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Nabutanyi, Edgar Fred. "Language, fiction, and heteropatriarchal critique in selected recent Ugandan short fiction." Sociolinguistic Studies 17, no. 1-3 (2023): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.23998.

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There is an emerging Ugandan queer writing tradition that adopts an activist stance to imagine an alternative Ugandan queer subjecthood beyond popular and polarising perspectives of this subjectivity that were instantiated by the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014. This emerging archive of Ugandan writing, often deploying the short fiction genre, weaves intricate tales of queer Uganda that sidestep the censorship of an ostracised sexuality deemed sinful, dangerous, and unUgandan to claim the agency and humanity of Ugandan homosexuals. While this archive of Ugandan queer short fiction has attracted
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King, Don. "The Early Writings of Joy Davidman." Journal of Inklings Studies 1, no. 1 (2011): 47–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ink.2011.1.1.6.

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Joy Davidman’s place in the canon of twentieth century American literature deserves more attention than it has heretofore received. For instance, in her role in the late 1930’s as poetry editor for New Masses (the weekly voice of the Communist Party of the United States of America), Davidman published poets such as Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Alexander Bergman, and Aaron Kramer. At the same time, her poems in Letter to a Comrade (1938) touting a Communist agenda, while clearly written in the tradition of “proletarian literature,” are nonetheless well done; although a political agenda dri
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Bray, Joe. "The Letter‐Writing Manual and the Epistolary Novel." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 47, no. 1 (2024): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12930.

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AbstractThe relationship between real and fictional letters in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries has been the source of much critical debate. Disagreement surrounds the extent to which the increasingly popular genre of the epistolary novel drew on the practices and techniques of actual correspondence. On the one hand are those who see epistolary fiction as developing out of real‐life letters, with some literary‐stylistic additions. On the other hand are those who reject this teleological approach in favour of one that emphasizes the functional versatility of the letter in the
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Bell, Erin. "Happy objects and cruel optimism in Carson McCullers’ story ‘Correspondence’." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 9, no. 2 (2019): 117–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00005_1.

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This article discusses American author Carson McCullers’ 1942 short story titled ‘Correspondence’, in order to consider how the unique form of the epistolary short story amplifies themes of alienation and absence. Drawing upon contemporary affect theory as well as a close reading of the story, I consider how the letters in the text can be understood as what Sara Ahmed describes as ‘happy objects’, as well as how the process of letter writing becomes exemplary of Lauren Berlant’s theorization of cruel optimism. Based on her own disappointment with letters and letter writing, McCullers’ short te
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Ngom, Ousmane. "Conjuring Trauma with (Self)Derision: The African and African-American Epistolary Fiction." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 14, no. 2 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2018.v14n2p1.

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All the female narrators of the three stories examined here – So Long a Letter, The Color Purple, and Letters from France – suffer serious traumas attributable to their male counterparts. Thus as a healing process, letter-writing is an exercise in trust that traverses the distances between the addresser and the addressee. Blurring the lines in such a way results in an intimate narration of trauma that reads as a stream of consciousness, devoid of fear of judgment or retribution. This paper studies the literary device of derision coupled with a psycho-feminist analysis to retrace the thorny, ca
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Venegas, José Luis. "Postal Insurgency: Letter Writing and the Limits of Mexican Nationalism in Gustavo Sainz’s Fiction." Hispanic Review 80, no. 2 (2012): 267–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hir.2012.0026.

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Albanese, Laurie Lico. "Note: The 1832 Cholera Epidemic and the Book Nathaniel Hawthorne Never Wrote." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 47, no. 1 (2021): 167–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/nathhawtrevi.47.1.0167.

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Abstract On June 28, 1832, Nathaniel Hawthorne penned a letter to Franklin Pierce describing plans for a Northern tour through New York into Canada, a trip that he was forced to postpone due to the 1832 cholera outbreak in Montreal. Hawthorne intended to gather tales for The Story Teller on this ill-timed trip, but the trip was never made and the collection of interlinked traveling tales never published. The author of this note paper considers the cholera epidemic's impact on Hawthorne's writing life and how it reverberates through her own writing of historical fiction during the 2020 coronavi
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Oliveira, Viviane Cristina. "“Não precisas tirar a máscara” – Notas sobre a carta no jornal e o jornal na carta." O Eixo e a Roda: Revista de Literatura Brasileira 27, no. 1 (2018): 153–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2358-9787.27.1.153-179.

