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Editorial

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All the Disc’s a Stage: Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters as Metafiction

  • Prema Arasu

The Use of Free Indirect Discourse in J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series

  • Evie Kendal

When Breath Becomes Air: Constructing Stable Narrative Identity during Terminal Illness

  • Deborah de Muijnck

Creative Writing

“Irony,” Alanis Morissette and Me

  • Pawel Cholewa

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Miriam Sved, A Universe of Sufficient Size

  • Reviewed by Giulia Mastrantoni

Brendan Keogh, A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames

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