Journal articles: 'Fiction subjects'

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Isto, Raino. "How Dumb Are Big Dumb Objects? OOO, Science Fiction, and Scale." Open Philosophy 2, no. 1 (October 30, 2019): 552–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2019-0039.

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AbstractThis article considers the potential intersections of object-oriented ontology and science fiction studies by focusing on a particular type of science-fictional artifact, the category of ‘Big Dumb Objects.’ Big Dumb Objects is a terminology used—often quite playfully—to describe things or structures that are simultaneously massive in size and enigmatic in purpose: they stretch the imagination through both the technical aspects of their construction and the obscurity of their purpose. First used to designate the subjects of several science fiction novels written in the 1970s, Big Dumb Objects (often called BDOs) have been understood in terms of science fiction’s enduring interest in the technological sublime and the transcendental. While object-oriented ontology has often turned to science fiction and weird fiction for inspiration in rethinking the possibilities inherent in things and their relations, it has not considered the implications of BDOs for a theory of the object more broadly. The goal of this article is to consider how extreme size and representations of scale in science fiction can help expand an understanding of the object along lines that are similar to those pursued by object-oriented ontology, especially Timothy Morton’s notion of hyperobjects.

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Hanson, Clare, Gerardine Meaney, Judith Still, and Michael Worton. "(Un)like Subjects: Women, Theory, Fiction." Modern Language Review 91, no. 3 (July 1996): 686. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3734101.

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Stelzriede, Danelle Dyckhoff. "Representing Spectral Subjects in Historical Crime Fiction." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 73, no. 3 (2017): 77–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arq.2017.0016.

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Kavut, İsmail Emre, and Elifnaz Olgaç. "The Technology of Fictional Space Designs in Dune Movies Investigation of Change in Time with Its Effect." Journal of Interior Design and Academy 3, no. 1 (July 19, 2023): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.53463/inda.20230166.

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Cinema has been advancing continuously since its formation and intertwined with many disciplines. Technology also acts as a bridge between these disciplines, especially between science fiction cinema and architecture, the place of technology is undeniable. In this study, the change of fictional space designs over time with the effect of technology is discussed and how these developments affect cinema and fictional space designs are examined as "Dune 1984" and "Dune 2021" produced from the same novel from science fiction cinema. The interior spaces and structures in these films were determined and the subjects to be discussed were selected and turned into tables. A literature search of the subject was made, then the films were watched first, lastly interpreted by the interpreter according to the method of the research. The aim of the study is to be a source for studies on the relationship between science fiction and fictional spaces and the change of this relationship in the environment of technology.

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de Oliveira, Pedro J. S. Vieira. "Design at the Earview: Decolonizing Speculative Design through Sonic Fiction." Design Issues 32, no. 2 (April 2016): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00381.

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This article discusses how Sonic Fiction—a concept developed by cultural theorist Kodwo Eshun—can be regarded as a cogent mechanism with which to develop Speculative and Critical Design (SCD) projects, using subjects of sound, music, and listening as their driving force. Through a dissection of the base premises of sonic fictions, this article aims to expand the perspectives taken so far by SCD projects in order to encompass languages other than those informed by the usual theories, as well as to broaden the spectrum of possibilities for sound-based practices within the field. In doing so, it suggests sonic fiction as a decolonial epistemology for assessing design questions.

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D. Leavitt, Jonathan, Arseny A. Ryazanov, and Nicholas J. S. Christenfeld. "Amazing but true." Scientific Study of Literature 4, no. 2 (December 31, 2014): 196–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.4.2.04lea.

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People find it important to know if a story is factual, but still the most popular stories, in such forms as books and movies, are fictional. Research suggests that a story being true may add value to the reader’s experience, but other findings suggest that fiction may increase enjoyment by providing fewer disruptions to narrative comprehension. In three studies we explored the appeal of stories when they are presented as fiction or as non-fiction. Subjects read (1) story synopses, (2) vignettes from two popular websites, or (3) narratives on relationships and war. Results indicate that readers preferred stories when they were presented, externally, as non-fiction. Readers also preferred stories that seemed internally — that is, because of how they were written — like fiction. Additionally the results suggested that readers rely more heavily on factual stories to update their notions of reality. This study contributes to a body of literature on reader enjoyment in relation to truth labels made explicit or implicit in narratives as well as on the efficacy of arts-based research.

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Duyfhuizen, Bernard. "Subjects without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 41, no. 2 (1995): 418–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0082.

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Martín, Oscar. "Love's Subjects: The Alhambra Ceilings, Sentimental Fiction and Allegory." Medieval Encounters 14, no. 2-3 (2008): 390–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006708x366317.

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AbstractThis article analyzes the way in which allegorical and narrative motifs work in the fourteenth-century Alhambra ceilings and in fifteenth-century Castilian sentimental fiction. It argues that while the Alhambra ceilings, based on courtly allegory, convey a dignified statement concerning the potential of allegory to structure a political lesson while at the same time registering cultural assimilation and social crisis, allegory in sentimental fiction is problematized from the outset, showing that the genre's evolution renders allegory ineffective to account for love's subjectivity as it was attached to an outmoded courtly subjectivity. In this way, the painted ceilings of the Alhambra can be interpreted as a stage in the use of allegory in courtly context in the Iberian Peninsula within a larger group of works that make use of similar codes.

