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The politics of the popular: Definitions and uses of African popular fiction [PDF]
This paper is a contribution to the discourse around the politics and the polemics of ‘the popular’. It focuses on the definitions and uses of African popular fiction.
Nibafasha, Spes
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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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Representations of trauma and solidarity in Regency romance
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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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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Forensic Fiction and the Normalization of Surveillance
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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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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This paper explores the shifting position of “readers” and “writers” within serialized works by Japanese detective fiction author Edogawa Rampo. The essay focuses on two works published at the end of the 1920s and early 1930s: the novella “Beast in the ...
Shoko Komatsu, Eric Siercks
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Copper‐based composites enhanced with carbon feature convenient mechanical properties and favorable electric conductivity. Processing via deformation and thermomechanical treatments can introduce advantageous microstructures further enhancing their performance. Herein, copper–graphene powder‐based composites are directly consolidated via rotary swaging
Radim Kocich +3 more
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Making the Case for Middlebrow Culture
<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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Generally distinguished from literary fiction, genre fiction, also known as popular fiction, is analyzed in a dictionary article pointing at definition of this literary genre, origins, history, evolution and typology.
Ioana Drăgan
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