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Journal articles on the topic "Fiction Focus"

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Egbert, Jesse, and Michaela Mahlberg. "Fiction – one register or two?" Register Studies 2, no. 1 (April 10, 2020): 72–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rs.19006.egb.

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Abstract In this paper our focus is on analyzing register variation within fiction, rather than between fiction and other registers. By working with subcorpora that separate text within and outside of quotation marks, we appromixate fictional speech and narration. This enables us to identify and compare linguistic features with regard to different situational contexts in the fictional world. We focus in particular on the novels of Charles Dickens and a reference corpus of other 19th-century fiction. Our main method for the register analysis is Multi-dimensional Analysis (MDA) for which we draw on altogether four dimensions from two previous MDAs. The linguistic distinctions we identify highlight similarities between fictional speech and involved registers such as face-to-face communication, and between narration and more informational and narrative prose. In addition to the detailed information on register features that characterize speech and narration, the paper raises more general questions about the ability of register studies to deal with situational contexts within fiction.
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Aldama, Frederick Luis, and Katie Skelly. "Introduction to Focus: Graphic Fiction." American Book Review 40, no. 1 (2018): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2018.0113.

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Aldama, Frederick Luis. "Introduction to Focus: Speculative Fiction." American Book Review 41, no. 1 (2019): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2019.0121.

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Burn, Stephen J. "Introduction to Focus: Serious Fiction." American Book Review 42, no. 4 (2021): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2021.0055.

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Watson, David. "Introduction to Focus: Detective Fiction." American Book Review 42, no. 5 (2021): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2021.0071.

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Bladon, Henry. "Should psychiatrists write fiction?" BJPsych Bulletin 42, no. 2 (February 26, 2018): 77–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2017.5.

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SummaryThis paper looks at the relationship between fiction and psychiatry. Specifically, the idea of psychiatrists as fiction writers is explored, and reference is made to various fictional texts to illustrate the problems of stigma and negative imagery. These two main areas of focus are highlighted as ones that the practice of writing fiction might address, and some potential pitfalls are discussed. The paper suggests how psychiatrists might ameliorate the present problems by incorporating their unique clinical skills and knowledge into fictional narratives.Declaration of interestNone.
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Mosselaer, Nele Van de. "How Can We Be Moved to Shoot Zombies? A Paradox of Fictional Emotions and Actions in Interactive Fiction." Journal of Literary Theory 12, no. 2 (September 3, 2018): 279–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2018-0016.

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Abstract How can we be moved by the fate of Anna Karenina? By asking this question, Colin Radford introduced the paradox of fiction, or the problem that we are often emotionally moved by characters and events which we know don’t really exist (1975). A puzzling element of these emotions that always resurfaced within discussions on the paradox is the fact that, although these emotions feel real to the people who have them, their difference from ›real‹ emotions is that they cannot motivate us to perform any actions. The idea that actions towards fictional particulars are impossible still underlies recent work within the philosophy of fiction (cf. Matravers 2014, 26 sqq.; Friend 2017, 220; Stock 2017, 168). In the past decennia, however, the medium of interactive fiction has challenged this crystallized idea. Videogames, especially augmented and virtual reality games, offer us agency in their fictional worlds: players of computer games can interact with fictional objects, save characters that are invented, and kill monsters that are clearly non-existent within worlds that are mere representations on a screen. In a parallel to Radford’s original question, we might ask: how can we be moved to shoot zombies, when we know they aren’t real? The purpose of this article is to examine the new paradox of interactive fiction, which questions how we can be moved to act on objects we know to be fictional, its possible solutions, and its connection to the traditional paradox of fictional emotions. Videogames differ from traditional fictional media in that they let their appreciators enter their fictional worlds in the guise of a fictional proxy, and grant their players agency within this world. As interactive fictions, videogames reveal new elements of the relationship between fiction, emotions, and actions that have been previously neglected because of the focus on non-interactive fiction such as literature, theatre, and film. They show us that fictional objects can not only cause actions, but can also be the intentional object of these actions. Moreover, they show us that emotions towards fictions can motivate us to act, and that conversely, the possibility of undertaking actions within the fictional world makes a wider array of emotions towards fictional objects possible. Since the player is involved in the fictional world and responsible for his actions therein, self-reflexive emotions such as guilt and shame are common reactions to the interactive fiction experience. As such, videogames point out a very close connection between emotions and actions towards fictions and introduce the paradox of interactive fiction: a paradox of fictional actions. This paradox of fictional actions that is connected to our experiences of interactive fiction consists of three premises that cannot be true at the same time, as this would result in a contradiction: 1. Players act on videogame objects. 2. Videogame objects are fictional. 3. It is impossible to act on fictional objects. The first premise seems to be obviously true: gamers manipulate game objects when playing. The second one is true for at least some videogame objects we act upon, such as zombies. The third premise is a consequence of the ontological gap between the real world and fictional worlds. So which one needs to be rejected? Although the paradox of interactive fiction is never discussed as such within videogame philosophy, there seem to be two strategies at hand to solve this paradox, both of which are examined in this article. The first strategy is to deny that the game objects we can act on are fictional at all. Espen Aarseth, for example, argues that they are virtual objects (cf. 2007), while other philosophers argue that players interact with real, computer-generated graphical representations (cf. Juul 2005; Sageng 2012). However, Aarseth’s concept of the virtual seems to be ad hoc and unhelpful, and describing videogame objects and characters as real, computer-generated graphical representations does not account for the emotional way in which we often relate to them. The second solution is based on Kendall Walton’s make-believe theory, and, similar to Walton’s solution to the original paradox of fictional emotions, says that the actions we perform towards fictional game objects are not real actions, but fictional actions. A Waltonian description of fictional actions can explain our paradoxical actions on fictional objects in videogames, although it does raise questions about the validity of Walton’s concept of quasi-emotions. Indeed, the way players’ emotions can motivate them to act in a certain manner seems to be a strong argument against the concept of quasi-emotions, which Walton introduced to explain the alleged non-motivationality of emotions towards fiction (cf. 1990, 201 sq.). Although both strategies to solve the paradox of interactive fiction might ultimately not be entirely satisfactory, the presentation of these strategies in this paper not only introduces a starting point for discussing this paradox, but also usefully supplements and clarifies existing discussions on the paradoxical emotions we feel towards fictions. I argue that if we wish to solve the paradox of actions towards (interactive) fiction, we should treat it in close conjunction with the traditional paradox of emotional responses to fiction.
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Van De Mosselaer, Nele. "Imaginative Desires and Interactive Fiction: On Wanting to Shoot Fictional Zombies." British Journal of Aesthetics 60, no. 3 (December 9, 2019): 241–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayz049.

