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The Oxford Handbook Of Ecocriticism Edited By Greg Garrard, Camilla Nelson Dr
The Oxford Handbook Of Ecocriticism Edited By Greg Garrard, Camilla Nelson Dr
The Goose
Camilla Nelson reviews The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, edited by Greg Garrard
Not The Whole Story: Narrative Responses To Contemporary Globalization, Sean Patrick O'Brien
Not The Whole Story: Narrative Responses To Contemporary Globalization, Sean Patrick O'Brien
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This dissertation analyzes contemporary global fiction in English (and, in one chapter, new media literatures such as videogame-based narratives) to examine how individuals, communities, and globalized networks manage differences among historical interpretations, ideologies, lived experiences, and cultural and national traditions making competing demands. Cultural and media theorists like John Tomlinson, Anthony Giddens, Arjun Appadurai, Lev Manovich, and Ian Bogost have demonstrated the overwhelming complexity of life in an age of accelerating globalization. Building on their work and the narrative theory of Maggie Dunn and Ann Morris, I explore how literary narratives employ newly prominent composite narrative structures to represent and …