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Journal articles on the topic "Fiction, portal fantasy, mystery"

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Văsieș, Alex. "Narrative Devices in Motion: From Genre Fiction to Mainstream Fictoin in Florin Chirculescu’s Prose." Caietele Echinox 43 (December 1, 2022): 216–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.14.

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This article explores the dynamics between Romanian genre fiction and mainstream fiction in the postcommunist period, trying to negotiate the instrumentalizations of narrative devices usually found in popular literature (be it fantasy, crime, or mystery fiction) in a novel that transcends normative genre boundaries. Thus, the text traces a specific way in which some Romanian writers (in this case Florin Chirculescu) have navigated the strenuous path brought by capitalism in the local literary scene.
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Błaszkiewicz, Bartłomiej. "On the Idea of the Secondary World in Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi." Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, no. 30/1 (September 1, 2021): 111–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.30.1.08.

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The paper seeks to explore the concept of the secondary world as developed in Susanna Clarke’s 2020 fantasy novel Piranesi. The analysis is conducted in the context of the evolution of the literary motif of fairy abduction between the classic medieval texts and its current incarnations in modern speculative fiction. The argument relates the unique secondary world model found in Clarke’s novel to the extensive intertextual relationship Piranesi has with the tradition of portal fantasy narratives, and discusses it in the context of the progressive cognitive internalisation of the perception of the fantastic which has taken place between the traditional medieval paradigm and contemporary fantasy fiction.
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Anisimova, Olga Vladimirovna. "Portrait of the writer: the peculiarities of literary technique of Roger Zelazny." Litera, no. 4 (April 2021): 145–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2021.4.35298.

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The subject of this research is the unique literary technique of the prominent American fantasy and science fiction writer Roger Zelazny, the author of the world-renowned novels, such as “The Chronicles of Amber”, “This Immortal”, "The Lord of Light”, etc. The article is dedicated namely to determination of the key peculiarities of the poetics of his works. Special attention is given to characterization of his literary path, its periodization, the impact of Zelazny's predecessors – the authors of science fiction and classical world literature – upon his prose. It is noted that R. Zelazny was fascinated with various mythological systems, such as Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Celtic, and Christian. The scientific novelty of this article lies in the attempt to reveal and systematize the most remarkable features of the works of the American fantasy and science fiction writer, whose impact upon the modern fantasy literature can hardly be overestimated; however it has been poorly studied within the Russian literary studies. The conducted analysis of the poetics Roger Zelazny’s iconic novels, created within the framework of the four main stages, indicates the use such postmodernist literary technique as intertextuality. The matter of R. Zelazny is also characterized by psychologism, interpreted as the author's attention to the meticulous reconstruction of the inner cosmos of the hero, which resembles the result of the writer's passion for the ideas of psychoanalysis. Along with the other representatives of the New Wave, Zelazny was prone to the experiment with forms, as well as to the synthesis of the various fantasy genres. Therefore, many of his novels demonstrate the fusion of science fiction, fantasy, space opera, mystery, and detective fiction.
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Dhanawade, Sanmati Vijay. ""In a Dry Season" - A Police Procedural Novel by Peter Robinson." World Journal of English Language 11, no. 1 (March 16, 2021): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v11n1p24.

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Genre fiction, also recognized as popular fiction is an umbrella term as it comprises various categories, varieties, and sub-types. On occasion, innovative writers have practiced in mingling these methods and generating an entirely dissimilar variety of categories. In general, genre fiction inclines to place plentiful significance on entertainment and, as a consequence, it leans towards to be more widespread with mass audiences. But currently, writers are lettering beyond mere meager amusement and they are commenting on various socio-cultural issues, resulting in their writing more realistic. Furthermore, various life real things and norms implied in their writing are constructing the entire genre form and all its types more noteworthy and vital. As accredited by literary jurisdiction following are some of the leading classifications as they are used in contemporary publication: Fantasy, Horror, Science fiction, Crime and Mystery Fiction etc. The kind Crime and Mystery Fiction also has various categories for example, Cozy, Hardboiled, The Inverted Detective Story, Police Procedural, etc. In the present paper, Canadian crime fiction writer Peter Robinson’s novel In a Dry Season is studied in the light of this police procedural type of novel writing. The paper aspires to discover various police procedural features employed by the writer.
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Nichols, Ryan, Justin Lynn, and Benjamin Grant Purzycki. "Toward a science of science fiction." Scientific Study of Literature 4, no. 1 (September 22, 2014): 25–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.4.1.02nic.

