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SciFi Cinema as one of Spatial Localizations of Military Images in American Mass Culture [PDF]
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
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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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]
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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Producing the Popular: John Monk Foster and the ‘Industrial Romance’
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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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
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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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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The Conventions of Detective Fiction, or Why We Like Detective Novels: Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
Detective fiction has been immensely popular among readers for decades. This paper answers the questions of who the readers of this genre are and what makes detective stories so attractive for them. The first part of the paper discusses why the so-called
Sanja Matković
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Selected Women Fiction Writer of 20th Century: In the Context of Realism
Like the other genre of Urdu, the pride of fiction writing is with male writers, but female writers have also added a lot to it. Among them names of Khaton Akram, Mrs Abdul Qadir, Abbasi Begam, Khadija Mastoor, Hajra Masroor and Qurat ul Ain Haider are ...
Shazia Andleeb, Sadaf Naqvi
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