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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, January/February/March 2026.The Reader–Player Interactivity Framework offers a cross‐disciplinary model to understand narrative interactivity. ABSTRACT Stories unfold across a varied landscape of mediums, including video games, tabletop games, interactive films, and traditional literary texts.
Brady L. Nash +6 more
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Hermione Granger as Young Girl Sleuth in the Harry Potter Series [PDF]
, 2008 Reappearing in the long tradition of girl sleuths such as Carolyn Keene’s Nancy Drew, Hermione Granger interrupts the centrality of the male-fantasy-adventure in the Harry Potter series.
Andrade, Glenna M.
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Reading Videogames as (authorless) Literature [PDF]
, 2013 This article presents the outcomes of research, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in England and informed by work in the fields of new literacy research, gaming studies and the socio-cultural framing of education, for which the videogame
Andrews B. +36 more
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"The prince of all the rookies :" remaking working class masculinity and heroism in Traffic in Souls [PDF]
, 2015 textThis paper seeks to explore the role evolving masculinities played in the Progressive Era's white slavery panic through one of the period's most popular films: George Loane Tucker's Traffic in Souls and its ensuing novelization by Eustace Hale Ball ...
Cotter, Erin June
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The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 58, Issue 6, Page 290-299, December 2025.ABSTRACT Garrulous parrots appear in a wide array of pop culture forms—from urban legends, television sitcoms, and advertising, to comics, pulp detective fiction, and jokes (naming a few). The birds can be helpful, clever agents; but more often they are mischief makers challenging social norms. Among the pandemonium of parrots in expressive culture, we
Greg Kelley
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Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015 El análisis de este libro de cuentos de Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares se basa en un conjunto de supuestos acerca de la historia de detectives. Como resultado, la primera parte del artículo se establece una definición y delimitación de la novela
Enrique Margery Peña
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Концепція детективного жанру в українській і російській літературі ХХ століття [PDF]
, 2013 У статті здійснено огляд розвитку і становлення детективного жанру в українській і російській літературі ХХ ст. Схарактеризовано чинники, які впливають на концепцію творення детективу.
Гуляк, Тетяна Миколаївна
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Structures of authority : postwar masculinity and the British police [PDF]
, 2015 The British police procedural novel of the 1950s has attracted little critical attention, perhaps because the decade is seen as a ‘golden age’ of police legitimacy (Loader and Mulcahy, 2003).
Plain, Gill
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ATMOSFEAR: Horror of nature and the nature of horror in Algernon Blackwood
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 553-577, December 2025.Abstract The impact that the stories of Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) have had on the literature of the uncanny can hardly be overestimated. However, there is almost no research on Blackwood's life and work. Against the background of a presentation of themes and motifs of Blackwood's narrative œuvre, this article develops a characteristic of his ...
Dominic Angeloch
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The lobster and the maid: scenario-dependence and reader manipulation in Agatha Christie [PDF]
, 2008 Readers of detective fiction deliberately seek to be deceived by the stories they read; in this manner, the genre forms a series of texts that aim to manipulate and persuade.
Alexander, M.
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