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Parsons, Deborah, Tamar Katz, Clare Hanson, and Lucie Armitt. "Impressionist Subjects: Gender, Interiority, and Modern Fiction in England." Modern Language Review 97, no. 1 (January 2002): 179. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3735638.

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Janine Tobeck. "Discretionary Subjects: Decision and Participation in William Gibson’s Fiction." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 56, no. 2 (2010): 378–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1672.

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Dixon, Peter, Marisa Bortolussi, and Blaine Mullins. "Judging a book by its cover." Scientific Study of Literature 5, no. 1 (November 19, 2015): 23–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.5.1.02dix.

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In this experiment, we investigated whether book covers can signal sub-genre information to knowledgeable readers. Self-identified science-fiction fans and mystery fans sorted 80 randomly selected book covers from each of those genres into groups of their own devising. The sorts were used to identify similarity among books, and that similarity structure was used to measure similarity among subjects. Cluster analysis was then used to find groups of subjects who sorted similarly. Linear models were demonstrated that group membership was related to the knowledge subjects reported about the genres. This pattern of results supports the view that book covers constitute an implicit signaling system between publishers and experienced readers of a fictional genre.

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Albalawi, Mohammed. "The Gulf War in Saudi Fiction." Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 105, no. 4 (November 2022): 499–523. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/soundings.105.4.0499.

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Abstract There exists only limited scholarship on Saudi novelists as producers of war literature. Research into Saudi fiction has focused on the questions of its historical development, universality, women’s writing, and the reluctance of earlier writers to negotiate socio-political and psychological dimensions compared with the candidness and boldness of contemporary writers portraying these taboo subjects and daring to investigate unexplored regions of human consciousness. This article, however, diverges, using select novels to critique fictional treatment of the Gulf War by Saudi writers. Two prominent American war novels will be used as reference points through which to determine the similarities and differences between the Saudi war novel and its American counterpart. Putting Saudi novels that deal with the theme of war on a par with some American literature that has the same focus aims to uncover patterns of similarity and highlight differences. The goal is ultimately to show how Saudi fiction saw the war while establishing a war narrative that lends the story coherence and meaning.

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Khitaeva, Anastasia I. "Communicative Features of the Reading Process (Differential Psychological Analysis)." Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science], no. 4 (August 3, 2009): 63–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2009-0-4-63-68.

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Communicative features – “author — work of fiction — reader” is analyzed. The psychological typology of subjects of literary process and literary text, on the basis of the differential psychological approach is considered, process of reading from the point of view of psychotherapeutic and pedagogical potential of fiction works is analyzed.

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Mohseni, Hossein, and Kian Soheil. "Identity Knowledge and Identity of Posthuman Subjects in Cyberpunk Fiction." Critique of foreign language and literature 16, no. 22 (May 22, 2019): 77–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.29252/clls.16.22.77.

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Novak, Julia. "Lucia Boldrini, Autobiographies of Others: Historical Subjects and Literary Fiction." Comparative Critical Studies 14, no. 2-3 (October 2017): 383–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2017.0248.

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Levenson, Michael H. "Review of: Subjects Without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction." Modernism/modernity 3, no. 1 (1996): 157–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.1996.0021.

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YU, CHEN-WEI. "Power and its Mechanics in Children's Fiction: The Case of Roald Dahl." International Research in Children's Literature 1, no. 2 (December 2008): 155–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2008.0004.

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This article looks from a Foucauldian perspective at the exercise of power in children's fiction. Roald Dahl's novels are examined as the paradigmatic product of social discourses; and power operates through their circulation. It is argued that Dahl's narratives reflect the author's personal struggle against discourses, which construct both the author himself and his readers as subjects. The article then turns to some critical responses to the novels. It suggests that the author and critics further reprise the roles of fictional child and adult characters, in a constantly shifting dynamic of power relations.

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Merce, Gabriela-Emilia. "Liliana Corobcaʹs Novels “Un an în Paradis” and “Kinderland” in Critical Reading from a Thematic Perspective." Philologia, no. 2(320) (August 2023): 90–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.52505/1857-4300.2023.2(320).08.

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This article presents how the novels Un an în Paradis and Kinderland have been received by critics from a thematic perspective. Identity, memory, alienation, childhood are themes highlighted in the novels under review, which contribute to the representation of a real, believable world. Liliana Corobcaʹs prose is defined by narratively constructed worlds, worlds that expose taboo subjects, that illustrate limit-situations, that sustain a marginal identity. The author stands out in Romanian literature as a distinct voice, which surprises by the chosen themes, by the style of writing, by the constructed fictional worlds, which complement the known real world. She is a writer who looks for real events to expose fictionally. Her prose is the result of a interplay between fiction and non-fiction. The authenticity of her writing is sustained by the fictionalization of individual or collective memory.

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Mellen, Joan. "Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900––1934." Film Quarterly 61, no. 2 (2007): 10–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2007.61.2.10.

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ABSTRACT This review essay of a National Film Preservation Foundation archival DVD boxed set of fiction and non-fiction films from the Progressive era emphasizes the underlying optimism about the future that is discernible even in those films that treat harrowing subjects (such as social deprivation, violence, and industrial exploitation).

