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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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Teaching Victorian Short Fiction [PDF]
, 2020 This essay argues for greater inclusion of Victorian short fiction in university teaching. In the first part of the essay I argue that Victorian short fiction has been subject to a double marginalisation in scholarship.
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, 2023 A recent short story I completed in a style area described as Popular Music Fiction, used fiction to critically explore issues within popular music and to communicate these to a wider audience, will be the main focus of this article. The ideas behind the
Boon, H.
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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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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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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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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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Theology in suspense : how the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes theological thought [PDF]
, 2012 Electronic redacted version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThe following dissertation argues that the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes her readers to think theologically.
Sharkey, Jo Ann
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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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