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The Crumbling Two-Story Architecture of Richard Powers’ Fictions
Published 2010-02-01“…A prominent characteristic of Richard Powers’ technique is that his novels generally proceed by the alternating narration of two different stories. …”
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Juvenile Cosmology; Or Richard Powers’ Post-Global Doughnut
Published 2010-02-01“…Richard Powers’ novel Operation Wandering Soul (1993) enacts the canny link between an already jaded and out-dated globalism and the child as an ascendant category. …”
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Nothing Risked, Nothing Gained: Richard Powers' Gain and the Horizon of Risk
Published 2010-02-01“…This essay interprets Richard Powers' sixth novel Gain with reference to the German sociologist Ulrich Beck's concept of “second modernity.” …”
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A Merciless Mother: Nature Paying Back in Richard Power’s The Overstory
Published 2023-12-01“… The current study deals with the interdependency between human and the non-human world in Richard Powers’ The Overstory. It further explicates the lack of coherence between human and non-human environment. …”
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The Ubiquity of Strange Frontiers: Minor Eschatology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker
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The Echo Maker, de Richard Powers – le retour au pays
Published 2019-06-01“…Far from attempting to coerce nature into framed descriptions, Richard Powers shows how essential an acknowledgement of the elusiveness of the land is. …”
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A Few Remarks on the Poetics of Turbulence in Richard Powers’ Operation Wandering Soul
Published 2010-02-01“…In Richard Powers’ Operation Wandering Soul, the conventional linearity of narrative gives way to a type of discontinuity and circularity that is reminiscent of the unpredictable movement of turbulent flows. …”
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Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance de Richard Powers ou le commentaire déplacé
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Du simulacre à la simulation : la vérité de l’artifice dans Galatea 2.2 de Richard Powers
Published 2009-12-01“…This paper suggests that Richard Powers’ Galatea 2.2 may be construed as an up-dated version of Ovid’s “Pygmalion” insofar as it no longer pauses the question of artifice in terms of imitation but in terms of simulation. …”
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Openings: the Act of Modelizing and the Question of Complexity
Published 2010-02-01“…The openings therefore seem not only to have programmatic virtues, but also to offer disorienting elements whose impact on the global scale (that is that of the novel as a whole) forces us to reconsider the scope of the models at stake in Richard Powers’ writing.…”
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Serial Production, Serial Photography, and the Writing of History in Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
Published 2010-02-01“…Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance is both the title of Richard Powers’ novel and of August Sander’s 1914 photograph whose haunting influence the book explores. …”
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