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Martínez-Otón, Laura, Cristina Rodríguez-Luque, and Mario Alcudia-Borreguero. "El reportaje de historias de vida como punto de partida de la radio dramatizada y el ´podcast´ de no ficción en el ecosistema digital. Estudio de caso. ´Sin mi identidad´ (Cadena COPE), ´Lo conocí en un Corpus´ (Podium Podcast) y ´Las tres muertes de mi padre´ (Cuonda)." INDEX COMUNICACION 9, no. 2 (June 30, 2019): 135–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.33732/ixc/09/02elrepo.

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In current digital ecosystem, sound is gaining prominence through new formats such as podcasting, born in the era of mobility. Formats that can share elements, characteristics, dynamics of work and consumption with other traditional radio formats, such as reports, docudramas or the radio soap opera. This article aims to analyze whether the strength of human reach storytelling is a common starting point in analogic reports and in fictional and non-fiction podcasts, both on audio platforms and on conventional radio. For this, three podcast are proposed as case study: ‘Sin mi identidad’ (2018, COPE network), ‘Lo conocí en un Corpus’ (2017, Podium Podcast) and ‘Las tres muertes de mi padre’ (2017, Cuonda). The methodology is classified as descriptive and qualitative and includes semi-structured interviews with key subjects in the process of the three spaces considered as objects of study. In the analyzed cases it can be stated that, although reports and fiction and nonfiction podcasts are different products, they share similarities of production, documentation and recording. Also, all have as starting point a real story, even when podcasts are fiction. Key words: Docudrama; Podcast; Radio; Digital Radio; Radio Drama; Radio Reports.

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Jeeva C and Velumani P. "Portrayal of Traditional Indian Womanhood in R.K. Narayan’s The Dark Room." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANITIES 2, no. 2 (October 30, 2015): 32–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/ijsth50.

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The Indo-Anglican literature is different from the Anglo-Indian literature. The former is the genre written and created by the Indians through the English language; the latter is written by the Englishmen on themes and subjects related to India. The Indo-Anglican fiction owes its origin to the translations of various fictional works from the Indian languages into English, notably from Bengali into English. The Indo-Anglican writers of fiction write with an eye and hope on the western readers. This influenced their choice of the subject matter. In Indo-Anglican novels there are Sadhus, Fakirs, Caves, Temples, Vedanta, Gandhi, Rajahs and Nawabs, etc. to are to show the interest of western audience. They represent essentially the western idea of India. But at the same time there are elements of Indianness, Nationalism and Patriotism, glorification of India’s past and sympathy for the teeming millions of the country.

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Idol-Maestas, Lorna. "Getting Ready to Read: Guided Probing for Poor Comprehenders." Learning Disability Quarterly 8, no. 4 (November 1985): 243–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1510587.

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An advance organizer, TELLS Fact or Fiction, was used to orient students to stories prior to reading them. The steps represented by the acronym were: (T) study story titles, (E) examine and skim pages for clues as to what stories were about, (L) look for important words, (L) look for hard words, (S) think about the story settings, and (Fact or Fiction) decide whether stories were factual or fictional. Teachers used the probing technique to guide 4 LD elementary students and 2 secondary students from general special education classes. Analysis of performance on comprehension questions showed that, in general, students' average performance on factual, sequential, and inferential questions improved when they used the technique. The two older students maintained acceptable performance on inferential questions when the technique was removed; the remainder of the subjects were unable to maintain their improved performance after teacher-guided assistance was removed.

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Goodstein, Joshua, and Deena Skolnick Weisberg. "What Belongs in a Fictional World?" Journal of Cognition and Culture 9, no. 1-2 (2009): 69–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853709x414647.

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AbstractHow do readers create representations of fictional worlds from texts? We hypothesize that readers use the real world as a starting point and investigate how much and which types of real-world information is imported into a given fictional world. We presented subjects (N=52) with three stories and asked them to judge whether real world facts held true in the story world. Subjects' responses indicated that they imported many facts into fiction, though what exactly is imported depends on two main variables: (1) the distance that a narrative world lies from reality and (2) the types of fact being imported. Facts that are true of the real world are more likely to be imported into worlds that are more similar to the real world, and facts that are more central to the representation of the real world are more likely to be imported overall. These results indicate that subjects make nuanced inferences when creating fictional worlds, basing their representations both on how different a story world is from the real world and on what they know to be causally central to the real world.

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Al-Alami, Suhair. "Fiction From a Critical Perspective." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11, no. 9 (September 1, 2021): 990–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1109.03.

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With English as a lingua franca in mind, it has become essential for undergraduate students to acquire the English language. Additionally, undergraduate students are expected to acquire a repertoire of critical thinking skills for lifelong learning. Inspired by the need to augment mastery of English as a foreign language (EFL) whilst at the same time enhancing critical thinking on the part of EFL learners, the research study this paper portrays was conducted for one academic semester involving a number of students at the institution where the author of this paper works. The research aimed to investigate whether using English novels; novellas; and short stories for teaching purposes would have any significant impacts on subjects’ attitudes towards using literary texts for enhancement of both critical thinking and EFL skills. To achieve the intended aim, the researcher used eight English short stories and one novella in class besides assigning one English novel as extensive reading, while teaching the course Communication Skills during the implementation stage. The researcher also administered a pre-post questionnaire with the aim of measuring subjects’ attitudes towards utilizing novels; novellas; and short stories as a means for fostering both critical thinking and EFL skills. Based on the statistical tests, there were significant differences in favor of the post questionnaire regarding the majority of the questionnaire’s items. Based on this study, it can be concluded that English novels; novellas; and short stories have a significant role to play in relation to developing critical thinking and EFL skills.

