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Becnel, Kim, and Robin A. Moeller. "Graphic Novels in the School Library: Questions of Cataloging, Classification, and Arrangem." KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION 49, no. 5 (2022): 316–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2022-5-316.
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In recent years, many school librarians have been scrambling to build and expand their graphic novel collections to meet the large and growing demand for these materials. For the purposes of this study, the term graphic novels refers to volumes in which the content is provided through sequential art, including fiction, nonfiction, and biographical material. As the library field has not yet arrived at a set of best practices or guidelines for institutions working to classify and catalog graphic novels, this study seeks to record the ways in which school librarians are handling these materials as well as issues and questions at the forefront of their minds. A survey of school librarians in the United States revealed that almost all of them collect fiction and nonfiction graphic novels, while 67% collect manga. Most respondents indicated that they are partly or solely responsible for the cataloging and classification decisions made in their media centers. For classification purposes, most have elected to create separate graphic novel collections to house their fictional graphic novels. Some include nonfiction graphic novels in this section, while others create a nonfiction graphic novel collection nearby or shelve nonfiction graphic novels with other items that deal with similar subject matter. Many school librarians express uncertainty about how best to catalog and classify longer series, adapted classics, superhero stories, and the increasing number and variety of inventive titles that defy categorization. They also struggle with inconsistent vendor records and past practices and suffer from a lack of full confidence in their knowledge of how to best classify and catalog graphic novels so that they are both searchable in the library catalog and easily accessible on the shelves.
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McClanahan, Barbara J. "Experiencing Historical Fiction Graphic Novels to Teach Social Studies." Study & Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature 5, no. 2 (July 1, 2022): 95–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2376-5275.2022.5.2.95-119.
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A small study was conducted to determine how preservice teachers in a social studies methods class responded to reading an historical fiction graphic novel in an in-class literature circle followed by an authentication project. Role/task sheets, reading journals, and one-on-one interviews provided data. Analysis showed that all participants were successful at some level in navigating the unique aspects of the graphic novel and all felt the graphic novel experience could be successfully translated to their classrooms. Results also suggested that participants with prior experience with graphic novels appeared to have a more positive experience with the project.
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Adams, Krista L., Emily L. Zuccaro, and Jilliane R. Mccardle. "Fact or Fiction: Developing Graphic Novels for Science." Science Scope 44, no. 2 (November 2020): 54–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08872376.2020.12291374.
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Clark, J. Spencer. "Teaching Historical Agency: Explicitly Connecting Past and Present with Graphic Novels." Social Studies Research and Practice 9, no. 3 (November 1, 2014): 66–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-03-2014-b0005.
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The use of six non-fiction graphic novels to teach historical agency in a social studies methods course was examined in a critical action research study. Pre-service social studies teachers were asked to read one graphic novel and to discuss it with classmates, first in literature circles, then as a whole class. Data revealed graphic novels engaged pre-service teachers in thinking about historical agency, and helped them make connections between historical agency and their own agency. There were three overlapping ways pre-service teachers connected to historical agency in all six graphic novels: upbringing and personal experience, unpredictability of historical situations, and injustice. The findings highlight the value of graphic novels for teaching about historical agency in social studies courses because of their focus on historical agents’ positionality.
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Babaee, Ruzbeh. "Realities of Graphic Novels: An Interview with Frederick Aldama." International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies 5, no. 3 (July 31, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.5n.3p.1.
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The trend about producing and reading graphic novels has grown since the late twentieth century. These books with comic backgrounds seem to have a miraculous energy. They have been even appealing to unenthusiastic readers. They tempt people of different age groups, races and genders. They are also used for teaching ESL courses, e-learning activities, designing reality games, and teaching creative writing. If you talk to its followers, you may get the feedback that graphic novels can fulfil your demands and dreams from writing your assignments to taking you to the moon. Although many researchers have investigated the benefits of graphic novels, many faculties and librarians are still reluctant to include graphic novels in their curricula. Perhaps it is simply the attitude of many teachers and librarians that graphic novels look like a comic book, and simply are not “real” books. They have too few words, too many pictures, and lack quality to be seriously considered as literature. In the following, I, Ruzbeh Babaee, did an interview with Distinguished Professor Frederick Luis Aldama on realities of graphic novels.Aldama is a distinguished scholar and Professor of English at The Ohio State University, United States. In the departments of English and Spanish & Portuguese he is involved in teaching courses on US Latino and Latin American cultural phenomena, literature, film, music, video games, and comic books. He has founded and directed the White House Hispanic Bright Spot awarded LASER/Latino and Latin American Space for Enrichment Research. Professor Aldama won the Ohio Education Summit Award for Founding & Directing LASER in 2016. In April 2017, Aldama was awarded OSU’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and inducted into the Academy of Teaching. He is the author, co-author, and editor of 30 books, including his first book of fiction/graphic fiction, Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands.
