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How can a poem be true? This autoethnographic study uses poetic inquiry to explore the boundaries between fiction and reality within poetic experience.
John L. Hoben
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Cormac McCarthy and the Genre Turn in Contemporary Literary Fiction
The wholesale embrace of genre fiction by contemporary literary writers is currently reorganizing the literary field. This essay looks at the role that genre has played in Cormac McCarthy’s fiction since his turn to the Western with Blood Meridian (1985).
James Dorson
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This paper is a problematized study of an atypical case of the contemporary Swiss theater scene: Vous êtes ici, a science-fiction theater series unfolding its 10 episodes over the 2020-2021 season.
Aurélien Maignant, Roberta Alberico
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Review of Hanna Meretoja. The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xviii + 282 pp.
Charles R. Sullivan
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Environmental crisis in José Saramago's fiction
José Saramago, the Portuguese writer winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, was one of the fiercest critics of our time of the European economic, political, social and environmental crisis. The latter In particular, as well as its implications and consequences, was subjected to an attentive, detained and in-depth critical scrutiny in ...
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HISTORY, MYTH AND ALLEGORY IN AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; pp. 276–286 [PDF]
How can historical fiction tell the truth about the past? Focusing on the disciplinary boundaries between history and cultural theory, this article argues that, at moments of national crisis, historical fiction has the capacity to produce new forms of ...
Felicity Collins
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Statistical Laws Governing Fluctuations in Word Use from Word Birth to Word Death [PDF]
How often a given word is used, relative to other words, can convey information about the word’s linguistic utility. Using Google word data for 3 languages over the 209-year period 1800–2008, we found by analyzing word use an anomalous recent change in ...
Petersen, Alexander M. +3 more
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Objective Despite well‐described biological causes, the public views unhealthy lifestyle choices as the primary cause of gout. This study investigated how causal beliefs about gout influence the public's views about its management. Methods In a randomized study, 201 members of the public viewed one of two 2‐minute videos about gout.
Rachel Murdoch +6 more
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Kraatila, Elise. The Crisis of Representation and Speculative Mimesis: Rethinking Relations Between Fiction and Reality in 21st-century Fantasy Storytelling. Tampere University, 2021. ISBN 978-952-03-2159-8.
Anna Bark Persson
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Where are all the climate change games? Locating digital games' response to climate change [PDF]
The burgeoning genre of climate fiction, or ‘cli-fi’, in literature and the arts has begun to attract both scholarly and popular attention. It hasbeen described as ‘potentially [having] crucial contributions to make toward full understanding of the ...
Abraham, Benjamin, Jayemanne, Darshana
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