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Abstract What do players of videogames mean when they say they want to shoot zombies? Surely they know that the zombies are not real, and that they cannot really shoot them, but only control a fictional character who does so. Some philosophers of fiction argue that we need the concept of imaginative desires (or ‘i-desires’) to explain situations in which people feel desires towards fictional characters or desires that motivate pretend actions. Others claim that we can explain these situations without complicating human psychology with a novel mental state. Within their debates, however, these scholars exclusively focus on non-interactive fictions and children’s games of make-believe. In this paper, I argue that our experience of immersive, interactive fictions like videogames gives us cause to reappraise the concept of imaginative desires. Moreover, I describe how i-desires are a useful conceptual tool within videogame development and can shed new light on apparently immoral in-game actions.
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Aldama, Frederick Luis. "Introduction to Focus: YA Fiction, The Vital Pulse of Today’s Fiction." American Book Review 41, no. 6 (2020): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2020.0110.

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Mahlberg, Michaela, Viola Wiegand, Peter Stockwell, and Anthony Hennessey. "Speech-bundles in the 19th-century English novel." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 28, no. 4 (November 2019): 326–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947019886754.

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We propose a lexico-grammatical approach to speech in fiction based on the centrality of ‘fictional speech-bundles’ as the key element of fictional talk. To identify fictional speech-bundles, we use three corpora of 19th-century fiction that are available through the corpus stylistic web application CLiC (Corpus Linguistics in Context). We focus on the ‘quotes’ subsets of the corpora, i.e. text within quotation marks, which is mostly equivalent to direct speech. These quotes subsets are compared across the fiction corpora and with the spoken component of the British National Corpus 1994. The comparisons illustrate how fictional speech-bundles can be described on a continuum from lexical bundles in real spoken language to repeated sequences of words that are specific to individual fictional characters. Typical functions of fictional speech-bundles are the description of interactions and interpersonal relationships of fictional characters. While our approach crucially depends on an innovative corpus linguistic methodology, it also draws on theoretical insights into spoken grammar and characterisation in fiction in order to question traditional notions of realism and authenticity in fictional speech.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fiction Focus"

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Milne, Patricia A., and n/a. "Australian reviewers of children's books: an empirical report." University of Canberra. Library & Information Sciences, 1990. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060410.150051.