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Resumo: Este artigo visa apresentar algumas reflexões sobre as relações entre a escrita epistolar, a ficção e o jornal instauradas em textos publicados por Aluísio Azevedo, Lúcio de Mendonça e Júlio Ribeiro em fins do século XIX no Brasil. A partir da leitura de suas obras Mattos, Malta ou Matta?, O marido da adúltera e Cartas sertanejas, respectivamente, busca-se tecer aproximações entre a carta e o jornal, de forma a destacar as confluências que marcam estes suportes de escrita cotidiana, bem como evidenciar certo diálogo instaurado por estes autores com os anônimos leitores das folhas diári
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Roger, Patricia M. "Taking a Perspective: Hawthorne's Concept of Language and Nineteenth-Century Language Theory." Nineteenth-Century Literature 51, no. 4 (1997): 433–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2933854.

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This essay examines Hathorne's concept of language and the characteristic indeterminacy of his writing in the context of nieteenth-century language study. Recently, two opposing theoretical postionss have emerged to account for this indeterminacy-the deconstructionist view as exemplified by J. Hillis Miller's analysis of "The Minister's Black Veil" and the more historical and political view that Jonathan Arac Takes in "The Politics of The Scarlet Letter." I argue that although Hawthorne's indeterminacy may invite a deconstructionist analysis, it is a product of his historical context, not ours
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Cheira, Alexandra. "“Mocking Eternities”: Writing Beyond the Ending of Possession, or A.S. Byatt’s Intersections between Academia, Literary Criticism, and Fiction." American, British and Canadian Studies 40, no. 1 (2023): 80–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2023-0008.

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Abstract In 1995, a two-page-long letter signed by Professor Maud Michell-Bailey – which furthermore enclosed two original poems by Christabel LaMotte – prefaced a special edition on women poets in the academic journal Victorian Poetry. The letter and poems invite a critical return to Possession, since they are a complex game in which made-up characters come to life and actual people are fictionalized. They also raise significant theoretical issues while appearing to break free from the limitations imposed by what Victorian Poetry editor Linda Hughes has correctly described as “overdetermined
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Powell, Kersti Tarien. "‘The Answer … is Yes and No’: John Banville, Henry James, and The Ambassadors." Irish University Review 45, no. 2 (2015): 302–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2015.0178.

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Late twentieth- and early twenty-first century fiction has witnessed a surge of interest in Henry James, his life and works. Most of these recent Jamesian (re-)engagements are concerned with the body, with James's (still) questionable homosexuality, or with his direct involvement in the literary marketplace. John Banville's 1984 novella, The Newton Letter, is a literary forerunner of this renewed preoccupation with James and Jamesian concerns in contemporary fiction. Differing from more recent novels such as Colm Tóibín's The Master (2004) and David Lodge's Author, Author (2004), Banville's en
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Srika, M. "A Critical Analysis on “Revolution 2020” - An Amalgam of Socio- Political Commercialization World Combined with Love Triangle." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 10 (2019): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i10.10255.

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Literature is considered to be an art form or writing that have Artistic or Intellectual value. Literature is a group of works produced by oral and written form. Literature shows the style of Human Expression. The word literature was derived from the Latin root word ‘Litertura / Litteratura’ which means “Letter or Handwriting”. Literature is culturally relative defined. Literature can be grouped through their Languages, Historical Period, Origin, Genre and Subject. The kinds of literature are Poems, Novels, Drama, Short Story and Prose. Fiction and Non-Fiction are their major classification. S
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Gedeeva, Daria B. "О жанровом многообразии калмыцкой деловой письменности XVII-XIX вв." Oriental Studies 13, № 5 (2020): 1446–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.22162/2619-0990-2020-51-5-1446-1455.

