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MAGIC AND SPELL IN FANTASY: HISTORICAL CONTEXTS OF SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS IN FANTASY GENRE NARRATIONS
International Journal of Advanced Research, 2023 This paper will examine the usage and functions of the magic concept in fantastic narrations with the consideration of importance of supernatural in history.Magic and spell are different versions of supernatural. Theyall represent different structures of society in certain historical periods of humanity.
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To be(long) or not to be(long): Literature and community
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Over several decades, the modern world's intensified mobility has prompted a broad interest in community studies in the social sciences, which address in new ways the topics of place, belonging, and identity formation. Such topics being salient to literature and literary studies as well, the overall aim of the article is to extract a selection
Svend Erik Larsen
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Defining Science Fiction and Fantasy (Editor's Notes, Vol. 8) [PDF]
Journal of Science Fiction and PhilosophyI propose two working definitions, one for the science fiction and one for the fantasy narrative genres, which help distinguish both genres and their potential overlap.
Alfredo Mac Laughlin
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A Sephardic Quevedo? Abraham Gómez Silveira, Between Controversy and Poetry
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A book published in 2000, El barroco sefardí Abraham Gómez Silveira (The Sephardic Baroque Abraham Gómez Silveira), introduced us to this hitherto unknown author, baptised in Castile in 1651, who was educated at the school of the sacred congregation of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam.
Mercedes Blanco
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Fantasy Genre of the Eleven Years old Readers [PDF]
, 2016 In her thesis Fantasy Genre of the Eleven Years Old Readers the author is concerned with the education of fantasy category for 11 years old pupils, respectively for the fifth year of the primary school.
Končelová, Jitka
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Индустрии впечатлений: Технологии социокультурных исследованийIn the 20th century, a new artistic genre, fantasy, separated from science fiction and gained independence. Many cultural figures began to turn to the aesthetic ideals of antiquity, the Middle Ages and the European Renaissance, which, in turn, became a ...
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Rereading the Anxious City in Gillian Rose and Xi Xi
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Roy Chan
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can sociologists feel? Sociological writing can be beautiful, making us think differently about people, processes, and structures. Yet traditional academic writing that does this is rare. For example, most articles adhere to a jargon‐filled format and structure that mimics a detached and disciplined writer.
Victoria Reyes
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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
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