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Macheso, Wesley Paul. "Fiction as prosthesis: Reading the contemporary African queer short story." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 58, no. 2 (August 16, 2021): 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i2.8633.

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In this article, I read contemporary African queer fiction as a tool employed by writers to represent and rehumanise queer identities in Sub-Saharan African societies. In these societies, heteropatriarchal authorities strive to disable queer agency by dehumanising queer subjects. I argue that African queer identities, desires, and experiences are controlled and restricted under the heterosexual gaze, which strives to ensure that human sexuality benefits patriarchy, promoting heterosexual desire as ‘natural’ and authentically African and pathologising homosexuality. African writers then employ fiction as a means of rehumanising queer subjects in these disabling heteronormative societies to grant voice and agency to identities that have been multifariously subjugated and/or deliberately erased, and fiction acts as a type of prosthesis, a term I borrow from disability studies. Rewriting such lives in fiction does not only afford discursive spaces to queer identities, but also reconstructs the queer person as a human subject worth the dignity that they are often denied. In the article, I analyse a selection of six short stories from the collections Queer Africa 2: New Stories and Fairytales for Lost Children to demonstrate how these stories function as prosthesis for queer people in disabling societies.

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Al-Alami, Suhair Eyad Jamal. "Using colloquial language in prose fiction texts: An exploratory study." Research Journal in Advanced Humanities 5, no. 1 (January 9, 2024): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.58256/vmjf6m37.

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Prose fiction texts have an aesthetic function, which seeks to create a sense of aesthetic appreciation through means of language style amongst other devices. Bearing this in mind, it is the author’s belief that using colloquial language in a prose fiction text may negatively impact language style of the text and acquisition of the foreign language. Motivated by this conviction, this study addresses two main questions. First, how does use of colloquial language impact language style of a prose fiction text? Second, how does use of colloquial language impact language acquisition in relation to foreign and second English learners? For data gathering purposes, the author of this paper created and distributed a questionnaire comprising ten items. Including three groups: English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students; EFL university instructors; and adult readers, the questionnaire was addressed to a total of one hundred and sixty-six subjects in Dubai. Moreover, the researcher conducted a semi-structured interview involving six subjects. According to the statistical results, most of the respondents and interviewees believed that including colloquial language in prose fiction texts would negatively impact language style of the text and acquisition of the foreign language.

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Cody, Michael. "Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 42, no. 2 (October 1, 2016): 75–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/nathhawtrevi.42.2.0075.

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Moraru, Christian. "Subjects without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction (review)." Comparatist 19, no. 1 (1995): 149–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/com.1995.0017.

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O'Donnell, Patricio. "Microglia Activation in Subjects at Risk for Psychosis: Fact or Fiction?" Neuropsychopharmacology 42, no. 13 (August 17, 2017): 2472–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2017.179.

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Borbély, Carmen. "“Their Spidery Self”: On Webs of Subject-Object Empathy in Bernardine Evaristo’s Fiction." Caietele Echinox 41 (December 1, 2021): 281–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2021.41.22.

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Drawing on the theoretical premises of Anthropocene feminism, new materialist feminism and empathy studies, this paper represents an attempt to explore the mutually constitutive relations conjured in Bernardine Evaristo’s fiction between subjects and the object worlds they inhabit. Focusing on Lara (1997) and Girl, Woman, Other (2019) as examples of “fusion fiction,” the paper explores the ways in which a composite sense of agency is articulated between the human and the nonhuman, shaping what feminist thinkers from Rosi Braidotti to Jane Bennett envision as our posthuman horizons.

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Pandit, Dr Kamble Sanjay. "Chetanbhagat's One Indian Girl: A Depiction of Careerist Woman." Journal of Women Empowerment and Studies, no. 11 (September 25, 2021): 27–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jwes.11.27.31.

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Chetan Bhagat a very popular name among the modern age and new generation because of different style and subjects. Being well qualified man from IIT and IIM he could get the best job in corporate sector specially known as IT industry. In spite of his good educational background he chooses creative writing as his career and passion. He gave new dimension to Indian Writing in English because of his innovative themes and subjects handled in his creative fiction. His fictions have been transformed into movies. He explores cross cultural issues of marriage and career. He earned name and fame in very short period of time and that is the secret of his writing. He discusses the crucial issues of the present world. Almost all his novels are based on IT sector and that are labeled asCampus novels. LPG has brought many changes in the life of thousands of Indian

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Stepanova, Maria M., and Dmitry I. Troitsky. "Analysis of the Correlation between Translation Graduation Projects and the Market Demand." Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, no. 2 (2023): 334–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2023-28-2-334-346.

