Myths and legends play a vital role in explaining how human beings understand their world. Many myths and legends are linked to a specific places or environments. The place can be an ordinary spot that became associated with an important event, or it can be created as an ideal or to serve as a critique […]
The Protest Issues and Actions section of the Popular Culture Assocation (PCA) seeks proposals for its annual paper sessions at the 2016 Conference to be held in Seattle, Wa from March 22-25, 2016. Any disciplinary approach may be used to examine dissent, past or present, in a local, national, or international setting. Papers may focus
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While there is a plethora of critical readings on the intertextuality of fairytales, there is significantly less attention drawn to the metaleptic and metafictional attributes embedded in the rest of the children’s literature canon. Picturebooks, to give but one specific example, utilize metaleptic devices profusely, either as a means to highlight the potentiality of language
Number 13 of Critical Stages (due June 2016) will focus on dance, a field of performing arts that has deeply influenced dramatic theatre as well during the last decades of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st. Although dance and performance tend to take more space in contemporary theatre festivals, critics continue
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Both science fiction and postcolonial theory are concerned with troubling normative understandings of movement, diaspora, and hybridity. Indeed, “The Stranger in the Strange Land” is an oppositional trope that is at the heart of both science fiction and historical colonial encounters. The other-worldliness and futurity of science fiction has offered numerous writers an effective (and
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