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... the opioid epidemic. These three categories provide a heuristic framework for approaching other new opioid novels not treated here. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by University of Oklahoma 2022 opioids contemporary US Fiction drug literature literature and ontology literature...

.... THE CULTURAL DIVIDE 51 minate ontology" where, with humans and objects, we find "the metamorphosis of one into the other" (13). Seen from this perspective, Tabloid Dreams repre- sents another moment in the long history of a concern with things that makes up American literature. In fact...

... and full of cigarettes; the cut-­out figure of a parrot hanging by the window” (30), and so on, almost ad nauseam. McHale (1989, 153) notes that from “the ontological point of view, catalogues [in literature] are paradoxical.” In his analysis, they perform one of two opposed functions, either...

..., in the name of an ontological pluralism, Nersessian's arguments resist the collapse of what is particular about literature into neutralizing appeals to externally sourced “contexts,” she still wishes to say something specific about the political resonances of Romantic poetry—without, for all that, assuming...

... reconstructed, permeates spheres that are traditionally conceived of as antithetical to the material and hence purely “spiritual.” Chief among these is the realm of literature and, within literature, poetry in particular. Schleifer unfolds this double line of argument in the following three chapters...

... indispensably disposable disposition. What all labor power has in common— in addition to the capacity to communicate in language— is the 'ontological' condition of always already becoming "indispens- ably disposable." We are all part of the surplus population and are all compelled to become indispensably...

...' as an "indispensably dis- posable" surplus population. In other words, the productivity of the surplus population is found precisely in its indispensably disposable disposition. What all labor power has in common— in addition to the capacity to communicate in language— is the 'ontological' condition of always...

... indispensably disposable disposition. What all labor power has in common— in addition to the capacity to communicate in language— is the 'ontological' condition of always already becoming "indispens- ably disposable." We are all part of the surplus population and are all compelled to become indispensably...

... d’Etudes Anglophones, U Paris VII-Denis Diderot , 2005 . 43 - 73 . Print. Cahiers Charles V 38 . Hansen Mark B. N. “ The Digital Topography of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves .” Contemporary Literature 45.4 ( 2004 ): 597 - 636 . Print . Hantke Steffen . “‘ God Save Us...

....” In New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics , edited by Coole Diana Frost Samantha , 47 – 69 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Bergson Henri . (1907) 1998 . Creative Evolution . Translated by Mitchell Arthur . Mineola, NY : Dover . Bernays Edward...

...Pieter Vermeulen Starting from the observation that the notion of the Anthropocene invites us to alter the ways in which we imagine human life (and the relations between different human lives), this essay argues that transnational accounts of literature and culture—in the fairly new field...

... of American Horror Literature.” Minnesota Review , no. 6 : 118 – 31 . Campbell John W. (1938) 2011 . Who Goes There? London : Gollancz . Coulthart John . 2006 . H. P. Lovecraft's “The Haunter of the Dark” and Other Grotesque Visions . London : Creation Oneiros . Creed...

... and Schizophrenia (Deleuze and Guattari [1972] 1985, [1980] 1987), written with Guattari, and in a short text written in 1977 with Parnet, “On the Superiority of Anglo-­American Literature” (Deleuze and Parnet [1977] 2006).5 In each instance, Jackson’s line announces the idea that “escape is revolutionary...

... to the ontological threat to the metadiegetic strand by visually displaying the disintegration of the dream-work itself through a disorienting slow-motion double-exposed image of the two women leaving the apartment, traumatized by their encounter. 19 The image formally and poetically captures the couple's...

... . Wild Seed . Garden City, NY : Doubleday . Cecire Maria Sachiko . 2019 . Re-enchanted: The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Cho Zen . 2015 . Sorcerer to the Crown . New York : Ace Books...

..., polemical edge has softened into doxa , and a refusal to read characters as anything but forms has mired character criticism in a series of pseudoproblems. Thus, she argues, when John Frow describes characters as “ontologically hybrid beings” (1)—at once persons and textual constructs—he is finding paradox...

... by ontological concerns: as a distinct subcategory, Asian American literary criti- cism made its first articulation in the 1970s through a definition of Asian Ameri- can literature in relation to American literature as a whole. The key text that brought the simmering consciousness to the surface was Maxine...

... these philosophical and aesthetic distinctions. In doing so it demonstrates how interwar Marxist debates about the representation of object-ness in avant-garde literature might help assess the theoretical viability of the new materialist thought for literary studies today. Marla Zubel is a PhD candidate...

...Elana Gomel COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Aldiss Brian . Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction . London : Corgi Books , 1975 . Bakhtin Mikhail . Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Issues in Literature and Aesthetics...

... with translations from a literature of the (or a) future. The fact that it hasn’t yet been written, the mere absence of a text to translate, doesn’t make all that much difference. What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see...