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Problem Statement. This study contains a statistical analysis of the translation market by translation type and domain and the distribution of translation student graduation project subjects. The purpose of this study is to improve the translation teaching quality through a better match between the graduation project subjects and the translation market demand. Materials and Methods. The authors reviewed the demand statistics for the Russian, EU, and US translation markets. We also collected a large database of translation graduation projects defended in Russian universities in 2018–2020. The series contains 245 projects. It covers 8 % of the relevant universities, which makes it representative with a 20 % confidence interval and 85 % confidence probability. The subjects of the graduation projects were divided into the following domains: audiovisual translation; theoretical linguistics; game and software localization; medical translation; research and technical translation; political journalism; advertising; interpretation; fiction; legal translation. Results and Discussion. It was found that the university-level translator training does not match the actual market demand. The maximum discrepancies were found in the following categories: “fiction” (21.66 % excess), “research and technical translation” (20.08 % deficiency), and “political journalism” (16.32 % excess). In addition, we analyzed the subjects of 138 graduation papers submitted to the Translator Creativity and Education International Contest in 2022. The lack of positive dynamics was found: the share of fiction reached 34.06% while the research and technical translation category reduced to just 11.59 %. Conclusions. The following corrective measures are proposed: harmonization of the graduation paper subjects with the market demand, engaging practicing translators as instructors, internships with LSPs, personalized learning paths, and interdepartmental projects.

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Ginszt, Katarzyna. "Incorporating Robots into Human Law - An Analysis of Robot Prototyping in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Alex Proyas’ I, Robot." New Horizons in English Studies 4 (September 4, 2020): 172–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/nh.2020.5.172-185.

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Science fiction narratives have not only influenced the way the majority of people imagine the future, but they have also shaped the general expectations for the technological development. This phenomenon has been called “science fiction prototyping” by Brian David Johnson. The prototype of a robot is created by science fiction works. Robots as artificially created entities are often presented as potential “members” of future society. Therefore, their legal status in imaginary reality is worth considering. The analysis of Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott and I, Robot (2004) by Alex Proyas juxtaposes features that, according to the legal tradition, are most often attributed to moral subjects of legal protection with human-like features of robots. The interdisciplinary approach adopted in this study involves applying legal reasoning to the study of science fiction.

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Rabkin, Eric S. "Science Fiction and the Future of Criticism." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (May 2004): 457–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20488.

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Science fiction, ranging from films to industrial design to world's fairs, is a cultural system no more confined to literature than love is to love letters. From its self-recognition in 1926, science fiction has involved commercial and social realities most obviously visible in fandom and the hundreds of annual science fiction conventions. This system includes many types of consumers and producers, even collaboratively self-correcting volunteer bibliographers. Collectively, science fiction fandom, the first organized fandom, has created vast informational resources that allow not only reference but also statistical inquiry. The Genre Evolution Project (http://www.umich.edu/~genreevo/) shows that these social structures and resources potentiate, in an age of widespread computer networking, the transformation of criticism from acts of isolated scholars working with narrowly defined subjects to collaborative projects drawing on human and informational resources across disciplinary boundaries. Science fiction points to a future in which criticism will be more systematic, collaborative, and quantitative.

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Simpson, Hyacinth M. "“Is all o’ we one?”: Creolization and ethnic identification in Samuel Selvon’s “Turning Christian”." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53, no. 1 (April 22, 2016): 169–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416635224.

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Samuel Selvon’s fiction reveals the author’s abiding concern with questions of identity and community and his investment in reconciling the seemingly conflicting subjects of creolization and ethnic identification in Caribbean societies, particularly in his native Trinidad. The pervasive and often violent ethnic conflict between Trinidadians of Indian and African heritage is linked to constructions of the nation in which claims to, as well as exclusion from, Creole identities play an important role. In response, Selvon’s fictional interventions position Indian communities (whether peasant, working- or middle-class) in relation to other ethno-racial groups in ways that construct Trinidadian-ness as an inclusive and dynamic negotiation of self and culture across the various communities represented in the nation. Drawing on Kamau Brathwaite’s seminal concept of creolization as well as the work of other theorists (including Mintz, Bolland, and Munasinghe) of Creole identities and the creolization process, the analysis of “Turning Christian” — a short story excerpted from Selvon’s unfinished novel — provides an account of Selvon’s identity politics in this and his other works of fiction.

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Nabutanyi, Edgar Fred. "Language, fiction, and heteropatriarchal critique in selected recent Ugandan short fiction." Sociolinguistic Studies 17, no. 1-3 (August 7, 2023): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.23998.