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Wachsmann, Melanie. "Book Review: Top 250 LGBTQ Books for Teens." Reference & User Services Quarterly 55, no. 1 (September 25, 2015): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.55n1.70.
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This book should be required reading for anyone working with teens. Cart and Jenkins have compiled a list of LGBTQ-themed books comprising fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and professional resources. Both the fiction and graphic novel sections include codes to indicate whether the book’s themes include “homosexual visibility,” “gay assimilation,” and/or “queer consciousness.” Additional information about the meaning and use of these codes is presented in the appendix.
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Brzostek, Dariusz. "Przyszłość nauki, przyszłość uniwersytetu. Fantastycznonaukowe prognozy zaniku wiedzy naukowej." Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, no. 28 (February 17, 2017): 13–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pspsl.2016.28.1.
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The predictions of science fiction play an important part in the cultural landscape of contemporary western culture, being integral to the popular culture (novels, movies, TV series, graphic novels). Science fiction narratives predict the future of society, technology, culture but also – the science itself and a university as a scientific institution. The aim of this work is to shed light on the depiction of the future of science, knowledge, and university in the science fiction works, predicting the ineluctable societal collapse. The essay focuses on the use of the scientific discourse and scientific knowledge in the chosen science fiction narratives by Stanisław Lem, Walter M. Miller jr., John Brunner, and Paolo Bacigalupi.
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McNair, Jonda C., Alan R. Bailey, Lesley Colabucct, and Deanna Day. "Children’s Literature Reviews Great Books for Sharing and Reading with Children in Grades K–8." Language Arts 89, no. 5 (May 1, 2012): 342–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/la201219343.
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This review column features 14 unthemed children’s books written by authors from diverse racial groups. It also includes books from multiple genres, such as nonfiction, contemporary realistic fiction, alphabet books, graphic novels, etc.
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Gruner, Oliver. "Gutter politics: Graphic novels in the age of Trump." European Journal of American Culture 41, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): 167–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00070_1.
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This article explores the ways in which US graphic novels have responded to, narrated and politically framed the Trump presidency. Analysing a generically diverse range of texts from non-fiction to science fiction, I argue that comics artists were quick to mobilize the medium’s unique qualities in the service of ideological critique. The article offers a detailed account of how publications such as Sabrina (2018), The Hard Tomorrow (2019), LaGuardia (2019) and Welcome to the New World (2020) were developed, shaped and reshaped against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s election victory and presidential term. Through an assortment of formal and stylistic devices ‐ spatial and temporal jumps and juxtapositions afforded by panel arrangement, a weaving together of historical and contemporaneous iconography, the interplay of various textual cues and registers ‐ these graphic novels offered complex portrayals of the impact of Trump and ‘Trumpism’ on various individuals, groups and communities. In different ways, they evidence the medium’s ability to intervene in wider political discourse, construct challenging historical and speculative narratives and offer fresh, resonant engagements with pressing issues of the day.
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Spalding, Steven, and Nicholas Romine. "Views of the city in French sci-fi comics and graphic novels." Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 93–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00020_1.
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This article looks at important French comics and graphic novels from the small but highly influential tradition of French science fiction in order to assess their distinctive formal and narrative contributions to the genre. Taking cues from theoretical definitions of bandes dessinées formulated by Thierry Groenstein and Thierry Smolderen, it identifies specific ways two major works, Futuropolis and L’Incal, reshaped the narrative range and scope of French sci-fi comics and graphic novels and recast their artistic possibilities. We also draw comparisons to Valérian et Laureline. The ways in which cityscapes are depicted in each serve as the privileged focus for measuring the similarities and differences among these works, both ideologically and formalistically.
