional passing novels as archaic for relying on racial binaries and perpetuating
TL;DR: For critics, now a few years deep into what has been called "the method wars" as discussed by the authors, the approaches are numerous, but most of all, are collective: whether critique or postcritique, or the...
Abstract: How do we read? For critics, now a few years deep into what has been called “the method wars”, the approaches are numerous, but most of all, are collective. Whether critique or postcritique, or the...
TL;DR: The authors explored the issue of ethics in Iris Murdoch's The Sandcastle (1957) and how it is related to the central character's struggles for making his life better, from a Deleuzean perspective.
Abstract: This essay aims at exploring, from a Deleuzean perspective, the issue of ethics in Iris Murdoch’s The Sandcastle (1957) and how it is related to the central character’s struggles for making his lif...
TL;DR: The authors consider Shteyngart's Lake Success as a literary exploration of alienation that is set against the backdrop of the 2016 U.S. presidential election in the United States.
Abstract: This article considers Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success as a literary exploration of alienation that is set against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election in the United States. It exposes ali...
TL;DR: The authors suggest that modern narratives featuring the antiheroine utilize Gothic techniques in order to expose the tension between convention and subversion of traditional feminist ideals, and suggest that these techniques can be used to reveal the contradiction between conventions and subversions of traditional women's ideals.
Abstract: and The Paper Wasp suggest that modern narratives featuring the antiheroine utilize Gothic techniques in order to expose the tension between convention and subversion of traditional feminist ideals
TL;DR: The prevailing tendency among critics is to read the fiction of Hari Kunzru through a postcolonial lens, emphasizing either his themes of fluidity and hybridity, or his cosmopolitan resistance to n...
Abstract: The prevailing tendency among critics is to read the fiction of Hari Kunzru through a postcolonial lens, emphasizing either his themes of fluidity and hybridity, or his cosmopolitan resistance to n...
TL;DR: In this paper, the relations between physical infrastructure and the politics of literary form in Fiston Mwanza Mujila's Tram 83 (2014) were investigated, although the novel initially seems to suggest that lit
Abstract: This essay considers the relations between physical infrastructure and the politics of literary form in Fiston Mwanza Mujila's Tram 83 (2014) Although the novel initially seems to suggest that lit
TL;DR: Mason & Dixon's silences regarding violence against Native Americans demand reoriented investigation as discussed by the authors, and some readers may feel that the novelist makes little effort to capture the larger experience of Native Americans.
Abstract: Mason & Dixon’s silences regarding violence against Native Americans demand reoriented investigation. Some readers may feel that the novelist makes little effort to capture the larger experience of...
TL;DR: The Southern Reach Trilogy (2014), Borne (2017), and Dead Astr... as discussed by the authors ) is a collection of eco-fiction that is responsive primarily to anthropogenic climate change.
Abstract: Jeff VanderMeer’s writing has been widely described as ecofiction, responsive primarily to anthropogenic climate change. My reading of the Southern Reach Trilogy (2014), Borne (2017), and Dead Astr...
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the feminist use of space in Aritha van Herk's self-identified mixed work of geography and fiction and draws on scholarly work that has already focused on the sp...
Abstract: This article analyzes the feminist use of space in Aritha van Herk’s self-identified mixed work of geography and fiction. It fundamentally draws on scholarly work that has already focused on the sp...
TL;DR: The Children of a Fireland (2004) provides a rather panoramic view into contemporary Hawaiian culture through its depiction of a fictional town on the brink of disaster as mentioned in this paper, and the multi-layered no...
Abstract: Gary Pak’s Children of a Fireland (2004) provides a rather panoramic view into contemporary Hawaiian culture through its depiction of a fictional town on the brink of disaster. The multi-layered no...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that resonating with references to the 1980 coup and inspired by the 2013 Gezi Park Protests, Ece Temelkuran's The Time of Mute Swans creates a cross-temporal communication and gi...
Abstract: This paper argues that resonating with references to the 1980 coup and inspired by the 2013 Gezi Park Protests, Ece Temelkuran's The Time of Mute Swans creates a cross-temporal communication and gi...
TL;DR: Xia Xi, Bi Shumin and Yu Juan as discussed by the authors explored the hidden community of women living with breast cancer in China, from different perspectives and in different genre, in different genres.
Abstract: Probing into the hidden community of women living with breast cancer in China, three Chinese women writers— Xi Xi, Bi Shumin and Yu Juan— explore, from different perspectives and in different genre...