Of the Postmodernists’ Party Without Knowing It: Philip Pullman, Hypermorality and Metanarratives

The prominence of Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy has prompted energetic debate around Pullman's treatment of organised religion and questions of morality and ethics. Pullman's treatment of religion is considered in a different way by drawing on George Bataille's notion of hypermorality, which proposes a view of morality based on rationality and enabling a critique of those moral codes, which claim the authority of institutionalised religions

Of the Postmodernists' Party Without Knowing It: Philip Pullman, Hypermorality and Metanarratives

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Meat, Masculinity, and Pathologized Adolescence in Michael Logan’s Apocalypse Cow and Scott Westerfeld’s Peeps

Drawing on Carol J. Adams’s observations about discourses of meat and masculinity, this paper examines the role of flesh consumption in Michael Logan’s zombie satire Apocalypse Cow and Scott Westerfeld’s pseudo-vampire novel Peeps. By analyzing the discursive strategies that Westerfeld and Logan employ to reflect upon adult and adolescent masculinity, the paper reveals the radical potential in as well as the cultural limitations of consumptive epidemics in literature for and about young men. This potential and these limitations in turn reflect contemporary dialogues between different models of masculine subjectivity.   DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2014.000

Meat, masculinity, and pathologized adolescence in Michael Logan’s Apocalypse Cow and Scott Westerfeld’s Peeps

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Place and displacement : determining a spiritual path in children's fantasy literature

Article from Vol. 6, Special issue. A joint publication of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts, University of Technology, Sydney and the Department of English, Macquarie University.7 page(s