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A Book Review: Colin B. Harvey – Fantastic Transmedia: Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds

Fafnir, 2016
Colin B. Harvey: Fantastic Transmedia: Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. ISBN 978-1-137-30603-6.
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Tanja Välisalo
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Le diable: origines et avatars

Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2019
Among the multiples thematic components that have a role in the Fantastic Fiction, this study aims at analyzing the particular case of the myth of the Devil, from the Greek diabállein, that means “to separate”, but also “to mislead”.
Maria Cristina Batalha
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History as a discourse in Jeanette Winterson's "The passion" : the politics of alterity

Journal of English Studies, 2000
Set in the historical context of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, Jeanette Winterson's The Passion is an outstanding example of the kind of fiction that Elizabeth Wesseling (1991: vii) calls postmodernist historical novels, that is ...
María del Mar Asensio Aróstegui
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Where Do the Rails Lead to? Rail Transport’s Mythology in Contemporary Russian and Ukrainian Fantastic Fiction (Preliminary Remarks)
Kuda vedut rel’sy? Mifologija rel’sovogo transporta v sovremennoj russkoj i ukrainskoj fantastike (predvaritel’nye zametki)

Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2016
Among the recurrent railway and the metro motifs in Russian and Ukrainian fantastic fictions alike are journeys to the world of the dead, or beside the world of the dead, with the critical decision to leave the train or stay on it.
Larisa Fialkova
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Parole de mort-vivant

Revue des Langues Romanes
This article seeks to rethink the fantastic as a literary mode of the supernatural by moving beyond its traditional association with fiction and narration.
Ariane Bottex-Ferragne
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Terra! di Stefano Benni: una cometa apocalittica nella letteratura italiana degli anni Ottanta

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes
Published in 1983, Stefano Benni’s Terra! is a dystopian novel blending satire, science fiction, and social critique, reinterpreting Anglo-Saxon narrative models through irony and linguistic experimentation. In analyzing Benni’s novel, this article first
Stefano Magni
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Science fiction and ELSI: three thoughts. [PDF]

Front Genet, 2023
Greely HT.
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Merlin, un bâtard différent : l’excès fantastique de la prose arthurienne, ou le goût du multiple

Revue des Langues Romanes
At the heart of courtly fiction, medieval marvels rest upon an “art of signification,” to which Francis Dubost devoted his entire body of work in order to uncover its anthropological foundations and narrative strategies. Closely tied to manifestations of
Nathalie Koble
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Trauma and the fantastic in twentieth century war fiction [PDF]

, 2018
Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on June 14, 2010). ; The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. ; Thesis advisor: Dr. Samuel Cohen. ; M.A.
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Climate Across Genre: Hyperobject Reading and Evaluating the “Use” of Climate-Fantastic Fiction

Australian Journal of Environmental Education
This article examines the representation of climate as hyperobject — described by Timothy Morton as something that is “massively distributed in time and space relative to humans” (Morton (2013) Hyperobjects: Philosophy and ecology after the end of the ...
Rachel Fetherston
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