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This thesis reports on a study which developed a profile of the reviewers of children's books in Australia. It then compared the profile with one which was developed by Kathleen Craver in 1984 of children's book reviewers in the United States. Five research questions were addressed by this study relating to reviewers and their opinions regarding review aspects, reviewer roles and review practices within the framework of their personal and professional background. Craver surveyed the reviewers from School Library journal because as a group, they provided the greatest potential for statistical significance of all the reviewing journals in the United States. As no Australian journal enjoys either the number of reviewers or the circulation of School Library journal, reviewers from eight journals which are most used by teacher and children's librarians were selected to form the population for this research. These journals are Fiction Focus, LINES, Magpies, Reading Time, Reviewpoin t, Review Bulletin, Scan and Tasmanian Resources Review. The reviewer profile which emerged from this study was very similar to Craver's in that it was not one which could be entirely defined in terms of group characteristics. Selected cross tabulations either with the particular journals, demographic details, or other variables, particularly those relating to reviewer experience failed to produce predictable behaviourial correlations. However, reviewers were united on certain issues which can be attributed to their own professional background.
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Nilsson, Julia. "Författaren, läsaren och texten : En undersökning av deltagarkulturen i två fanfic-berättelser med fokus på interaktionen mellan författare och läsare." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för svenska och litteratur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-114110.

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I denna uppsats undersöks hur deltagarkulturen ser ut på gräsrotsnivå, hos de som skriver och läser fan fiction. Utifrån två fan fic-berättelser undersöks interaktionen mellan författare och läsare. Eftersom forskningen inom fan fiction och deltagarkulturer belyser möjligheten till lärande undersöks hur och om konsumenternas produktion på denna nivå främjar lärandet i skapandet av fan fiction. En intressant aspekt när det gäller deltagarkulturen är hur gränsen mellan producent och konsument blir diffus. Kan man, utifrån undersökningen utläsa om gränsen mellan dessa, producent och konsument – författare och läsare – upplöses? Frågeställningar för undersökningen är: Hur interagerar läsarna och författarna med varandra? På vilka sätt engagerar sig läsarna i berättelsen och dess utveckling? Hur förhåller de sig till författarens tolkning och hur ser de/använder de sin roll som läsare? På vilka/vilket sätt uppmanar och/eller uppmuntrar författarna kommentarer och respons från sina läsare? Hur hanterar de kommentarerna? I vilken utsträckning framträder en informell lärmiljö på communityt? Hur ser den ut och kännetecknas den av deltagarkulturen?
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Isaksson, Anna. "Eleven i fokus : En studie över gymnasieelevers läsning." Thesis, Jönköping University, School of Education and Communication, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-1041.

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The aim of this study is to find out what education in literature is like from a student perspective; what kind of literature the students read and how well they understand literature, and the methods and didactics used during the literature lessons. The questions at issue are:

1) What kind of literature do the students read?

2) How well do the students understand literary texts?

3) What do the students think about their literature education?

To be able to answer the questions, both quantitative and qualitative methods have been used in the study. The inquiry was accomplished on 29 students, 17 boys and 12 girls in the upper secondary school. The result showed, despite the limited amount of students, interesting facts. Firstly there were some differences between males and females and what kind of fiction girls and boys read. Both girls and boys read magazines and periodicals. The girls read more fiction about love than boys did. The boys rather liked to read books that are exciting and adventurous. The students also differ from one another in how much they liked to read. There were more girls than boys that liked to read a lot. The students, who didn’t like to read, stated that they had other interests or activities. They found it boring to read or had difficulties to find books that were interesting enough. Regardless sex, the students spent approximately 1 hour per week reading outside school, most of them at home before they go to sleep.

The school library plays an important role to stimulate the students to read and to find interesting books. The reading test showed that the students reading ability were good. The results have been analyzed in the light of different theories of reading and research studies. It pays attention to the importance of having focus on the student. It is not a talent to be able to read and write. It is something you can practise and develop doing your whole life. The results of the study also raised questions of importance regarding the cultural capital and canon.

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Larsson, Anders. "Tolkning av en serie, baserat på läsarens genrekunskap : En undersökning i serieskapande, med fokus på berättande." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för kommunikation och information, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-4672.

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Uppsatsen behandlar hur en läsares genrekunskap påverkar dennes tolkning av en serie. Som projektarbete har jag producerat en kortare episod på fyra sidor, ur en längre serie som jag själv skapat, inom genrerna science-fiction och action. I bakgrunden går jag igenom Scott McClouds syn på serier, Bordwell och Thompssons syn på genrer, samt viss bakgrund och förutsättningar för min series mytologi, berättande och estetiska uttryck. Jag har genomfört en kvalitativ studie där jag låtit fokusgrupper med olika förutsättningar vad gäller förkunskaper och bakgrundsinformation läsa och diskutera serien. För att skapa serie-episoden har jag studerat andra seriers layout, tecknarstil och berättande. Serien bygger på ett tydligt symbolspråk med förankring i verkligheten. De slutsatser jag kunnat dra av undersökningen är att mycket bakgrundsinformation hämmar nyfikenhet och spekulationsvilja och att en hög kunnighet kring de berörda genrerna leder till en modernare syn på könsroller.
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Tagesson, Stefanie. "It hurts so good : Normalitet och avvikelse med fokus på etnicitet och sexualitet i HBOs tv-serie True Blood." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Genusvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-63285.