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What is a genre? What distinguishes a genre like science fiction from other genres? We convert texts to data and answer these questions by demonstrating a new method of quantitative literary analysis. We state and test directional hypotheses about contents of texts across the science fiction, mystery, and fantasy genres using psychometrically validated word categories from the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. We also recruit the work of traditional genre theorists in order to test humanists’ interpretations of genre. Since Darko Suvin’s theory is among the few testable definitions of science fiction given by literary scholars, we operationalize and test it. Our project works toward developing a model of science fiction, and introduces a new method for the interdisciplinary study of literature in which interpretations of literary scholars can be put to the test.
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Bimantara, Varidh, Rengga Asmara, and Nur Rasyid Mubtadai. "OPTIMASI MESIN PENCARI BUKU FIKSI BERDASARKAN PADA SEMANTIK IMPRESI." METHODIKA: Jurnal Teknik Informatika dan Sistem Informasi 51, no. 1 (March 10, 2019): 30–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.46880/mtk.v5i1.415.

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Fiction books are one of the most popular books in Indonesia. There are five most popular genres in fiction books, namely fantasy, mystery, romance, sci-fi, and thriller. Each genre gives a different impression and its own fans for the reader. It is common practice when people choose fiction books based on the title, author, or publisher of the book. However, this does not provide precise search results. In this final project, an application system was developed to find out fiction books based on the semantic impressions contained on the cover of the fiction book. The impression on each book cover is obtained through a survey of fiction book lovers in Indonesia. To get the results of the proximity between the user search and the impression survey data obtained through text mining, as well as the cosine similarity algorithm to calculate the most precise proximity value to the impression expected by the user. The results of this system display fiction books that have the most precise proximity value to the impression expected by the user.
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Asmara, Rengga, Nur Rasyid Mubtadai, and Varidh Bimantara. "OPTIMASI MESIN PENCARI BUKU FIKSI BERDASARKAN PADA SEMANTIK IMPRESI." METHOMIKA Jurnal Manajemen Informatika dan Komputerisasi Akuntansi 5, no. 1 (April 30, 2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.46880/jmika.vol5no1.pp1-8.

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Fiction books are one of the most popular types of books in Indonesia. There are five most popular genres in fiction books, namely fantasy, mystery, romance, sci-fi, and thriller. Each genre gives a different impression and special interest for readers. It has become a common habit when people choose a fiction book based on the title, author, or publisher of the book. However, it does not provide precise search results. In this final project, an application system was developed to find out fiction books based on semantic impressions on the cover of the fiction book. The impression on each book cover is obtained through a survey of fiction book lovers in Indonesia. To get the results of the closeness between the user search and the impression survey data obtained through text mining, as well as the cosine similarity algorithm to calculate the most precise proximity value to the impression the user expects. The results of this system display a fiction book that has a closeness value with an error rate of 3.93% based on the impression expected by the user.
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COULARDEAU, Jacques. "FREE-FALLING DESCENT INTO EPIPHANY OR APOCALYPSE STEPHEN KING – A FAIRY TALE." International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science 6, no. 11 (November 27, 2022): 5–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.26520/ijtps.2022.6.11.5-29.

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Stephen King has published more than 70 books, many of them adapted to the cinema and television, some original series with no published scenario, except Storm of the Century in 1999. His reach is a lot wider than plain horror. He systematically mixes the various genres of horror, fantasy, suspense, mystery, science fiction, etc. I will only consider his latest stand-alone novel with no co-author, and not part of a series like Gwendy’s Final Task, also published in 2022, co-authored with Richard Chizmar. I will show the style uses some patterns to build the architecture of the story, in this case, ternary structures at all levels of story and style. This ternary pattern is borrowed from the Bible and many fairy tales collected by the Grimm Brothers. The ending brings up a problem: it locks up the two deep and deeper levels with a concrete slab, thus breaking the ternary topography. Is it meaningful about Stephen King’s fiction, or is it only suspending the situation in order to produce a sequel by reopening the passage under the concrete slab, or when Gogmagog manages to escape the deeper level and to invade the human world? That’s Stephen King’s mystery. His fiction is so popular and has been so much exploited on the various screens that we wonder if this multifarious fiction will survive the author, even with his two sons to promote and prolong the fame of his fiction when it becomes necessary.
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Osiyanova, Olga M., and Svetlana A. Cherasheva. "MAGIC AND MEANS OF ITS EXPRESSION IN LITERATURE OF FANTASY GENRE." Sovremennye issledovaniya sotsialnykh problem 14, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 336–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2022-14-2-336-352.

