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Nature vs. “Reality” in Fantasy Fiction: The Potential for Ecocritical Imaginings
Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2021 Despite being prominently associated with its supernatural qualities, nature also features prominently in fantasy fiction, an aspect of the genre that is often overlooked.
Reyyan Bal
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Connecting the Literature of Children and Adult: Socio-Political Commentary in Fantasy Tales like The Little Prince and Animal Farm [PDF]
Litinfinite, 2019 Genres of fantasy tales, inclusive of allegories, animal fables and fairy tales can provide cutting insight and clarity about the complexities of society and the intricacies of human nature.
Dr. Paromita Mukherjee
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The Hidden Hallyu Emerged: Exploring the Key Motives of Reading Adapted K‐Webtoons of South Korea
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate why global fans read Korean webtoons (K‐webtoons) and how their motivations vary across different genres. Previous studies have approached the Korean Wave (Hallyu) from a national perspective, emphasizing its influence and primarily discussing K‐pop and K‐drama.
Hoseok Gwak +3 more
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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La fantasy dystopique : aux limites de l’antagonisme [PDF]
AkofenaRésumé : La fantasy, en tant que genre littéraire, représente un champ d’investigation propice en matière d’imaginaire, de mythe et de religieux. Ainsi, cet article a pour tâche de concevoir en quoi ces matières deviennent des éléments effervescents dans
Dounia DJEROU
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema
, 2021 The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking.Hollywood fantasy cinema is responsible for some of the most lucrative franchises produced over the past two
Sergeant, A.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Critique: Stephen R. Donaldson’s Gap into Genre [PDF]
, 2008 Depending on Stephen R. Donaldson's use of genre, whether science fiction or fantasy, it modifies his essential humanism. In his science fiction, Donaldson accept a more socially embedded humanity.
Dennis Wise
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