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Globalization, re-discovery of the Malay ‘local,' and popular TV fiction through audience narratives [PDF]

, 2016
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 ...
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus,, Raihanah M. M.,, Ruzy Suliza Hashim,   +2 more
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The Conventions of Detective Fiction, or Why We Like Detective Novels: Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

Anafora, 2018
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

دریافت, 2022
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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The genre of islands: popular fiction and performance geographies [PDF]

Island Studies Journal, 2016
To date, studies of the contribution literature makes to ideas about islands have concentrated on “high” literature. This has left unexamined the largest proportion of literature featuring islands.
Ralph Crane, Lisa Fletcher
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Pandemics, epidemics, viruses, plagues, and disease: Comparative frequency analysis of a cultural pathology reflected in science fiction magazines from 1926 to 2015

Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2020
Science fiction includes many dystopian narratives, often featuring epidemics, pandemics, plagues, viruses, and disease. As science fiction has grown in popularity and prevalence it appeals to an increasingly broad demographic, is employed in research ...
Christopher B. Menadue
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Paralittératures. Les indispensables (une bibliothèque de référence) [PDF]

, 1997
Ces orientations bibliographiques, adressées au lecteur désireux d'en savoir plus sur l'étude du récit paralittéraire, comprennent des ouvrages généraux et de références, quelques collectifs et quelques études théoriques (mais pas d'analyse d'auteurs ...
Spehner, Norbert
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The Image of Central European Immigrant in Popular Fiction and Its Adaptations: A Case Study of the Detective Murdoch/Murdoch Mysteries Series

European Journal of American Studies, 2023
Popular fiction is often defined as formula fiction as it tends to employ a much more limited repertory of plots, characters, and settings than Literature. Westerns, fantasies, romances, mysteries, science fiction, adventures, etc.
Biljana Oklopcic
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Narrative Devices in Motion: From Genre Fiction to Mainstream Fiction in Florin Chirculescu’s Prose [PDF]

Caietele Echinox, 2022
This article explores the dynamics between Romanian genre fiction and mainstream fiction in the postcommunist period, trying to negotiate the instrumentalizations of narrative devices usually found in popular literature (be it fantasy, crime, or ...
Alex Văsieș
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Making space: law and science fiction [PDF]

, 2011
publication-status: Publishedtypes: Article"Published in Law and Literature, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer 2011), pp. 241-261© 2011 by The Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University.
Travis, Mitchell
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The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies

Island Studies Journal, 2016
To date, studies of the contribution literature makes to ideas about islands have concentrated on “high” literature. This has left unexamined the largest proportion of literature featuring islands.
Ralph Crane, Lisa Fletcher
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