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Background. The relevance of the research topic is due to the growing popularity of the fantasy genre and the insufficient study of the issue of systematizing the means of expressing the magical in fiction. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to define the essence of the magical, to reveal its cognitive features and means of expression. Materials and methods. The practical material for the study was the texts of works of the fantasy genre fiction: Wolfhound by M. Semenova, The Mage of Midnight by D. Yemets, Temple of the Winds by T. Goodkind, The Chronicles of Amber by R. Zelazny, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling. The following methods of scientific research were used in the work: analysis of scientific literature, the method of continuous sampling, the descriptive method, comparative and statistical methods. Results. It is determined that the essence of the magical lies in the totality of the concepts of mysticism, fiction, magic, in the impact of supernatural forces on people, animals, nature, as well as on imaginary spirits and gods. Such cognitive features as invisibility for a person, mystery, close connection with faith and science were identified. The study revealed the means of expressing the magical, mainly lexical and stylistic level: linguistic markers, artistic detail. The identified means of expressing the magical are illustrated by examples from fantasy novels in Russian and English. Linguistic markers are represented by magical semiotics (magic agents, creatures and animals that have magic), and magical verbalics (processives). Artistic detail plays an indispensable role in various “magic” descriptions of magical artifacts, unusual animals, magical buildings and objects with unusual properties. Practical implications. The results of the study can be used in the further study of the magical, the means of its expression in other literary works of the fantasy genre, as well as in stylistics classes for students of the Foreign Philology training profile.
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Trofymenko, Anastasija. "Wizja portalu w twórczości z gatunku horror, dark fantasy i science fiction (na przykładach tekstów „Nigdziebądź” Neila Gaimana, „Nocny patrol” Siergieja Łukjanienki, „Nie oglądaj się i milcz” Maksyma Kidruka, „Solaris” Stanisława Lema)." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 54, no. 1 (July 15, 2022): 353–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.682.

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The article is devoted to the semantics of the portal image as an important component of fantasy and horror literature. The text focuses on the features of the representation of this artistic constant at the chronotype level, its changes resulting from the literary tradition and the author's individual intentions.The functions of the portal image in the artistic system of horror literary works were determined by the expression of space-time shifts and deformations in the artistic models of the world present in selected works and the combination of "real" and "unreal" chronotypes. In the article, particular attention is paid to the analysis of the organization of space-time characteristics of the author's images of the world, their correlation with the leading methods of psychological perception of extra-textual reality (top - bottom, mine - foreign). The portal's visions from selected works are presented in juxtaposition with the literary ideas of Stanisław Lem, preserved in the image of the planet Solaris.Because the functional component of the lead images is correlated with the portal constant, their integrity can be stated as determinants of genres such as: dark fantasy, horror and science fiction. The article is supplemented by a concise bibliography of thematic critical literary texts and source materials.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fiction, portal fantasy, mystery"

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Campbell, Nick. "Children's Neo-Romanticism : the archaeological imagination in British post-War children's fantasy." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Children’s-Neo-Romanticism(d8dd7f80-d6a7-4e02-a103-c627adc0fad1).html.

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The focus of this study is a trend in British children’s literature concerning the ancientness of British landscape, with what I argue is a Neo-Romantic sensibility. Neo-Romanticism is marked by highly subjective viewpoints on the countryside, and I argue that it illuminates our understanding of post-war children’s literature, particularly in what is often called its Second Golden Age. Through discussion of four generally overlooked authors, each of importance to this formative publishing era, I aim to explore certain aspects of the Second Golden Age children’s literature establishment. I argue that the trend I critique is characterised by ambiguity, defined by the imaginative practice entailed in the archaeological view.
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Chao, Sheila. "Desire and fantasy on-line : a sociological and psychoanalytical approach to the prosumption of Chinese Internet fiction." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/desire-and-fantasy-online-a-sociological-and-psychoanalytical-approach-to-the-prosumption-of-chinese-internet-fiction(5fcb583c-f4a0-4f71-97c8-35e3d6792197).html.

