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The Dramatization Of Cultural Hybridity And The "In-Between" Turkey In Fazıl's Künye, Önder Çakırtaş

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In his article "The Dramatization of Cultural Hybridity and the "In-Between" Turkey in Fazıl's Künye" Önder Çakırtaş addresses Turkey's historical context and exposes how political, social and cultural changes were expressed in Turkey's public sphere. Using Niyazi Berkes's theory of secularism as proceeding of modernism Çakırtaş discusses different examples of stylistic strategies of cultural hybridity in the playwright's historical-based play, Künye. He investigates how political changes in pre-Turkey times signify Turkey's national striving, and how the Ottoman-conservative past metamorphoses into Turkic-secular. The study juxtaposes the perceptions of 'introduction to Westernization' and 'departure from Islamic past' in a period …

Zamyatin's Reception Of Wells's Fiction, Natalia Aksenova, Marina Khatyamova

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In their article "Zamyatin's Reception of Well's Fiction," Natalia Aksenova and Marina Albertovna Khatyamova examine several essays written by Yevgeny Zamyatin on Herbert Wells's texts and analyse Zamyatin's reception of Wells's work. Wells's ironic mindset, plot-driven writings, and attraction to parody drew Zamyatin's attention. Zamyatin felt a rapport with the central role of plot dynamics, unorthodox socialist politics, and dystopian tendencies in Wells's fiction. Discussions of the artistic qualities of Wells's writings allow Zamyatin to expound upon his own aesthetic program, known as "synthetism." In these discussions Zamyatin interprets Wells's work as a complex interpretation of technological modernity where the …

Approaching The Value And The Future Of The Novel: A Book Review Article On Boxall's Scholarship, Yili Tang

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Paris And The Birth Of The Modern Fantastic During The Nineteenth Century, Patricia Garcia

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In her article "Paris and the Birth of the Modern Fantastic during the Nineteenth Century" Patricia Garcia discusses the unprecedented growth of Europe's urban centers during the nineteenth century in relation to the realist novel and takes urban and literary Paris as a paradigm. However, nineteenth-century Paris was also to become the epicenter of another narrative form: the fantastic. Garcia's objective is to explore how the modern city fueled the development of the fantastic by combining the literary and urban angle: how do works of the fantastic write the city? What role does the modern city play in the emergence …

Anarcho-Feminist Melodrama And The Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Claire T. Solomon

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In her article "Anarcho-Feminist Melodrama and the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (1929-2016)" Claire Solomon analyzes the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope as an apparatus of capture (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand). More precisely, her article models how such tropes imply modes of reading anachronistically and metafictionally that decontextualize gestures of resistance and conflate female writers, performers, and characters across time and place. Solomon offers a situated formalist reading of Argentine playwright Salvadora Medina Onrubia's 1929 drama, Las descentradas, revealing an avant-garde counterpoint of melodrama and metafiction as an ambiguous alternative to capture.

Surplus Rebellion, Human Capital, And The Ends Of Study In Chile, 2011, D. Bret Leraul

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This article traces a dual representational crisis, at once mimetic and political, coursing through Chile’s 2011 movement and its post-Transition conjuncture. It aims to reconfigure the archive of 2011 in order to release its radical potential from the obfuscating solutions offered by the alliance of its dominant academic and journalistic reception and Chile’s elitist, liberal democracy, and to understand why in 2016 –five years since 2011 and a decade since the outbreak of student unrest– Chilean people continue to defy the state.Through a close reading of an anonymous pamphlet defending the violent, masked protestors known as encapuchados, I argue …

Let Me Tell You What It Means: Reading Beyond Humor In Selected Iranian-American Memoirs, Stand-Up Comedy, And Film In The Post-9/11 Era, Reza Ashouri Talooki

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Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Muslims in America have continued to remain the subject of cultural and political debates. In their artistic endeavours, Muslim artists have tried to rectify the negative and mediated images attributed to Islam, Muslims, and their cultures. In this dissertation, I look at Iranian works from the diaspora that not only represent Iranian culture and attempt to raise public awareness in America, but also extensively wade into humor as their linking theme. It is humor embedded in socio-cultural and political implications along with cultural representations that constitute my analysis in this dissertation. …

Exploring Kitsch: Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness Of Being And Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Parastoo Nasrollahzadeh

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This thesis is an exploration of the concept of kitsch in two prominent novels of the twentieth century: Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Kundera in his novel offers a debate on kitsch, tracing it back to its original metaphysical meaning. In Vonnegut’s novel, there is no direct discussion of kitsch. However, both the style of Vonnegut’s novel and the world he depicts in and through the novel are imbued with kitsch and kitsch elements. The thesis offers a general overview of the concept of kitsch in the introductory chapter. The first chapter then aims …

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An Autumn Torso, A Fish In Adolescence, A Night Canal, And A Small Civilization By Shiro Murano, Goro Takano

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Translated from Japanese by Goro Takano

Alas, Posthumus By Horace, Paul J. Shlichta

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Translated from Latin by Paul Shlichta

Like A Dream, Disintegrated, And The Alchemist By Abd Al Malik, Siobhan M. Mei

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Translated from French by Siobhan Meï

Ix.91 By Martial, George Held

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Translated from Latin by George Held

Staying Again At Youqi Temple By Yao Nai And The Peaks Along The River Are Green By Zhang Dai, Andrew Gudgel

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Translated from Chinese by Andrew Gudgel

Ferns By Kaneko Mitsuharu, Douglas Slaymaker

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Translated from Japanese by Doug Slaymaker

Puzzle By Viviane Mellerio-Grasser, Madeleine Mcdonald

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Translated from French by Madeleine McDonald

Five Rings By Chen Li, Elaine Wong

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Translated from Chinese by Elaine Wong

A Woman Moving Within Me By Nizar Qabbani, Houssem Ben Lazreg

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Translated from Arabic by Houssem Ben Lazreg

Sonnet 19 By Rainer Maria Rilke, David Radavich

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Translated from German by David Radavich

White Egret By Li Bai, Hyacinthus Meredith

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Translated from Chinese by Hyacinthus Meredith