Francisco Collado Rodríguez
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View article: Echoes from "Fight Club"
Echoes from "Fight Club" Open
This work addresses Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Adjustment Day as a satirical critique of the political radicalization of the USA and as a warning about the dangerous ideological effects narratives may have on our posthumanist understanding of…
View article: The Waste Land and the Release of Social Energy: An Eliotean Reading of Thomas Pynchon’s Fiction
The Waste Land and the Release of Social Energy: An Eliotean Reading of Thomas Pynchon’s Fiction Open
"This essay discusses the striking influence of The Waste Land on Thomas Pynchon’s oeuvre and evaluates the stylistic and thematic links connecting them. More specifically, the article centers on twin aspects of Pynchon’s intertextual refr…
View article: Narratives of the Rocket: Chabon’s “Amnesiac” Revisitation of Pynchon’s Posthuman Zone
Narratives of the Rocket: Chabon’s “Amnesiac” Revisitation of Pynchon’s Posthuman Zone Open
This work explores Michael Chabon's use in Moonglow of notions related to the uncertainty of memories, categorical thinking, and historiographic metafiction, and the intertextual connections existing between his novel and Pynchon's Gravity…
View article: La Posmodernidad en los espacios microsocietales
La Posmodernidad en los espacios microsocietales Open
Hablar de la posmodernidad en los espacios microsocietales significa adoptar un enfoque poco tradicional de este problema. Para ello partimos de la definición de la Modernidad como un estilo cognitivo general o Episteme. Luego nos detenemo…
View article: Rise of the living dead in Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland”
Rise of the living dead in Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland” Open
Oedipa Maas’s anti-categorical revelation that middles should not be excluded in Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 is understood by its author in more debatable terms two decades later, once it is clear that the 1960s struggles for revolution…
View article: Approaching the Scientific Method in Literary Studies: on the Notions of Framework and Method (and their Application to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five)
Approaching the Scientific Method in Literary Studies: on the Notions of Framework and Method (and their Application to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five) Open
Mostly addressed to novice scholars and instructors, this paper discusses some of the implications that the concepts of Theoretical Framework and Method of Analysis have for the field of Literary Studies. The limits between the two notions…
View article: Approaching the Scientific Method in Literary Studies: on the Notions of Framework and Method (and their Application to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five)
Approaching the Scientific Method in Literary Studies: on the Notions of Framework and Method (and their Application to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five) Open
Mostly addressed to novice scholars and instructors, this paper discusses some of the implications that the concepts of Theoretical Framework and Method of Analysis have for the field of Literary Studies. The limits between the two notions…