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Introduction. The Kalmyks are one of the few peoples in Russia to have developed a script system of their own centuries ago. Spiritual culture of the ethnos can be traced in numerous original and translated texts of philosophical treatises, medical writings, historical chronicles, grammar essays, diaries of Buddhist pilgrims, fiction, recorded folklore materials, etc. The Kalmyk vertical script was also used for official writing. From the 17th century onwards, in the Lower Volga Kalmyks would expand their knowledge of Russian record keeping procedures (in diplomatic, military and economic cont
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Cróquer-Pedrón, Eleonora. "Lesión de anatomía: Diamela Eltit o la autora sobre‐expuesta en la escritura como crítica de lo Real." Catedral Tomada. Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 7, no. 12 (2019): 134–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ct/2019.380.

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This essay focuses on two unclassifiable books by the Chilean storyteller Diamela Eltit: El Padre Mío (1989) and El infarto del alma (1994). From the overexposure of the author thatmanifests itself in the first person as overturned towards the unavoidable outside of an encounter with difference, embodied in the madness and the helplessness of the bodies of “vagabundage” and psychiatric isolation, respectively, as well as the responsibility that emerges as a position of discourse before the problematic act of shaping the materiality of its recovered presence, I go through the ways in which the
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Melić, Katarina. "MÉMOIRES D’HADRIEN DE MARGUERITE YOURCENAR : ENTRE AUTOBIOGRAPHIE FICTIVE ET ÉCRITURE DE L’HISTOIRE." Nasledje, Kragujevac XX, no. 54 (2023): 79–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/naskg2354.079m.

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The current paper focuses on the literary mechanisms that Marguerite Yourcenar used to (re)construct the historical personality of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the fictional autobiography, Memoirs of Hadrian. We analyze how M. Yourcenar represents an effort to reconstruct a historical period and a historical personality through the intersection of true events and fiction in the form of a fictional autobiography, supported by documentary work, in this particular novel. Hadrian’s imaginary letter to his protégé and student, the future emperor Marcus Aurelius, is not only a writing of ancient his
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Druker, Jonathan. "Mothers and Daughters in the Holocaust Writing of Edith Bruck, Liana Millu, and Giuliana Tedeschi." Italica 100, no. 1 (2023): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/23256672.100.1.06.

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Abstract This article focuses on Italian Holocaust testimonies written by three female survivor-writers—Edith Bruck, Liana Millu, and Giuliana Tedeschi. It considers how these authors use diverse literary forms to represent the experiences of mothers and daughters in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Key passages in Tedeschi's survivor memoir C’è un punto della terra show the extent to which her experience was shaped by her separation from her children, and by feelings of maternal longing. Millu's autobiographical story collection Il fumo di Birkenau deftly employs the imaginative tec
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Ladygina, Yuliya. "Beyond the Trenches: Ol'ha Kobylians'ka’s Literary Response to the First World War." East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 2, no. 2 (2015): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.21226/t2s888.

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<p class="EW-abstract"><strong>Abstract:</strong> Ol'ha Kobylians'ka’s short stories about the First World War constitute a rare case of a Ukrainian woman writing on one of the greatest catastrophes in modern history, a subject neglected even in Ukraine. Drawing on recent scholarship on First World War literature, this research proves that Kobylians'ka’s war stories deserve a re-evaluation, not as long-ignored curiosities from the pen of Ukraine’s most sophisticated writer of the time, but as insightful psychological studies of Western Ukrainians and as valuable cultural docu
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Gilbert, Nora. "A Servitude of One’s Own." Nineteenth-Century Literature 69, no. 4 (2015): 455–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2015.69.4.455.

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Nora Gilbert, “A Servitude of One’s Own: Isolation, Authorship, and the Nineteenth-Century British Governess” (pp. 455–480) Much has been written, both during the Victorian era and in recent literary and cultural-historical criticism, about the plight of the nineteenth-century British governess, a plight that is largely attributed to her uncomfortable position of “status incongruence,” as M. Jeanne Peterson has usefully labeled it. Because the governess was deemed inferior to the family she worked for but superior to the family’s domestic servants, her free time was not uncommonly spent on her
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Turko, Ulyana I. "The History of Spelling Prefixes with -z, -s in the Pre-reform Period." Russkaia rech, no. 1 (2023): 88–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013161170024708-7.

