Litera, 2013 This study aims to find a model for children’s contemporary fiction to improve the literacy of the fifth grade students of elementary schools. It employed a qualitative hermeneutics design.
Muakibatul Hasanah
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A 'novel' approach to leadership development : using women's literary fiction to explore contemporary women's leadership issues : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Business Studies in Management at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2016 The central aim of this thesis is to investigate how women’s literary fiction can be harnessed for the purpose of exploring contemporary women’s leadership issues.
Martin, Lydia Anne
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Trends in contemporary Italian narrative 1980-2007 [PDF]
, 2007 The ‘new Italian narrative’ that began to be spoken about in the 1980s was not associated with a single writer or movement but with an eclectic and varied production.
Ania, GF, Hallamore-Caesar, A
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Look back in wonder : how the endings of short stories can be their most powerful and effective distinguishing features [PDF]
, 2011 Drawing on her experiences as a writer and teacher of short fiction, the author offers an interrogation of the defining qualities of short stories, with a particular focus on how the ending of a narrative can be one of the most useful ways of teasing out
Hurley, UK
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Prison stories and what they mean [PDF]
, 2011 The paper I proposed for this conference developed the theme of how we might derive knowledge from sources which are inherently unreliable. I set out not to reach conclusions but to challenge assumptions.
Smith, Alan
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The Postdigital as Theme in Narrative Fiction across Media
Anglica. An International Journal of English StudiesThis article argues that a sceptical attitude towards the role of digital technology in contemporary life is becoming increasingly prevalent in twenty-first-century fiction and offers a new way of theorising this thematic trend via refining the concept ...
Alice Bell
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Teaching the changing story [PDF]
, 2007 This paper begins with a brief survey of the state of contemporary short fiction practice, with particular reference to McSweeneys Quarterly Concern, leading into a reflective account of pedagogical approaches to short fiction on Creative Writing degree ...
Hurley, UK
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Connecting the Gospel and Reality Via Fiction
, 2005 Despite the fact that last year The Purpose Driven Life outsold Harry Potter 5, other than a blip around the time of Mel Gibson\u27s record breaking film The Passion of the Christ, there has been a steady decline in the number of Christian bookstores ...
Hardy, LeAnne
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A self-conscious Kurt Vonnegut: an analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions [PDF]
, 2014 The works of Kurt Vonnegut stand as seminal in the American literary canon. Looking at three of his most influential novels, namely Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, this study aims to better understand the mechanisms which ...
Langdon, Gareth
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A Deleuzean Approach to Contemporary Fiction: Some Questions
Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2018 Deleuze approaches literary works, especially novels, conceptually. For him the question of true literature is not linked to the question of its textuality or its historicity, but to its vitality, that is, its tenor of life.
Zekiye ANTAKYALIOĞLU
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