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Fantastic Realities: Magical Realism in Contemporary Okinawan Fiction

open access: yesVienna Journal of East Asian Studies, 2014
This paper examines magical realism in Okinawa bungaku (Okinawan literature) with a special focus on the literary works of Medoruma Shun. The central research questions are what kind of Okinawan realities these magical-realistic texts point towards and which real problems thus become obvious.
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Birds, Bears, and Writing Humanimal Futures

open access: yesFafnir, 2018
The following interview questions were inspired by the 75th Science Fiction WorldCon’s Academic Track, entitled “100 Years of Estrangement”, and my own PhD research. The conference, as the title itself suggests, was meant not only to revisit but also to
Beata Gubacsi
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Rainbow Valley as Embodied Heaven: Initial Explorations into L.M. Montgomery's Spirituality in Fiction

open access: yesJournal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 2020
Intriguingly, L.M. Montgomery's generally realistic fiction is filled with fantastic elements. This article argues that by following Montgomery into the heavenly fairyland of Rainbow Valley, readers can discern a joyful, creative, imaginative, and ...
Brenton D.G. Dickieson
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Implicitness in Fantastic Realism Prose Fiction

open access: yesIzvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism, 2010
The article focuses on two types of implicitness: implicitness of blended images, and implicitness as a result of correlation and suggestive influence of compositional, figurative, syntactical and grammatical structures of the text.
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The Fantastic of Surrealist Metaphors in Cortázar’s Short Fiction

open access: yes, 2021
Título de la publicación: Dada ...
Jaime, Alazraki, Alazraki, Jaime
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Aharon Appelfeld et Philip Roth : le réel, l’imaginaire, le double et le fantastique

open access: yesYod, 2014
In the present paper I wish to explore the narrow borderline between history and fiction in Aharon Appelfeld’s The Age of Wonders (1978) and Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock (1988).
Orly Toren
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The Birth of the Category of “Fantastic” in Russian Aesthetic Thought [PDF]

open access: yesЛитературный факт
The article attempts to identify the time when the category “fantastic” appeared in the aesthetic thought of the Pushkin era. Common and fixed in the poetics of this time was another, close in meaning, term “chudesnoe” (“miraculous”).
Anna A. Lebedeva
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Ta dziwna instytucja zwana fantastyką młodzieżową

open access: yesCreatio Fantastica, 2017
Anita Całek, Ksenia Olkusz, Aleksandra Korczak i Maciej Skowera talk over Polish and Western young adult fantastic fiction studies.
Anita Całek   +3 more
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Fantástico y terror: teoría y práctica de dos categorías ficcionales en el ámbito hispánico

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2018
In the studies of non-mimetic fiction in the Hispanic world, reflections on expressions traditionally considered popular have been consolidating little by little.
Miguel Carrera Garrido
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“Bothersome Forms, of Course, Were Mechanically Exterminated”: Colonialism, Science, Racial Dysgenia, and Extermination in the Work of H.P. Lovecraft, Intertextually and Beyond

open access: yesCoSMO, 2019
The science-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft is famed for his apocalyptic oeuvre. His work is deeply marked by racialist science and colonial history, linking them as structural constants that produce the outbreaks of horror in his stories.
Lee Matthias Herrmann
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