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This thesis deals with two topics: macro-structurally speaking, the evolving and dynamic new patterns of commercial publishing over the internet where agents and institutions of commercial publishing have been repositioned in the digital Chinese literary field; micro-structurally speaking, the textual analysis of internet fiction prosumed by authors and readers to realise the collective desire of Chinese prosumers (producers and consumers). Together the two topics contribute to the study of the socio-cultural phenomenon of internet fiction in the transnational Chinese on-line literary sphere, especially in China. The internet promotes prosumption behaviour because prosumers are offered more autonomy. This autonomy helps to generate desire in prosumers by incessantly prosuming highly similar texts to reflect a growing Chinese individualisation. A textual analysis of the prosumed literary commodities will be conducted in order to comprehend the collective desire of general prosumers on the internet resulting from the prosumers’ literary autonomy. The approach to analysing the texts – prosumed commodities as the consequence of literary autonomy – is through psychoanalysis, which I believe is best suited to illuminate desire dwelling in the depths of the human mind. The production rates and consumption rates of various fiction genres from long-term statistics which I have collected from Qidian, the largest internet literary portal website based in China, provide the thesis with a standard by which to determine what types of works of fiction are popularly prosumed. The psychoanalytical approach will be applied for a deeper interpretation of these works to establish the reason for their popularity. Whilst internet fiction is being popularly prosumed and prosumers communicate with each other on an individual basis to spell out their desire, they use internet fiction as a channel to reflect their socio-cultural context through various fiction genres. Hence, by analysing the prosumers’ desire, this thesis also strives by means of textual analysis to go beyond interpreting individual desire to examine a symbiosis between prosumers and their socio-cultural environment. The discussion of the new business model of prosumption and the textual analysis of prosumed fiction are like the two sides of the same coin, where the new pattern of commercial publishing provides a mode in which Chinese prosumers are offered autonomy of production and consumption of literary commodities, whilst the prosumed literary commodities sustain the new pattern. Because of this reciprocal relationship, to research one without the other is likely to miss the whole picture of the socio-cultural phenomenon.
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Herzog, Harold R. "Criminalistic fantasy : imagining crime in Weimar Germany /." 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3000415.

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Books on the topic "Fiction, portal fantasy, mystery"

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Wiens, Amelia, and Laura Kohler, eds. Manipulator's War. Melbourne, Australia: Faraway Fiction Press, 2022.

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Myers, Bill. The portal. Nashville, Tenn: Tommy Nelson, 1991.

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Little, Jean. The Catswold Portal. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

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Aubert, Rosemary. Red mass: An Ellis Portal mystery. Lanham, Md: Bridge Works Pub. Co., 2005.

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Haber, Melissa Glenn. Beyond the dragon portal. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2005.

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Portal to Murder. Vancouver: Virtual Tales, 2009.

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Davenport, Jen, Megan Van Dyke, Laura Hazan, Melody Caraballo, and K. J. Harrowick. This Wicked Darkness (a Portal World Holiday Anthology). Portal World Publishing, 2021.

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Gabbie and the Magical Garden. United States: Leprechaun Publishing Inc., 2021.

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Wisher, James E. Portal Thieves. Sand Hill Publishing, 2022.

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Watkinson, R. B. Fractured Portal. Claret Press, 2019.

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Herbert, Rosemary. "Edward D. Hoch (1930–)." In Murder on Deck!, 210–24. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195086034.003.0016.

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Abstract Edward Dentinger Hoch has said, 1always have my ears and eyes open for story possibilities, especially looking for odd and unusual facts.” Hoch’s ability to see life in terms of story ideas has made him a rare bird indeed: a writer who makes his living largely from writing short fiction. His publication of nearly 800 short stories is especially remarkable considering that this was accomplished during four decades when magazine markets were folding. At a time when most other writers of crime, mystery, adventure, westerns, fantasy, and science fiction-all genres that Hoch has explored-turned to the more healthy paperback or hardcover novel markets, Hoch continued to pro duce short stories of reliable quality that gained him recognition as “the most important post-World War II writer of mystery and detective short stories” (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction, edited by Frank N. Magill). In fact, so steady is Hoch’s output that Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine has run a story by Hoch in every issue of the magazine from 1973 to the present. With the exception of two stories published in 1992, they were all newly written.
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Paver, Chloe E. M. "Uwe Johnson: Das Dritte Buch Über Achim." In Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-War German Novel, 20–47. Oxford University PressOxford, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198159650.003.0002.