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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur normalitet och avvikelse representeras i HBOs tv-serie True Blood. Fokus ligger på hur etnicitet och sexualitet representeras. Uppsatsen frågeställning är: Hur representeras normalitet och avvikelse, med fokus på etnicitet och sexualitet, i HBOs tv-serie True Blood?  Denna har operationaliserats genom ett egenkomponerat analysschema, innehållandes olika teman som utrönts genom författarens förkunskap om tv-serien och dess handling. Metoden består av ett analysschema som använts genom en semiologisk analys samt Stuart Halls representationsbegrepp. Analysens teoretiska ramverk är Michel Foucaults maktbegrepp och Gayle Rubins sexualitetscirkel. Uppsatsens utgångspunkt är inspirerad av Anna Höglunds tes om att vampyrberättelsen kan ses som ett tidsdokument om oss människor och hur vampyrberättelsen har använts för att skildra vår historia samt samtid. Uppsatsen har även ett sciencefictionperspektiv, vilket innebär i denna uppsats att vampyrkaraktären används för att porträttera samt synliggöra samhällsproblem. Då science fiction traditionellt brukar användas som samhällskritik lämpar sig detta perspektiv väl på vampyrberättelsen och True Blood.
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Ylipelkonen, Otto Iisakki. "Homosexuell och religiös? - diskursanalys av homosexuella mäns identitetsskapande i skönlitteratur med fokus på homosexualitet och religiositet." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Religionspsykologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295612.

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The aim of this study is to examine homosexual men’s identities, and focus on how they form their identities in fiction when it comes to being both homosexual and religious. In order to be able to approach and study this phenomenon, three research questions are used: how is identity constructed discursively when it comes to the combination of homo- sexuality and religiosity, what affects the formation of homosexual men’s religious/non- religious identity and how do homosexuality and religiosity affect one another in identity formation? The theory used in this study is discourse theory which includes the following concepts that have been chosen and used to analyze the material: antagonism, hegemonic interven- tion, hegemony, interpellation, subject position and the chain of equivalence. Together with these concepts and with template analysis style, a qualitative discourse analysis is made to categorize and analyze the findings made in the material. The material in this study consists of Jonas Gardell’s novel Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar, 1. Kärleken and Tony Kushner’s play script Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. The material was chosen because of the themes homosexuality and religiosity are includ- ed, and thus were eligible to be used in this study. Three religious groups are being touched upon in this study, namely Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism and Judaism. This study showed that the relationship between the identities homosexual and religious is mostly antagonistic in the material used in this study, but there was an exception in once case where the combination of these two identities seemed to be possible. The an- tagonistic relationship between these identities lead to a hegemonic intervention where the individual had to choose the one or the other of the identities in order to reach hegem- ony. In most cases homosexual and religious were not included in the same chain of equivalence, and seemed to rule each other out.
Syftet i denna studie var att göra en kvalitativ diskursanalys av homosexuella mäns identiteter och fokusera på relationen mellan identiteterna homosexuell och religiös hos homosexuella män i skönlitteratur. För att kunna närma sig och analysera detta fenomen formulerades tre frågor: hur konstrueras identitet diskursivt när det gäller kombinationen av homosexualitet och religiositet, vad påverkar formandet av homosexuella mäns religiös/icke-religiös identitet och hur påverkar homosexualitet och religiositet varandra i formandet av identitet? Den teori som används i denna studie är diskursteori som innehåller de följande begrepp som har valts och använts för att kunna analysera materialet: antagonism, hegemonisk intervention, hegemoni, interpellation, subjektsposition och ekviva- lenskedja. Dessa begrepp tillsammans med template analysis style användes för att kategorisera och göra en kvalitativ diskursanalys av materialet. Materialet i denna studie består av Jonas Gardells roman Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar, 1. Kärleken och Tony Kushners pjäsmanus Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Materialet valdes på grund av de gemensamma teman, homosexualitet och religiositet, som förekommer i båda verken. De tre religiösa grupper som förekommer i dessa verk är Jehovas vittnen, mormonism och judendom. Resultatet visar att relationen mellan identiteterna homosexuell och religiös mestadels är antagonistisk i det material som använts i studien, men det fanns ett undantag där kombinationen av dessa två identiteter var möjlig. Den antagonist- iska relationen mellan dessa två identiteter ledde till en hegemonisk intervention där individen var tvungen att välja den ena eller den andra av de två identiteterna för att kunna uppnå hegemoni. I majoriteten av fallen var inte homosexuell och religiös inkluderade i samma ekvivalenskedja, utan de utesluter snarare varandra.
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Touboul, Anaëlle. ""Histoires de fous". Approche de la folie dans le roman français du XXe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA123/document.

