Focusing on its literary programming in particular, this study of UNESCO shines a light on the close relationship between state-backed economic development and the global postwar cultural policy establishment.
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Novels That Enact: Capitalist Storification and Emerging Forms in Contemporary Fiction examines the contemporary novel form in relation to major historical transformations of managerialism and cybernetics since the 1950s. Tracing the metamorphosis of cybernetics from a war-time …
My doctoral thesis examines the theme of wandering in contemporary French and Francophone literature as that theme is exemplified in the works of five authors: Marie Redonnet, Marie NDiaye, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Antoine Volodine, and Patrick Deville. My hypothesis is that each of t…
This dissertation explores how humor is employed by minority authors of 21st-century German literature and how that humor contributes to redrawing perceived centers and margins in contemporary Germany. I investigate humor as a community-building tool that establishes points of i…
U ovom radu bavimo se teorijskim, stilskim, komparativnim i hermeneutičkim istraživanjem vizuelnih elemementa u prozi srpskog postmodernizma i neoavangarde. Pod vizuelnim elementima podrazumevamo ovom prilikom: slike, ilustracije, karikature, embleme, kolaže i fotomontaže. Cilj …
This dissertation, “Indebted Pasts, Alternative Futures: Caribbean Digital Imaginations in Twenty-First Century Literature”, argues that Caribbean transmedia writers converge in their integration of new media in literary objects to engage, read, and bring our attention to the er…
Reading the Machine: Digital Reading Practices and the Contemporary U.S. Novel, investigates how emerging information technologies—networked devices, software programs, and algorithmic protocols—redefine cultural forms of textual production and reception. Focusing on the longsta…
Retelling stories that have already been told is not a new phenomenon. The most popular religious book in Western history, the Bible, was being retold as far back as the Bible. There is a ubiquity of critical scholarship accompanying this ubiquity of biblical retellings. Yet sev…
This work is a sort of an academic adventure within the form and content of modern literature which comprises: introduction, preface, Six chapters and conclusion; each of the chapters is subdivided into sections. The first chapter contains an introduction which encompasses brief…
This book offers an insightful history of dystopian literature, integrating it within the conceptual schemas of Deleuze and Guattari. Unlike earlier examples of dystopia which depict representations of a possible future that is remarkably worse than present society, contemporary…
This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from the late twentieth …
This collection of essays grew out of the "Reading Stephen King Conference" held at the University of Maine in 1996. Stephen King's books have become a lightning rod for the tensions around issues of including "mass market" popular literature in middle and high school English cl…
The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar LindaWagner-Mart…