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Rouleau, Brian. "Childhood's Imperial Imagination: Edward Stratemeyer's Fiction Factory and the Valorization of American Empire." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7, no. 4 (October 2008): 479–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781400000876.
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Numerous studies have appeared in recent years that deal with the reasons and rationalizations that accompanied America's overseas acquisitions in 1898. This article uses juvenile series fiction to examine how the nation's youth—boys in particular—became targets of imperial boosterism. In the pages of adventure novels set against the backdrop of American interventions in the Caribbean and the Philippines, Edward Stratemeyer, the most successful author and publisher of youth series fiction, and other less well-known juvenile fiction producers offered sensationalistic dramas that advocated a racialist, expansionistic foreign policy. Stratemeyer and others offered American boys an imaginative space as participants in and future stewards of national triumph. Young readers, the article argues further, became active participants in their own politicization. An examination of the voluminous fan mail sent to series fiction authors by their juvenile admirers reveals boys' willingness, even eagerness, to participate in the ascendancy of the United States.
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Singh, Dr M. S. Xavier Pradheep. "Dissecting Graphic Fiction: A Study of the Hybrid Form of the 21st Century." Think India 22, no. 3 (September 19, 2019): 249–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i3.8189.
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“Comic art does possess the potential for the most serious and sophisticated literary and artistic expression, and we can only hope that future artists will bring the art form to full fruition” (176), prophesied Lawrence Abbott in 1986. It became true when Graphic Fiction emerged as a hybrid genre and entered into the academia. It is a meaningful interaction of words, image panels, and typography. They have a long history dating back to cave paintings and Egyptian hieroglyphics. Though there are “more genetic similarities between the comic book and the graphic novel” (Sardesai 28), Graphic Novel has a unique approach to plot, narration, and theme. This new genre combines visual and verbal rhetoric and thus offers a hybrid form of reading. The use of blank spaces between image panels provides “imaginative interactivity” (Tabachnick 25), as the reader tends to fill in these blanks, imagining a good deal of action. Text boxes, speech bubbles, and thought bubbles streamline the narration and create a sense of interactivity in a reader. This paper records the history of Graphic Novel and makes an anatomy of it. It also enlists recent Graphic novels and major techniques employed in them.
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Langbauer, Laurie. "Young America: Dime Novels and Juvenile Authorship." Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 4, no. 2 (2023): 101–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/zcyu5206.
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American dime novels, first published under that term in 1860, built on earlier movements in American literary traditions. Critics for over a century have recognised that this popular form emphasised the same sense of literary nationalism strongly at play in the nineteenth century when cultural pundits sought to define and assert a properly American character for so-called “serious” publications. This essay expands that understanding by directly grounding the dime novel within the tenets of the 1830s and 1840s Young America movement, as it formed around the New York circle of Evert Duyckinck. Recovering that heritage stresses how Americanness was intrinsically associated with youth, innovation, and promise. It recovers as well another movement behind the growth and popularity of the dime novel: the juvenile tradition of teenage writers that had flourished in Britain and America at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This tradition found a new form in popular fiction as young writers moved into the new markets of the dime industry. In addition to resituating the dime novel within the debate over what made literature American, augmenting literary history through an attention to the role of juvenile writing expands understandings of the changing definition of authorship. Wide-awake youth figured a new mode of authorship – not so much visionary and romantic as pragmatic, productive, capable.
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Wieczorkiewicz, Aleksandra. "Inspiration from Translation: The Golden Age of English-Language Children’s Literature and Its Impact on Polish Juvenile Fiction." Tekstualia 2, no. 65 (September 13, 2021): 69–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.2751.
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The article presents a cross-sectional view of the impact of the translations of English-language juvenile literature of the Golden Age on Polish literary production for young readers. This panorama of infl uences and reception modes is presented in three comparative close-ups, dealing with characters and recipients (English ‘girls’ novels’ and their Polish equivalents), literary convention (adventure novels), and fairytale quality, imagination, and fantasy (Polish literary works inspired by English classic fantasy books). The study shows that Golden Age children’s literature transferred into Polish by means of translation brought new trends, motifs, genres and themes to Polish juvenile literature, signifi cantly contributing to its development.
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Ram, Kishore. "Body as Revolt: The Myth of Nangeli, the Woman who Covered her Breast." Shanlax International Journal of English 9, no. 4 (September 1, 2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v9i4.4037.
