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Keywords:

* The Apartment Ellipsis

* Apartments in Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock

* Apartments in An Interpreter in Vienna

* Chronotope, everyday life, city culture, layers of the city, identity creation…

* Hope

Considerations for your work:

* How do your characters interact with their domestic spaces? Are they spaces of their creation or are they at odds with them? Are they safe or dangerous places?

* To what extent do the interior domestic spaces in your fiction reflect culture? Consider the culture of the setting as well as other cultures the characters may bring into that space.

* How does the apartment living space offer a way to understand at once your character(s) within it and the city in which it resides? How does the rest of the building affect the individual?

Feel free to share your related work or recommendations in the comments.

Texts:

* Graham Greene - Brighton Rock

* The rest of the references are listed in my work which I read from; free download here from HKU Scholars Hub

* Kafka - Before the Law

* My lecture at Pratt: From Theory to Fiction

Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction.

https://thematterhorn.substack.com/

Keywords:

* The language of clothes

* Chronotope

* Clothing can show:

* Place, culture

* Identity – i.e. subcultures, gender

* Traditions (vs. change)

* Politics

* Weather

* Time period

* Functionality

* Power relationships / class, societal position, work

Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction.

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Keywords:

* Doppelgängers / Doubles

* psychoanalysis —> literature (& psychoanalytical critical theory)

* The Uncanny / Unheimlich

* literary examples

* film adaptation / “a copy of a copy of a copy…”

* twins

* (architectural uncanny)

* your fiction

Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. As always, feel free to share any of your work related to the conversation. Thank you!

A full AI-created transcript can be accessed on the desktop version.

Keywords:

* Adaptation discussion

* Fidelity

* Postmodernism

* Visual vs non-visual texts / human vs nonhuman actors / ‘the real’

* Adaptation scholars

* Intertextuality

Considerations for your work:

* What stories does your text respond to or adapt, even implicitly? Is this something you reference in the text? Should you or would doing so enhance the intertextual reference points?

* In what ways might creating a fiction that adapts allow you to go deeper with an idea? In what ways might it restrict you?

* When retelling or responding to a story through a different medium, what are the effects in the change due to the medium? In what ways does your text as visual or not become a different type of cultural artifact?

Feel free to share your related work or recommendations in the comments.

Texts:

* See texts in original discussion about Adaptation

* Meikle, Kyle. “REMATERIALIZING ADAPTATION THEORY.” Literature/Film Quarterly 41, no. 3 (2013): 174–83. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43798874.

* Jellenik, Glenn. “The Task of the Adaptation Critic.” South Atlantic Review 80, no. 3–4 (2015): 254–68. https://www.jstor.org/stable/soutatlarevi.80.3-4.254.

* Raitt, George. “‘Lost in Austen’: Screen Adaptation in a Post-Feminist World.” Literature/Film Quarterly 40, no. 2 (2012): 127–41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43798823.

* Elliott, Kamilla. “Rethinking Formal-Cultural and Textual-Contextual Divides in Adaptation Studies.” Literature/Film Quarterly 42, no. 4 (2014): 576–93. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43798997.

* Julia Kristeva - Nous Deux

* John Frow - Intertextuality and Ontology

* Despotopoulou, Anna. “Girls on Film: Postmodern Renderings of Jane Austen and Henry James.” The Yearbook of English Studies 36, no. 1 (2006): 115–30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3508740.

* Dune chat

Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. As always, feel free to share any of your work related to the conversation. Thank you!

A full AI-created transcript can be accessed on the desktop version.

Keywords:

* Sport as part of Everyday Life

* Both as action, something we do or your character does

* And as culture: supporting teams, iconic athletes, Olympics & nationalism, sport subcultures, songs, designs, pastimes & social activities

* Or the story itself may be about a professional or iconic athlete

* Theatrics of sport / spectacle

* America: baseball

* Austria: skiing

* Sports in literature

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Keywords:

* Iconic painters of a culture or place

* Vienna: Gustav Klimt

* Destruction/seizing of visual arts

* Literature:

* J. D. Salinger

* Herman Melville

* Natsume Sōseki

* Haruki Murakami

* Considerations for your work