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Part of the larger expressionist movement, literary and theatrical expressionism is an avant-garde movement originating in Germany, which rejects realism in order to depict emotions and subjective thoughts [92] [93] Franz Kafka, Alfred Döblin, Gottfried Benn, Leonid Andreyev, Heinrich Mann, Oskar Kokoschka: First World War Poets
Similarly, Tim O'Brien's 1990 short story cycle The Things They Carried, about one platoon's experiences during the Vietnam War, features a character named Tim O'Brien; though O'Brien was a Vietnam veteran, the book is a work of fiction and O'Brien calls into question the fictionality of the characters and incidents throughout the book. One ...
Chaos Walking is a young adult science fiction series written by American-British novelist Patrick Ness.It is set in a dystopian world where all living creatures can hear each other's thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise.
2. Dublin Murder Squad by Tana French. Genre: Mystery Thriller Books in series: In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, Secret Place, The Trespasser The TV adaptation of this ...
Note: This is for articles on novel series—which are a set or series of novels or books that should be read in order as is often the case in speculative fiction and all its subgenres. Can be thought of as one over-riding storyline, and is often without plot re-introduction, reiteration or reminder, save for cursory mention of past events.
Once you factor in how many books appear on the typical set of shelves—and the back-and-forth necessary to clear the rights, compounded by the tight turnarounds of TV shows—it becomes a whole ...
For Dempsey, what all forms of metamodernism have in common is the attempt to move beyond postmodernism by means of postmodernism—a move which requires progressively "decentering" from the postmodern vantage in order to reflect on it as an object of analysis (i.e., "going meta" on postmodernism). This reflective move creates a new orientation ...
The series begins with Swallows and Amazons, published in 1930. The Walker children from London, staying at a lakeside farm in the school holidays, sail a dinghy named Swallow, while the local Blackett girls, living on the opposite shore, have one named Amazon. The Walkers see themselves as explorers, while the Blacketts declare themselves pirates.