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The paper deals with the myth of Nangeli, a Dalit woman who stood against the improper tax structures that prevailed in the Kingdom of Travancore in Kerala. The paper also talks about the question of gender equality and the way women claim for equal opportunity with men by going topfree. The paper discusses the portrayal of the Nangelimyth in various art forms like paintings, fiction, film and graphic novels.
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Smuga, Łukasz. "Entre la distopía y la heterotopía: espacios de la crisis en las novelas de Isaac Rosa." Studia Romanica Posnaniensia 49, no. 1 (March 15, 2022): 67–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/strop.2022.491.005.
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This paper analyses urban spaces of crisis in Isaac Rosa’s novels La mano invisible (2011), La habitación oscura (2013), and the graphic novel Aquí vivió. Historia de un desahucio (2016) by Cristina Bueno and Isaac Rosa. It explores the dystopian and realistic elements in Rosa’s fiction and proposes to read his works through the lens of Michel Foucault’s essay on other spaces. The article argues that the unusual, quasi-dystopian spaces are of a double nature, typical for heterotopias, and play a significant role in the manner in which Rosa depicts the consequences of the economic crisis in Spain at the beginning of the 21st century.aper analyses urban spaces of crisis in Isaac Rosa’s novels La mano invisible (2011), La habitación oscura (2013), and the graphic novel Aquí vivió. Historia de un desahucio (2016) by Cristina Bueno and Isaac Rosa. It explores the dystopian and realistic elements in Rosa’s fiction and proposes to read his works through the lens of Michel Foucault’s essay on other spaces. The article argues that the unusual, quasi-dystopian spaces are of a double nature, typical for heterotopias, and play a significant role in the manner in which Rosa depicts the consequences of the economic crisis in Spain at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Swami, Pragati, and Devendra Kumar Sharma. "Mapping the Story of Manga: Graphic Novels and the Cultural Boom in Japan and World." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 9, no. 3 (2024): 500–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.93.65.
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Manga are circulated in graphic novel format as printed Japanese comic books. They are famous Japanese graphic novels or comic books. A popular form of literature, read by people of different age groups. They certainly provide visual as well as linguistic examples of Japanese culture. They deal with a number of genres like fantasy, romance, supernatural, erotica, action, psychological, science fiction and many more to include. This paper deals with manga-culture, its evolution and, cultural and global aspects attached to it. It highlights the educational element associated with manga. It further discusses about the prospects of manga being a form of cross-cultural literature and, how influential it is not only in Japan but also worldwide.
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Novaković, Nikola. "To Laugh or to Cry? Ambiguity and Humour in Jason's Graphic Novels." Libri et liberi 11, no. 1 (September 23, 2022): 51–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.11.1.3.
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The paper offers a reading of Jason’s use of sparsity, seriousness, and reduction as a concealment of a technique that is based on multifaceted ambiguity involving the blending of genres, a playfully intertextual attitude, and surprising emotional depth of character and story. It discusses the connection between humour and visual, textual, and structural ambiguity in Jason’s works, as well as ambivalence in the reader’s response, illustrates Jason’s combination of incongruous genres and simultaneous employment of motifs from children’s literature and various genre movies (such as science fiction, crime thrillers, heist movies, and horrors), and explores Jason’s technique of subverting expectations of comic relief by withholding certain structural parts of a joke (typically a punchline) or inserting an unexpected element (such as psychological depth).
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Nykytchenko, Kateryna P., and Halyna V. Onyshchak. "TRANSLATION, MULTIMODALITY AND HORROR FICTION." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 2, no. 26/2 (December 26, 2023): 253–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.32342/2523-4463-2023-2-26/2-16.