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Abstract When his first novel, Ingrid Babendererde(published post humously in r 985), was rejected by East German publishers, Uwe Johnson moved to West Berlin to secure the publication of his second novel, Mutma Bungen über Jakob( r 9 59). In this novel the reader is invited to unravel the mystery of the central character’s death with the help of statements from witnesses, whose evidence sometimes conflicts. McHale would classify it as a typical modernist text because it employs both multiple perspectives (which are juxtaposed in such a way as to highlight the limitations of each character’s knowledge) and elements borrowed from detective fiction. Moreover, the complex form of MutmajJungenensures that problems associated with the accessibility and reliability of knowledge are passed on to the reader.
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Sweeney, David. "The OA and Genre." In The OA, 45–72. Liverpool University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859425.003.0005.

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Netflix categorises The OA generically as 'Sci Fi', 'Mystery', 'Thriller' and 'Drama' while IMDb classifies the series as 'Drama, Fantasy, Mystery', only partly intersecting with Netflix's categorisation. The OA is close, as is discussed, to the work of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. It recalls too Grant Morrison's Vertigo comic book series The Invisibles, itself influenced by Dick, which displays similar themes, and also the Wachowskis’ 1999 film The Matrix and its two sequels (2003), which in turn show an influence from Morrison. Like these works, The OA can be described as a gnostic text, that is, one which is concerned with the acquisition of spiritual knowledge which leads to an understanding of reality's true nature. This is an aspect of another Netflix series, Sense8 co-created by the Wachowskis with J. Michael Stracynski, whose Babylon 5 (1993-97) also contained gnostic themes and to which The OA is compared. First, however, the chapter addresses the mystery and SF elements of the series as well as those from another genre not identified in either Netflix's or IMDb's classification: that of horror. The chapter concludes with a consideration of The OA as part of the emergent ‘New Age’ genre.
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Jossa, Stefano. "Entertainment and Irony: The Orlando Furioso from Modern to Postmodern." In Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Culture, 286–307. British Academy, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266502.003.0015.

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Less popular than in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso has however made an impact on Anglo-American fiction. Loved by Samuel Beckett, who called risolino ariostesco (Ariosto’s smile) the poetic strategy of his preferred artists, and C. S. Lewis, who famously claimed that his utmost happiness would be to be always sitting by a window overlooking the sea, reading Ariosto’s masterpiece, Orlando Furioso proves more and more influential in contemporary fiction when it comes to epic modes, narrative techniques, fantasy and sci-fi: taken as a source of inspiration by both well-educated and popular writers and filmmakers, such as, among many others, David Lodge in Small World, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro in Ariosto and Jim Jarmusch in Mystery Train, Orlando Furioso proves in tune with two keywords of our contemporary age, irony and entertainment. This essay will explore his legacy in twentieth-century Anglo-American fiction in order to assess its potential in our times.
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Gautreau, Justin. "Soundproofing Scandal." In The Last Word, 68–99. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190944551.003.0004.

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This chapter argues that hard-boiled detective fiction provided disillusioned screenwriters with a platform to project a fantasy version of themselves and preserve what was left of their ego under studio employment. Where the screenwriter felt emasculated, creatively stunted, and expendable, the hard-boiled detective was characteristically tough, autonomous, and invaluable in taking care of the studio’s dirty work. Meanwhile, in their aim to disrupt the promotional façade of Hollywood, these writers found inspiration not only in the political limits of the screen but also in the industry’s ongoing efforts to regulate Hollywood as a place. A.C. and Carmen Edington’s novel The Studio Murder Mystery and Raoul Whitfield’s Death in a Bowl therefore created a critical lens through which to view the “real” Hollywood in the era of the talkies. These novels treat Hollywood Boulevard and the Hollywood Bowl as extensions of soundstages where stars perform their studio-mandated morals clause for an unsuspecting public. It is only by realizing that movie “magic” is no longer exclusive to studio lots that the detective can solve the mystery.
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