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Science Fiction In Latvian Literature [PDF]
Interlitteraria, 2017 The present paper is devoted to the overview of the beginnings and development of the genre of science fiction in Latvian literature. Similarly to other popular fiction genres, science fiction in Latvian literature has not been very popular due to social
Bārbala Simsone
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SciFi Cinema as one of Spatial Localizations of Military Images in American Mass Culture [PDF]
Гуманитарный вектор, 2021 War is one of the most popular topics in modern mass culture. The author analyzes the features of the perception of war in modern science fiction cinema. The purpose of this article is to analyze the representation of war in American science fiction as
Maksym W. Kyrchanoff
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Exposure to Literary Fiction Is Associated With Lower Psychological Essentialism
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 We investigated the impact of exposure to literary and popular fiction on psychological essentialism. Exposure to fiction was measured by using the Author Recognition Test, which allows us to separate exposure to authors of literary and popular fiction ...
Emanuele Castano +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 We investigated the effects of long-term exposure to literary and popular fiction on attributional complexity, egocentric bias and accuracy. Results of a pre-registered study showed that exposure to literary fiction is positively associated with scores ...
Emanuele Castano +2 more
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Cognitive Aspects of Reception of Popular Literary Genres and Their Historical Variability [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2021 In the article, the author investigates connections between historical variability of literary genres and readers’ ability to recognize them. Following J.-M.
Artem A. Zubov
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Globalization, Re-Discovery of the Malay ‘Local,' and Popular TV Fiction through Audience Narratives [PDF]
, 2017 The proliferation of TV fiction can be partly explained by TV producers attuning their products to draw audience’s attention. Narratives of love dominate the plots and almost always the good is pitted against the evil, rich against the poor - ultimately ...
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus
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Producing the Popular: John Monk Foster and the ‘Industrial Romance’
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2022 This article argues that John Monk Foster’s serialised novel A Pit-Brow Lassie (1889) is an example of the quietist ‘culture of consolation’ which conflates the popular with the commercial and decouples the former from its earlier radical implications ...
Michael Sanders
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Akademisk Kvarter, 2013 This article examines some aspects of the phenomenon of popular fiction, using the terminology proposed by Pierre Bourdieu in his works on distinction and cultural production, including ‘position taking,’ ‘field,’ and ‘capital(s).’ After the theoretical ...
Bent Sørensen
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Literary Concept of Dog: Dog’s Death Scenario in American Mass Fiction
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2021 The present research featured the dog’s death scenario in twentieth-century American mass fiction based on Robert McCammon’s novels. The authors believe that the popularity of this scenario has its roots in mythology and precedent texts of the ...
N. V. Rabkina, O. V. Valko
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Belphégor, 2017 This article explores the content and reception of two kinds of British-based detective fiction that were widely-read in the Netherlands at the start of the twentieth century: serialized international pulp fiction (the Lord Lister series) on the one hand,
Alex Rutten
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