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  • Violenza, famiglia e genere. Il romanzo di ambiente poliziesco di Melania G. Mazzucco

    Author(s):
    Francesco Ardolino (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian
    Subject(s):
    Italian literature, Contemporary fiction, Italian studies
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Italian LIterature, contemporary fiction, contemporary literature
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    ... Contemporary fiction ...
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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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
    Search term matches:
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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • “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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • "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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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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    ... contemporary fiction ...
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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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    ... contemporary fiction ...
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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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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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    ... contemporary fiction ...

  • 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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