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The article examines the spelling of the words with prefixes ending in -z, -s. Based on the texts of fiction and scientific literature of the late XVIII — early XX centuries, the author analyzes the spelling of words and identifies trends in spelling norms. The paper reveals that at the end of the XVIII century, during the formation of the book style, lexicographic sources took into account the Church Slavonic tradition and recommended writing prefixes with -z, however, there were deviations from spelling norms in written speech practice. Lexicographic publications of the middle of the XIX cen
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Orlova, Natalia Yu. "‘Phantom Letters’ in Various Cultures." Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics, no. 3(2021) (September 25, 2021): 111–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.29025/2079-6021-2021-3-111-121.

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Cross-Сultural communication cannot exist without interaction, both oral and written. One of the types of written communication is epistolary text. This paper considers one kind of epistolary texts, the so-called ‘dead letter’, i.e. a letter which cannot be delivered to the recipient because this person does not exist. The author introduces the term ‘phantom letter’ since a corresponding term has not been found in the Russian language, besides the existing English term ‘dead letter’ does not fully reveal the phenomenon under discussion. The materials of the article are 14 personal letters and
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Nikolayeva, Yevgeniya V. "Leo Tolstoy's novella “The Prisoner of the Caucasus”: on the question of creative history." Vestnik of Kostroma State University 26, no. 4 (2021): 107–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-4-107-112.

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For the first time, the article presents a comparative analysis of Alexander. Pushkin's remarks about his poem “The Prisoner of the Caucasus” and Leo Tolstoy's short story of the same name, written for children's reading and placed in "The Alphabet Book". In the second half of the 1850s, Leo Tolstoy carefully and with numerous notes read the biography of Pushkin, published by Pavel Annenkov for the collected works of the great author. We can assume that from this time the writer begins a conscious study of Pushkin's prose, which previously had not attracted him. In this book, Leo Tolstoy marks
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Molodiakov, Vassili E. "“I Think it is a Rotten Play”: New Document on George S. Viereck’s Play Vampire and Novel The House of the Vampire." Literature of the Americas, no. 15 (2023): 8–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2023-15-8-15.

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The novel by George Sylvester Viereck (1884–1962) The House of the Vampire (1907) has become one of the most striking phenomena of American decadent literature and continues to attract the attention of literary scholars. Despite the contradictory and sometimes abusive reviews of contemporaries, the book aroused interest and proved to be commercially successful. The ambitious author decided to exploit the success and remake the novel into a play. Viereck had already tried his hand at writing plays, but his collection A Game at Love and Other Plays (1906) “were not, at least, written with an eye
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James-Raoul, Danièle. "La voix et la lettre dans les romans arthuriens de la seconde moitié du XIIe siècle." Journal of the International Arthurian Society 8, no. 1 (2020): 79–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jias-2020-0005.

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AbstractThe perplexing question of the interrelations between hearing and sight looms large in the verse novel of the second half of the twelfth century, a newly promoted genre of literary fiction, no longer sung but written and intended for public reading in small circles, it seems, permanently shaped by the written word, yet brought to life by a fleeting voice. In what is commonly and sometimes abusively referred to as the Arthurian romance in verse of the second half of the twelfth century – the Arthurian part of Wace’s romance of Brut (in fact, a text between the chronicle and the romance
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Khachaturian, Liubov’ V. "“Diary in the Literal Sense” or a Subtle Literary Game? Dostoevsky on His Way to a Monojournal." Imagologiya i komparativistika, no. 16 (2021): 115–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/24099554/16/8.

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In February 1876, the first issue of A Writer’s Diary, one of Dostoevsky’s most controversial works, was published. Manifesting the future as a “diary in the literal sense of the word”, the author was not entirely sincere. Already in April of the same year, in a letter to Kh. Alchevskaya, he remarked that he was too naive to think that this would be a real diary, and that a real diary was almost impossible, so there was only an ostentatious one, for the public. The ambivalent position of the writer himself gives researchers a reason to call this work the “object of a subtle literary game”, whi
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Bell, Stuart. "The Novel Theology of H. G. Wells." Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 26, no. 2 (2019): 104–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/znth-2019-0018.

