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Yael Segalovitz
Summary: This article explores the emergence of a new textual tendency in turn-of-the-millennium United States, where psychoanalytic theory, fiction writing, self-writing, and literary scholarship converge, forming what the author calls "psychoanaliterature." Illustrated by two examples, the article argues that these works contain an interrelational model of subjectivity, influenced by psychoanalytic theory, Freud's self-analysis, and Sedgwick's queer relationality, and carry political significance by challenging the North American ideal of self-sufficiency.
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Yifeng Sun
Summary: This article provides a historical and reflective account of the remarkable perseverance and tenacity of Chinese translators during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution in Chinese history. It dispels misconceptions surrounding the myth that there were no widely known translation activities during that time and highlights the importance of translation to Chinese leader Mao Zedong. Despite the restrictions, some translators went against political pressure and conducted underground translations, challenging the authorities' control.
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Andrew Gaedtke
Summary: This article discusses the portrayal of temporary social networks that emerged during the Blitz in novels, revealing the narrative techniques required to depict these unique social structures, and goes beyond the traditional representation of trauma in wartime literature to emphasize a strain of network narratives that reflect the contingency logic of the Blitz.
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Declan Lloyd
Summary: Porter explores radical ekphrasis in his novella, blending prose, poetry, and quasi-fictional biography to expand upon traditional forms. He demonstrates the potential of his innovative approach to enhance understanding of artwork and capture the essence of Francis Bacon's artistic style and philosophical motivations.
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Anthea Taylor
Summary: This article offers a close textual analysis of the memoirs of Julia Gillard, Australia's first woman Prime Minister, and Hillary Clinton, the 2016 US Democratic Presidential nominee. It explores their attempts to use memoirs as a means to regain control over their public personas and feminisms.
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Valerie Smith
Summary: A Motor-Flight Through France, written by Edith Wharton, is a philosophical and experimental work that engages with Arthur Schopenhauer's epistemology. The book examines the essence of reality, the act of aesthetic-sublime contemplation, and the insight gained through motor travel.
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Charlotte J. Fabricius, Emily J. Hogg
Summary: This article examines literary representations of feminised work and compares two case studies from different time periods and media. The comparison reveals recurring formal strategies that accurately depict the characteristics of women's working lives.
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Julieta Alos
Summary: Graphic novels are marketed as helpful for reluctant young readers, as the combination of text and visual stimuli is claimed to improve reading comprehension and motivation. However, the translation of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series into Arabic fails to provide an equally engaging reading experience.
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Fidan Cheikosman
Summary: This article explores the possession-possessor dichotomy in the Turkish museum-novel and argues for the relationship between curatorial practices and storytelling, as well as the aesthetic importance to the process of archiving the identity of nations.
CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION
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Mary K. Holland
Summary: Rachel Cusk introduces a new narrative form in the Outline trilogy, employing a distanced and displaced first-person point of view. This allows her to express truths about marriage and motherhood, subjects for which she has faced criticism in her nonfiction work. By rejecting a linear plot and dominant perspective in favor of overheard stories, these novels also present a new form of social realism that showcases the power of listening and collaborative storytelling to communicate social critique. Cusk intertwines elements of her own life and nonfiction in the trilogy, creating a fusion of autobiography, fiction, essay, and memoir. Through this fusion, the suffering of women and the realities of misogyny are portrayed as visible and undeniably real, reshaping social reality by rewriting the forms that represent it.
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Aihua Hu
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Agnieszka Mac
Summary: Advertising texts are intentionally designed communication that aims to attract potential customers to a product. In advertising language, every word is precisely chosen with a specific communicative intention. This article examines the creative advertising slogans related to the Corona vaccination campaign, analyzing the innovative methods employed in the slogan design and their impact on reception stimulus and consumer attention.
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T. K. Alphey
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Katherine Parsons
Summary: With its portrayal of a "word man" as the last remaining human, Oryx and Crake explores the connection between the death of a people and the death of their language. The novel's oscillation between memories of the past and the post-apocalyptic present allows for a discussion on how language functions in both individual and social contexts.
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Domhnall Mitchell
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Endre Harvold Kvangraven
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Luka Vidmar
Summary: During Maria Theresa's reign, the handling of books in Austrian and Bohemian lands was regulated by the Index librorum prohibitorum and the Catalogus librorum a commissione aulica prohibitorum. The Viennese index gradually replaced the Roman one, but its main goals remained the protection of faith and the Church, as well as the pursuit of the ruling dynasty's interests. It had more frequent updates and releases compared to the Roman index and showed more leniency towards scholarly and older Protestant, political, and philosophical works.
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Vasugi Kailasam
Summary: This article critically evaluates Shyam Selvadurai's historical novel Cinnamon Gardens and discusses how it uses postcolonial historical fiction to explore questions of history and spatial imagination.
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Wael J. Salam
Summary: This article examines how Laila Lalami's The Moor's Account creatively reconstructs and decolonizes alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's chronicle La Relacion through innovative storytelling techniques, giving voice to the oppressed and challenging the dominant narrative of Spanish colonialism.
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Charles Cathcart
