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Interview – Siri Pettersen – Subverting Reality through Fantasy [PDF]
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023 Siri PETTERSEN (born 1971) is an acclaimed Norwegian fantasy writer who has managed to challenge the Norwegian Publishing Houses’ perception about this genre.
Cristina VIȘOVAN
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Tęsknota za imperium w najnowszej fantastyce rosyjskiej
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2019 The article describes a group of texts that make up the so-called imperial fantasy genre. The author points out the sources of fascination with the imperial idea as well as discusses the scenarios created by the fantasists to regain the status of the ...
Andrzej Polak
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Multidimensional unipolar IRT and applications to the measurement of print exposure
British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Item response theory (IRT) has been a prominent modelling framework in educational and psychological measurement. Traditional IRT models are bipolar, commonly assuming symmetric measurement link functions and symmetric trait distributions over a latent continuum unbounded at both ends. However, many measured constructs, such as print exposure,
Qi (Helen) Huang, Daniel M. Bolt
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Dungeons and Dragons: Altering the Course of the Fantasy Genre [PDF]
, 2023 29 pagesAlthough myths and folktales have always contained fantastic elements, literary scholars often date the origins of the modern “fantasy” genre to the 19th century and works such as The King of the Golden River 1851 by John Ruskin, The Princess and
Putnam, Aislyn
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ReTrace: Interactive Visualizations for Reasoning Traces of Large Reasoning Models
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract Recent advances in Large Language Models have led to Large Reasoning Models, which produce step‐by‐step reasoning traces. Such traces may offer insight into how models think, improving explainability and clarifying the underlying process. These traces, however, are often verbose and complex, making them cognitively demanding to comprehend ...
L. Felder +4 more
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SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE THEMATIC MATERIAL AND TEXTURE IN THE FANTASY FOR TWO PIANOS BRYUL LUI AMIHALACHIOAIE (AMIHALACHIOAIE’S GIRDLE) BY VLAD BURLEA [PDF]
Studiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică, 2016 The article analyzes the fantasy „Bryul lui M. Amihalachioaie” (Amihalachioaie’s Girdle) for two pianos composed by Vlad Burlea as the only example of this genre in his creative activity.
MAMALÂGA MARINA
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(Heroic) Fantasy and the Middle Ages – Strange Bedfellows or an Ideal Cast?
Itinéraires, 2010 The (popularly conceived) Middle Ages and (heroic) fantasy share a number of characteristics, such as settings in pre-technological and pre-bureaucratic worlds where men were not yet alienated from their fellow human beings and where things were more ...
Thomas Honegger
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Animal Teachers: Nonhuman Pedagogy and the Question of Deceit
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract Animals as “teachers” of human children and adults is a recurring theme in children's literature, in anthropological accounts of “feral children,” as well as in contemporary practices of animal‐assisted pedagogy, philosophical research, wildlife documentaries, and popular culture.
Helena Pedersen
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INTERTEXTUALITY AS A DISCOURSE FORMING CATEGORY OF FANTASY GENRE SPACE
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015 The article studies discursive space of fantasy genre on the basis of such feature as intertextuality. The basic approaches to the intertextuality classification are given as well as the genre peculiarities of fantasy works and specific features of their
E. V. Medvedeva
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