Nicole Falkenhayner

  • Visceral writing and affect transmission as feminist strategy

    As a research group at the department of language and literature, NTNU, our discussions start out from the observation that recent texts by women authors point towards an affecting aesthetics which affords physical reactions in their readers. Potential reading experiences of nausea, vertigo and disorientation are repeatedly indicated through textual strategies of visceral representation that


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  • New Article in ariel: A Review of International English Literature

    Sensing the Future in Contemporary Anglophone Literature Due to contemporary experiences of climate crisis, large-scale migration, and global ruptures such as the spread of COVID-19, futurity has become newly problematized in both public discourse and critical discussions in literary and cultural studies. This article argues that literary texts contribute to the renegotiation of futurity for


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  • Erwartungskulturen: Idiome des Zukünftigen in England, 1640–1660.

    Nicole Falkenhayner Patrick Eisenlohr, Stefan Kramer, Andreas Langenohl (Hrsg.) Parallaxen moderner Zeitlichkeit. Ästhetische Eigenzeiten 22. Wehrhahn, 2021, S.70-102. https://www.wehrhahn-verlag.de/public/index.php?ID_Section=2&ID_Product=1437 Das Ziel des Konzeptes der Erwartungskulturen, das hier vorgestellt und erprobt wird, ist eine Rekonstruktion und kritische Reflexion historischer, situierter Formen von Zukünftigkeit. Das Anliegen des vorliegenden Textes ist die Darstellung einer historischen Erwartungskultur. Nach einer


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  • Futurity as an Effect of Playing Horizon: Zero Dawn.

    Nicole Falkenhayner humanities 2021, 10(2), 72; DOI:10.3390/h1002072 Futurity denotes the quality or state of being in the future. This article explores futurity as an effect of response, as an aesthetic experience of playing a narrative video game. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the ways in which video games are engaged


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  • Heroes in Contemporary British Culture: Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change

    Barbara Korte and Nicole Falkenhayner Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies, Taylor and Francis, 2021 link to book’s page on Routledge site https://www.routledge.com/Heroes-in-Contemporary-British-Culture-Television-Drama-and-Reflections/Korte-Falkenhayner/p/book/9780367653668 This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this


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  • New Publication on Feminism and the Posthuman in Popular Culture

    Falkenhayner, N 2020 The Ship Who Sang: Feminism, the Posthuman, and Similarity. Open Library of Humanities, 6(2): 21, pp. 1–24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.598


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