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Snapshots of the Executioners

When the images of torture and abuse by American soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq became public in 2004, what was it that shocked so many people? It surely came as little surprise to…

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Framing Comics Words

Harriet Earle October 17, 2014 No Comments 9/11 Art Spiegelman Asterix Bill Wray bubble comics Dust Jason Keith Giffen narrative form Scott McCloud silent comics The Yellow Kid trauma comics traumatic representation Will Eisner

Many aspects of the comics form have entered popular consciousness but none is quite as ubiquitous as the bubble. In order to work as a narrative form, comics are required to make visible…

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Involving Animals

Heidi James-Dunbar October 17, 2014 1 Comment animals anthropomorphism becoming being correlationism deconstruction Deleuze and Guattari Derrida Georges Bataille human Lynne Tillman New Narrative movement nomadic literature non-human Quentin Meillassoux Rosi Braidotti species boundary species divide speculative realism the other

From Neolithic cave painting, through to writers as diverse as Rainer Maria Rilke, Dante Alighieri, Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar…

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From Genre to Zenre

Christos Callow Jr. October 17, 2014 No Comments Adam Roberts Buddha evaporating genres fantastic literature Farah Mendlesohn Gary K. Wolfe genre fiction Hamlet horror fiction literary criticism Ray Bradbury science fiction SF definitions Zen koan Zen philosophy Zenre fiction

In response to the question “what are you reading, my lord?” the young prince simply says “words, words, words!” (Shakespeare, 74). But perhaps the answer Polonius was looking for was a more…