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Journal articles on the topic "Controversial fiction"

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Klebes, Martin. "If Worlds Were Stories." Konturen 2, no. 1 (October 11, 2010): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.2.1.1346.

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The metaphysics of possible worlds proposed by the analytic philosopher David K. Lewis offers an account of fictional discourse according to which possible worlds described in fiction are just as real as the actual world. In an inspired reversal of the analysis of literary fictions by such philosophical means, the French poet Jacques Roubaud makes direct reference to Lewis’ controversial ontological picture in two cycles of elegies composed between 1986 and 1990. Roubaud’s poems take up the idea of possible worlds as real entities, and at the same time they challenge the notion that philosophy could offer an account of fiction in which the puzzling collision of the possible with the impossible that fundamentally characterizes the phenomenon of fictionality would be seamlessly unravelled. For Roubaud the lyrical genre of the elegy and its thematic concern with love and death stands as a prime indicator of the quandary that results from our inability to solve paradoxes of modality such as those raised by Lewis in strictly theoretical terms.
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E. Campos, Rebeca. "Philanthropic classism: americanization as a controversial rite of passage in Anzia Yezierska’s fiction." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, no. 23 (2019): 71–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ren.2019.i23.04.

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Padovani, Laurent. "Soumission, le roman de la conversion Houellebecq, le réel et la fiction." Intercâmbio: Revue d’Études Françaises=French Studies Journal, no. 14 (2021): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/0873-366x/int14a2.

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Houellebecq’s fiction isdiscussed, contested and critiqued, not only as a series of aesthetic objects but alsoin political, ideological or moral terms. This contribution is an invitation to thinkabout the centre of gravity inthe triangle of realism-fiction-authority in Submission, Michel Houellebecq’smost controversial novel. We advancethe hypothesis that Islam in Submissionhasa fictional function analogous to that of post-humanism in Atomised.That would be essentially a matter of surface, provocation to draw attention to an older deeper crisis. This crisis would be that of Western civilization, onethatFrance willnot escapefrom, characterizedby a process of generalized«untying», or even«disintegration» of « values»and the world that they formed.
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Feagin, Susan L. "Imagining Emotions and Appreciating Fiction." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 18, no. 3 (September 1988): 485–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1988.10717187.

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The capacity of a work of fictional literature to elicit (some) emotional responses is part of what is valuable about it, and having (relevant) emotional responses is part of appreciating it. These claims are not very controversial; perhaps they are even common sense. But philosophy rushes in where common sense fears to tread, raising questions and looking for explanations.Are the emotions we have in appreciating fictional works of art, what I call art emotions, of the same sort as those which occur in ‘real life’? Which emotions are appropriate to the work, and why: what justifies having one emotion rather than another? And why should we think emotionally responding to fiction is desirable, something which should be respected and encouraged, rather than looked at as a little weird or a waste of time?
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Zakharova, Natalia V. "Love Fiction in China in the Second Decade of the 20 th Century: from Sentiments to Duck-Lovebirds and Butterflies." Studia Litterarum 6, no. 1 (2021): 88–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-1-88-10.

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The article analyzes the evolution of Chinese love fiction in the first years that followed the 1911 Xinhai revolution. The article focuses on literature representing “couples in love,” namely fiction about “duck-lovebirds and butterflies,” an invariant of the “love prose” genre. The authors of these works both continued the traditions of the previous literature and at the same time attempted at modernizing the genre. Chinese literary scholars have controversial opinions about this genre and its invariants. Controversies concern the literary movement to which these works should be attributed, and the place of the genre in the history of Chinese literature. The founder of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xin, gave a negative assessment of this genre. Modern critics agree that fiction about “duck-lovebirds and butterflies” has poor aesthetic merits yet they also argue that the authors “created an objective picture of reality, expressed different views and opinions.” By the 1920s, the vogue for writing novels and short stories in the style of “duck-lovebirds and butterflies” had waned. This genre however gained a new surge in popularity in the mid-1940s thanks to Zhang Eileen who modernized Chinese love fiction.
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Zakharova, Natalia V. "Love Fiction in China in the Second Decade of the 20 th Century: from Sentiments to Duck-Lovebirds and Butterflies." Studia Litterarum 6, no. 1 (2021): 88–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-1-88-103.

