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The narratives of fascination we are captivated by today are not so different from the ones that have enthralled generations of readers before. As Rita Felski claimed, ‘many of the myths of modernity that pervade the last fin de siècle can be detected again in our own, suggesting that we may have to free ourselves from the seductive power of grand narratives’.1 The Medusa belongs to these grands recits of fascination.
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Notes
DeLillo in an interview with Mark Binelli, ‘Intensity of a Plot’, Guernica, July 2007; quoted from Pöhlmann (2010), 54.
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Baumbach, S. (2015). The Gorgon Gazes Back: Contemporary Fascination. In: Literature and Fascination. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137538017_7
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