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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedWindows on the World by Frederic Beigbeder is the first literary work to explore the attacks of 11 September 2001--before Don DeLillo's Falling Man and Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. The book...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedTransformation, or as Maggie Nelson borrows from Deleuze and Guattari, "becoming" is a trajectory threaded throughout Nelson's work, namely Bluets and The Argonauts, which theorize hybridized or multiplied identities....
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedNear the end of Rachel CUSIC's Kudos, which concerns a writer, Faye, at the peak of her career, giving readings and interviews at a European literary festival, her son telephones from London. There has been an accident,...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedEvery story is a travel story--a spatial practice. Michel de Certeau Wrote the self-proclaimed genius Gertrude Stein, "It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedHer portrait is not represented in a still photograph nor in a painting. All along, you see her without actually seeing, actually having seen her. You do not see her yet. For the moment, you only see her traces....
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedLiterary self-expression is as old as literature. Autobiographical poetry, which until now has been an underrepresented research area, constitutes an underlying influence rooted in antiquity. As this article will...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedWhat is autofiction? Saint Augustine--whose fifth-century Confessions inaugurated the autobiographical tradition--has a famous line about time: "If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to one that...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedToday, the internet deeply influences our experience of self. As Sherry Turkle explains, "the projection of self onto computational media is as consistent as it is dramatic" since the internet's beginning, amounting not...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIt should not surprise that autofiction, a genre that purposely occupies the liminal space between memoir and fiction, has only recently gained traction amongst literary and media scholars in North America (Worthington...