Fredric Jameson

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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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