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A Postmodern Look At Modernism: A Review Article Of Books By Pera And López On Modernista Writers In Hispanic Literature, Richard A. Cardwell
A Postmodern Look At Modernism: A Review Article Of Books By Pera And López On Modernista Writers In Hispanic Literature, Richard A. Cardwell
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
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Why Fantasy Matters Too Much, Jack Zipes
Why Fantasy Matters Too Much, Jack Zipes
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Why Fantasy Matters Too Much" Jack Zipes proposes that fantasy in contemporary culture functions as a celebrity and money-making machine. Fantasy mobilizes and instrumentalizes the fantastic to form and celebrates spectacles as illusions of social relations based on power. Thus, spectacles violate and drain our imagination by glorifying social relations of power made spectacular and involve the magic of fetishism. Generally, the results bring about delusion and acclamation of particular sets of social relations that are commodified, sold, and consumed. We acclaim commodities that we do not know and products not of our own making we consume …
Death And Love In Poe's And Schwob's Readings Of The Classics, Ana González-Rivas Fernández, Francisco García Jurado
Death And Love In Poe's And Schwob's Readings Of The Classics, Ana González-Rivas Fernández, Francisco García Jurado
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In their article "Death and Love in Poe's and Schwob's Readings of the Classics," Ana González-Rivas Fernández and Francisco García Jurado propose that although Gothic literature usually relegates the theme of love to the background, devoting most of its attention to the supernatural and to darkness, there are also literary texts in which love is mixed with life beyond the grave. This is the case, for example, of Théophile Gautier's La Morte amoureuse (1836), the story of a vampire who comes back to life in her "undead" condition in order to seduce a priest. The theme of love and death …
Selected Bibliography Of Studies On The Fantastic In Literature, Terri Ochiagha
Selected Bibliography Of Studies On The Fantastic In Literature, Terri Ochiagha
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
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The Literary Fantastic In African And English Literature, Terri Ochiagha
The Literary Fantastic In African And English Literature, Terri Ochiagha
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In her article "The Literary Fantastic in African and English Literature," Terri Ochiagha begins with pointing out that in his Introduction á la literature fantastique, Tzvetan Todorov proposed the theoretical frameworks he believed should be the basis of the identification and analysis of a literary work as fantastic. While Todorov's text is only one of the many treatises on the fantastic in literary scholarship, in most of these African prose is seldom a subject of exemplification or analysis. In the rare instances in which such texts are mentioned, they are often and hastily classified as magic realism. Ochiagha posits whether …
Entropy And The Fantastic In Pynchon's Narratives, María Rosa Burillo Gadea
Entropy And The Fantastic In Pynchon's Narratives, María Rosa Burillo Gadea
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In her article "Entropy and the Fantastic in Pynchon's Narratives" María Rosa Burillo Gadea postulates that dealing with Pynchon's fiction one is not sure if paranoia is presented as an alternative way of grasping other possible spheres, a more comprehensive vision of the world, or merely a joke. Pynchon's stories try to reproduce reality in different fictional grounds. He uses the notion of entropy, the level of molecular disorder of a thermodynamic system when heated as a metaphor for a disorderly and chaotic universe, necessary, however, in order to avoid the fatality of system exhaustion or death. A kind of …
Cultural Scenarios Of The Fantastic, Asunción López-Varela
Cultural Scenarios Of The Fantastic, Asunción López-Varela
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In her article, "Cultural Scenarios of the Fantastic," Asunción López-Varela Azcárate explores the relationship between technological development, the materiality of objects, the concept of ontological presence, and the emergence of abstract and fantastic models. López-Varela Azcárate argues that since the early twentieth century there has been a return to the fantastic in literature and that this is related to neo-baroque attitudes whose foundations are a systemic way of knowing that unveils a world understandable from an epistemology of complexity and ambiguity. In postmodern neo-baroque aesthetics, with its focus on technological re-mediating, that is, transferring information across different media, originality is …
Cinema's Doubles, Their Meaning, And Literary Intertexts, Pilar Andrade
Cinema's Doubles, Their Meaning, And Literary Intertexts, Pilar Andrade
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his paper "Cinema's Doubles, Their Meaning, and Literary Intertexts" Pilar Andrade analyzes the figure of the double as an element of cinema. Andrade does not take under consideration films in which the double is considered merely as a clinical case with no mystery (for example as in David Fincher's Fight Club or Brad Anderson's The Machinist) or in which it is used as a useful piece to make the plot without referring to the fantasy world (as in Joel Schumacher's Bad Company); instead, Andrade focuses on films that make a clear connection between the alter ego and fantasy, including …
Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch
Op Ed -- Should Academic Libraries Ask For Bailout Too?!, Medhi Khosrow-Pour
Op Ed -- Should Academic Libraries Ask For Bailout Too?!, Medhi Khosrow-Pour
Against the Grain
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From Your (First It's Not, Then It's Cold) Editor, Katina Strauch
From Your (First It's Not, Then It's Cold) Editor, Katina Strauch
Against the Grain
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Atg Deadlines, Editor
If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch
University-Based Publishing Partnerships: A Guide To Critical Issues, Raym Crow
University-Based Publishing Partnerships: A Guide To Critical Issues, Raym Crow
Against the Grain
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Back Talk -- Cd In Digital Era Calis, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson
Back Talk -- Cd In Digital Era Calis, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson
Against the Grain
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Learning To Say Maybe: Building Nyu's Press/Library Collaboration, Monica Mccormick
Learning To Say Maybe: Building Nyu's Press/Library Collaboration, Monica Mccormick
Against the Grain
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Publisher-Library Relations: What Assets Does A University Press Bring To The Partnership?, Patrick H. Alexander
Publisher-Library Relations: What Assets Does A University Press Bring To The Partnership?, Patrick H. Alexander
Against the Grain
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Atg Interviews Steve Mckinzie, Steve Mckinzie
People Profile: Catherine Mitchell, Editor
People Profile: Michael Furlough, Editor
Atg Special Report -- Researcher: The Open Source Solution For Managing Electronic Resources, Rachel A. Erb
Atg Special Report -- Researcher: The Open Source Solution For Managing Electronic Resources, Rachel A. Erb
Against the Grain
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People Profile: Sylvia Miller, Editor
People Profile: Laura Cerruti, Editor
Book Reviews -- Monographic Musings, Debbie Vaughn
Book Reviews -- Monographic Musings, Debbie Vaughn
Against the Grain
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From The Reference Desk, Thomas Gilson
People Profile: Patrick Alexander, Editor
Questions & Answers -- Copyright Column, Laura N. Gasaway
Questions & Answers -- Copyright Column, Laura N. Gasaway
Against the Grain
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Cases Of Note -- Copyright: Technology Trumps Tasini, Bruce Strauch
Cases Of Note -- Copyright: Technology Trumps Tasini, Bruce Strauch
Against the Grain
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Legally Speaking -- Is Open Source Software A Violation Of Antitrust Law: Considering The Case Of Wallace V. Ibm, Bryan M. Carson J.D., M.I.L.S.
Legally Speaking -- Is Open Source Software A Violation Of Antitrust Law: Considering The Case Of Wallace V. Ibm, Bryan M. Carson J.D., M.I.L.S.
Against the Grain
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Biz Of Acq -- Screencasting For Acquisitions, Xan Arch
Biz Of Acq -- Screencasting For Acquisitions, Xan Arch
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.