Andrew Rayment

Chiba University · Department of International Cultures and Languages

An A-Z of Academic Words and Phrases is a learner's dictionary designed to support university students (both of the English- and non-English speaking variety), but also aimed at teachers looking for EAP resources. At the moment, it's only available on Amazon as a paperback, but there should also be an eBook version in the not too distant future. He...

This is an introductory guide to some of the key features of literary Realism, Modernism and Postmodernism. The full, updated course is available on Academia Premium: https://www.academia.edu/courses/instructor_preview/4rz5zl/marketing

The following is an extract from: Rayment, Andrew. “Hysterical Colonels and Kernels: Apocalypse Now Redux and Ápres Coup Remembering.” Hollywood Remembrance and American War, edited by Andrew Rayment and Paul Nadasdy, Routledge, 2020, pp.83-113.

The following are extracts from: Rayment, Andrew, Ywain Tomos and Paul Nadasdy. “Dr. Strangelove: MAD Clowns and Phantom Memorialization.” Hollywood Remembrance and American War, edited by Andrew Rayment and Paul Nadasdy, Routledge, 2020, pp.114-143.

This is an extract from: Rayment, Andrew. “Hollywood Remembrance and American War.” Hollywood Remembrance and American War, edited by Andrew Rayment and Paul Nadasdy, Routledge, 2020, pp.1-38. Hollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance. Subjecting the notion that...

Book Description: Hollywood Remembrance and American War is an edited collection that addresses the synergy between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance. Subjecting the notion that war films ought to be considered ʻthe war memorials of today’ to critical scrutiny, the book develops a theoretical understanding of how Hollywood w...

This short piece examines the co-evolution of and the synergy between Hollywood war cinema and American war memorialization in the historical, political and ideological terms of remembrance in order to propose a new, theoretically useful categorization of Hollywood war films. It is a distillation of the arguments to be found in the title chapter o...

Rayment and Nadasdy analyze War Horse (Stephen Spielberg, 2011) as a Hollywood film unique in its pluralistic remembering of the war dead. In excluding American soldiers and heroizing an animal, War Horse implies that the enemy in the Great War was (the) inhumane war itself. As such, the authors argue, War Horse offers itself as a rhetorical ‘war m...

This is an introductory commentary on some of the key features of Katherine Mansfield's short story, "Blisss" (1920). It is aimed at undergraduate students studying Mansfield and / or Modernism.

This is an introductory commentary on some of the key features of Katherine Mansfield's short story, "A Dill Pickle" (1920). It is aimed at undergraduate students studying Mansfield and / or Modernism.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that baffled critics are angry critics. Small wonder, then, that reactions to Denis Villeneuve's surreal drama, Enemy upon its 2013 release, bordered on vehemence with famous movie reviewers lining up to accuse it of disjointedness and self-indulgence. For the Philadelphia Enquirer's Steven Rea, the film was "...

Using a multimodal theory of visual grammar, this paper examines how the British book covers of the three leading British Fantasy writers, Terry Pratchett, JK Rowling and Philip Pullman, have been re-packaged in almost identical ways. Working from the premise that the design of a book cover will induce readers to consume the text of the book in a p...

Philosophy and Terry Pratchett explores genuine philosophical issues in the novels of one of the world's best-selling authors of fantasy fiction. 'Feigning to Feign': Pratchett and the Masquerade looks at how the novels in Pratchettʼs Discworld series endlessly vary on the theme of duplicity and doubling, endlessly enact the psychoanalytical trut...

"The books are true while reality is lying..." Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique in the Fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Miéville. Ranging across subjects as diverse as exquisite...

As a Fantasy text and therefore unconstrained by the demand for ʻreality’, China Mieville's Perdido Street Station is situated so as to be able to literally interrogate Deleuzeʼs notion of being "trapped in the dream of the Other". This paper explores how Miévilleʼs novel does not simply represent the Deluzian idea through the soliloquies of Yaghar...

This paper examines the effects of the comedy in Terry Pratchett’s vampire thriller, Carpe Jugulum (1998). Pratchett is often described as a ‘satirist’, but this in turn raises the interesting questions of what it actually means to be a satirist in the Fantasy genre, and of whether ‘satire’ is actually an appropriate term for the approach Pratchett...

That Wallace Steven's idea of art as being a ‘description without place' which creates an 'inexistent space of its own outside historical space and time' is analogous to the imaginative spaces of Fantasy literature is clearly visible in Terry Pratchett’s wittily-titled 1998 vampire thriller, Carpe Jugulum. This paper argues that Carpe Jugulum's pro...

This paper establishes a 'dialogue’ between the British Fantasy writer Terry Pratchett and the Slovenian philosopher/cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek by considering Pratchett's Small Gods (1992) and Hogfather (1996) in the light of readings of belief given in Žižek’s Plague of Fantasies (1997) and How to Read Lacan (2006). The dialogue demonstrates h...