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The article analyzes the evolution of Chinese love fiction in the first years that followed the 1911 Xinhai revolution. The article focuses on literature representing “couples in love,” namely fiction about “duck-lovebirds and butterflies,” an invariant of the “love prose” genre. The authors of these works both continued the traditions of the previous literature and at the same time attempted at modernizing the genre. Chinese literary scholars have controversial opinions about this genre and its invariants. Controversies concern the literary movement to which these works should be attributed, and the place of the genre in the history of Chinese literature. The founder of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xin, gave a negative assessment of this genre. Modern critics agree that fiction about “duck-lovebirds and butterflies” has poor aesthetic merits yet they also argue that the authors “created an objective picture of reality, expressed different views and opinions.” By the 1920s, the vogue for writing novels and short stories in the style of “duck-lovebirds and butterflies” had waned. This genre however gained a new surge in popularity in the mid-1940s thanks to Zhang Eileen who modernized Chinese love fiction.
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Galiatsatos, Polymnia, Adrian Gologan, and Esther Lamoureux. "Autistic Enterocolitis: Fact or Fiction?" Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology 23, no. 2 (2009): 95–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/394317.

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Autism spectrum disorder refers to syndromes of varying severity, typified by impaired social interactions, communicative delays and restricted, repetitive behaviours and interests. The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders has been on the rise, while the etiology remains unclear and most likely multifactorial. There have been several reports of a link between autism and chronic gastrointestinal symptoms. Endoscopy trials have demonstrated a higher prevalence of nonspecific colitis, lymphoid hyperplasia and focally enhanced gastritis compared with controls. Postulated mechanisms include aberrant immune responses to some dietary proteins, abnormal intestinal permeability and unfavourable gut microflora. Two autism spectrum disorder patients with chronic intestinal symptoms and abnormal endoscopic findings are described, followed by a review of this controversial topic.
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S. Qasim, Mohammed, Munthir A. Sabi, and Fatima R. Hussein. "C.S. Parnell, a Controversial Irish Political Leader." Al-Adab Journal, no. 128 (March 15, 2019): 117–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v0i128.419.

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Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91), an Irish political leader of nationalists, causes a national controversy and division by taking Kitty O'Shea, wife of one of his followers, Captain O'Shea, as his mistress. This leads to massive contention between the Irish Catholic Church the nationalist strugglers, who deem him as their own leader and denounce the Church for its involvement in politics. This love story, condemned by the Church as adultery, becomes one of the rarest romances, matched by the famous mad love of Catherine and Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847), as depicted by Dorothy Eden in her novel, Never Call it Loving(1966). Eden is most sympathetic to this estranged wife, Kitty, who falls in love with the most charismatic man, Mr. Parnell; like Heathcliff, Parnell dies miserably, leaving the Irish nation in serious schism. This moving novel is analysed as a sample of historical fiction, which delights readers by its accurate and impressive depiction of this romance; historians can rarely do this, for they're concerned with mere dry facts.
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Sarabando, Andreia. "Potiki in Portuguese: language hybridity and the pitfalls of paratext." Translation Matters 3, no. 1 (2021): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/21844585/tm3_1a8.

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This article looks at the Portuguese translation of Patricia Grace’sPotiki, and more specifically at the paratextual elements that it contains, as a response to the linguistic hybridity of its source text. Potiki incorporates Māori elements in its mostly English-language text in a way that is common in Māori fiction writing these days, but which was groundbreaking at the time of its release, in 1986. The Portuguese translation’s decision to include paratextual information clarifying the meaning of words and expressions, which is absent from English-language publications, can be considered controversial and, moreover, runs counter to contemporary approaches to hybrid linguistic features in fictional texts.
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García, Victoria. "Potentialities and limits of fiction." Journal of Romance studies 22, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 29–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2022.2.

