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On Mapping Genre: Literary Fiction/Genre Fiction and Globalization Processes

open access: yes, 2015
This chapter argues that the two phrases, 'literary fiction' and 'genre fiction', mark competing territorial claims from two sides of the literary establishment with regard to ordering and disposing (fictional) texts. These territorial claims are better understood with reference to the political economy of the literary establishment, the social ...
openaire  

Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Adolescent Students as Media Fictional Characters

open access: yes, 2013
Media fictional narrations on adolescents as characters and target are used by teenage audiences when looking for references for their identity building.
Díaz-Aguado, Laia, Jalón, María
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Genre and Conversation

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some are about making firm commitments, others about brainstorming options; some are about sticking to the facts, others involve make‐believe; some ...
Elmar Unnsteinsson, Daniel W. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Autofiction as relational mediation: A Ghost in the Throat and To Write as if Already Dead

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Because of its exploration of the self and the resemblance to online styles of publishing, autofiction has been accused by certain scholars of reflecting neoliberal tendencies. Hans Demeyer and Sven Vitse have developed a more nuanced view on the relation between autofiction and neoliberalism.
Stijn De Cauwer
wiley   +1 more source

Shakespeare in the tube: theatricalizing violence in BBC's Titus Andronicus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2014.Abstract : The problem addressed in the present study concerns
Avila, Filipe dos Santos
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
wiley   +1 more source

The "grand tour" and the "Risorgimento": Italy's romantic imaginary in French literature

open access: yesGragoatá, 2012
This essay will examine some accounts of French travelers-writers of the nineteenth century, which, in the tradition of the grand tour, described in textual pictures and ecfrasis an imaginary of plastic beauty related to Italian scenes and landscapes ...
Celina Maria Moreira de Mello
doaj  

“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
wiley   +1 more source

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