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Issue 2.4 - Special Issue "Thatcher's Legacies" Previous Issues

Gordon Burn and Mrs T

One of the strangest, and most recurrent, observations about Margaret Thatcher’s funeral was the number of celebrity mourners, including, but not limited to, Katherine Jenkins, Joan Collins, Jeremy Clarkson, Terry Wogan and Shirley Bassey…

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Are Video Game Narratives Postmodern?

Alistair Brown May 13, 2013 4 Comments aesthetics Alan Kirby Beyond: Two Souls Call of Duty commodification computer games contemporary culture digital models Espen Aarseth Fredric Jameson gangster films Grand Theft Auto (GTA)Heavy Rain Jean Baudrillard L.A. Noire literary theory ludological theory Mass Effect media studies Minecraft Nintendo Wii Postmodern Culture postmodernism pseudo-modernism Rockstar San Andreas videogames XBox ZX Spectrum

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…

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Explorations in the Ergodic

Ash Ogden March 26, 2013 5 Comments Ayn Rand computer games digital cartographies digital culture digital media Donna Haraway ergodic literature Eric Zimmerman Espen J. Aarseth Gaming Literacy House of Leaves identity Indra Sinha literature Mark Z. Danielewski new media Night of January 16th subjectivity The Cybergypsies videogames studies

As our lives become more networked, people are engaging more and more with structures. But they are not merely inhabiting these structures – they are…

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Somaesthetics and Literary Criticism

Robert W. Jones II March 26, 2013 1 Comment aesthetic experience Alexander Technique Alfred Korzybski American Pragmatist philosophy body body-mind-language collage cut-up texts cybernetics experimental literature Feldenkrais method Moshé Feldenkreis neuroscience perception Richard Shusterman semantics somaesthetics W. Grey Walter Wilhelm Reich William S. Burroughs Zen meditation

As literary scholars we are often bending and stretching our frame of reference looking for a new lens with which to examine texts to provide fresh insight and unique views. We beg, borrow and steal ideas from…

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Re-Writing Belfast

Caroline Magennis March 26, 2013 2 Comments 2013 Arts Council of Northern Ireland BBC Belfast bisexuality Ciaran Carson City Hall flag protests Fat Lad Glenn Patterson Good Friday Agreement Good Vibrations Healing through Remembering Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity John Millar Lapsed Protestant literature Northern Star post-conflict Northern Ireland pre-Troubles Era RMS Oceanic Robert McLiam Wilson Stewart Parker Studies on Hysteria The International The Mill for Grinding Old People Young Titanic Quarter Transitional Justice Institute Ulster Journal of Archaeology United Irish Rebellion University of Ulster

In April 2012, the Northern Irish writer Glenn Patterson published his eighth novel, The Mill for Grinding Old People Young, with Faber. The book is the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s first ever…

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Remix Culture and the Literary Mashup

Jacob Murphy March 26, 2013 8 Comments Adam Roberts adaptation studies Android Karenina BBC costume drama Charles Dickens Coleridge Cook death of the author Franz Kafka Great Expectations Harry Potter parodies hybrid text I Am Scrooge Jane Austen literary adaptation literary canon literary genre literary mashup Lolcatz mashup fiction Meowmorphosis Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Quirk Books Roland Barthes Seth Graeme-Smith The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

2009 saw the release of the first mainstream literary mashup – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Graeme-Smith. This particular book has produced a prequel (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies…

Issue 2.1 Previous Issues

Railways and Fiction

Christopher Daley January 12, 2013 6 Comments Agatha Christie Andrew Martin Anticipations British fiction British popular imagination Charles Dickens Dombey and Son Down in a Tube at Midnight Emile Zola H. G. Wells industrialisation Jim Stringer series Kraftwerk Leo Tolstoy London Underground Penguin series of railway writings rail fare hikes railways Raymond Williams Stop HS2 Campaign The Jam Trans-Europe Express Victorian novelists

Christopher Daley Railways are news. On the one hand, they are the source of consternation as above inflation fare rises couple with the perceived drudgery…