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Abstract “Lambeth Palace is my Washpot. Over Fulham have I cast my breeches.” So declared the novelist and secularist H. G. Wells in a letter to his mistress, Rebecca West, in May 1917. His claim was that, because of him, Britain was “full of theological discussion” and theological books were “selling like hot cakes”. He was lunching with liberal churchmen and dining with bishops. Certainly, the first of the books published during Wells’s short “religious period”, the novel Mr. Britling Sees It Through, had sold very well on both sides of the Atlantic and made Wells financially secure. Geoffre
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el-Malik, Shiera S. "A letter to Baba." Review of International Studies, June 21, 2023, 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210523000232.

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Abstract This is a piece of creative non-fiction. The letter from a daughter to a father is an attempt to understand intergenerationally shared histories, experiences, and different orientations. It aims to imagine what decolonial thinking could look and feel like. Interdisciplinary in its orientation, the letter moves between personal stories and the broader scholarly quest to contemplate the embodied racialized violence of the current conjuncture. The letter suggests that embodied racialized violence is powerful and banal. It explores how it can be carried in the ties that bind – the love, m
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O'Dwyer, Erin. "He wrote a letter home to myself: Tracing the epistolary in Damon Galgut’s ‘In a strange room’." Literator 35, no. 1 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i1.1135.

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This article considers Damon Galgut’s In a strange room as a work of contemporary epistolary fiction. Recent studies of epistolarity argue that the epistolary tradition remains identifiable and apparent even once woven into other genres. Though not strictly an epistolary novel, In a strange room addresses the same thematic concerns that exist in all epistolary writing – exile,loneliness, unrequited love, self-identity and trial. This article asks the same three questions that all epistolary fiction invites: To whom, for whom and why does Damon write? The epistolary mode is considered with refe
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Towl, Elizabeth. ""This imperfect part of truth:" The Godwits Fly, Childhood Memory and Fiction." Journal of New Zealand Studies, no. 22 (July 5, 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.v0i22.3943.

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Having completed the final version of The Godwits Fly and sent it away to be published, Iris Wilkinson (Robin Hyde)[i] wrote to John A. Lee that she had finished “the camouflaged autobiographical novel and posted it—It will have to go as fiction and it’s only twenty-one years of a life […] But I’ve got a good deal into it that I really wanted to.”[ii]The Godwits Fly had its origins in the therapeutic autobiographical writing that she was encouraged to undertake at the Auckland Mental Hospital, where she was a voluntary patient from June 1933 until early 1937. She recorded in her journal her de
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Rossi (189–207), María Julia. "Of Epicene Particles and Other Misleading Tricks." Textual Cultures 14, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/tc.v14i1.32857.

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“Carta perdida en un cajón” [Letter lost in a drawer] is a paradigmatic example of simultaneous ambiguities at work in Silvina Ocampo’s fiction (1903–1993). In this short story published in 1959, pronouns and shifters, as well as endings that mark gender cooperate to erase certainties and make the reader actively seek clues to understand the exchange the short story sets up. By scrutinizing its manuscript, I examine Ocampo’s writing and revision strategies and elaborate on some of her creative processes in her search for ambiguity. Through five key compositional moves I have identified in her
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Du, Yan. "Girlhood in Verses." Barnboken, June 19, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14811/clr.v45.689.

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Few creative protagonists in girls’ coming-of-age fiction, especially those authored by women, have escaped the lure of poetry writing. And yet from introspective diarists to fervent letter-writers to passionate storytellers, what seems less visible in current scholarly conversation on girls’ literature are discussions surrounding girls as aspiring poets. My article considers representations of poetry writing in two landmark texts by women, Emily of New Moon (1923) by Lucy Maud Montgomery and The Poet X (2018) by Elizabeth Acevedo, paying special attention to how poetry writing serves particul
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Rolls, Alistair. "The Re-imagining Inherent in Crime Fiction Translation." M/C Journal 18, no. 6 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1028.

