john gardner’s grendel is a celebrated example of the ontological postmodernist fiction. along with a discovery of self with which grendel the narrator of the novel is concerned, grand narratives such as philosophy are questioned. grendel denies the external objective reality and generously allows the legitimacy of fantastic and non-realistic methods by using “life-affirming fabulous art” as it...

la problématique de l’autofiction qui domine la sphère de la littérature française contemporaine vient d’une part de la difficulté des critiques de se mettre d’accord sur une définition et d’autre part de la divergence dans les pratiques des autofictionneurs. alors que serge doubrovsky exige un pacte référentiel, d’autres comme vincent colonna et gérard genette demandent un pacte de lecture fic...

Native American authors who are actively seeking to disrupt patriarchy and colonial narratives tend not to write in the literary genre of speculative fiction, which is a literary form that often serves to subvert Indigenous identities through colonial pedagogy of racial, sexual, and gendered clichés. I argue that the Native American voice, both male and female, is a form of active resistance to...

Disruption and disappointment: relationships of children and nostalgia in British interwar fiction." MA (Master of Arts) thesis,

Is there a role for fiction in explorations of ethics? Are words, as Conchis says, only for truth, for facts? Or is it perhaps the case that words can be used to help us reach a deeper truth—through fiction? This month the Journal of Medical Ethics features a form of publication rarely found in the pages of scholarly journals: the first instalment of a fictional “bioethics soap opera” designed ...