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There is an emerging Ugandan queer writing tradition that adopts an activist stance to imagine an alternative Ugandan queer subjecthood beyond popular and polarising perspectives of this subjectivity that were instantiated by the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014. This emerging archive of Ugandan writing, often deploying the short fiction genre, weaves intricate tales of queer Uganda that sidestep the censorship of an ostracised sexuality deemed sinful, dangerous, and unUgandan to claim the agency and humanity of Ugandan homosexuals. While this archive of Ugandan queer short fiction has attracted significant critical attention from scholars such as Edgar Fred Nabutanyi (2017, 2018), Ken Junior Lipenga (2014) and Ben de Souza (2020), who focus on the political activism of these texts in Ugandan sexuality debates, little critical attention has been paid to how writers deploy sociolinguistic tools to empower their characters to author their agency and life experiences as same-sex loving Ugandans. Using sociolinguistic discursive tools, I refer to a textuality that includes illocutionary techniques such as letter writing, dialogue, and stream of consciousness that subversively empower excluded and muted subjects to articulate their essence and humanity. Deploying textual analysis of selected short stories, their analyses, and Ugandan queer theoretical treatises, I read Monica Arac de Nyeko’s ‘Jambula tree’ (2006) Beatrice Lamwaka’s ‘Pillar of love’ (2016) and Anthea Paleo’s ‘Picture frame’ (2013) using a sociolinguistic lens to unveil how the selected writers’ subversion of patriarchal tropes of an amorous letter, an ideal heterosexual family, and a romantic date critique the ostracisation of a sexual orientation.

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Miranti, Ulfa, and Yohanis Franz La Kahija. "THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING A COSPLAYER: AN INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS APPROACH." Jurnal EMPATI 7, no. 1 (June 26, 2020): 106–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/empati.2018.20152.

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Cosplay is defined as the type of performing arts of an individual wearing a costume as a fictional character, usually from graphic novels, comics, anime media, cartoons, video games, or science fiction and fantasy. The method of data analysis that is used in this study is an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach. The procedure focuses on exploring the experiences, thoughts, and unique events the subject has through interviews. Subjects were selected based on following criteria: subject is a cosplayer that has been actively cosplaying for three years and has played more than five characters. The results of this study show three focus themes of character personification, self-transformation and impression for the sake of appreciation. Researchers found that whilst being a cosplayer, subjects are required to imitate the character not only in terms of visual representation but also the nature possessed by the character. Thus, this study is expected to be useful for a description of a participatory modern subculture, such as cosplay, and an understanding of people with an interest in fictional characters.

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Holovan, Taras. "The concept of fiction in Soroka’s «Crumbs»." Philological Review, no. 2 (December 10, 2022): 144–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.31499/2415-8828.2.2022.268668.

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In the article, we analyze the concept of fiction in the short story collection «Crumbs» (2019) by the Ukrainian writer Petro Soroka. In this book, the author directly speaks out about his vision of literature; in some tales, he makes digressions, comments on his writing practice and narration, and outlines his understanding of fiction. All these things create a balance between the author’s intentions and concrete texts. In a broad context, the book is a valuable source for researching short stories in modern Ukrainian literature, the nature of fiction in general, and the understanding of fictionality these days. Soroka considered «Crumbs» the pinnacle of his writing. But the book remains unnoticed. The relevance of the article is grounded on this. The aim of the article is to outline and identify the conception of fiction proposed in «Crumbs». For that, we solve two main tasks – analyzing the author’s reflections and tracing the realized and unrealized intentions in concrete works. The central thesis of Soroka is that literature should mirror life. He uses theological reasoning to explain the mirror reflection in fiction (because God creates human fates, he is the best artist, so the goal of literature is not to make-believe but to reflect what God intended). We interpret this thesis and conclude that the author eliminates the main components of fictionality – the make-believe and the filling with meaning. He finds some fictionality in the representation of characters, the depiction of the current time, and the mastery of retelling. But we state that all these fictional components have lost their status because, these days, they are the constituents of nonfictional genres or texts in nonfictional spheres. The only thing that remains when it comes to fiction is the genre. The author names his writings «short stories». So the fictionality of «Crumbs» is a consensus between author and reader about the genre of the book. It arises in a receptive context. Soroka’s short stories are like artifacts that occur because of rethinking subjects in an uncharacteristic, changed context. In this sense, they are contemporary art phenomena. These conclusions about «Crumbs» may become a basis for researching the other writings by Petro Soroka and the short stories of other Ukrainian writers.

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Kucich, John. "Imperial Subjects, Imperial Space: Rudyard Kipling's Fiction of the Native-Born (review)." Victorian Studies 46, no. 2 (2004): 362–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vic.2004.0092.

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Levine, Robert S. "Review: Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790-1861." Nineteenth-Century Literature 70, no. 1 (June 1, 2015): 153–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2015.70.1.153.

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Susan Neni Triani and Eti Sunarsih. "The Development of Teaching Materials Lecture of Fiction Based Tidayu Culture Integrated Mobile Learning." AKSIS: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 3, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 296–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/aksis.030207.

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This research based on students by difficulty in understanding analysis prose in lecture study prose fiction. Learning are now more led to the topic on local wisdom. West kalimantan constituting a province that has many tribes. Three large tribe living in west kalimantan, tionghua, dayak, and melayu. This study focused on tidayu folklore. So learning lecture study prose fiction developed into the development of material lecture prose fiction based tidayu culture integrated mobile learning. Problems in this research is how vaidty, practicality and effectivity whether the use of teaching lecture study prose fiction based tidayu culture integrated mobile learning in learning the prose fiction in STKIP singkawang. The research method used in this research is a research and Development (R&D) method of development with ADDIE research approach. The research period was held from March to July 2019 at the STKIP Singkawang. The test subjects in this study were students of the Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia study Program of semester III as many as 17 students. Results of the study showed that the teaching materials of prose fiction based Tidayu culture integrated mobile learning in the students of Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia program study STKIP Singkawang is valid, practical and effective in application on the learning process. Keywords: development, prose fiction, tidayu culture, mobile learning

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BABAEI, ABDOLRAZAGH, and AMIN TAADOLKHAH. "Portrayal of the American Culture through Metafiction." Journal of Education Culture and Society 4, no. 2 (January 7, 2020): 9–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20132.9.15.