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The narratives of the children of political activists and the disappeared in Argentina emerging after the year 2000 employ fiction as a deliberate aesthetic and political narrative strategy to address the recent past and the repression of the dictatorship (1976-1983). This article will focus on Patricio Pron’s novel El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia [‘My Fathers’ Ghost is Climbing in the Rain’] (first published in 2011) to explore the potentialities and limits of fiction when approaching painful and controversial aspects of the past. Pron proposes a narrative experiment with autofiction which sparked a debate between him and his father, one of the main characters in the novel, after the novel was published. We argue that the polemic between the Prons reveals a double conflict, centered on the interpretation of the past and on the limits of (auto)fiction when dealing with real, particularly sensitive, events in national history.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Controversial fiction"

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Swärd, Ida. "To Teach or Not to Teach Controversial Issues? : An Interview Study of Upper Secondary English Teachers’ Attitudes and Experiences of Teaching Controversial Issues Through Fictional Works." Thesis, Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53386.

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This study aims to examine how upper secondary English teachers work with foundationalvalues and controversial topics through fictional works in order to discuss the function of valuesand the civic mission in the EFL-classroom. The study was conducted using a qualitativeapproach through semi structured interviews, interviewing seven currently active uppersecondary English teachers. To structure the data from the interviews a thematic analysis wasapplied, and the theoretical approaches used for analysing the data were transformativepotential and narrative imagination.The results of this study show that the participants have an interest in using fictional workscontaining controversial issues for discussing foundational values in the classroom. The studyalso shows that there are both common challenges and advantages of teaching controversialissues through fiction. All participants had similar opinions about the advantages which werethe emergence of expanding worldviews and perspectives among pupils. The challengesmentioned among the participants were: reading in a second language, giving the pupils enoughpre-knowledge and knowing which position to take as a teacher during discussions aboutcontroversial topics. Noticeable differences in the teachers’ opinions were due to their lengthof work experience. Finally, the civic mission in the EFL-classroom could be distinguished inthe teachers’ arguments of why they implement fictional works with controversial topics intheir teaching.
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Hawryluk, Lynda J., University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and of Communication Design and Media School. "Call waiting." THESIS_CAESS_CDM_Hawryluk_L.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/6.

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This thesis examines the life and career of Bret Easton Ellis, and the influences of his work on the author's development as a writer. Part one encapsulates a novel written specifically for this thesis. 'Call waiting' is a harsh look at modern friendships, the role of work in these relationships and the proliferation of shallow communication through the advent of email. A critical reflection follows, examining the process that led to the novel's creation. Three specific areas are focussed on: the direct influence of Ellis' novel 'The rules of attraction' on the overall themes of 'Call waiting', the realisation of the project and the various editing changes and narrative developments that arose during the writing of the novel, and an examination of the inspiration behind the novel's creation. Part two considers Ellis' role in the literary world of the 1980s, his own complicity in the creation of a career as a celebrity author, and the carefully manufactured persona Ellis presents to the world. In Part three the thesis is concluded with a close analysis of the publication of Ellis' controversial novel 'American psycho'. This chapter explores the negative publicity the novel attracted and the possible causes of the ensuing backlash against the author.
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Cannon, Ammie. "Controversial Politics, Conservative Genre: Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe Duo and Detective Fiction's Conventional Form." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/469.