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Figure obsédante de l’imaginaire collectif, le fou a longtemps été chargé de significations qui le dépassent ; le mythe de la folie fait recette sur la scène littéraire mais les malades n’en sont que des figurants. Alors que le fou réel est maintenu dans les marges de la littérature comme de la société, le fantasme culturel de la folie est nourri et modelé au XIXe siècle par la littérature romantique ou fantastique et exalté au début du siècle suivant par les avant-gardes historiques. Un certain nombre de textes de romanciers du XXe siècle, parmi lesquels Georges Duhamel, André Baillon, Julien Green, Henry de Montherlant ou encore Alexandre Vialatte, mettent au contraire en œuvre un décentrement du regard littéraire de la folie vers le fou – du mythe à l’individu. Ce sont les modalités et les logiques de cette émancipation de la figure du fou et de son affirmation comme sujet – au sens de thème comme de subjectivité – autonome dans l’espace romanesque que ce travail s’applique à éclairer. Ces récits fictionnels qui font de la conscience aliénée à la fois le foyer et l’objet principal de la narration mettent en scène une folie presque familière, où l’idéalisation cède le pas à la représentation de troubles intimes et ordinaires, qui atteignent un personnage banal menant une existence modeste. Par leurs affinités sémantiques, syntaxiques et pragmatiques, ils forment un « sous-genre » romanesque, celui des "histoires de fous". L’enjeu de cette thèse est de déterminer le répertoire générique de ces romans tout en examinant la manière dont la folie interroge les moyens et les pouvoirs de la fiction romanesque. Il s’agit également de mettre au jour ce que la littérature nous aide à comprendre de cet impensable, envers de l’expérience partagée de la raison, et d’observer comment les romanciers contribuent à refléter tout autant qu’à remodeler les formes de cet objet social et culturel
Haunting our collective imagination, the madman has always been laden with symbolic significance. The myth of madness is abundantly present in literature, however those characters with an actual mental illness are ultimately overshadowed. While mental patients are pushed to the margins of literature, just as they are pushed to the outskirts of society, this particular cultural legend of madness develops during the nineteenth century in Romantic and fantastic literature and stays in the spotlight at the beginning of the following century through the avant-garde artists. In contrast to the aforementioned representation of madness, a number of novelists of the twentieth century, including Georges Duhamel, André Baillon, Julien Green, Henry de Montherlant or Alexandre Vialatte, brought on a literary shift away from “madness” towards “the madman” – from the myth to the individual. The focus of this piece of work is on the modality and logic leading to the emancipation of the figure of the madman and its affirmation as an autonomous subject – in every sense of the world – in the literary field. These fictional stories, where the alienated consciousness is both the focus and the main subject of the narrative, present the reader with an almost familiar madness. They don’t idealize insanity but provide representations of almost ordinary disorders, which affect a banal character living a modest life. Through their semantic, syntactic and pragmatic preferences, these stories form a fictional “sub-genre”, called “histoires de fous”. This research aims at determining the generic features of these novels and at considering the way madness questions the means and powers of fiction. Another purpose is to shed light on how literature helps us understand this inconceivable experience, which represents the other side of the commonly shared human experience of reason and logic, and to study how novelists help to reveal as well as reshape the characterization of this social and cultural topic
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Robitaille, Marie-Ève. "Les princesses n'existent pas ; : suivi de Le conflit narratif dans les textes de fiction." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/18982.

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Henriksson, Elin. "Mångkulturalitetens plats i skönlitteraturen idag : En ideologikritisk analys av "LasseMajas Detektivbyrå" med fokus på hur mångkulturen framställs och värderas." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-55065.

