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Usurping Difference in the Feminine Fantastic from the Riverplate

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1996
This study intended to define the concept of a feminine fantastic as a narrative mode in contemporary short fiction by women writers from Argentina and Uruguay.
María B. Clark
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Towards a meta-baroque : imagining a "fantastic reality" [PDF]

, 2019
In her book, "Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space", Elizabeth Grosz (2001: 6) argues for the possibility of philosophy constituting a means, or a vehicle, for the "construction" of architecture: "[t]he notion of philosophy as a making, building, production, or construction, a practical construction, is a really interesting ...
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Many-Measurements or Many-Worlds? A Dialogue

, 2014
Many advocates of the Everettian interpretation consider that theirs is the only approach to take quantum mechanics really seriously, and that this approach allows to deduce a fantastic scenario for our reality, one that consists of an infinite number of
Aerts, Diederik, de Bianchi, Massimiliano Sassoli   +1 more
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J. L. Borges on Dreams, Nightmares and the Supernatural: A Psychoanalytic Approach [PDF]

, 2016
Although the subversion of conventional parameters of reality through the fantastic is a well-established principle in Borges scholarship, the ways in which the author approached the supernatural as a projection of his own psychological and existential ...
Núñez Faraco, HR
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Aesthetics of the Fantastic in Pan's Labyrinth [PDF]

Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts
The paper addresses the analysis of aesthetics in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, a 2006 film in which the fantastic genre predominates. Various aspects are studied: The structure of the plot and composition of the story, which revolve around the ...
Claudia Panisello
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Fantastic Realities: Magical Realism in Contemporary Okinawan Fiction

Vienna 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. Against the theoretical background regarding the discussions
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Thresholds of Change in Children’s Literature: The Symbol of the Mirror

Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2018
This article approaches the study of children’s literature as a threshold of change that allows readers to explore the reality around them, imagine other worlds and understand other perspectives.
Sergio Arlandis, Agustin Reyes-Torres
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Estudio de los rasgos del fantástico real en «Miroirs obscurs: treize contes fantastiques» de Jean-Baptiste Baronian desde un enfoque traductológico

Hermeneus, 2021
The fantastic tale is, par excellence, the discourse of the bewilderment, confronting the man to his own fears through the construction of a disturbingly strange climate in a realistic context.
SOLEDAD DÍAZ ALARCÓN
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Digital play and the actualisation of the consumer imagination [PDF]

, 2007
In this article, the authors consider emerging consumer practices in digital virtual spaces. Building on constructions of consumer behavior as both a sense-making activity and a resource for the construction of daydreams, as well as anthropological ...
Denegri-Knott, Janice, Molesworth, Mike
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(In)verosímil e fantástico ou a arte de provocar o medo

Carnets, 2011
Child of the Enlightenment, fantastic literature refuses both the lack of truthlikeness of imaginary fiction and the Aristotelian verisimilitude present in classical and realistic literature.
Ana Alexandra Seabra de Carvalho
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