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On the Complexity of Literary and Popular Fiction
Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2023Research findings in cognitive literary studies show that lifetime exposure to literary versus popular fiction has a differential association with social cognition processes such as psychological essentialism, attributional complexity, and, particularly,
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Library quarterly, 2020
The active promotion of adult popular fiction in the public library is in need of theoretical justification consistent with that institution’s larger political project, a project it is sometimes said to undermine.
E. Lawrence
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The active promotion of adult popular fiction in the public library is in need of theoretical justification consistent with that institution’s larger political project, a project it is sometimes said to undermine.
E. Lawrence
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Pleasure as genre: popular fiction, South African chick-lit and Nthikeng Mohlele's Pleasure
Feminist Theory, 2019The success of popular women's fiction requires a mode of analysis that is able to reveal the patterns across this category in order to better understand the appeal of these books.
R. Frenkel
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A preferred reality: Film portrayals of robots and AI in popular science fiction
Journal of Science and Popular Culture, 2021The increasing frequency and depth of human interaction with robots and artificial intelligence (AI) prompts this research study into how media-framed portrayals of technology in popular visual media might construct social reality.
Daniel G. Dieter, Elyse C. Gessler
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Perspectives, 2018
Between the 1920s and 1930s, the translation of foreign contemporary novels into Italian was encouraged by publishers, meeting the needs of a new readership, which was larger and more heterogeneous than before the war.
Natascia Barrale
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Between the 1920s and 1930s, the translation of foreign contemporary novels into Italian was encouraged by publishers, meeting the needs of a new readership, which was larger and more heterogeneous than before the war.
Natascia Barrale
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‘Under surveillance’. An introduction to popular fiction in translation
Perspectives, 2018The translation of popular fiction is an under researched field within Translation Studies, with a very limited number of general studies and a few articles scattered among different journals and edited collections. The introduction to this special issue
Diana Bianchi, F. Zanettin
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2018
This chapter explores what is meant by 'popular fiction' before providing an overview of the history of research on translating popular fiction. Several translation scholars have examined the role of translated popular fiction in popularising a genre in a target culture.
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This chapter explores what is meant by 'popular fiction' before providing an overview of the history of research on translating popular fiction. Several translation scholars have examined the role of translated popular fiction in popularising a genre in a target culture.
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2014
Popular fiction has a special impact on the imagination of poverty because it is accessible and entertaining reading. Genre is of special importance in popular (as opposed to “literary”) fiction. The chapter shows that popular genre fiction can perpetuate traditional ways of perceiving poverty but also provoke a more reflected and sometimes even ...
Barbara Korte, Georg Zipp
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Popular fiction has a special impact on the imagination of poverty because it is accessible and entertaining reading. Genre is of special importance in popular (as opposed to “literary”) fiction. The chapter shows that popular genre fiction can perpetuate traditional ways of perceiving poverty but also provoke a more reflected and sometimes even ...
Barbara Korte, Georg Zipp
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2020
During the post-emancipation era in Russia and the United States, authors created nostalgic historical fiction that romanticized Russian serfdom and American slavery. This chapter compares the short stories of white, Southern authors Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris with the mass-oriented historical fiction of Russian aristocrats Grigorii ...
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During the post-emancipation era in Russia and the United States, authors created nostalgic historical fiction that romanticized Russian serfdom and American slavery. This chapter compares the short stories of white, Southern authors Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris with the mass-oriented historical fiction of Russian aristocrats Grigorii ...
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2013
Theosophists explored the occult dimension in different ways, popular fiction being one of them. This chapter concentrates on the early stage of Theosophy: books published roughly 1880-1940, a period which generally displayed a lively interest in supernatural matters. It gives a broad overview of English authors and works, and demonstrates the palpable
Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, Lisbeth Mikaelson
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Theosophists explored the occult dimension in different ways, popular fiction being one of them. This chapter concentrates on the early stage of Theosophy: books published roughly 1880-1940, a period which generally displayed a lively interest in supernatural matters. It gives a broad overview of English authors and works, and demonstrates the palpable
Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, Lisbeth Mikaelson
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