This PhD dissertation explores the affordances and limits of the sublime for figuring modes of materiality and non/human agency in contemporary American ecobiographical memoirs. Because the sublime has a particularly contested literary and cultural history in the United States, where the ‘American sublime’ has been conflated with problematic notion...
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13. Climate action / 15. Life on land
Through a study of the novel Aquarium by David Vann, this article seeks to shed light on the role that the concept of fragmentation can play in a conceptualization of trauma that encompasses both the process of reconstruction and the initial process of destruction. It aims to demonstrate that the fragment can bear the entire ambivalence of trauma, ...
This article explores ‘apocalyptic waste’ in seven short stories from Maureen F. McHugh’s 2011 collection After the Apocalypse. McHugh (1959-) is a contemporary U.S. sci-fi and fantasy writer, whose fiction depict dystopian scenarios as varied as a China-dominated America, a sexist futuristic Morocco, and pandemics. Building on recent developments ...
peer reviewed / This article explores ‘apocalyptic waste’ in seven short stories from Maureen F. McHugh’s 2011 collection After the Apocalypse. McHugh (1959-) is a contemporary U.S. sci-fi and fantasy writer, whose fiction depicts dystopian scenarios as varied as a China-dominated America, a sexist futuristic Morocco, and pandemics. Building on rec...
Les cinq Histoires ou Contes du temps passé qui sont ici relus au prisme de la Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes se révèlent autant d’allégories célébrant, sous la douce voix de ma Mère l’Oye, les idées des Modernes : éloge de la langue française, destinée à détrôner par sa grâce naturelle les langues latine et grecque (« Cendrillon »), promotio...
This article offers a comparative reading of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Op. 66 (1962) and Derek Jarman’s eponymously titled cinematographic adaptation (1989). It examines how both of these works represent personal and collective memory by conflating the traumas of the First and Second World War through their inclusion of Wilfred Owen’s war poe...
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edition: 1st edition / status: published
