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The Third Reich in Contemporary Fiction

What voice is suitable to describe the horrors of the Third Reich? From whose perspective should the catastrophic events be narrated? What is the relationship, in such…

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Androids in the Academy

Zara Dinnen October 1, 2012 5 Comments android Apple cyborg David digital culture electronic literature Happy Birthday David HCI Human Computer Interaction hypertext iPhone 4S machine Michael Fassbender new media Nicholas Royle personal assistant personal computing posthumanism Prometheus queer Ridley Scott robot science fiction Siri Technology uncanny valley video games

There is something uncomfortable about David, the android from Ridley Scott’s 2012 film Prometheus. This is partly due to the various interpellations…

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Ulysses as an RPG

Alistair Brown October 1, 2012 3 Comments Bildungsroman Elder Scrolls ergodic literature Fallout 3 game theory grinding inter texts James Joyce ludic ludology modernism new media roleplaying games RPGs temporality Ulysses

“I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles,” Joyce famously said of Ulysses, “it’ll keep the professors busy for centuries” (Ellmann 521). Having reinvented the novel…

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America and America

Xavier Marco Del Pont October 1, 2012 7 Comments Afro-Caribbean American culture American identity American literature Cajun Chicano continent Gabriel Garcia Marquez geo-chauvinism Great American Novel Herman Melville john Steinbeck Jonathan Franzen Latin America Margaret Atwood Mixtecos Nuyorrican Ralph Ellison Robert Bolano South America Thomas Pynchon U.S.United States United Statians Washingtonians

Shortly after its publication in 2010, Jonathan Franzen’s fourth novel Freedom garnered critical praise of the highest order, with many reviews…