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A Comparative Study of the Components of Dystopian Literature in the Novels “Terrible Tehran” and “Handmaid’s Tale [PDF]
ادبیات تطبیقی, 2023 Introduction "Dystopia" means a fictional place where people live inhumane and often terrifying lives. The grounds for the emergence of dystopia, which is also known as dystopian literature, are works that have viewed the reality of human life in the ...
Fateme Soltani, Negar Khodadadi
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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2022 The film El escarabajo de oro o Victorias Hämnd (2014), directed by the Argentinean-Swedish duo Alejo Moguillansky and Fia-Stina Sandlund, presents clashing storylines, histories, merged film genres and conflicting aspirations within a transnational film
Niina Oisalo
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Partly Familiar, Partly Novel Too: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
Nuevas Poligrafías, Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada, 2020 This article proposes a reading of Hamid’s novel Exit West (2017) that pays attention to the tropes and formulas of fantasy and science fiction used to frame an account of the so-called refugee crisis. Although the novel portrays situations rooted in the
Maximiliano Jiménez
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Exploring Different Genres of Writing: From Fiction to Non-Fiction
, 2023 Writing is a powerful form of expression that has captivated humanity for centuries. It allows us to convey our thoughts, emotions, and experiences in a way that resonates with others. Writing can take various forms, from fictional stories that transport
Kim North
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Reassessing Genres in Hugh MacLennan’s “The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction” [PDF]
Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 2009 This paper takes as a case in point an influential essay by Hugh MacLennan, a contemporary of cultural thinkers Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye, who also elaborated theories on national culture, so as to engage with the unstable, even porous boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, as well as the slippery nature of historical discourse caught in ...
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Nomadic Life on the Steppes: An Ecocinematic Exploration of Tulpan and Cave of the Yellow Dog
Humanities, 2018 Ecocinema: (1) analyzes the role of visual media in responding to the environmental crisis; (2) has explicit interest in environmental justice; (3) includes a variety of genres and modes of production; (4) informs viewers of issues of ecological ...
Deborah Adelman
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Intimacy and the Aesthetic of “Litter” Writing:
Sanglap: 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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Post-editing wildlife documentary films: a new possible scenario?
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2016 Several studies have proven that, when machine translation followed by post-editing is used to translate general and specialised texts, there is an increase in the productivity, as the post-editing effort is lower than translating ex novo.
Carla Ortiz-Boix, Anna Matamala
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ON ANIMALISM AND ANTHROPOMORPHISM IN FICTION
Записки з романо-германської філології, 2020 The article is dedicated to the studies of animalistic narrative as one of major directions of non-standard narratives, its origin, development, anthropomorphic aspect and its connection with cognitive zoology.
О. В. Ігіна +2 more
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Kalbotyra, 2021 The present paper is based on the assumption that the language of the novel is characterized by a statistically relevant overrepresentation of certain linguistic units (e.g. lexemes, key words, collocations and colligations, Siepmann 2015).
Iva Novakova
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