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Rex Stout maintained his popular readership despite the often controversial and radical political content expressed in his detective fiction. His political ideals often made him many enemies. Stances such as his ardent opposition to censorship, racism, Nazism, Germany, Fascism, Communism, McCarthyism, and the unfettered FBI were potentially offensive to colleagues and readers from various political backgrounds. Yet Stout attempted to present radical messages via the content of his detective fiction with subtlety. As a literary traditionalist, he resisted using his fiction as a platform for an often extreme political agenda. Where political messages are apparent in his work, Stout employs various techniques to mute potentially offensive messages. First, his hugely successful bantering Archie Goodwin-Nero Wolfe detective duo—a combination of both the lippy American and the tidy, sanitary British detective schools—fosters exploration, contradiction, and conflict between political viewpoints. Archie often rejects or criticizes Wolfe's extreme political viewpoints. Second, Stout utilizes the contradictions between values that occur when the form of detective fiction counters his radical political messages. This suggests that the form of detective fiction (in this case the conventional patterns and attitudes reinforced by the genre) is as important as the content (in this case the muted political message or the lack of overt politics) in reinforcing or shaping political, economic, moral, and social viewpoints. An analysis of the novels The Black Mountain (1954) and The Doorbell Rang (1965) and the novellas "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap" (1944) from Stout's Nero Wolfe series demonstrates his use of detective fiction for both the expression of political viewpoints and the muting of those political messages.
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Hawryluk, Lynda J. "Call waiting." Thesis, View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/6.

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This thesis examines the life and career of Bret Easton Ellis, and the influences of his work on the author's development as a writer. Part one encapsulates a novel written specifically for this thesis. 'Call waiting' is a harsh look at modern friendships, the role of work in these relationships and the proliferation of shallow communication through the advent of email. A critical reflection follows, examining the process that led to the novel's creation. Three specific areas are focussed on: the direct influence of Ellis' novel 'The rules of attraction' on the overall themes of 'Call waiting', the realisation of the project and the various editing changes and narrative developments that arose during the writing of the novel, and an examination of the inspiration behind the novel's creation. Part two considers Ellis' role in the literary world of the 1980s, his own complicity in the creation of a career as a celebrity author, and the carefully manufactured persona Ellis presents to the world. In Part three the thesis is concluded with a close analysis of the publication of Ellis' controversial novel 'American psycho'. This chapter explores the negative publicity the novel attracted and the possible causes of the ensuing backlash against the author.
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Fritz, Margaretha Johanna. "Die representasie van omstrede kwessies in kontemporêre Afrikaanse jeugverhale / Margaretha Johanna Fritz." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1465.

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There are certain issues - such as violence, sexuality, politics and religion - which are problematic but have to be dealt with in society. In this dissertation types of controversial issues present in recent Afrikaans youth literature, the portrayal of those issues, and the ways in which solutions are offered for these issues are investigated. The argument follows from the assumption that the literature which the adolescent reads, has a directive value. Quite often the reader will choose to read material about a certain situation with which the reader is also faced in real life. It may be easy for the reader to identify with a character in similar circumstances or facing the same dilemma. Through the actions of the character, the reader can then explore certain avenues or possibilities which have the potential to be helpful in the solution of the problem or issue. For this dissertation research was done about certain controversial issues and related aspects in literature in general, which are then applied to three youth novels: Skilpoppe (1998) by Barrie Hough, Daar's vis in die punch (2002) by Jackie Nagtegaal and Nie vir kinders nie (2005) by Francois Bloemhof. These three texts were chosen because all three of them have generated public discussion, specifically in the media, about the presence of controversial issues. The results indicate the portrayal of the controversial issues to be unbiased and from a non-judgemental authoring perspective. The presence of the text internal corrective, which refers to the portrayal of a certain issue thereby giving it an outcome (positive or negative) or an alternative, is noticeable and is discussed in this dissertation.
Thesis (M.A. (Afrikaans and Dutch))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.
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Galvão, Danielle Pini. "Confissões de adolescente: criando identificações do telespectador e discutindo temas polêmicos." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5075.

