Previous Issues – Page 19

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Social Media Memory

As an academic field, ‘memory studies’ has been around for almost a century – Maurice Halbwachs first coined the term ‘collective memory’ in 1925 – but it was in the late…

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The Third Reich in Contemporary Fiction

Richard Martin October 1, 2012 4 Comments Adolf Eichmann Auschwitz Babi Yar massacres Berlin Christopher Browning contemporary literature Daša Drndić European novel Hannah Arendt HHhH historical fiction Jonathan Littell Kurt Franz Laurent Binet Max Aue Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe Primo Levi SS officer The Kindly Ones Thurd Reich Trieste twenty-first-century literature

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…

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Human Nature: Pastoral in the Anthropocene

Deborah Lilley September 1, 2012 2 Comments Anthropocene Arcadia Being Dead contemporary literature ecological concerns Edgelands Findings geological epoch Glen Love Glister human action Jim Crace John Barrell John Bull John Burnside Kathleen Jamie Lawrence Buell Leo Marx Martin Ryle Michael Symmons Roberts pastoral Paul Farley Raymond Williams Terry Gifford The Country and the City The Pesthouse zoology

With the proposition that we are now living in the Anthropocene – the geological epoch defined by human activities and their effects – the conditions of the pastoral are placed under unprecedented threat, and at the same time, they can be seen to be given new significance.

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Departures: The Novel, the Non-Place and the Airport

Bianca Leggett September 1, 2012 16 Comments A Week at the Airport Aerotropolis airport library airport novel Alain de Botton Christopher Schaberg globalisation Greg Lindsey Heathrow Writer in Residence hyper-mobile times John D. Kasadra literature non-place place Rana Dasgupta space synecdoche temporality Textual Life of Airports Tokyo Cancelled travel

The term airport novel is something of a misnomer: while the spy novel must by definition involve spying and the historical novel takes readers back into history, airport novels aspire to remove us from the world of the airport. Designed to distract the reader from the boredom…

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Transgression and Contemporary Fiction

Martyn James Colebrook September 1, 2012 2 Comments Alasdair Gray Ali Smith Anthony Burgess Bill Drummond contemporary fiction David Britton Duncan McLean Ewan Morrison genre Gothic Iain Banks Irvine Welsh James Kelman James Robertson Johnny Glynn literature Marabou Stork Nightmares Mark Manning Michael Butterworth Niall Griffiths obscenity Patrick McCabe Peter Sotos Ron Butlin Scottish Gothic Toni Davidson transgression

One of the overt criticisms directed towards popular fiction is its requirement for a formulaic structure of characters, plot and narrative, which risks perpetuating the stereotype that all such fiction is repetitious, mass-produced and lacking in depth and originality.

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Intermediality: Middling and Meddle English

Holly Pester September 1, 2012 No Comments Anthony Burgess broadsides ballads. rhetoric Caroline Bergvall catalogue Chaucerian English contemporary cross-disciplinarity Dick Higgins found-texts gallery intermediality language linguistics Meddle English mediation Michael Serres Middling English poetry prosody Riddey Walker Russell Hoban Southampton Steven Connors The Shorter Chaucer Tales

A project for poetry and text-based art has emerged over the past two years that tests the limits of what we broadly term as intermedia. The work is Caroline Bergvall’s combined ‘Middling English’, an exhibition at the John Hasard gallery in Southampton in 2010…

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Sherlock Hound and the Transnational

Iain Robert Smith August 1, 2012 9 Comments A Study in Scarlet adaptation theory anime Arthur Conan Doyle Dogtanian Hayao Miyazaki Koichi Iwabuchi Linda Hutcheon localisation Meitantei Holmes memes Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Hound steampunk transnational adaptation studies Ulysses 31 Victoriana

On 26th November 1984 the anime series Meitantei Holmes (“Famous Detective Holmes,” 1984-1985), known in English as Sherlock Hound, began broadcasting on the Japanese TV channel Asahi. Almost a century after…