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Postmodern Metanarratives

Blade Runner and Literature in the Age of Image

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Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern.

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  • Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

    Décio Torres Cruz

  • Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil

    Décio Torres Cruz

About the author

Décio Torres Cruz holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from SUNY Buffalo, USA. He did post-doctoral research on film adaptations of Shakespeare's works at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, and now teaches Literatures in English at UFBA and UNEB in Brazil. He has written several books and sits on a number of journal editorial boards.

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