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The paper outlines a framework for approaching the complexities of translating multimodal means in horror fiction. Nowadays, the horror genre is reaching its peak, becoming the most remarkable mass product in demand. It is sharply distinguished from other literary genres due to generating a morbid mood and heart-stopping suspense in the textual canvas. From this perspective, the research aims to identify multimodal means essential for creating suspense in King’s horror novels “Pet Sematary” (1983) and “Outsider” (2018) and determine the translation strategies used to render them into Ukrainian. In this regard, multimodal means stir fresh interest since they implicitly complement and clarify the information transmitted verbally. The research framework is designed with two primary objectives. Firstly, to disclose the phonic and graphic means utilized in recreating horror imagery in the TL text. Secondly, to examine the translation strategies employed in rendering the multimodal means into the TL. The principles of the comparative approach were chosen to identify the similarities and differences between translation strategies in the analyzed texts. The research methodology adopted in this study enables a comprehensive study of the multimodal means in the horror fiction genre, employing a meticulous approach that involves data collection, analysis, and interpretation through the lens of translation strategies, contextual and pragmatic analyses. The conducted research reveals the involvement of phonic and graphic means to influence the readership unconsciously. The frequency of phonic means depends on the context of their occurrence. Graphic means are represented by syngraphemic, supragraphemic, and topographemic elements. To render the sense of the SL adequately and meet the TL audience expectations, the translators of “Pet Sematary” and “Outsider” advocated semantic, grammatical, and pragmatic translation strategies. Synonymous and contextual substitution, loan, antonymous and descriptive translation, addition, and compression proved to be the dominant translation transformations. The in-depth analysis has shown that the translators faced multiple hindrances, making some errors in encoding polysemiotic signs. However, the TL version makes sense, undeniably affecting the reader and retaining the author’s communicative intent.
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Demina, Elena Anatolyevna. "Linguistic markers of represented speech in science fiction novels: a polyphonic approach." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, no. 4 (July 2021): 88–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.4-21.088.
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This paper aims to investigate the linguistic aspect of represented speech in the novel “The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury within the framework of M. Bakhtin’s concept of polyphony. The article provides a classification of linguistic signals of voices, determines their frequency, types of represented speech, the number of voices. The results of the study show that fragments with represented speech in the novel are few; as a rule, there are two voices in them. In other passages, despite the presence of several voices, the dialogical perspective is not expressed. Moreover, one linguistic marker can be simultaneously a lexical, syntactic and graphic signal; ideological markers creating a slight polyphonic effect. Syntactic means, being the most frequent ones, convey the perception of the character and form Bradbury’s special narration style.
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Rawska, Monika. "Pozdrowienia z Krakowa. "Belle Epoque" kontra "Tabu"." Panoptikum, no. 20 (December 17, 2018): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/pan.2018.20.09.
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Two series premiered in 2017: British-American Taboo and Polish Belle Epoque. The year is not the only similarity – based on the statements by Edward Miszczak, head of programming of the TVN channel, resemblance was sought and even intended. Similitude in the main character’s image as well as the starting point of the story lines proved to be misleading. A closer look at both shows reveals that the only feature that they have in common is their rootedness in popular (and vernacular) cultural traditions: in Taboo intentional and visible references to political fiction, film noir aesthetics, graphic novel and heist movie; in Belle Epoque (topical but also stylistic) resemblance to popular gutter circulation novels (dime novels) on Polish territory at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries.
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Katelyn Mathew. "How Young Adult Crime Fiction Influences and Reflects Modern Adolescents." Digital Literature Review 10, no. 1 (April 18, 2023): 108–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.10.1.108-119.
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When we read crime fiction, we oftentimes expect a cast dominated by adult characters. This is likely a result of decades’ worth of popular crime fiction narratives almost exclusively containing adult characters. The earliest literature in the mystery and crime genre that was targeted towards younger audiences contained teenage detectives and adult criminals because it allowed the younger audiences to read about powerful teenagers overthrowing adult authority while still only engaging in acceptable moral activities in an attempt to decrease or discourage juvenile delinquency. A newer trend among young adult crime fiction novels is the adolescent playing the part of the criminal in addition to the detective. Applying social cognitive theory explored in the study conducted by Black and Barnes to the roles of adolescents in Karen M. McManus’s young adult mystery novel One of Us Is Lying and its sequel One of Us Is Next, this paper will analyze the novels’ adolescent characters to show how adolescent characters in young adult crime fiction reflect their young audiences’ desires to subvert adult hierarchies while still displaying acceptable morals and how they possibly influence their sense of morality.
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Thornton, Jackie. "Sources: Putting the User First: 30 Strategies for Transforming Library Services." Reference & User Services Quarterly 54, no. 4 (June 19, 2015): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.54n4.76.
