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THE CITY TOPOS AS A SUBJECT IN THE GENRE OF URBAN FANTASY
Bulletin of Toraighyrov University. Philology seriesThis article is devoted to the study of the urban fantasy genre, in which the city acts not merely as a backdrop but as an active subject of the narrative, influencing the plot and character development. The central hypothesis of this work is that the city’s subject nature is a key genre-defining identifier in the studied genre.
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In response to the planetary climate crisis, influential scholarship has directed us to decenter the human, recognize nonhuman agency, and imagine more‐than‐human futures. But what might this leave out? Drawing on Indigenous forest worlds in India and the incarcerated intellectual‐activists who struggled alongside them, this article develops a
Alpa Shah
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‘Back to the Real London’; or Mapping the City of the Past in Gaiman’s Neverwhere
Fafnir, 2017 Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed novel Neverwhere belongs to the rapidly growing sub-genre of urban fantasy. Set in 20th century London, the novel evokes fantastical and supernatural elements to paint the history of the city and encompasses its historic memory ...
Chen F. Michaeli
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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante +3 more
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ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Rural communities in Aotearoa New Zealand experience inequitable access to surgical care. Rural surgical outreach clinics aim to reduce geographic and financial barriers by delivering specialist care closer to patients. Healthcare professionals' perspectives on the functioning, value and sustainability of these services remain ...
Sarah Cowan +2 more
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Urban Fantasy : A Literature of the Unseen
, 2016 This article analyses the nature of urban fantasy by aggregating the claims, suggestions, and observations made by several different accounts of what urban fantasy is.
Ekman, Stefan,
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Is leisure‐time reading related to empathy and social skills in 8‐ to 10‐year‐old children?
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract There is growing interest in the effects of reading on empathy and prosocial behaviour but not enough is known about the associations among these variables in children. In a study undertaken at a single time point, we examined children's leisure reading and self‐reported prosocial behaviour, and whether the relation between them was mediated ...
Alan Garnham +3 more
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The language of scripted places
Landscape Review, 1996 The languages of the entertainment industry and of psychoanalysis arc combined with insights on social systems from Deleuze and Guattari to re-think the dynamics of urban landscapes.
Pamela Burton, Richard Hertz
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Sympathy for the Orcs: Evil in Urban Fantasy [PDF]
, 2018 This dissertation argues that urban fantasyfantasy set in citieshas a more nuanced conception of evil than high fantasy, which favours pastoral settings, and which was heavily influenced by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Ashton, Cassandra
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Notes towards gritty fantasy medievalism, temporality, and worldbuilding [Elektronisk resurs]
, 2022 This article discusses gritty fantasy, a fantasy subgenre, which was established in the early 2000s and has since gained a lot of traction. In previous research, gritty fantasy has often been understood as a deconstructive form of fantasy that draws on ...
Bark Persson, Anna,
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