Linda Hutcheon

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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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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…

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Still Here: Post-Millennial Metafiction and Crypto-Didacticism

Martin Paul Eve August 1, 2012 3 Comments 2666 American literature Ciudad Juarez crypto-didacticism David Foster Wallace Don DeLillo E Unibus Pluram ethics Falling Man fiction Gravity's Rainbow historiographic metafiction Inherent Vice Linda Hutcheon literary criticism Mason & Dixon Patricia Waugh Point Omega post-postmodernism postmodernism Ratner's Star Roberto Bolano Running Dog simulacrum simulation The Body Artist the New Sincerity The Pale King Thomas Pynchon Underworld White Noise

In 1993, David Foster Wallace published an essay piece entitled “E Unibus Pluram” in which he outlined his belief that fiction should move away from the ‘critical and destructive’ postmodern irony that he saw as…

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