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Are Video Game Narratives Postmodern?

An editorial in the twentieth anniversary issue of the journal Postmodern Culture in 2010 added another voice to mark the gradual retreat of the postmodern…

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Recovering Nostalgia in Nature Writing

Deborah Lilley May 13, 2013 1 Comment ecocriticism Edgelands Findings Fredric Jameson Granta Green Letters Kathleen Jamie landscape Linda Hutcheon literature Mario Shoard Michael Symmons Roberts nature writers Nature writing Nicholas Dames pastoral Paul Farley Robert McFarlane Svetlana Boym Waterlog

In Edgelands (2011), Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explain their intention to ‘put aside our nostalgia for places we’ve never really known’ and instead seek…

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Identity and Consciousness in Dial H

Christina Scholz May 13, 2013 9 Comments Alan Moore Boy Chimney China Mieville comics D.C.Dial H Erich Origen Frank Miller Gan Golan graphic narrative Jacen Burrows Mateus Santolouco Neil Gaiman New 52 panel composition panel design Perdido Street Station Sandman serialised narrative superheroes The Adventures of Unemployed Man The Courtyard The Dark Knight Returns Watchmen

With DC’s “New 52” reboot of Dial H China Miéville has re-entered the genre of comics after a guest episode of Hellblazer and a much-discussed but ultimately…

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DeLillo, Aesthetics, The Cold Iraq War

Martin Paul Eve May 13, 2013 2 Comments 21st century literature 9/11 bi-directionality Cold War Contemporary American Literature Cosmopolis Don DeLillo Douglas Gordon Falling Man installation Iraq War Point Omega postmodernist aesthetics rogue state The Body Artist Thomas Pynchon Toni Morrison Twenty-Four Hour Psycho Underworld warfare White Noise

As one of the most important American writers of the late-twentieth century – alongside Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon in particular – Don DeLillo is a notable target of…