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Even it has been conceived to claim the entertainment, not the education, television is endowed with enormous strength training, as it can unite two great powers: the information and entertainment. Through the approach of the viewer daily life, achieved mainly through the fictional narrative, television can create more identification between the viewer and characters, transmitting the desired information. This research aimed to analyze the fictional narrative addressed to brazilian teens, holding as object the program "Confissões de Adolescente . The problem that we tried discuss was: Through the fiction, can we discuss subjects deemed controversial or dense? How is its approaching? Our hypothesis is that this idea is plausible. Due to the structure of episodes, "Confissões de Adolescente" had the possibility of working each theme in more depth. As such, abortion, drug, policy, among others. The objective of the research was to examine structurally the program, bringing to the highlight the resources used to capture the attention of teenage public and create identification between them and the program itself. It was intended also to identify how the themes were entered and treated in the episodes and how the program was positioned in relation to them. The research had as theoretical basis on authors as Arlindo Machado (analysis television), Ana Maria Balogh (fictional speech), Joan Ferrés (socialization through television), besides Sigmund Freud (Psychoanalysis), Contardo Calligaris e Sérgio Ozella (Psychology Social-historic)
Mesmo que tenha sido concebida com a finalidade de entreter e não de educar, a televisão é dotada de uma enorme força pedagógica, pois consegue unir dois grandes poderes: a informação e o entretenimento. É através de uma aproximação com o cotidiano do telespectador, conseguida principalmente por meio da narrativa ficcional, que ela consegue criar maior identificação do telespectador com as personagens e situações, transmitindo, desse modo, a informação desejada. Esta pesquisa buscou analisar a narrativa ficcional dirigida aos adolescentes brasileiros, tendo como objeto o seriado "Confissões de Adolescente". O problema que se procurou discutir foi: Pode-se, por meio da ficção, abordar assuntos considerados densos ou polêmicos? Nossa hipótese é a de que essa idéia é plausível. Devido à estrutura baseada em episódios, "Confissões de Adolescente" obteve a possibilidade de trabalhar cada tema discutido, como, por exemplo, aborto, drogas, política, entre outros, com maior profundidade. O objetivo da pesquisa consistiu em analisar estruturalmente o programa destacando, assim, os recursos utilizados para capturar a atenção do público adolescente bem como criar a identificação desse público com o programa. Pretendeu-se também identificar como foram inseridos e abordados os temas nos episódios e como o programa se posicionou em relação a eles. A pesquisa teve como base teórica autores como Arlindo Machado (análise televisiva), Ana Maria Balogh (discurso ficcional), Joan Ferrés (socialização através da televisão), além de Sigmund Freud (Psicanálise), Contardo Calligaris e Sérgio Ozella (Psicologia Sócio-histórica)
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Cannon, Ammie Sorensen. "Controversial politics, conservative genre : Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe duo and detective fiction's conventional form /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1340.pdf.

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Bell, Sunanta Wannasin. "Spatialization of fictional worlds and interpretive controversies in the Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children and Shame." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430249.

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Fritz, Margaretha Johannes. "Die representasie van omstrede kwessies in kontemporêre Afrikaanse jeugverhale / Margaretha Johanna Fritz." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1465.

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Books on the topic "Controversial fiction"

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Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), ed. The Controversial Countess. New York: New American Library, 1989.

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Bret Easton Ellis's controversial fiction: Writing between high and low culture. London: Continuum, 2011.

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Deedat, Ahmed. Crucifixion or cruci-fiction: Resurrection or resuscitation ; The God that never was. 2nd ed. [Doha, Oatar: Dar El-Ulum Foundation, 1993.

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Rabeeya, David. European Jewish racism in Israel: Fact not fiction. Pennsylvania, USA: Sepharad Press, 1999.

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Aḥmad, Mirzā Ṭāhir. Christianity : a journey from fact to fiction. [Tilford [England]: Islam International Publications, 1994.

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Bella should have dumped Edward: Controversial views & debates on the Twilight series. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2010.

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The unauthorized version: Truth and fiction in the Bible. New York: Knopf, 1992.

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The unauthorized version: Truth and fiction in the Bible. London: Viking, 1991.

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Fox, Robin Lane. The unauthorized version: Truth and fiction in the Bible. New York, NY: Knopf, 1991.

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The unauthorized version: Truth and fiction in the Bible. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.

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Book chapters on the topic "Controversial fiction"

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Pezzotti, Barbara. "Risorgimento e identità italiana nel giallo contemporaneo." In Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna, 17–28. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-597-4.04.

