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“Irony,” Alanis Morissette and Me

Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, 2019
A (personalised) definition of irony: a state of affairs, sensation or event that is the opposite or uncannily contrary to what is expected, and often results in an amusing sensation, a feeling, similar to that of déjà vu.
Pawel Cholewa
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Beauty and creativity in the new nonfiction picturebook

Rivista di Storia dell'Educazione
Since the turn of this century, nonfiction books for children have undergone a ‘pictorial turn’ (Merveldt 2018). The proportion and importance of the visual code has progressively increased, and its role has changed not only in quantitative and ...
Giorgia Grilli
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Literary Journalism on Trial: Janet Malcolm, Criminal Character and the Legacy of New Journalism

Critical Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 39-56, July 2026.
Jess Cotton
wiley   +1 more source

TRAINING WRITING NONFICIAL STORIES IN STUDENTS OF THE PGSD STUDY PROGRAM WIDYA DHARMA KLATEN UNIVERSITY

Jurnal Berdaya Mandiri, 2019
Students of the Widya Dharma University Primary School Teacher Education (PGSD) Study Program are expected to have insight and knowledge in nonfiction story writing. News that is part of a nonfiction story favored by elementary school children.
bayu purbha sakti
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Peritextual Elements in Chinese Nonfiction Picturebooks

CLELEjournal
The focus of this study was to examine the peritextual information as well as the insider/outsider status of the book creators of Chinese and Chinese American nonfiction picturebooks, aiming to evaluate the authentic quality of multicultural nonfiction ...
Sunah Chung, Jongsun Wee, Sohyun Meacham
doaj  

The Novel And The Autobiography: Reflection On The Literary Paradox Of Genres In Rebecca Walker’s Black, White And Jewish (2001) And Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) [PDF]

Akofena
: This study focuses on the literary paradox including the African-American autobiography and the novel. It analyses the factual or nonfictional and fictional patterns of the autobiography and the novel respectively in Rebecca Walker’s Black, White and ...
Seydou CISSÉ
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The effects of reading and watching fiction on the development of social cognition: a systematic review. [PDF]

Dement Neuropsychol, 2023
Rezende JF, Shigaeff N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Relationship between personality traits, reading tendencies, and empathy

International Journal of Personality Psychology
Literature suggests that reading fiction, more than reading nonfiction, correlates positively with the reader's social cognition, chiefly cognitive empathy.
Terezija Buljan, Boris Mlačić
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Is reading fiction associated with a higher mind-reading ability? Two conceptual replication studies in Japan. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Takahashi Y, Himichi T, Masuchi A, Nakanishi D, Ohtsubo Y.   +4 more
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Sámi on Display: Sámi Representations in an Early Nonfiction Book for Children

Literature
Lisbeth Bergh’s nonfiction picturebook En lappefamilie: tekst og bilder fra Nordland (A Lappish family: text and pictures from Nordland) from 1905 is one of the first Norwegian nonfiction picturebooks for children about the life of Sámi.
Inger-Kristin Larsen Vie
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