The Most Terrific Liar: Unreliable Narration in The Catcher in the Rye
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View ArticleThe Fourth Kelamote
The word “kelamote” is quite exotic. Where I’m from – which is either your present or your past – we’ve only just become used to doratones. In the beginning, two or three doratones seemed like enough....
View ArticleAs if by Magic, the Shopkeeper Appeared
Hearing the bell, the shopkeeper hid behind a rail of coats. A man in a dark suit came in. He stepped over to the gun metal till in silence. The merchant dropped to his knees and crawled behind the...
View ArticleTime out of Joint Pt 1: The End of History. Again
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View ArticleTime out of Joint Pt. 2: Period and Pastiche in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
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View ArticleTime out of Joint Pt. 3: Schizophrenia and Fragmentation in A.L. Kennedy’s Day
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View ArticleTime out of Joint Pt. 4: Intertextuality and Simulation in A.L. Kennedy’s Day
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View ArticleTime out of Joint Pt. 5: Hyperreality and Hypertextuality in David Mitchell’s...
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View ArticleTime out of Joint Pt. 6: Conclusion and Mediography
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Cloud Atlas – the Movie
Cloud Atlas, the film of the unfilmable novel, has had a belated UK release. With an epic cast including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent and High Grant, it’s ambitious and watchable and complex...
View ArticleFood as Metaphor in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies”
“Interpreter of Maladies” is the title of a 1999 short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri. Born in the US, but of Indian extraction, the collection explores issues of diaspora, culture ritual, otherness...
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