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What is Metafiction?

What is Metafiction?

Layman Poupard worked with Dr. Josh Toth of MacEwan University to create an entry on the topic of metafiction for Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism.  What is metafiction? How is it related to postmodernism? What does metafiction have to say about modern...

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“Dear Mickey: You Owe Me”

“Dear Mickey: You Owe Me”

Star Wars (1977). Alien (1979). What do these two films have in common, besides the obvious fact that they are two long-running science-fiction franchises from the late 1970s that spawned a plenitude of sequels and adaptations across a variety of...

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Disability Memoir Discussion

Disability Memoir Discussion

We recently had a fascinating discussion with G. Thomas Couser about disability studies, life writing, the social model of disability and more. Professor Couser, a scholar of disability life writing, is the founding director of the Disability Studies program at...

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