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Alluvium Editorial 7.2

Guest Editors Julia Ditter and Andreas Theodorou explore the connections between the past and the present.

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The Author Returns

Arya Aryan April 30, 2019 No Comments Author contemporary David Foster Wallace medium mediumship meta-modernism radio Rushdie Salman Rushdie

Arya Aryan explores the return of the Author in the writing of Salman Rushdie

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Alluvium Editorial 7.1: Relaunch

Zoe Bulaitis March 4, 2019 No Comments Alluvium BACLS c21 Caroline Wintersgill Chloe Ashbridge conference contemporary contemporary culture contemporary fiction definitions editorial future global relaunch twenty-first-century literature What Happens Now writing Zoe Bulaitis

We are delighted to be presenting you with the first new issue of Alluvium, which is relaunching as a graduate-run journal affiliated to the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS).

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Digital Media and the Global Contemporary

Sarah Kirpekar-Sauer March 4, 2019 No Comments advocacy arts contemporary contemporary culture contemporary fiction definitions digital culture digital humanities global glocal glocalisation local localisation Refugee relaunch twenty-first-century literature

Broadly speaking, the early twenty-first century is both increasingly global, and increasingly shaped by digital technology.

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Mapping the Contemporary

Caroline Wintersgill March 4, 2019 No Comments BACLS book publication contemporary contemporary culture contemporary fiction definitions edited collection global interview launch relaunch twenty-first-century literature

An Interview with Daniel O’Gorman and Robert Eaglestone on publishing The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction.

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Identifying with Our Contemporaries

Richard Bingham March 4, 2019 No Comments contemporary contemporary culture contemporary fiction definitions Generation X generations global Ireland Irish fiction media Millennials relaunch Teenage twenty-first-century literature

If the hype is to be believed, “millennials” have finally found their literary standard-bearer in Irish author Sally Rooney [ …]

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Contemporary Canonicity (or, what not to read)

Rachel Sykes March 4, 2019 No Comments American literature Amy Hungerford canon contemporary contemporary culture contemporary fiction definitions relaunch syllabi twenty-first-century literature what not to read

Scholarship on the contemporary has a unique relationship to questions of canonicity and value. […]

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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…