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Dorota Skotarczak, Otwierać, milicja! O powieści kryminalnej w PRL. Szczecin–Warszawa: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2019, 231 stron

open access: yesKrakowskie 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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A growing disconnection from nature is evident in cultural products [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Human connection with nature is widely believed to be in decline, even though empirical evidence on the magnitude and temporal pattern of the change is scarce.
Bourdo E. A.   +10 more
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Adapting the Adapted: The Black Rapist Myth in E.R. Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes and Its Film Adaptations

open access: yesAnafora, 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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'Avarice’ and ‘evil doers’: profiteers, politicians, and popular fiction in the 1920s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article examines the depiction of the profiteer as villain within popular low and middlebrow British novels from the 1920s. It argues that concerns with profiteering persisted in the landscape of popular fiction well after the end of World War I in ...
Grandy, Christine
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Representations of trauma and solidarity in Regency romance

open access: yesCurrents, 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

open access: yesNordicom 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

open access: yesTransformative 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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Making the Case for Middlebrow Culture

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
<p>It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture—which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean—and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island ...
Belinda Edmondson
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Passion beyond death? Tracing "Wuthering Heights" in Stephenie Meyer's "Eclipse"

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 2012
Stephenie Meyers’ Twilight tetralogy has lately become an enormously successful phenomenon in contemporary popular fiction, especially among a young adult readership.
Marta Miquel Baldellou
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Time travel as a narrative laboratory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Time travel is one of the most popular themes in science fiction. Usually it is discussed from a perspective of technological and scientific possibilities for the realization of fantastic visions.
Leś, Mariusz Maciej
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