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The aim of the article is to show the role of various metaphorical practices that are a dominant structural feature of Andrzej Stasiuk’s prose, used to construct his textual reality. Comparisons, metaphorical statements, and enumerations represent textual figures that transform the described experience of the world from the perspective of the speaking subject, subjectivising and constructing reality, rather than merely representing it. In both his novels and feuilletons, Stasiuk relates his experiences of the world in different temporal orders, constructing them on a textual level. Yet his thoroughly subjective prose preserves the conventions of realism. At the same time, Stasiuk quite often refers to the genre of the road novel, both in his fiction and in his journalism. Textual figures of experience are his basic means of describing the presented world.

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Teaching the Road Novel with Jack Kerouac

10.3828/liverpool/9781949979954.003.0017 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 227-240

Author(s):

Jimmy Fazzino

Keyword(s):

Las Vegas ◽

Jack Kerouac ◽

Gendered Identity ◽

The Road ◽

Cultural Experiences ◽

On The Road ◽

Road Novel ◽

Racial Ethnic

This essay presents multi-racial/ethnic/gendered responses to Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, illustrating how cultural experiences of Beat and Chicano/a gendered identity shape one’s understanding of material and imaginary spaces. In addition to On the Road, the essay discusses Hunter S. Thompsons’ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Erika Lopez’s Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing, Maria Amparo Escandon’s Gonzales & Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License, and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

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Answering the Call: Telephonic Fascism and Faulkner’s Angel of History

Faulkner and Money ◽

10.14325/mississippi/9781496822529.003.0014 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 208-230

Author(s):

Myka Tucker-Abramson

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

World War ◽

Far Right ◽

War Fiction ◽

The Road ◽

Critical Scholarship ◽

Theory Of History ◽

Post War ◽

The Cold War ◽

Road Novel

As Nazism was securing its grip on Germany, Walter Benjamin wrote of the "necessity of a theory of history from which fascism can become visible." With the election of Trump and the resurgence of hyper-nationalist and far-right politics globally, we too need a theory that can bring the neofascism of the present into relief. This chapter suggests that William Faulkner's post-war fiction can help generate such a theory, by illuminating the path from the Cold War to the neofascism of Trumpism. Drawing on AiméCésaire's insights that fascism's origins lie in colonialism, and critical scholarship that reads the post-Reconstruction South as emblematic of US necolonial policy, this chapter argues that it is in Faulkner's literary engagements with the post-World War II modernization of the South via the genres of the noir and the road novel that Faulkner's most important engagements with fascism are to be found.

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Jacques Poulin’s Volkswagen Blues

Thélème Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses ◽

10.5209/thel.68361 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 269-280

Author(s):

Fernando Sanz-Lázaro

Keyword(s):

Crucial Role ◽

Culturally Diverse ◽

American Culture ◽

The Novel ◽

French Canadian ◽

The Road ◽

Anglo American ◽

On The Road ◽

Road Novel

This article analyses the intertextuality of the novel Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin, a French-Canadian take on the road novel. The aim of the paper is to examine not only the relationships between Volkswagen Blues and its culturally diverse sources, but also to show how those multicultural intertexts permeate the road novel genre. In order to achieve this purpose, the study identifies in the novel instances of intertextuality which are analyzed within Genette’s framework for transtextuality. Considering the intertextual presence in Volkswagen Blues, the analysis ponders whether it is limited to this novel or is a manifestation of Americanness and, thus, a piece of evidence of multiculturality in the hegemonic American discourse. The study shows how Poulin depicts the crucial role of non-Anglo-American identities in contemporary American culture and explains the influence of world literatures in Poulin’s work

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Seeking to uncover biology's chemical roots

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences ◽

10.1042/etls20190012 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (5) ◽

pp. 435-443 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Addy Pross

Keyword(s):

Environmental Changes ◽

Biological Systems ◽

Significant Development ◽

The Road ◽

Physical Chemical ◽

Systems Chemistry ◽

Biological World ◽

Inanimate Matter ◽

The Origin Of Life ◽

Opening Up

Despite the considerable advances in molecular biology over the past several decades, the nature of the physical–chemical process by which inanimate matter become transformed into simplest life remains elusive. In this review, we describe recent advances in a relatively new area of chemistry, systems chemistry, which attempts to uncover the physical–chemical principles underlying that remarkable transformation. A significant development has been the discovery that within the space of chemical potentiality there exists a largely unexplored kinetic domain which could be termed dynamic kinetic chemistry. Our analysis suggests that all biological systems and associated sub-systems belong to this distinct domain, thereby facilitating the placement of biological systems within a coherent physical/chemical framework. That discovery offers new insights into the origin of life process, as well as opening the door toward the preparation of active materials able to self-heal, adapt to environmental changes, even communicate, mimicking what transpires routinely in the biological world. The road to simplest proto-life appears to be opening up.

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