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Part of the ALA Readers' Advisory Series, The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Blends explores the dynamic world of books that combine characteristics of multiple genres. With more than fifteen years of experience in collection development and readers' advisory and her own website devoted to genre blending, author Megan McArdle has both the knowledge and the passion needed to tackle this amorphous topic. More than 420 different titles from adult fiction are listed, and some teen titles, graphic novels, films, and TV shows are also cited.
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Wang, Aiqing. "Attitudes Towards Corruption and Women in Children’s Literature and Detective Fiction: A Parallel between Zheng Yuanjie and Zijin Chen." Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa 15, no. 2 (November 10, 2021): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/ld.v15i2.112887.
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In this article, I explore male writers’ attitudes towards corruption and women in fairy tales and detective novels, by means of hermeneutically scrutinising works of Zheng Yuanjie, the illustrious ‘King of Fairy Tales’, as well as Zijin Chen, the ‘Chinese Keigo Higashino’. Anti-corruption is a prevalent and preponderant theme in both writers’ creation, yet their depictions of barbarous extrajudicial punishment for government officials’ misdeeds allude to karmic retribution and are prone to expatiation in graphic detail. Therefore, some of their fiction appertaining to anti-corruption can be regarded as ‘feel-good writing’ in essence. Furthermore, the writing of Zheng and Chen is sometimes featured by lack of feminist consciousness, in that a proportion of their works manifest gender stereotypes, which can also be attested in other male writers’ fairy tales and detective novels.
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Wilhelm, Jeffrey D. "CODA: Teaching Texts to Somebody! A Case for Interpretive Complexity." Voices from the Middle 22, no. 4 (May 1, 2015): 44–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/vm201527187.
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While the Common Core State Standards seem to encourage reading outside of regular classwork, their definition of “complex” texts seems to marginalize most of the texts students actually read, including graphic novels/animé and most genre fiction. The author argues that the measure of complexity should be on the interpretive work students do to understand the texts they read, not on the texts themselves. Rather, teachers should focus on answering three key questions when selecting student texts, including considerations of students’ interest, cognitive capacity, and other factors that motivate students to develop reading strategies.
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Howells, Coral Ann. "Atwood’s Reinventions: So Many Atwoods." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 17, no. 1 (May 26, 2020): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.17.1.15-28.
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In The Malahat Review (1977), Canadian critic Robert Fulford described Margaret Atwood as “endlessly Protean,” predicting “There are many more Atwoods to come.” Now at eighty, over forty years later, Atwood is an international literary celebrity with more than fifty books to her credit and translated into more than forty languages. This essay focuses on the later Atwood and her apparent reinvention since 2000, where we have seen a marked shift away from realistic fiction towards popular fiction genres, especially dystopias and graphic novels. Atwood has also become increasingly engaged with digital technology as creative writer and cultural critic. As this reading of her post-2000 fiction through her extensive back catalogue across five decades will show, these developments represent a new synthesis of her perennial social, ethical and environmental concerns, refigured through new narrative possibilities as she reaches out to an ever-widening readership, astutely recognising “the need for literary culture to keep up with the times.”
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Olive, Sarah. "Romeo and Juliet’s Gothic Space in YA Undead Fiction." Borrowers and Lenders The Journal of Shakespeare Appropriations 15, no. 1 (September 11, 2023): 23–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.18274/bl.v15i1.340.
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Many previous works have demonstrated that Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet offers gothic authors, directors, and other artists a hospitable topos. I extend this critical corpus to consider the way in which young adult (YA) undead novels—written by American women writers within a few years of each other in the early twenty-first century—understand the Capulet crypt as a gothic space. I use the term “undead” throughout since although the focus of this fiction is on vampires, some texts also include zombies and other revenants. The chosen novels belong to a moment of extreme popularity for Romeo and Juliet vampire fiction, the best-known example being Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga. The texts of Meyer, Claudia Gabel, Lori Handeland, and Stacey Jay include diverse elements from Romeo and Juliet, from fleeting quotations to sustained reworkings of characters and plot. I conclude that a shift away from the confining and distressing gothic space in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as the Capulet crypt to a more graphic containment in a variety of sarcophagi, or within Juliet’s body itself, is discernible in most of these retellings. This shift is explained with reference to the growth in populairt not just of female, but feminist, gothic and the turn to the body in literary criticism from the 1990s onwards. In this way, Romeo and Juliet can be understood as providing a hospitable topos for the twenty-first century feminisms of these authors and their young, predominantly female, readers.
