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The little bakery in Mordor? : A quantitative survey of public librarians' genre knowledge of fantasy

, 2021
The purpose of this study is to conduct a quantitative overview of public librarians' genre knowledge of fantasy and examine how the genre is presented and linked to literature mediation activities.
Funke, Linnea, Katby, Sandra
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La fantasy dystopique : aux limites de l’antagonisme [PDF]

Akofena
Résumé : 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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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
wiley   +1 more source

From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Fantasy jeunesse : présentation du carnet

, 2022
Ce carnet de recherche prend pour sujet la fantasy jeunesse et, plus largement, les littératures et cultures de l’imaginaire destinées à un jeune public – enfant, adolescent ou jeune adulte.
Florie Maurin
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Fantasy in the young adult literature genre

, 2022
Автором досліджено напрямок young adult у літературі, зокрема фентезі. Жанр фентезі, на думку автора, хоч і поступається класичній літературі, але має величезне просвітницьке і виховне значення.
Лазарєва, Т. С.
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PECULIARITIES OF FANTASY GENRE IN WORKS OF TOLKIEN.

, 2023
The 20th century saw a significant evolution and expansion of the fantasy genre. With the rise of mass media and increased access to literature, fantasy became more widely popular and diverse. Some key developments in the fantasy genre during the 20th century include.
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Demand Estimation with Text and Image Data

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We propose a demand estimation approach that leverages unstructured data to infer substitution patterns. Using pre‐trained deep learning models, we extract embeddings from product images and textual descriptions and incorporate them into a mixed logit demand model.
Giovanni Compiani, Ilya Morozov, Stephan Seiler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fantasy: A Journey Through The Genre [PDF]

, 2016
This project looks at the creation of a fantasy world and the fantasy genre in films, and analyses it as a whole. The fantasy genre is often seen as a means of escapism and is many times overlooked in terms of storytelling. In this project, I shall delve
Kaur, Aradhna
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