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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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Scary Mask/Local Protector: The Curious History of Jero Amerika
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 279-300, December 2020., 2020 Summary “Jero Amerika,” a mask/tutelary god, protects the people of Ubud, a former kingdom of Bali, Indonesia, and today a tourist mecca. Jero Amerika operates within the logic of empowered Balinese temple masks, but Jero Amerika is also eccentric. Returned to Bali from abroad after uncanny events, the mask makes remarkable appearances during temple ...
Laurel Kendall, Ni Wayan Pasek Ariati
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Mastering the Devil: A Sociological Analysis of the Practice of a Catholic Exorcist [PDF]
, 2017 This study takes the documented growth in the ministry of exorcism within the Catholic Church as a significant challenge to some accounts of secularization.
Giordan, Giuseppe, Possamai, Adam
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The Use of Free Indirect Discourse in J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series
Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, 2019 Although the romance genre has received a lot of attention in feminist and gender studies, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, it is still largely ignored by narratologists and other literary theorists.
Evie Kendal
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The Apple E-Book Agreement and Ruinous Competition: Are E-Goods Different for Antitrust Purposes? [PDF]
, 2014 Publishers have spent the last decade and a half struggling against falling prices for digital goods. The recent antitrust case against Apple and the major publishers highlights collusive price fixing as a potential method for resisting depreciation ...
Wolfe, Michael
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El Espacio y lo fantástico en la novela desde la teoría de los mundos posibles : una revisión de las tipologías semánticas de la ficción [PDF]
, 2013 La teoría de los mundos posibles de la literatura resulta provechosa para abordar el problema del espacio en el género fantástico. Las tipologías semánticas de la ficción de Nancy H.
Lomeña Cantos, Andrés
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 40-61, January 2026.Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi +4 more
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Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2020 A case study of Sherry Thomas’s Qing-era My Beautiful Enemy (and its prequel, The Hidden Blade) allows for a fruitful discussion of changing representations of diversity in romance fiction and its appeal to readers.
Jayashree Kamblé
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What Is Known About Maladaptive Daydreaming? A Scoping Review
Clinical Psychology &Psychotherapy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1-18, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT Maladaptive daydreaming (MD) is a dysfunctional coping mechanism that involves excessive, uncontrollable daydreaming. MD accounts for severe impairment in life functioning and is comorbid with several psychopathological disorders, sharing common maladaptive features such as compulsion and emotional dysregulation.
Shivani Atul Mansuklal +4 more
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