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Autor započinje rad tvrdnjom da pandemiji COVID-19 pristupa kao singularnom događaju. U nastavku se osvrće na niz filozofskih opisa epidemije koji, po njegovu shvaćanju, ne uvažavaju jedinstvenost zdravstvene krize. Navodi niz autora i usredotočuje se na zajedničku im praksu uklapanja krize u već zgotovljene teorijske modele. U nastavku otvara pitanje književnosti i epidemije i pokazuje …

Reading the novel Hrvatska Aleksandrida (Croatian Alexander Romance) as a chivalric narrative structured around a historical figure, this paper aims at reinterpretation of it in the key of popular culture and looks into the politics of the representation of the protagonists-bearers of specific ideological values, acting both affirmatively and subversively within the imposed value system. …

From his first to his last novel, Pynchon has addressed the “constraints” hemming in human existence and gestured to different ways of transcending these. After summarizing the way his novels exemplify this twofold movement I will offer a reading of his last novel Bleeding Edge and show how the dialectic between structures of power and …