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Endogenous fantasy and learning in digital games. [PDF]
Many people believe that educational games are effective because they motivate children to actively engage in a learning activity as part of playing the game.
Cohen, P. +27 more
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Wokół definicji fantastyki miejskiej
Fantasy literature in the 1980s underwent a revisionist change, which resulted in the emergence of a number of subgenres that challenged the dominant Tolkien model of fantasy writing.
Sarai Mannolini-Winwood
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Worlds at Play: Space and Player Experience in Fantasy Computer Games
The relationship between the fantasy genre and the medium of computer games has always been a very tight-knit one. The present article explores the close connection between fantasy and computer games through different media, arguing that the fantasy ...
Toft-Nielsen Claus
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Fantasy proneness and counterfactual thinking [PDF]
Counterfactual thinking (CFT; mentally simulating alternatives to reality) is central to learning and motivation. Two studies explored the relationship between CFT and fantasy proneness, a personality trait typified by excessive fantasies hard to ...
Bacon, AM, Martin, L, Walsh, CR
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Notes Towards Gritty Fantasy Medievalism, Temporality, and Worldbuilding
This article discusses gritty fantasy, a fantasy subgenre, which was established in the early 2000s and has since gained a lot of traction. In previous research, gritty fantasy has often been understood as a deconstructive form of fantasy that draws on ...
Anna Bark Persson
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Literatura Niewidocznego — wizje i rewizje urban fantasy
A discussion Literature of the Unseen—Visions and (Re)visions of Urban Fantasy collects theoretical reflections upon the subgenres of urban fantasy and paranormal romance, along with a brief commentary on the body of text representative for both ...
Stefan Ekman +4 more
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The use of components and elements horror fantasy in the novel Madina al-Mauta [PDF]
The use of components and ways of creating horror fantasy in the novel Madina al-MawtaExtended AbstractIntroduction: Fantasy in literature is a literary work that is freed from the limitations of the present world and depends on an imaginary world.
Fatemeh Dehghan pour, maryam jalilian
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How to define fantasy - fantastic and other theories of fantasy
The aim of this paper is to define fantasy through juxtaposing, comparing and sorting existing definitions. Taking into consideration elements of fantasy, such as ambiguity and insecurity, a crack in everyday life and the anxiety of the indefinable, the ...
Małgorzata Niziołek
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Fantasy w Polsce i problem wykluczenia [PDF]
Fantasy jest obecnie jednym z najpopularniejszych gatunków literackich. W artykule przeanalizowano wykluczenia występujące wokół tego nurtu. Refleksja ta dotyczy płaszczyzny akademickiej (pomijanie fantasy w naukowym dyskursie), autorskiej (wykluczanie ...
Sebastian Tauer
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Queering the Family: Fantasy and the performance of sexuality and gay relations in French cinema 1995-2000 [PDF]
This paper looks in detail at the representation of sexuality in the family in three films of the mid to late 1990s, Balasko’s Gazon maudit, Berliner’s Ma Vie en rose, and Giusti’s Pourquoi pas moi?
Ince, Kate
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