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By analysing three Italian crime novels – Piero Soria’s Cuore di lupo (1999), Massimo Siviero’s Il terno di San Gennaro (1999) and Marcello Fois’s Dura madre (2001), – this essay investigates how Italian crime fiction set in present times reflects on the Risorgimento and its legacy. It argues that by referring to a crucial period of Italian history, the crime stories analysed in this chapter address an unsolved relationship between the North and the South of Italy brought to light in the 1990s by the success of controversial political parties such as the Lega Nord. In particular, I show how with Dura madre, Fois indicates a way of uniting Italy through a mutual understanding that preserves regional identities and cultures.
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Knapp, Marcela. "Fiction Between Representation and Quotation: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Garbage, the City and Death." In Cultural Controversies in the West German Public Sphere, 233–313. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40086-6_7.

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Thelin, Stefan, and Christian Olsson. "If I Had an Acute Type A Aortic Dissection: Professional and Private Reflections from a Fictive Patient." In Controversies in Aortic Dissection and Aneurysmal Disease, 235–43. London: Springer London, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5622-2_20.

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Dynel, Marta. "When Both Utterances and Appearances are Deceptive: Deception in Multimodal Film Narrative." In Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 205–52. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56696-8_12.

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AbstractThis article gives a comprehensive theoretical account of deception in multimodal film narrative in the light of the pragmatics of film discourse, the cognitive philosophy of film, multimodal analysis, studies of fictional narrative and – last but not least – the philosophy of lying and deception. Critically addressing the extant literature, a range or pertinent notions and issues are examined: multimodality, film narration and the status of the cinematic narrator, the pragmatics of film construction (notably, the characters’ communicative level and the one of the collective sender and the recipient), the fictional world and its truth, the recipient’s film engagement and make believing, as well as narrative unreliability. Previous accounts of deceptive films are revisited and three main types of film deception are proposed with regard to the two levels of communication on which it materialises, the characters’ level and the recipient’s level, as well as the intradiegetic and/or the extradiegetic narrator involved. This discussion is illustrated with multimodally transcribed examples of deception extracted from the American television seriesHouse.In the course of the analysis, attention is paid to how specific types of deception detailed in the philosophy of language (notably, lies, deceptive implicature, withholding information, covert ambiguity, and covert irrelevance) are deployed through multimodal means in the three types of film deception (extradiegetic deception, intradiegetic deception, and a combination of both when performed by both cinematic and intradiegetic narrators). Finally, inspired by the discussion of Hitchcock’s controversial lying flashback scene inStage Fright, as well as films relying on tacit intradiegetic, unreliable narrators (focalising characters) an attempt is made to answer the thorny question of when the extradiegetic (cinematic) narrator can perform lies (through mendacious multimodal assertions) addressed by the collective sender to the recipient, and not just only other forms of deception, as is commonly maintained.
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"The Ethical Experience in Controversial Videogames." In The Projected and Prophetic: Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction, 28–40. BRILL, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781848880870_005.

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"Creative Non-Fiction." In Katherine Mansfield and Russia, edited by Roger Lipsey, 163–72. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474426138.003.0011.

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Close readers of Katherine Mansfield will recall her bold decision in the autumn of 1922 to become a resident at the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, founded by George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (?1866–1949), not far from Paris, just weeks before her death. Mansfield could have some confidence in the adventure: she would share it with A. R. Orage, her trusted mentor, who had set aside his prominent literary and journalistic career in London to also join Gurdjieff and his circle. The new home of the Institute was Le Prieuré des Basses Loges, a manor house at Fontainebleau-Avon, adjoining the storied forest where kings had hunted. Gurdjieff was – and has remained – a controversial figure, deeply appreciated by some, maligned by others. We should content ourselves here with Mansfield’s vision of the man as a wise, multi-talented and kind teacher, willing to number her among the Institute’s participants despite the fact that he knew her to be mortally ill. She had come to remake her life: if not her health – though there is always hope – then her inner life, her sense of herself. ‘At 34 I am beginning my education,’ she wrote with conviction after some weeks at the Prieuré. It did not take long for her to know that she belonged, frail as she was. How touching to hear her write about ‘the new theatre that we are building. I must go.’...
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Van de Peer, Stefanie. "Selma Baccar: Non-fiction in Tunisia, the Land of Fictions." In Negotiating Dissidence. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696062.003.0004.