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Syftet med den här undersökningen är att undersöka vilka värderingar och attityder till det svenska samhällets månkulturalitet som speglas i skönlitteraturen idag, hur det kan påverka läsaren, samt hur det överrensstämmer med de värderingar kring ämnet som vår skola vill förmedla och föra vidare till sina elever. Det görs genom en ideologikritisk analys av det valda materialet som i detta fall utgörs av fyra böcker ur bokserien "LasseMajas Detektivbyrå" skrivna av författaren Martin Widmark. Analysen fokuserar på hur karaktärer med utländsk bakgrund framställs i böckerna. Resultaten av analysen visar att de förekommande karaktärerna med utländs bakgrund framställs som stereotypa i materialets alla böcker. Dock dras slutsatsen att det inte vilar en negativ värdering kring att de framställs på detta sätt, eller vårt mångkulturella samhälle som de representerar. Snarare försöker författaren uppmärksamma samt lyfta olikheter och visa hur de berikar vårt samhälle. Genom att hans böcker har ett enkelt språk samt ger extra stöd med hjälp av illustrationerna blir de lättillgängliga för en stor läsarkrets, vilket gör att han sprider dessa positiva värderingar kring mångkulturen till ett stort antal barn och ungdomar. Värderingarna som böckerna förmedlar stämmer bra överrens med skolans värdegrund och kan därigenom anses vara goda exempel på skönlitteratur att lyfta in i skolans verksamhet idag.
The aim of this report is to find out what kind of values and attitudes towards today’s multiculturalism that is being reflected in modern fiction. It will also try to find out how those values can affect the reader, and how they conform with the values on the subject which our school is advocating. To answer these questions, I am going to do an ideologically critical analysis of the chosen material. In this case, it consists of 4 books from the series of “LasseMajas Detektivbyrå” written by the author Martin Widmark. The analysis is focusing on the characters with foreign ethnicity and how they are portrayed in the books.  The result of the analysis shows that those characters are portrayed in a stereotypically way in all the books. Although we reach the conclusion that it is not done on purpose with negative values. The author is rather trying to make us pay attention to the multiculturalism from a positive point of view, and show how it can enrich our society. Due to the simplicity of the language and the illustrations as an extra support, his books become easily accessible for many children. This also helps spreading the positive values on to a large group of readers. The values which these books are communicating goes well in agreement with our school. Therefore, the books can be considered as good examples of fiction that can be used in today’s classroom.
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Shedlosky, Randi. "The Experience of Psychological Transportation: The Role of Cognitive Energy Exertion and Focus during Exposure to Narratives." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1287349750.

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Arthur, Miller. Focus. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.

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Arthur, Miller. Focus. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.

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Arthur, Miller. Focus. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 1997.

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Willson, Sarah. Hocus focus. New York: Kane Press, 2004.

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Brand, Fiona. Killer Focus. Toronto, Ontario: MIRA, 2007.

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Andrew, Arnold, and Frederick-Frost Alexis, eds. Hocus Focus. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2017.

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Quick, Amanda. Soft focus. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999.

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Quick, Amanda. Soft focus. Rockland, MA: Wheeler Pub., 2000.

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Quick, Amanda. Soft focus. New York: Jove Books, 2000.

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Soft focus. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999.

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Meiser, Peter, Zhanjie Xu, Gilbert Kirsch, and Claus Jacob. "Systemic Enzyme Therapy: Fact or Fiction? A Review with Focus on Bromelains, Proteolytic Enzymes from the Pineapple Plant." In Recent Advances in Redox Active Plant and Microbial Products, 449–67. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8953-0_18.

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Moolla, F. Fiona. "Romance as Epistemological Aesthetic in the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif." In ALT 35 Focus on Egypt, 72–88. Boydell and Brewer Limited, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781787442351.007.

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MOOLLA, F. FIONA. "Romance as Epistemological Aesthetic in the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif." In ALT 35: Focus on Egypt, 72–88. Boydell & Brewer, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc16j1j.10.

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Predelli, Stefano. "Reflex and Bone Structure." In Fictional Discourse, 110–31. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0007.

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This chapter covers some central topics related to narrative fiction, taking as its starting point the Radical Fictionalist focus on peripheral discourse and fictional telling. In particular, the chapter discusses certain features of allegedly inconsistent fictions and of storyworld importation, with particular attention to the theory in David Lewis’ ‘Truth in Fiction’ and to the case of postmodernist literature. The chapter also discusses some aspects of unreliable narratives, and it puts forth an analysis of alleged cases of importation by appealing to the closure of peripheral discourse. Finally, this chapter defends a Radical Fictionalist take on the distinction between nested and framed narratives.
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Currie, Gregory. "Fiction, mentalizing, and planning." In Imagining and Knowing, 112–24. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199656615.003.0008.

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Fiction has a remarkable degree of focus on the mind: the beliefs, desires, intentions, and feelings of its characters, and especially the ways their minds interact, understanding or misunderstanding one another, sharing feelings of intimacy, divided by conflicting desire, united in a common cause. This chapter focuses on the representation in fiction of the ways mental states interconnect and their consequences for action. Two works of ancient literature are picked out as puzzling in this regard: the Iliad and the Gilgamesh epic. It ends with a response to the idea that, on Darwinian grounds, fiction’s close connection to the imagination makes it likely that it is in some way a good source of knowledge. It is argued that there are a number of plausible accounts consistent with Darwinian ideas which are not supportive of the idea that fiction is a source of knowledge.
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Shackleford, Karen E., and Cynthia Vinney. "Story and Identity." In Finding Truth in Fiction, 151–81. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190643607.003.0006.

