... Notes to the Semiotics of Music , v. 3 . 2 ( 2000 ). Downloaded from the World Wide Web on 16 March, 2001 , at www.theblackbook.net/acad/tagg/teaching/analys/semiotug.pdf . Tarasti Eero . A Theory of Musical Semiotics . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1994 . THE FUTURE...

... . ———. 2009 . Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Watt Ian . 1979 . Conrad in the Nineteenth Century . Berkeley : University of California Press . Database and the Future Anterior: Reading The Mill on the Floss Backwards...

...David Sergeant This essay explores Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction of the near future, New York 2140 (2017) and how its treatment of time and history relates to its generic identity. By imbricating present and future, New York 2140 resembles not so much science fiction, the genre commonly associated...

...Elizabeth Callaway [email protected] David Sergeant , The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Climate, Retreat, and Revolution , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023 . Copyright © 2024 by University of Oklahoma 2024 The Near Future in Twenty...

... a racialized, situated, national subject whose narrative leads not simply to romantic union but to reproduction. Engaging with Lee Edelman's important theory of reproductive futurism, this article undertakes to trace and to problematize chick lit's narrative with reference to its primary concern with women...

...Mary Helen McMurran [email protected] Dustin D. Stewart , Futures of Enlightenment Poetry , Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by University of Oklahoma 2022 The futures in Futures of Enlightenment Poetry are not those of peoples or societies...

... to be particularly important in these emotion-laden metaphors is that they allow patients to express emotions that are felt somatically or are otherwise trapped within. Building on Angus and Greenberg's metaphor, broken stories , to describe the interference to patients' expectations for their future caused...

...-ended and unresolved as the future. This provisional sense of history creates spaces where the descendant-writer can gain a limited imaginative access to the past. © 2012 by University of Oklahoma 2012 Works Cited Adamcyzk-Garbowska Monika . 2011 . “Reception of Memorial Books...

... board of the journal Futur Antérieur . The methods of collective writing that they continue to use have their basis in the “assignment” model of composition that is common among groups that publish journals of political intervention. Collaboration of this sort is a deindividualizing process that results...

..., it depicts appealing characters that disrupt the gender binary and remain unmarried, traveling abroad as the story concludes. Red Pottage locates hope for the future beyond the traditional domestic sphere: outside romantic and familial relationships and outside Great Britain itself. By infusing realist...

... by means of his own zombie contribution, the figure of the straggler, which facilitates more meditative thematic work than zombie narratives generally allow. This formal exploration of Zone One as a zombie narrative is meant to further zombie scholarship and to frame future critical work on the novel...

... number for its force, coloring it and alerting us to its relationship with other numbers as with previous and future selves. This now should be distinguished both from what Mikhail Bakhtin calls the novel’s foundation in “maximal contact with the present” and from Jonathan Culler’s lyric “now.” Instead...

... innovations of Carpentaria as what makes it worthy of GAN status, the novel nevertheless opposes the integrationist and homogenizing myths that accompany canonization. Therefore, the article finds that Wright's vision of a future Australia involves moments of antagonism and mutual understanding between white...

... then introduces each contribution to this special issue, which seeks to bring Guillory's theory of canon formation back into contemporary debates about the future of literary studies, the politics of cultural representation, and the state of the humanities in crisis. [email protected] justin.sider...

... to imaginative and political futures. In The Romantics , bildung turns into an enduring historical trauma; Mishra juxtaposes various trajectories of individual and national growth both before and after India's adoption of SAP policies in 1991 to show how the symbolic realization of full and free personality...

... that Darko Suvin called “cognitive estrangement.” Whereas science fiction projects alternative futures, fantasy's affordances allow writers to generate alternative worldviews grounded in real or invented mythic pasts. The initial move away from claiming to imitate reality allows fantasy writers to project...

... explicit for this theorist of “very brilliant orgies” (Fourier 1971 : 263; see also Wark 2013 : chap. 8)—but also, more importantly, highlights the fact that Fourier's writings were, like the magazine, serialized. In return, Fourier reframes Playboy 's project as utopian in its promise of future...

... University Press . ———. 2005 . Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions . New York : Verso . Marx Karl . (1867) 1990 . Capital: A Critique of Political Economy . Vol. 1 . Translated by Fowkes Ben , introduction by Mandel Ernest . New...

... of the Universal Turing Machine .” Configurations . 4.3 ( 1996 ): 359 - 79 . ---. Cutting Code: Software and Sociality . New York : Peter Lang , 2006 . Murray Janet Horowitz . Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace . Cambridge : MIT Press , 1998 . Nichols Bill...