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This chapter discusses a controversial icon of women in Tunisia, Selma Baccar, Tunisia’s first lady of filmmaking, an instigator and a fiercely independent woman still celebrated for her films and politics. Her first film Fatma 75 (1975) carried an intricately political statement of feminist defiance. The film looks at the time of independence and the subsequent struggle for women to gain their rights under the first president, Habib Bourguiba. Tunisia was a land of fictions, and even though Baccar roots her films in the reality of everyday life, most of them are essay films, due to restrictions put on the filmmaker by the Tunisian censor. Baccar, an intellectual artist, identifies strongly with her heroine and places her in a detailed historical context in order to analyse and critique Tunisian attitudes. She looks at past revolutions and women’s issues and in doing so, has served as women’s national memory. Her importance as documenter of the past has become central to 2011’s so-called ‘Jasmine Revolution’, as she now sits on the Assemblée constituante (Constitution Assembly) composed of elected members who are making an attempt at re-writing the Tunisian constitution.
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Holland, Margaret G. "Can Fiction be Philosophy?" In The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, 23–30. Philosophy Documentation Center, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wcp20-paideia199821380.

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This paper examines the relation between philosophy and literature through an analysis of claims made by Martha Nussbaum regarding the contribution novels can make to moral philosophy. Perhaps her most controversial assertion is that some novels are themselves works of moral philosophy. I contrast Nussbaum’s view with that of Iris Murdoch. I discuss three claims which are fundamental to Nussbaum’s position: the relation between writing style and content; philosophy’s inadequacy in preparing agents for moral life because of its reliance on rules; and the usefulness of the moral work engaged in by readers of novels. The evaluation of these claims requires a discussion of the nature of philosophy. I find that Murdoch and Nussbaum agree on the ability of literature to contribute to moral understanding, but disagree on the issue of what philosophy is. Therefore, they disagree on the question of whether certain works of fiction are also works of philosophy. I argue that the task Nussbaum assigns philosophy is too broad. Through the use of critical and reflective methods, philosophy should examine and sort moral claims. Literary, philosophical and religious texts contribute to moral eduction; keeping them separate helps us appreciate their distinct contributions, as well as respect their distinct aims and methods. Therefore, I conclude that Nussbaum’s inclusion of certain novels in philosophy cannot be sustained.
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Midkiff, Emily. "Conclusion." In Equipping Space Cadets, 152–56. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496839022.003.0006.

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This chapter highlights how primary sf exists and persists despite the adult beliefs and interference demonstrated in the previous chapters. The chapter highlights one controversial but prevalent example of science fiction, the expansive Star Wars story-world and tie-ins, as an example of the potency and pitfalls of the currently available science fiction for children. As the conclusion emphasizes, children make do with what they have, but adults could be fueling the genre and equipping young space cadets with the best of primary sf.
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McGregor, Rafe. "Critical Criminological Methodology." In Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism, 78–93. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219678.003.0006.

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This chapter presents a methodology for critical criminology. It begins by arguing that Vidmar Jovanović's theory of literary philosophy is convincing and that it establishes the criteria by which allegories can be said to be criminological and thus provide an alternative to more traditional sources of data on the causes of harm. The chapter then notes that the way in which the epistemic criterion is met was controversial and suggests the value of Jovanović's conception of fictional narratives as a particular type of testimony to critical criminology. Fictional testimony — or fiction as testimony — makes a more robust case for some allegories meeting the epistemic criterion and makes a more direct link between representation and reality. The allegory as testimony draws attention to its extra-representational dimension, which is produced by the interaction of the four levels of meaning that constitute its representational dimension.
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