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The genre of islands: Popular fiction and performative geographies

open access: yesIsland Studies Journal, 2016
To date, studies of the contribution literature makes to ideas about islands have concentrated on “high” literature. This has left unexamined the largest proportion of literature featuring islands. If one of the goals of island studies is to interrogate prevailing ideas about “islandness,” then the islands that crowd the storyworlds of popular ...
Ralph Crane, Lisa Fletcher
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Drawing Truth Differently. Matt Bors' Fictional Satire and Non-Fictional Journalism

open access: yes, 2019
This article investigates the comics of American graphic artist Matt Bors, which fall into two main genres: satirical cartoons and graphic (or comics) journalism.
Declercq, Dieter
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Realm of Shadows and Dreams: Theatrical and Fictional Lyricism in Early Qing Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Early twentieth-century Chinese literary critics create a model of literary development that highlights leading genres for each dynasty. For the Ming and the Qing dynasties, these are drama and fiction.
Zhao, Yingzhi
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Deconstructing the Text and (Re)Constructing the Past: History and Identity in Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book

open access: yesELOPE, 2008
This paper examines Geraldine Brooks’ latest novel People of the Book (2008) in light of postmodern critiques of history and the desire to explore and signify the past through processes of deconstructing male-centered dominance and (re)constructing ...
Ksenija Kondali
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El humor es cosa seria. Comedia de enredos y parodia de géneros en No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea

open access: yesCahiers d’études des cultures ibériques et latino-américaines
To understand how three parodied genres of intimate writing dialogue, compete with each other and enhance each other in the novel No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea by Juan Pablo Villalobos, we analyze the way in which they are secretly governed by the
Florence Olivier
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Intimacy and the Aesthetic of “Litter” Writing:

open access: yesSanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2021
First-person genres of life writing such as autobiography and diary at the point of their completion evoke anxiety about the ‘death of the author.’ The letter does not do so: it forms part of a correspondence and facilitates continued writing.
Krishna Kumar S
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Science Fiction versus Fantasy: A Semantic Categorization and its Contribution to Distinguishing Two Literary Genres

open access: yes, 2019
International audienceIn this study, we examine the methodological issues that arise in the semantic and stylistic classification of recurrent narrative patterns, with particular attention paid to “big data” analysis based on large corpora of text.
Dyka, Susanne   +5 more
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Fact or fiction? : photography merging genres in children's picturebooks

open access: yes, 2008
This paper explores photography in children’s picturebooks and its ability to extend image-making and reading by creating a hybrid genre that merges real and non-real worlds.
McKelvey, Bridgette
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«I Am Myself the mAtter of My Book»: the Historical Evolution of the Essayistic-Argumentative Genre

open access: yes1616, 2017
The current work seeks to explore the development of the essay in western culture as a means of reflecting the identity of the author. In order to analyse said evolution, we draw on a model of literary text which establishes a basic distinction between ...
Alfonso MARTÍN-JIMÉNEZ
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Die Gattungshybridität und Metaisierung im Roman Hoppe (2012) von Felicitas Hoppe

open access: yesBrünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2013
The novel Hoppe (2012) written by a contemporary German writer Felicitas HOPPE asks about its genre already with its cover. The authors of this article are in search of the answer to this question by detailed narratological analysis of this novel ...
Martina Trombiková, Vojtěch Trombik
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