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Introduction When a text is said to be re-appropriated, it is at times unclear to what extent this appropriation is secondary, repeated, new; certainly, the difference between a reiteration and an iteration has more to do with emphasis than any (re)duplication. And at a moment in the development of crime fiction in France when the retranslation of now apparently dated French translations of the works of classic American hardboiled novels (especially those of authors like Dashiell Hammett, whose novels were published in Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire at Gallimard in the decades following the end
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Franks, Rachel. "Cooking in the Books: Cookbooks and Cookery in Popular Fiction." M/C Journal 16, no. 3 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.614.

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Introduction Food has always been an essential component of daily life. Today, thinking about food is a much more complicated pursuit than planning the next meal, with food studies scholars devoting their efforts to researching “anything pertaining to food and eating, from how food is grown to when and how it is eaten, to who eats it and with whom, and the nutritional quality” (Duran and MacDonald 234). This is in addition to the work undertaken by an increasingly wide variety of popular culture researchers who explore all aspects of food (Risson and Brien 3): including food advertising, food
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Pajka-West, Sharon. "Representations of Deafness and Deaf People in Young Adult Fiction." M/C Journal 13, no. 3 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.261.

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What began as a simple request for a book by one of my former students, at times, has not been so simple. The student, whom I refer to as Carla (name changed), hoped to read about characters similar to herself and her friends. As a teacher, I have often tried to hook my students on reading by presenting books with characters to which they can relate. These books can help increase their overall knowledge of the world, open their minds to multiple realities and variations of the human experience and provide scenarios in which they can live vicariously. Carla’s request was a bit more complicated
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Miller, Andie. "What is Real?" M/C Journal 5, no. 5 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1984.

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Paul Theroux, like most writers, is far uglier in person than he is in photographs. For one thing, there's the matter of his bluntly-cut toupee, which tilts noticeably from side to side as he shifts in his chair. For another, there are Theroux's teeth, which are so badly stained they seem to be carved from the driftwood that dots the nearby Cape Cod shoreline. Never mind his unpleasant habit of hacking up massive gobs of phlegm, which he then expectorates into the Persian carpet at his visitor's feet. So begins the introduction to Dwight Garner's interview with the author in Salon in 1996. Tho
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Kuismin, Anna. "Palava rakkaus ja öljy pumpulissa." Sananjalka 64, no. 64 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.30673/sja.119791.

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Artikkelissa analysoidaan kansanihmisten rakkaus- ja kosintakirjeiden representaatioita fiktiivisissä teksteissä, jotka ajoittuvat 1880-luvulta 1900-luvun ensimmäiselle vuosikymmenelle. Taustalla on New Literacy Studies -tutkimussuunta, jonka piirissä tekstejä tarkastellaan käytäntöinä. Käytännöt vaihtelevat tilanteittain ja tekstilajeittain, ja teksteihin liittyvät ihanteet, normit ja arvostukset ovat erilaisia eri yhteisöissä ja eri kulttuureissa. Kirjetaitoihin kuuluvat kirjekonventioiden hallitseminen sekä kirjeen sisältöön ja asioiden esittämistapoihin liittyvät käytänteet. Artikkelin toi
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Tofts, Darren John. "Why Writers Hate the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Lists, Entropy and the Sense of Unending." M/C Journal 15, no. 5 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.549.

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If you cannot understand my argument, and declare “It’s Greek to me,” you are quoting Shakespeare.Bernard LevinPsoriatic arthritis, in its acute or “generalised” stage, is unbearably painful. Exacerbating the crippling of the joints, the entire surface of the skin is covered with lesions only moderately salved by anti-inflammatory ointment, the application of which is as painful as the ailment it seeks to relieve: NURSE MILLS: I’ll be as gentle as I can.Marlow’s face again fills the screen, intense concentration, comical strain, and a whispered urgency in the voice over—MARLOW: (Voice over) Th
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Franks, Rachel. "Building a Professional Profile: Charles Dickens and the Rise of the “Detective Force”." M/C Journal 20, no. 2 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1214.