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Kurt Vonnegut’s position that artists should be treasured as alarm systems and as biological agents of change comes most pertinent in his two great novels. The selected English novels of the past century – Cat’s Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) – connect the world of fiction to the harsh realities of the world via creative metafictional strategies, making literature an alarm coated with the comforting lies ofstorytelling. It is metafi ction that enables Vonnegut to create different understandings of historical events by writing a kind of literature that combines facts and fiction. Defi ned as a kind of narrative that “self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as artefact” metafiction stands against the duplicitous “suspension of disbelief” that is simply an imitation and interpretation of presumed realities. As a postmodern mode of writing it opts for an undisguised narration that undermines not only the author’s univocal control over fiction but also challenges the established understanding of the ideas. Multidimensional display of events and thoughts by Vonnegut works in direction of metafiction to give readers a self-conscious awareness of what they read. Hiroshima bombing in 1946 and the destruction of Dresden in Germany by allied forces in World War II are the subjects of the selected novels respectively. In them Vonnegut presents a creative account in the form of playful fictions. The study aims to investigate how the novelist portrayed human mentality of the American culture by telling self-referentialstories that focus on two historical events and some prevailing cultural problems.

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Tylets, V. G., and T. M. Krasnyanskaya. "Psychological Peculiarities of Safety Concepts in Fans of Science Fiction and Detectives." Experimental Psychology (Russia) 13, no. 3 (2020): 180–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2020130314.

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This research is devoted to studying the views of fans of detective and fantasy media products about security in general and about the security subject in particular. It has been suggested that the preference for media products of the fantasy and detective genres contributes to the specification of representations about the security subject. The study was carried out using the semantic differential method with the participation of 400 subjects aged 18 to 22 years. Highlighted significant differences in the structure of ideas about the subject of security among fans of detective fiction and fantasy fans: if from the point of view of the first behavior and actions of the subject security must be based on a realistic assessment of the situation of danger and actualize their own resources, the main qualities of the subject security from the standpoint of the latter are flexibility of thinking, the ability to change behavior, ability to communicate with people, while maintaining the confidentiality of the received information (factor “variability”, “privacy”, “openness”). Common to both groups of subjects are such qualities inherent in the subject of safety as originality of approach to solving a difficult or dangerous situation and energy, activity of actions (factors “novelty” and “activity”). The proposed projective method of evaluating the strategies of the subject’s actions in the conditions of threat, risk and stress expands the diagnostic and predictive capabilities of security psychology.

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Nocic, Vladimir, and Jasmina Nocic. "Modal logic and logic of fiction." Theoria, Beograd 56, no. 4 (2013): 47–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo1304047n.

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This paper analyzes the views of representative theoreticians of possible worlds semantics and possible worlds theory in an attempt to ascertain the degree and manner of interdisciplinary borrowing through focusing on possible worlds and individuals in those worlds. The paper first clarifies the general perceptions of possible worlds, perceptions in the field of modal restrictions, transworld identity, and identity over time, as presented in the works of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and Nicholas Rescher, the representative semanticists of possible worlds, and then ascertains the degree and manner of their adaptations in the theory proposed by Ljubomir Dolezel within literary theory. The conclusion is that the cooperation between the two disciplines stands on fertile ground but that it is necessary to perform more systematic adaptations due to different subjects of research and different objectives.

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Rasouli, Fereydoon, and Omid Ahmadi. "The Motivational Impact of Enhancing Reading Comprehension through Pictorial Fictions on the Involvement of Iranian EFL Students in Writing Activities." Cihan University-Erbil Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 82–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.24086/cuejhss.v5n1y2021.pp82-87.

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Determining the motivational impact of enhancing reading comprehension, through pictorial fictions, on the EFL students to involve them more in writing activities, is the prime purpose of the present study. The study took place in the Iranian Language Institute (ILI), the branch of Mahabad. Key English Test (KET) administrated to a hundred students to select the subjects of the present study. Finally, 60 male students were selected and randomly divided into the experimental and control groups. The experimental group received pictorial fictions as treatment, utilizing input reading comprehension enhancement through typographic elements, and direct and indirect feedback provided to them, while the control group received pictorial fiction texts without such inputs, then to collect the intended data, the "Academic Writing Motivation Questionnaire" (AWMQ) was administered to both groups separately in two stages of pre-tests and post-tests. The results showed that enhancing reading comprehension has a significant motivational impact on the writing engagement of Iranian EFL learners.

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Chernyshova, Svitlana. "The US migratory novel: toward the ideology of genre." Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Series "Philology", no. 92 (August 15, 2023): 51–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2227-1864-2023-92-07.

