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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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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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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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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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Krakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i Prawa, 2021 Militia, Open Up! About Crime Fiction in People’s Poland. Szczecin–Warszawa: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2019, 231 Pages In People’s Poland, a distinct type of crime fiction was developed.
Piotr Miłosz Pilarczyk
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Anafora, 2017 Whether in art or science, adaptation does not refer to something original but to a mutated and permutated version of a pre-existing original. In literature, adaptation occurs first when real-life stories are adapted into fiction; these fictions then ...
Biljana Oklopčić
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Representations of trauma and solidarity in Regency romance
Currents, 2023 The current status of popular romance fiction in academia is characterized by ambivalence; while dismissed and ridiculed by many, it has also been the object of scholarly study for the past four decades.
Noemi Neconesnic
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Forensic Fiction and the Normalization of Surveillance
Nordicom Review, 2014 This essay investigates forensic fiction as a trend in televised crime fiction and argues that this trend or subgenre is particularly interesting if we are to understand how surveillance is portrayed in contemporary society.
Hausken Liv
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The margins of print? Fan fiction as book history
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2017 Contemporary fan fiction is overwhelmingly digital in both publication and dissemination; it has never been easier to access this subculture of writers and writing.
Catherine Coker
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