Resonance From the Past to the Future: Mythological Metaphors in Chinese Science Fiction Films [PDF]
This paper is centered on the extent to which contemporary Chinese science fiction is related to ancient Chinese mythologies according to the previous scholarly discussion and how these ancient mythologies are utilized specifically in the futuristic ...
Chen Yue
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Il reale in finzione. L'ibridazione di fiction e non-fiction nella letteratura contemporanea
Questo saggio propone un breve excursus della storia dell’ibridazione di fiction e non-fiction in ambito occidentale, a partire dal new journalism e dal nonfiction novel fino all’attuale proliferazione di oggetti narrativi in cui è presente una ...
Marco Mongelli
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Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising its profile in contemporary cinema.
Udden, James N.
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Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain [PDF]
This is a monograph analysing the symbolic role played by contemporary fiction in the break-up of political and cultural consensus in British public life. This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers.
Dix, Hywel
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Introduction: Contemporary Proximity Fiction
Nàdia Alonso López
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Singing in a new world: Scotland - hopeless schizophrenic or cosmopolitan post nation? [PDF]
Rival views of Scotland at the beginning of the twenty-first century see the nation as either, hopelessly schizophrenic, mired in its own bedevilled tartanry and forever salvaging the present through historic erasure or as a cosmopolitan postnation at ...
Farrell, M.
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[Review of] Virgil Suarez. Welcome to the Oasis and Other Stories [PDF]
If one is seeking a text to help expand the multicultural approach in a course on contemporary fiction or literature in general, a new collection of short stories by Virgil Suarez may be a successful addition.
Hernandez, Frances
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Imagining Action in/Against the Anthropocene: Narrative Impasse and the Necessity of Alternatives to Effect Resistance [PDF]
The Anthropocene has emerged as the dominant conception of the contemporary moment, centering the human individual as both responsible for and bearing the responsibility to counteract its numerous interrelated socioeconomic, political, and environmental ...
Kroon, Ariel
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Readers and their roles: Evidence from readers of contemporary fiction in the Netherlands. [PDF]
Riddell A, van Dalen-Oskam K.
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Mordercze miasta (?) Nowy polski kryminał – zwrot przestrzenny czy gra miejska?
Deadly cities (?) Contemporary Polish crime fiction – „spatial turn” or urban game? The article analyzes the urban space in the contemporary Polish crime fiction.
Justyna Tuszyńska
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