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This chapter explores the way fictional stories impact personal identity. It discusses how identity develops with a particular focus on adolescence. Then, it sheds light on how fiction contributes to identity construction as teens gain insight into things like careers, relationships, values, and beliefs through stories and how these insights can impact their choices for their futures. The chapter also looks at the way people’s emotional investments in their favorite stories can cause them to become extensions of themselves and how this may lead them to use these stories as symbols of who they are. Finally, it explores the topic of narrative identity—the internalized, constantly evolving life story each person tells of himself or herself—and how fiction influences and becomes incorporated into people’s life stories.
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Miller, Gavin. "Introduction." In Science Fiction and Psychology, 1–44. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620603.003.0007.

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For the purposes of this book, science fiction is defined broadly in the terms advanced by Darko Suvin, with a focus on the genre from the late nineteenth century onwards. Psychology is conceived as the modern Western discipline, running from the origins of experimental psychology in the late nineteenth century to the ascendance of neuroscience as a disciplinary rival in the late twentieth century. Five different functions for psychological discourses in science fiction are proposed. The didactic-futurological function educates the non-specialist through extrapolation of psychological technologies, teaching within the context of futurological forecasting. The utopian function anchors in historical possibility the imagining of a currently non-existent society, whether utopian or dystopian. The cognitive-estranging function defamiliarizes and denaturalizes social reality by extrapolating current social tendencies and/or construct unsettling fictional analogues of the reader’s world. The metafictional function self-consciously thematizes within narrative fiction the psychological origins, nature, and function of science fiction as a genre. The reflexive function addresses the construction of individuals and groups who have reflexively adopted the ‘truth’ of psychological knowledge.
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Norton, Jacqui. "The Diggers’ Festival, Organising a community festival with political connotations." In Focus On Festivals. Goodfellow Publishers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/978-1-910158-15-9-2631.

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This chapter examines the organisation of a community festival from an ethnographic perspective drawn from the festival organiser’s viewpoint. It will provide some context on the reasons for founding the Diggers’ Festival and examine key issues and difficulties surrounding the launch and development of a small festival that relates to historical political activities in the market town of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, UK. As we shall see, most current political festivals in the UK tend to be events launched to commemorate historical milestones that have a political resonance. The chapter will make specific reference to the festival’s funding, audiences and branding, concluding with recommendations on how to move the festival forward. During 2010 the author was asked by the Independent Socialists of Wellingborough (ISW) to organise an evening event to commemorate the 17th century radicals known as the Diggers. As an individual with socialist leanings, the author agreed to promote the first event, which was held during March 2011, and was launched and branded as the Wellingborough Diggers’ Festival. Even though it was in its infancy arguably only an evening event with two professional performers, Ian Saville, a magician who promotes himself as ‘Magic for Socialism’ (Saville, n.d.), and well-established local folk and Americana band The Old Speckled Men, booked, it was felt necessary to launch the festival name and the branding, with the aim being to produce a steady growth into the fourth or fifth years. It was essential to raise awareness of the identity and purpose of the festival amongst like-minded individuals, the local community and people from surrounding areas. The fourth festival grew from being organised solely by the author to having a committee of an additional five volunteers who coordinated an afternoon fringe event based in a town centre public house with three live music artists/bands, including punk/poet Attila the Stockbroker. A writer who had written historical fiction for teenagers, including one that takes its inspiration from Gerrard Winstan- ley and the Diggers, was invited as a guest speaker to present her work in the local library. The local museum hosted a week long display on the Diggers including a copy of the declaration and a copy of a field map dated 1838 identifying the location of the Bareshanks field (the site of the Wellingborough digger community). The programme for the evening event commenced with a local author Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Watchmen) as a key speaker, followed by performances by two professional live bands with ‘left’ tendencies. In addition to the general considerations of organising a festival, for instance audience, budget, funding, licensing, entertainment and promotion, coordinating a festival with such strong socialist values was going to be a challenge because of the political connotations.
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Gilmore, Jonathan. "Epistemology of Fiction and Rational Imagining." In Apt Imaginings, 134–54. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190096342.003.0006.

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Earlier chapters addressed whether the norms governing our emotions are invariant across fictional and real-world contexts. There the question of continuity was asked of an emotion as a whole. Here the focus is on the cognitive bases upon which emotions, and other affective attitudes, depend. Philosophers and psychologists have worked out a substantial picture of the kinds of normative constraints that are constitutive of epistemic rationality when applied to beliefs—what rational criteria govern a person’s formation, maintenance, transitions among, and relinquishing of her beliefs. This chapter asks whether the norms that govern the formation of our truth-apt representations of the real world apply invariantly to analogous (doxastic) imaginative representations of the world of a fiction. In short, is “make-belief” rational in the same sense as belief?
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Engelhardt, Nina. "Introduction: All that Counts – Modernism, Fiction, Mathematics." In Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics, 1–23. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474416238.003.0001.

