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Still ‘Watching’ TV? The Consumption of TV Fiction by Engaged Audiences

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2016
There is no denying that television, as a medium and an institution, has drastically changed in the age of digitization and convergence. For audiences, this has not only opened up multiple opportunities to watch television content at other times and on ...
Alexander Dhoest, Nele Simons
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Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English

open access: yesIndialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2018
A review of Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru's recent study of the work of Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Vikram ...
Ioana Luca
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The Return of the Edwardians in Contemporary Fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
My research stems from the hypothesis that a subgenre exists within the contemporary historical novel in English with a series of features that can be labelled as neoEdwardian and belong in a broader social and cultural phenomenon.
Cruz-Rus, Celia
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Critique [of THE IMAGE OF GAYS IN CHICANO PROSE FICTION] [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
In The Image of Gays in Chicano Prose Fiction, Karl J. Reinhardt surveys a variety of outstanding works of contemporary fiction by male Chicano writers which include homosexual references that are often so hidden that they may not even be apparent to ...
Bentley, Sara
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Pandemics, epidemics, viruses, plagues, and disease: Comparative frequency analysis of a cultural pathology reflected in science fiction magazines from 1926 to 2015

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open, 2020
Science fiction includes many dystopian narratives, often featuring epidemics, pandemics, plagues, viruses, and disease. As science fiction has grown in popularity and prevalence it appeals to an increasingly broad demographic, is employed in research ...
Christopher B. Menadue
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Animals Among Us: The Lives of Humans and Animals in Contemporary American Fiction edited by John Yunker [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Review of Animals Among Us: The Lives of Humans and Animals in Contemporary American Fiction, edited by John ...
Reis, Ashley E.
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Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Against the backdrops of Terry Gifford’s post-pastoral and Fred Botting’s Gothic understanding of the literary corpse as “negative[ly] sublime,” this essay explores the fictional dead as matter unfettered by genre, consistently signifying beyond their ...
Armstrong, John
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Technology and 21st Century Fiction: Resisting/Embracing an Impending Irrelevance

open access: yesC21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
This article asks how the technological devices and achievements that hold unmistakable status in contemporary life are represented in contemporary fiction.
Mairi Power
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Réappropriation et réinvention de la ville dans deux romans brésiliens contemporains

open access: yesBrésil(s), 2019
In Brazil, where the process of urbanization was fast and chaotic, violence and the fragmentation of city life are important themes in fiction writing.
François Weigel
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A Lyrical ‘I’ Beyond Fiction. Yahya Hassan and Autobiographical Poetry in Denmark After Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle.

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2021
This article focuses on contemporary autobiographical Danish poetry following the publication of Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel Min kamp [My Struggle], originally published between 2009 and 2011 [My Struggle (2012–2018)].
Stefan Kjerkegaard
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