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• A Misunderstanding of Fiction: Thoughts on William Gibson's "The Peripheral"

  Author(s):

  James Elkins (see profile)

  Date:

  2017

  Group(s):

  American Literature, TC Philosophy and Literature, TC Science and Literature

  Subject(s):

  American literature, Literary criticism, Literary theory, Speculative fiction

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  contemporary fiction, William Gibson, Science fiction

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  ... contemporary fiction ...

  
  

• The "Finnegans Wake of Russia," And Its Translation Problems: On Sasha Sokolov's "Between Dog and Wolf"

  Author(s):

  James Elkins (see profile)

  Date:

  2017

  Group(s):

  Theory and Modernism, TM Literary and Cultural Theory

  Subject(s):

  Modern literature, Russian literature, Russian studies

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  Avant-garde, contemporary fiction, James Joyce, postmodernism, Sasha Sokolov

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• Why Write Average Books? On Julian Barnes's "The Sense of an Ending"

  Author(s):

  James Elkins (see profile)

  Date:

  2017

  Group(s):

  Theory and Modernism, TM Literary and Cultural Theory

  Subject(s):

  English literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  contemporary fiction, Literary criticism, Postmodern fiction, Julian Barnes

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• Frantic Cleverness as a Style: Notes on Nell Zink's "The Wallcreeper"

  Author(s):

  James Elkins (see profile)

  Date:

  2017

  Group(s):

  American Literature

  Subject(s):

  Modern literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  Wit, Humor, Contemporary fiction

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• Deconstructing Danielewski's "Complexity"

  Author(s):

  James Elkins (see profile)

  Date:

  2017

  Group(s):

  TM Literary and Cultural Theory

  Subject(s):

  American literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  Danielewski, Contemporary fiction, Experimental writing

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• What Counts as Good Writing for Knausgaard?

  Author(s):

  James Elkins (see profile)

  Date:

  2017

  Group(s):

  TC Philosophy and Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory

  Subject(s):

  European literature, Modern literature, Norwegian literature, Scandinavian literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  Karl Ove Knausgaard, Knausgaard, Norwegian literature, Contemporary fiction

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• On the Limits of Wit and of Plotting in Maximalist Novels: Notes on Sergio De la Pava, Naked Singularity

  Author(s):

  James Elkins (see profile)

  Date:

  2017

  Group(s):

  American Literature, Theory and Modernism, TM Literary and Cultural Theory

  Subject(s):

  American literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  contemporary fiction, contemporary literature, Sergio De la Pava, Maximalimalist fiction

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• The "Caradoc Affair": An Argument for an Ethics of Place

  Author(s):

  Alyce von Rothkirch (see profile)

  Date:

  2014

  Subject(s):

  British literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  20th Century Literature, contemporary fiction, contemporary literature, ethics, Welsh Writing in English

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• Water and Liminality in Praisesong for the Widow and Daughters of the Dust

  Author(s):

  Carmen Lopez (see profile)

  Date:

  2016

  Group(s):

  LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, MS Visual Culture, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies

  Subject(s):

  African American culture, African American literature, Cultural studies, Metaphysics, Spirituality

  Item Type:

  Essay

  Tag(s):

  contemporary fiction, cultural displacement, ecocriticism, identity, slavery

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• “A Shorthand of Stars”: From John to Thomas Pynchon

  Author(s):

  Martin Paul Eve (see profile) , Mark Sussman

  Date:

  2016

  Group(s):

  LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American

  Subject(s):

  American history, American literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  20th Century Literature, contemporary fiction, thomas pynchon

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• Double Exposure: The Family Album and Alternate Memories in Leïla Sebbar's The Seine was Red

  Author(s):

  Laila Amine (see profile)

  Date:

  2012

  Group(s):

  LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French, LLC Francophone, TC Memory Studies, TC Postcolonial Studies, TM Literary Criticism

  Subject(s):

  Cultural studies, Francophone literature, French literature, Media studies, Political literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  arab world, collective politics, contemporary fiction, decolonial theory, Maghrib

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• Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting of Adolescence

  Author(s):

  Annabel Kim (see profile)

  Date:

  2016

  Group(s):

  LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French, TC Women’s and Gender Studies, TM Literary Criticism

  Subject(s):

  French literature, Literature, Romance literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  21st Century Literature, contemporary fiction, gender, feminist studies

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• "Reimagining Transnational Identities in Lahiri’s The Namesake"

  Author(s):

  Binod Paudyal (see profile)

  Date:

  2015

  Group(s):

  LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Asian American, LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies

  Subject(s):

  American literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  american literature, asian american, citizenship, contemporary fiction, national identity

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• Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction

  Author(s):

  Binod Paudyal (see profile)

  Date:

  2015

  Group(s):

  LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Asian American, LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies

  Subject(s):

  American literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  american literature, asian american, contemporary fiction, cosmopolitanism, Literary canon

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  ... contemporary fiction ...

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  ... cosmopolitan discourse” (8). The essays in this issue, we are told, “consider the ways in which contemporary ...

  
  

• Interview with Jon McGregor

  Author(s):

  Caroline Edwards (see profile)

  Date:

  2010

  Group(s):

  CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century

  Subject(s):

  British literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  contemporary fiction, Jon McGregor, 21st Century Literature

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  ... lives that contemporary fiction has often shown itself more likely to ignore entirely or reshape into ...

  
  

• Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse

  Author(s):

  Caroline Edwards (see profile)

  Date:

  2009

  Group(s):

  CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Marxism, Literature, and Society, TM Literary and Cultural Theory

  Subject(s):

  British literature, Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Literary theory

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  british literature, contemporary fiction, ecocriticism, speculative realism, utopia

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  ... desire – can be seen as signalling what contemporary fiction cannot do, what it is not able to say ...

  
  

• Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Dying Men

  Author(s):

  Shazia Sadaf (see profile)

  Date:

  2014

  Group(s):

  CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies

  Subject(s):

  English literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  contemporary fiction, culture studies, english, postcolonial literature

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• Becomings in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and José Saramago's Blindness

  Author(s):

  Hania A.M. Nashef (see profile)

  Date:

  2010

  Group(s):

  CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Prose Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, LLC Luso-Brazilian, TC Philosophy and Literature

  Subject(s):

  Comparative literature, English literature, Literature and philosophy, Portuguese literature

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  contemporary fiction, fiction, j.m. coetzee, jose saramago, postmodernism

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• Chapter 16: Witnessing History According to the Refracted Testimony of Gravity's Rainbow and Reading Autobiographical Interests of both Author and Reader in the Context of the Code-Changing Paradigm of Aesthetic Semiosis

  Author(s):

  Edwin Lambert Hetfield (see profile)

  Date:

  2015

  Group(s):

  CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, LSL Linguistics and Literature, TC Science and Literature

  Subject(s):

  American literature, Epistemology, History and literature, Linguistics, Modern history

  Item Type:

  Book chapter

  Tag(s):

  contemporary fiction, intellectual history, narrative theory, postmodernism

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• Lauren Beukes’s post-apartheid dystopia: inhabiting Moxyland

  Author(s):

  Louise Bethlehem (see profile)

  Date:

  2013

  Group(s):

  CLCS Global Anglophone, CLCS Global South, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC African since 1990, TC Postcolonial Studies

  Subject(s):

  African history, African literature, Cultural studies, Ethics

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  citizenship, contemporary fiction, global south, urbanism

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• Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  Author(s):

  Yomaira Figueroa (see profile)

  Date:

  2015

  Group(s):

  CLCS Global Anglophone, CLCS Global Hispanophone, LLC Latina and Latino, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies

  Subject(s):

  African literature, American literature, Caribbean literature, Literature and philosophy, Spanish language

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  contemporary fiction, decolonial theory, feminist philosophy, junot diaz, donato ndongo

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• Fleeting Forever: (Never)Ending Moments in Paradise, Housekeeping, and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

  Author(s):

  Francisco Robles (see profile)

  Date:

  2014

  Group(s):

  LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Philosophy and Literature, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature

  Subject(s):

  American literature, Cultural studies, Ethics

  Item Type:

  Conference paper

  Tag(s):

  contemporary fiction, karen joy fowler, marilynne robinson, the sublime, toni morrison

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