“Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction
Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2016 The trope of forced sex in romance fiction has found itself under scrutiny and pressure since the feminist movement, and even more so now as women's media, especially e-media and social media, grow increasingly concerned with what is called "rape culture"
Kim Wilkins
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Introducing the modified paranormal belief scale: distinguishing between classic paranormal beliefs, religious paranormal beliefs and conventional religiosity among undergraduates in Northern Ireland and Wales [PDF]
, 2009 Previous empirical studies concerned with the association between paranormal beliefs and conventional religiosity have produced conflicting evidence. Drawing on Rice's (2003) distinction between classic paranormal beliefs and religious paranormal beliefs,
Williams, Emyr +5 more
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Personality and paranormal belief: a study among adolescents [PDF]
, 2007 A sample of 279 13- to 16-year-old adolescents completed the Short-form Revised Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (JEPQR-S) and a six-item Index of Paranormal Belief.
Robbins, Mandy +2 more
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Paranormal tourism in Edinburgh : storytelling, appropriating ghost culture and presenting an uncanny heritage [PDF]
, 2015 The paranormal industry in Edinburgh has become a thriving niche within the country’s tourist market. While ghost walks have been explored in anthropology from the perspective of spectacle, this thesis investigates and analyses the cultural framework ...
Holzhauser, Elizabeth
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Literatura Niewidocznego — wizje i rewizje urban fantasy
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 A discussion Literature of the Unseen—Visions and (Re)visions of Urban Fantasy collects theoretical reflections upon the subgenres of urban fantasy and paranormal romance, along with a brief commentary on the body of text representative for both ...
Stefan Ekman +4 more
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Creatio Fantastica, 2018 Reviewed book: Oblicza wampiryzmu, ed. Anna Depta, Szymon Cieśliński i Michał Wolski Wrocław: Stowarzyszenie Badaczy Literatury i Kultury Popularnej „Trickster” 2018, ISBN 978-83-64863-12 ...
Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk
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Personality, conventional Christian belief and unconventional paranormal belief : a study among teenagers [PDF]
, 2010 A sample of 10,851 pupils (5493 males and 5358 females) attending Year 9 classes (13- to 14-year-olds) and a sample of 9494 pupils (4787 males and 4707 females) attending Year 10 classes (14- to 15-year-olds) in non-denominational state-maintained ...
Robbins, Mandy +2 more
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Contacting the spirits of the dead: paranormal belief and the teenage worldview [PDF]
, 2009 A number of previous studies have examined both the overall level of belief expressed by young people in the paranormal and the major demographic predictors of such belief.
Williams, Emyr, Francis, Leslie J.
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Urban fantasy — literatura Niewidocznego
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 This article analyses the nature of urban fantasy by aggregating the claims, suggestions, and observations made by several different accounts of what urban fantasy is.
Stefan Ekman
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Achille Ngoye et Jean-Roger Essomba : le renouveau du polar africain francophone
Itinéraires, 2019 In African literary history, whether in the colonial novel, the family romance, or the novel of solitary revolt, the African novel has generally been considered realistic.
Hervé Tchumkam
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