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This article focuses on the US migratory novel and the reasons it has been overlooked in literary scholarship. It is emphasized that the study of migration experience is important as it represents the worldview of historical subjects who, although they contributed a lot to the building of the New World, always existed on the margins of both real life and fiction. Literary scholars concentrated on the fictional images of colonizers, builders of a new world order, pioneers, farmers, cowboys, but not immigrants as such, although all these identities of American history were rooted in the migration experience, whether of their own or of their parents or grandparents. The aim of this article is to draw attention to the genre of the American migratory novel, which is underrepresented in literary criticism, and to identify the connection between migration literary discourse and the ideological regimes of specific historical periods. Nevertheless, migratory fiction serves as a powerful tool for negotiating narrow group representations within the larger receiving community. By depicting the experiences, challenges, and aspirations of migrants, it offers a platform to explore the complexities of cultural identity, displacement, and assimilation. Migratory fiction challenges the dominant narratives and stereotypes imposed upon migrant communities, seeking to humanize their stories and promote empathy and understanding among the receiving community. These narratives navigate the fine balance between preserving the unique cultural heritage of migrants and engaging with the broader context of their new surroundings. They challenge existing notions of national identity, fostering a more inclusive and diverse understanding of what it means to be American. A perspective for further research is the analysis of migration experience in literary writings and its correlation with developments in other fields of humanities. As migratory fiction expands our horizons, encouraging us to embrace and celebrate the multifaceted nature of diversity in all its forms.

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Pater, Jessica, Casey Fiesler, and Michael Zimmer. "No Humans Here." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, GROUP (January 14, 2022): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3492857.

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Many research communities routinely conduct activities that fall outside the bounds of traditional human subjects research, yet still frequently rely on the determinations of institutional review boards (IRBs) or similar regulatory bodies to scope ethical decision-making. Presented as a U.S. university-based fictional memo describing a post-hoc IRB review of a research study about social media and public health, this design fiction draws inspiration from current debates and uncertainties in the HCI and social computing communities around issues such as the use of public data, privacy, open science, and unintended consequences, in order to highlight the limitations of regulatory bodies as arbiters of ethics and the importance of forward-thinking ethical considerations from researchers and research communities.

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Brążkiewicz, Bartłomiej. "Sergey Arno’s Personal Comments on the Value of Literature and the Function of Literary Criticism Incorporated in His Works." Kultura Słowian Rocznik Komisji Kultury Słowian PAU 19 (December 22, 2023): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/25439561ksr.23.005.18982.

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On the one hand, Sergey Arno’s prose stands out due to its black humour, full of paradoxical thoughts and absurd imaginations, but on the other hand, it deals with the condition of literature, its function, value, and literary criticism (i.e. its assessment). Apart from addressing literary subjects, his works relatively often reveal autobiographical and self-referential elements. For this reason, it is possible to extract from Arno’s texts fragments investigating the value of literature and its assessment that can be identified with the author’s own position. This article is an attempt to reconstruct the writer’s views based on four of his works in prose: three fictional pieces and one non-fiction book.

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Pandit, Dr Kamble Sanjay. "Chetan Bhagat's One Indian Girl: A Depiction Of Careerist Woman." Journal of Language and Linguistics in Society, no. 12 (November 19, 2021): 12–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jlls.12.12.16.

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Chetan Bhagat a very popular name among the modern age and new generation because of different style and subjects. Being well qualified man from IIT and IIM he could get the best job in corporate sector specially known as IT industry. In spite of his good educational background he chooses creative writing as his career and passion. He gave new dimension to Indian Writing in English because of his innovative themes and subjects handled in his creative fiction. His fictions have been transformed into movies. He explores cross cultural issues of marriage and career. He earned name and fame in very short period of time and that is the secret of his writing. He discusses the crucial issues of the present world. Almost all his novels are based on IT sector and that are labeled as Campus novels. LPG has brought many changes in the life of thousands of Indian. Chetan Bhagat is and intellectual magician of creative writing. Who has given new dimension to Indian Writing in English? He one of the popular and new generation fiction writers of IT sector. He is known for his different style, themes and ideas. But he is famous for career and feminism. When the world was in modern age, India was in medieval. For Indians modernism mean to adopt new way of life and that is fashion. He is well qualified man from IT sector but he chooses to be creative writer. The present paper is an honest attempt to bring into notice of researcher and readers that Chetan Bhagat's One Indian Girl is skillful depiction of Careerist woman of present age.

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Sayers, David Selim. "SOCIOSEXUAL ROLES IN OTTOMAN PULP FICTION." International Journal of Middle East Studies 49, no. 2 (April 20, 2017): 215–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743817000022.

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AbstractThe sociosexual world of the premodern Middle East has been studied through a variety of sources ranging from legal documents to shadow theater. Most such sources are either prescriptive or transgressive: they uphold or subvert a normative framework, telling us more about the framework itself than about how it was inhabited by subjects in everyday life. This study introduces the Tıfli stories as a descriptive source that transcends the prescriptive–transgressive dichotomy. An Ottoman-Turkish genre of prose fiction produced at least from the 18th to the 20th century, the Tıfli stories were a protorealist form of “pulp fiction.” Where most sources sought to stabilize specific sociosexual roles, the Tıfli stories explored the ambiguities inherent in these roles. This study employs the Tıfli stories to interrogate understandings of the Ottoman sociosexual world that rely strongly on normative sources and to stage an approximation of how norms were negotiated in practice.

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