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IntroductionAccounts of criminals, their victims, and their pursuers have become entrenched within the sphere of popular culture; most obviously in the genres of true crime and crime fiction. The centrality of the pursuer in the form of the detective, within these stories, dates back to the nineteenth century. This, often highly-stylised and regularly humanised protagonist, is now a firm feature of both factual and fictional accounts of crime narratives that, today, regularly focus on the energies of the detective in solving a variety of cases. So familiar is the figure of the detective, it se
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Shiloh, Ilana. "A Vision of Complex Symmetry." M/C Journal 10, no. 3 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2674.

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 The labyrinth is probably the most universal trope of complexity. Deriving from pre-Greek labyrinthos, a word denoting “maze, large building with intricate underground passages”, and possibly related to Lydian labrys, which signifies “double-edged axe,” symbol of royal power, the notion of the labyrinth primarily evokes the Minoan Palace in Crete and the myth of the Minotaur. According to this myth, the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, was born to Pesiphae, king Minos’s wife, who mated with a bull when the king of Crete was besieging Athen
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Campbell, Sian Petronella. "On the Record: Time and The Self as Data in Contemporary Autofiction." M/C Journal 22, no. 6 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1604.

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In January of this year, artist Christian Marclay’s 24-hour video installation The Clock came to Melbourne. As Ben Lerner explains in 10:04, the autofictional novel Lerner published in 2014, The Clock by Christian Marclay “is a clock: it is a twenty-four hour montage of thousands of scenes from movies and a few from TV edited together so as to be shown in real time; each scene indicates the time with a shot of a timepiece or its mention in dialogue, time in and outside of the film is synchronized” (52). I went to see The Clock at ACMI several times, with friends and alone, in the early morning
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Murphy, Ffion, and Richard Nile. "The Many Transformations of Albert Facey." M/C Journal 19, no. 4 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1132.

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In the last months of his life, 86-year-old Albert Facey became a best-selling author and revered cultural figure following the publication of his autobiography, A Fortunate Life. Released on Anzac Day 1981, it was praised for its “plain, unembellished, utterly sincere and un-self-pitying account of the privations of childhood and youth” (Semmler) and “extremely powerful description of Gallipoli” (Dutton 16). Within weeks, critic Nancy Keesing declared it an “Enduring Classic.” Within six months, it was announced as the winner of two prestigious non-fiction awards, with judges acknowledging Fa
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Brien, Donna Lee. "Imagining Mary Dean." M/C Journal 7, no. 1 (2004). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2320.

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“As the old technologies become automatic and invisible, we find ourselves more concerned with fighting or embracing what’s new”—Dennis Baron, From Pencils to Pixels: The Stage of Literacy Technologies In a world where nothing is certain… and even the objectivity of science is qualified by relativity and uncertainty, the single human voice, telling its own story, can seem the only authentic way of rendering consciousness. – David Lodge (“Sense and Sensibility”) Leon Edel expressed the central puzzle of writing biography as “every life takes its own form and a biographer must find the ideal and
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Dickison, Stephanie. "So Many Books, So Little Time." M/C Journal 8, no. 4 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2405.

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 As a writer, researcher and avid book reader, I am drawn to books about books. But ever-so tentatively, as I know they can only mean one thing—more titles in which to add to my ever-growing list of books that I must have, that I must read, and that I will eventually feel compelled to write about.
 
 Recently, I finished So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson. Ms. Nelson is a librarian and knows whereof she speaks. She is unequivocal in her broad selection and speaks at length about things that only book munchers like myself kno
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Guimont, Edward. "Megalodon." M/C Journal 24, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2793.

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In 1999, the TV movie Shark Attack depicted an attack by mutant great white sharks on the population of Cape Town. By the time the third entry in the series, Shark Attack 3, aired in 2002, mutant great whites had lost their lustre and were replaced as antagonists with the megalodon: a giant shark originating not in any laboratory, but history, having lived from approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago. The megalodon was resurrected again in May 2021 through a trifecta of events. A video of a basking shark encounter in the Atlantic went viral on the social media platform TikTok, due to users m
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Bolton, Matthew. "The Book Review as Closet Drama." M/C Journal 8, no. 5 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2412.

