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1. From Sausages to Hoplites of Ham and Beyond: The Status of Genetically Modified Pigs in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy

Author

Koziol, Slawomir

Subjects
MaddAddam (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, The Year of the Flood (Atwood, Margaret) (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Oryx and Crake (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Animal genetic engineering -- Portrayals, Novelists -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation, Genetically modified animals -- Portrayals, Languages and linguistics, Literature/writing
Abstract

One of the most important themes of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy--Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013)--is that of genetic engineering, explored mainly through [...]

Published
2018

2. The Late Victorian Economy of Countenance in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Author

Suner, Ahmet

Subjects
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, British history, 1815-1914 -- Economic aspects, Novelists -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation, Languages and linguistics, Literature/writing
Abstract

Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is usually seen as representing a momentous shift in Gothic literature from the exotic to the urban to the [...]

Published
2018

3. 'Arabesques of the Final Pattern': Len Deighton's Hard-Boiled Espionage Fiction

Author

Snyder, Robert Lance

Subjects
Novelists -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation, Spy stories -- Criticism and interpretation, Arabesque (Art form) -- Analysis, Literary techniques -- Analysis, Languages and linguistics, Literature/writing
Abstract

But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story [...] is everything. [...]

Published
2018

4. Hideous Progeny: Forgery, Frankenstein, and Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake

Author

Osteen, Mark

Subjects
My Life as a Fake (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Novelists -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation, Literary forgeries -- Analysis, Languages and linguistics, Literature/writing
Abstract

Now I find that once more I have shrunk To an interloper, robber of dead men's dream, I had read in books that art is not easy But no one [...]

Published
2017

5. The Holy Fool's Revelation: Metafiction, Trauma, and Posthumanity in E. L. Doctorow's Andrew's Brain

Author

Collado-Rodriguez, Francisco

Subjects
Andrew's Brain (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Novelists -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation, Transhumanism -- Analysis, Metafiction -- Analysis, Trauma (Psychology) -- Analysis, Languages and linguistics, Literature/writing
Abstract

ANDREW'S BRAIN AND THE CODIFICATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY Andrew's Brain (2014), Doctorow's last novel, is a very complex work, dense with cultural references and metafictional hints about itself and [...]

Published
2017

6. Vagabonds, The Death Ship, and Denationalization

Author

Dougherty, Stephen

Subjects
The Death Ship (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Novelists -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation, Tramps -- Portrayals -- Social aspects -- Emigration and immigration, Languages and linguistics, Literature/writing
Abstract

If the last half of the nineteenth century in Europe featured increasing freedom of movement for the lower classes, liberating them 'from the feudal shackles that had once bound them [...]

Published
2017

7. Proust and the Cyclops: Monocles and material Culture in A la recherche du temps perdu

Author

Cooksey, Thomas L.

Subjects
In Search of Lost Time (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Eyeglasses -- Portrayals, Novelists -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation, Material culture -- Analysis, Languages and linguistics, Literature/writing
Abstract

In the middle of my forehead I have one eye, so what? Does not the Sun See all things here on earth from his high Heaven? And the great Sun [...]

Published
2017

8. 'The lamp in Mildred's living room': Cain's Mildred Pierce and Veblen's Conspicuous Consumption

Author

Robison, Lori

Subjects
Mildred Pierce (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Novelists -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation, Economists -- Criticism and interpretation, Social criticism -- Analysis, Languages and linguistics, Literature/writing
Abstract

James M. Cain's fourth novel, published in 1941, has created difficulties for critics and readers from the start. Cain is best known as the author of crime fiction classics, The [...]

Published
2016

9. Ethics of sensibility in Tom Wolfe's Back to Blood

Author

Jamshidian, Sahar and Pirnajmuddin, Hossein

Subjects
Back to Blood (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Novelists -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation, Sensibility -- Ethical aspects, Languages and linguistics, Literature/writing
Abstract

In his controversial essay, 'Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast: A Literary Manifesto for the New Social Novel' (November 1989), Tom Wolfe seems baffled as to why contemporary writers have failed to [...]

Published
2016

10. Recovery from the great war: pastoral space in J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country and Ernest Hemingway's 'Big Two-Hearted River'

Author

Scruggs, Charles

Subjects
World War I, 1914-1918, Big Two-Hearted River (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, A Month in the Country (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Novelists -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation, War damage -- Analysis, Languages and linguistics, Literature/writing
Abstract

No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out the place. Andrew Marvell, 'Upon Appleton House' In their respective fictions, both Carr and Hemingway have their protagonists attempt to [...]

Published
2016