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Re‐evaluating the Rise of Anglophone Malaysian Historical Fiction in the Twenty‐First Century

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, anglophone Malaysian historical fiction has gained significant global recognition, so much so that it has become the dominant genre. However, notwithstanding this enviable evolution in the country's English‐language literature, it is not without issues, due to the genre's somewhat orientalist representation of ...
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
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“The Enchanted Hunters and the Hunted Enchanters: the dizzying effects of embedded structures and meta-artistic devices in Lolita, novel and film”

Sillages Critiques, 2010
This paper explores some of the various mises en abyme and metatextual devices in Nabokov’s and Kubrick’s Lolita, so as to explore how such devices create a poetics of reflections, and themselves reflect the manner in which the relationship to the reader/
Marie Bouchet
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The Monstrous Cosmos of Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein

ELOPE, 2021
In her 2019 novel Frankissstein: A Love Story, Jeanette Winterson weaves an intricate transtemporal and trans-spatial multiplicity, the coding of which is governed by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818).
Mojca Krevel
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Intertwined Markings: Metafiction in the Digital Age

, 2019
Intertwined Markings: Metafiction in the Digital Age maps the historical and thematic relationship between video games and contemporary works of metafiction first by detailing the intertwined histories of video games and contemporary metafiction, and ...
Orgeron, Taylor Danielle
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THE EYE AND THE MIND: MARY CHEVES WEST PERKY, IMAGINATIVE PHENOMENOLOGY, AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF REVERSE HALLUCINATION

History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 342-365, September 2024.
ABSTRACT Revisiting the remarkable experimental work of the pioneering early twentieth‐century psychologist Mary Cheves West Perky (1875–1940), this article argues for the historiographical significance of her counterintuitive findings concerning the human imagination and the phenomenon of “reverse hallucination.” By means of an exhaustive and forensic
D. GRAHAM BURNETT
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Metafiction as Genre Fiction [PDF]

, 2015
Realism, the genre in which literature is expected to reflect reality, tends to act as the default setting for establish- ing the worth of a given piece. This paper contends that metafiction, a post-modern genre characterized by a work’s awareness of its
Levine, Jeremy A
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D’une manière l’autre de faire des mondes : science-fiction et savoirs de la fiction

ReS Futurae, 2013
Si l’on peut dire que toute fiction produit un monde dont la dimension référentielle fait plus ou moins question, il est des fictions qui font de cette question la matière même de leur discours et de leur forme.
Denis Mellier
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Metabolic Modernities: Digestion, Energy Transformations, and the Making and Unmaking of the World in Early Soviet Literature

The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 3, Page 378-398, July 2024.
Abstract Early Soviet society featured clear nutrition guidelines and a robust plan for streamlined logistics in food processing, distribution, and consumption, all of which was aimed at building a stronger state through a virtuous transformation of calories into labor power. Such rhetoric appeared even in children’s illustrated books, such as Vladimir
Elena Fratto
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Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine

British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 106-130, January 2024.
Abstract This study examines how news images of refugees in the context of the war in Ukraine mobilize intergroup relations. A visual rhetorical analysis is used to examine the rhetorical strategies employed in news images of Ukrainian refugees in a mainstream Finnish national newspaper from February 25 to May 31, 2022. The data consisted of 465 images.
Jari Martikainen, Inari Sakki
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Writing about risky relatives and what might have been : the craft of historiographic metafiction [PDF]

, 2012
This practice-based research project consists of a 33,000-word novella, "Folly", and a 50,000-word exegesis that examines the principles of historiographic metafiction (HMF), the recontextualisation of historical figures and scenarios, and other ...
Milfull, Mostyn Timothy
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