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 I’ve been thinking about why I read the New York Times Book Review from cover to cover. If I have no intention of reading most of the books that any given issue reviews, why do I enjoy reading the reviews themselves? Part of the appeal might lie in the review’s ability to survey and condense: forearmed by the Book Review, I won’t have to stare blankly if someone mentions they’re reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, even if I never get around to reading the book myself. Yet by this logic, I should enjoy CliffsNotes more than novels and abstracts more than articles – which I do
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Bond, Sue. "Heavy Baggage: Illegitimacy and the Adoptee." M/C Journal 17, no. 5 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.876.

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Teichman notes in her study of illegitimacy that “the point of the legitimate/illegitimate distinction is not to cause suffering; rather, it has to do with certain widespread human aims connected with the regulation of sexual activities and of population” (4). She also writes that, until relatively recently, “the shame of being an unmarried mother was the worst possible shame a woman could suffer” (119). Hence the secrecy, silences, and lies that used to be so common around the issue of an illegitimate birth and adoption.I was adopted at birth in the mid-1960s in New Zealand because my mother
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McDonald, Donna. "Shattering the Hearing Wall." M/C Journal 11, no. 3 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.52.

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She leant lazily across the picnic hamper and reached for my hearing aid in my open-palmed hand. I jerked away from her, batting her hand away from mine. The glare of the summer sun blinded me. I struck empty air. Her tendril-fingers seized the beige seashell curve of my hearing aid and she lifted the cargo of sound towards her eyes. She peered at the empty battery-cage before flicking it open and shut as if it was a cigarette lighter, as if she could spark hearing-life into this trick of plastic and metal that held no meaning outside of my ear. I stared at her. A band of horror tightened arou
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Hanscombe, Elisabeth. "A Plea for Doubt in the Subjectivity of Method." M/C Journal 14, no. 1 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.335.

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Photograph by Gonzalo Echeverria (2010)Doubt has been my closest companion for several years as I struggle to make sense of certain hidden events from within my family’s history. The actual nature of such events, although now lost to us, can nevertheless be explored through the distorting lens of memory and academic research. I base such explorations in part on my intuition and sensitivity to emotional experience, which are inevitably riddled with doubt. I write from the position of a psychoanalytic psychologist who is also a creative writer and my doubts increase further when I use the autobi
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Leaver, Tama, and Suzanne Srdarov. "ChatGPT Isn't Magic." M/C Journal 26, no. 5 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3004.

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Introduction Author Arthur C. Clarke famously argued that in science fiction literature “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” (Clarke). On 30 November 2022, technology company OpenAI publicly released their Large Language Model (LLM)-based chatbot ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer), and instantly it was hailed as world-changing. Initial media stories about ChatGPT highlighted the speed with which it generated new material as evidence that this tool might be both genuinely creative and actually intelligent, in both exciting and disturbing ways. In
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O'Meara, Radha, and Alex Bevan. "Transmedia Theory’s Author Discourse and Its Limitations." M/C Journal 21, no. 1 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1366.

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As a scholarly discourse, transmedia storytelling relies heavily on conservative constructions of authorship that laud corporate architects and patriarchs such as George Lucas and J.J. Abrams as exemplars of “the creator.” This piece argues that transmedia theory works to construct patriarchal ideals of individual authorship to the detriment of alternative conceptions of transmediality, storyworlds, and authorship. The genesis for this piece was our struggle to find a transmedia storyworld that we were both familiar with, that also qualifies as “legitimate” transmedia in the eyes of our prospe
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Neilsen, Philip. "An extract from "The Internet of Love"." M/C Journal 5, no. 6 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2012.

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There are three stages in internet dating: first, the emailing back and forth; second, the phone conversation; and third, the meeting for 'coffee'. But before we discuss the three stages, here are some hints about the preliminary work you have to do. At the outset, you have to trawl through the thousands of people who have placed their profiles on the site. This is aided by limiting your search to a certain age spread, and your city or region. Then you can narrow it down further by checking educational background, whether they have kids, whether they write in New Age jargon, etc You have to tr
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