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Devouring Mechanization: Arthur Miller and the Proto-Posthuman
Through readings of several of Miller’s major plays, supported by reference to George Orwell and E. M. Forster, this chapter argues that a central...
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The Politics of Resistance in Brazil’s Dystopian Thriller 3%
The Netflix television series 3% explores controversial issues in Brazilian society. The principal theme of the first season is the idea of...
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(Re)Sounding Nations: Anthems and the Politics of Performing and Listening in Wartime Europe (1936–1945)
The different sides at war have always used music to generate collective identifications, connect public and private spaces, and promote new ways of...
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The Dark Past of Our Bright Future: Concurrent Histories of Star Trek: Voyager
The Star Trek franchise is frequently described as utopian, the bright future of humanity, Earth, and the universe. The time and society of the...
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Psychogeography of the Six Towns: Lyric Cartographies of Stoke on Trent
Psychogeography is a mode of urban exploration developed by the Situationist International group of writers and artists in the 1950s and 1960s. Guy...
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Dystopia
In addition to outlining the history of the word “dystopia” and the theoretical permutations of its meaning, this chapter traces the history of...
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Concurrences and the Planetary Emergency: Ursula K. Le Guin in the Capitalocene
Ursula Le Guin’s prescient 1971 novel The Lathe of Heaven envisions a multitude of utopian or dystopian futures made real by dreams its protagonist...
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Zur Sprache im technischen Zeitalter (1962)
Meine Bemerkungen sollen zur Diskussion hinführen; einige Beispiele werden genannt werden, Bericht aus der Praxis. Mein Auftrag ist nicht, ein...
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A Study of Value Judgment
The insistence to the value judgment is both an innate mission of Marxist literary criticism and a necessity for the social and cultural construction...
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Introduction: ‘They at Least Were Not Hybrids’
Note: The subtitle is a reference to Louis MacNeice’s assertion that the Birmingham Group writers were citizens of the city of Birmingham or environs...
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Pulp Sexualities: Gender and American Popular Crime Fiction at Midcentury
The vigorous debate among midcentury intellectuals about the status of mystery novels and popular culture betrayed various anxieties about rapidly...
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My God, It’s Full of Starch! Arthur C. Clarke, Alternative Meat, and the Hunting Hypothesis
This chapter examines Arthur C. Clarke’s frequent promotion of vegetarianism and the development of synthetic meat in response to the pressing...
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Hanley, James: The Ocean
Der 1941 erschienene Roman ist der bedeutendste unter den zahlreichen Seeromanen des Autors, der in den 1930er Jahren zu den produktivsten und...
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One Eye on the Archive: C.H. Sisson’s Indian Writings
The C. H. Sisson archive at the University of Bristol contains notebooks dating back to the 1930’s, as well as a number of unpublished manuscripts...
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“This Much I Know”: The Ghosting of the Past in Crimson Peak
Crimson Peak (2015) opens with the ending and then goes full circle: Edith Cushing says in the beginning of the film what she will say at the end of...
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A Grab-bag of Animal Satires
We offer here an indicative selection of animal satires, which makes no claim to be comprehensive. The intention, rather, is to document the extent...
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Defending the Nation
Cultural tensions between Britain and the European Union take centre stage in the Eurosceptic novels which represent how the EU culturally invades...
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„so gut wie geschehen“? Überlegungen zu Zensur, Literaturprozessen und Ehrverletzung durch literarische Fiktion
Der Beitrag fragt nach der Möglichkeit von Ehrverletzung durch Fiktion. Dazu umreißt er zunächst die Terminologie der Zensur von einem engen...
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Kricheldorf, Rebekka: Homo Empathicus
Das Drama ist eine Auftragsarbeit, die von der Autorin für das Deutsche Theater in Göttingen verfasst und im Oktober 2014 dort uraufgeführt wurde. Es...