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Encyclopedia of fictional and fantastic languages
Choice Reviews Online, 2006Fictional languages are central to numerous creative works. This book examines such languages in a wide range of literature, films, and television shows. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on particular works. Many of these works are widely taught, such asAll's Well That Ends Well,Gulliver's Travels,Nineteen Eighty-Four, andUtopia, while ...
Stephen Cain, Tim Conley
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Is Science Fiction a Genre of Fantastic Literature?
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Posthumanism in Fantastic Fiction
2018Posthumanism in Fantastic Fiction is a collection of interdisciplinary studies by established and emerging international scholars devoted to the discussion of literary redefinitions of the human subject’s place in the world. They focus on fantasies that challenge anthropocentric epistemology and Cartesian dualism to redraw the boundaries between the ...
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The Fantastic Science Fiction of Maurice Renard
Science Fiction Studies, 1994Although one of the most prominent writers (and theorists) of science fiction in France throughout the period of 1900-1930, Maurice Renard has heretofore received very little critical attention outside his native land. His neglect among Anglo-American literary scholars is most likely the result of two factors: first, very few English translations of ...
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When children choose fantastical events in fiction.
Developmental PsychologyAlthough stories for children often feature supernatural and fantastical events, children themselves often prefer realistic events when choosing what should happen in a story. In two experiments, we investigated whether 3- to 5-year-olds (total N = 240 from diverse backgrounds) might be more likely to include fantastical events in stories about ...
Venus Ho, Emily Stonehouse, Ori Friedman
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