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The introduction establishes the theoretical grounds for the analysis of mathematics and modernism and situates the book within the critical contexts of modernism and science studies and literature and science studies. It sets out the unique epistemological status of mathematics, key stages in its historical development, and charts the new territory that the book opens up by examining literary engagements with mathematics and modernism. With reference to texts and theories by Herbert Mehrtens, Jeremy Gray, Leo Corry and Moritz Epple, the introduction establishes the concept of modernist mathematics, the role of the so-called ‘foundational crisis of mathematics’, and competing logicist, formalist and intuitionist positions, particularly as represented by David Hilbert and L.E.J. Brower. The introduction also sets out how the issues at stake in mathematics feed into the modernist revaluation of rationality and Enlightenment values and echo the sense of crisis in other areas. A particular focus is on theories that reflect on mathematics as a human construct and deliberately created fiction, including texts by Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Cassirer, Oswald Spengler, Hans Vaihinger, Hartry Field and Alain Badiou.
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Spichko, Nataly. "Fiction in School Textbooks as Reflection on English Culture." In TSNI 2021 - Textbook: Focus on Students’ National Identity. Pensoft Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/ap.e4.e0894.

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Celi, Manuela. "Design driven practices for sharing the future: a focus on design fiction." In European Academy of Design Conference Proceedings 2015. Sheffield Hallam University, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7190/ead/2015/141.

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Mannarswamy, Sandya, and Shourya Roy. "Evolving AI from Research to Real Life – Some Challenges and Suggestions." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/717.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come a long way from the stages of being just scientific fiction or academic research curiosity to a point, where it is poised to impact human life significantly. AI driven applications such as autonomous vehicles, medical diagnostics, conversational agents etc. are becoming a reality. In this position paper, we argue that there are certain challenges AI still needs to overcome in its evolution from Research to Real Life. We outline some of these challenges and our suggestions to address them. We provide pointers to similar issues and their resolutions in disciplines such as psychology and medicine from which AI community can leverage the learning. More importantly, this paper is intended to focus the attention of AI research community on translating AI research efforts into real world deployments.
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Menezes, Pradeep L., Kishore, Satish V. Kailas, and Michael R. Lovell. "Influence of Alloying Element Addition on Friction and Transfer Layer Formation in Al-Mg System: Role of Surface Texture." In ASME/STLE 2009 International Joint Tribology Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ijtc2009-15196.

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In the present investigation, sliding experiments were conducted using pins made of pure Al, Al-4Mg alloy, Al-8Mg alloy, Mg-8Al alloy and pure Mg against steel plates of various surface textures using a pin-on-plate apparatus under both dry and lubricated conditions. The primary focus of the study was to investigate the influence of alloying elements on the coefficient of friction and transfer later formation in Al-Mg systems. The morphologies of the worn surfaces of the pins and the formation of transfer layer on the counter surfaces were observed using a scanning electron microscope. It was observed for a given surface texture that the alloying element addition decreased the average coefficient of fiction to lower values under both dry and lubricated conditions. For a given material pair, the coefficient of friction and formation of transfer layer depend on the surface texture of the hard surfaces.
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Papakonstantinou, Nikolaos, Douglas L. Van Bossuyt, Joonas Linnosmaa, Britta Hale, and Bryan O’Halloran. "Towards a Zero Trust Hybrid Security and Safety Risk Analysis Method." In ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2020-22380.

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Abstract Designing and improving the resilience of complex sociotechnical/cyber-physical systems is not a simple task. Interdependencies between engineering domains can lead to emerging behavior which is difficult to predict and handle. Early identification of safety and security weaknesses of a safety-critical system leads to reduced redesign costs in later design phases. The scientific contribution of this paper is a method for early combined safety and security assessment based on interdisciplinary dependency models of the system. The focus is on the factors contributing to the estimation of the probabilities of successful attacks to system components. The Zero Trust paradigm is applied, in which all humans part of, or external to, the system pose a security risk. The estimation of security-related probabilities enables a combined safety and security overall risk calculation for the probability of losing specific key components or safety functions. The calculation of the security-related probabilities is a dynamic and difficult process that heavily depends on the domain and current global security environment. The methodology of this paper is demonstrated with a fictional case study of a spent fuel pool cooling system. The results of the case study showed that the overall risk of losing one key system component doubled when combining security and safety compared to only assessing safety events.
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