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Ctrl Z: Undoing Narratives

The proposed project seeks to explore how retraction and recantation take shape in experimental writing of the 20th and 21st Century.

Rick De Villiers Rick De Villiers

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Adjacency, or, Words for Pain

Baderoon, Gabeba. 2024. Adjacency, or, Words for Pain. New England Review, 45(4), 110–113. https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2024.a948981

Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon

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Two theories of action - Edelman’s Neuronal group Selection and the Poetics of Paul Valéry

Faria, Marcella. 2021. Two theories of action - Edelman’s Neuronal group Selection and the Poetics of Paul Valéry. Biosystems, 210, 104549. ...

Marcella Faria Marcella Faria

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51 Poets: an Anthology of World Poetry

For a Latin American publisher I have undertaken to compile an anthology of world poetry.

JM Coetzee JM Coetzee
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