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Sussman, Herbert. "INTRODUCTION." Victorian Literature and Culture 33, no. 1 (March 2005): 313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150305210860.
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WITH THESE ESSAYS, Victorian Literature and Culture begins a regular feature, “Victorians Live,” whose subject is how the Victorians still “live,” how they remain “live,” lively, alive. The focus is the intersection of the world of Victorian scholarship that the readers of VLC inhabit, with the larger world of representation. For, quite remarkably, in our globalized time, the Victorians remain “in”–from museum blockbusters to specialized exhibitions, from home decoration to popular fiction and graphic novels, from Masterpiece Theatre to Hollywood retellings of canonical novels. Rather than assuming an abyss between serious academic pursuits and the unserious non-academic world, Victorians Live seeks to chart the complex and ongoing dynamic wherein academic reinterpretations of the past, albeit in unexpected ways and with considerable time lags, shape the popular vision of the nineteenth century, and conversely, how contemporary social concerns as well as market demands on publishers and museums shape scholarship.
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Golub, Koraljka, Jenny Bergenmar, and Siska Humelsjö. "Searching for Swedish LGBTQI fiction: challenges and solutions." Journal of Documentation 78, no. 7 (October 14, 2022): 464–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-06-2022-0138.
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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the needs of potential end-users of a database dedicated to Swedish lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) literature (e.g. prose, poetry, drama, graphic novels/comics, and illustrated books), in order to inform the development of a database, search interface functionalities, and an LGBTQI thesaurus for fiction.Design/methodology/approachA web questionnaire was distributed in autumn 2021 to potential end-users. The questions covered people's reasons for reading LGBTQI fiction, ways of finding LGBTQI fiction, experience of searching for LGBTQI fiction, usual search elements applied, latest search for LGBTQI fiction, desired subjects to search for, and ideal search functionalities.FindingsThe 101 completed questionnaires showed that most respondents found relevant literature through social media or friends and that most obtained copies of literature from a library. Regarding desirable search functionalities, most respondents would like to see suggestions for related terms to support broader search results (i.e. higher recall). Many also wanted search support that would enable retrieving more specific results based on narrower terms when too many results are retrieved (i.e. higher precision). Over half would also appreciate the option to browse by hierarchically arranged subjects.Originality/valueThis study is the first to show how readers of LGBTQI fiction in Sweden search for and obtain relevant literature. The authors have identified end-user needs that can inform the development of a new database and a thesaurus dedicated to LGBTQI fiction.
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Ahmed, Rashad. "Reading the Visual: An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy." Journal of English Studies in Arabia Felix 3, no. 1 (March 11, 2024): 24–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.56540/jesaf.v3i1.92.
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This is a book review of the book, Reading the Visual: An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy by Frank Serafini. It is a 189-page book published in 2014 by Teachers College Press. It discusses the evolving concept of literacy in the age of multimodality. Organized into three parts and framed by a prologue and an epilogue, the book begins with an introduction that sets the stage for understanding the multimodal world and its relevance to educators. The first part lays a theoretical foundation for multimodality, guiding educators in their instructional approaches. The second part presents a practical framework for engaging with multimodal texts, highlighting the significance of picture books in literacy education and exploring how students can interact with various multimodal formats both as consumers and producers. The final part examines ten distinct types of multimodal ensembles, including diverse formats like picture books (postmodern, wordless, historical fiction, informational), illustrated novels, graphic novels, cartoons, comics, advertisements, news reports, films, and digital media. In the closure, a helpful glossary provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of multimodal configurations and visual meaning-making systems.
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Ann Abate, Michelle. "From Christian Conversion to Children’s Crusade: The Left Behind Series for Kids and the Changing Nature of Evangelical Juvenile Fiction." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 2, no. 1 (June 2010): 84–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse.2.1.84.
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This essay builds on the author’s previous work on the Left Behind novels for kids, arguing that while current socio-political conditions have certainly contributed to the success of the series, an earlier phenomenon informs its literary structure: the many novels and stories produced by the American Sunday School Union (ASSU). The numerous literary, cultural, religious, and historical details that connect ASSU fiction and the Left Behind: The Kids series demonstrate significant continuities in the projects of US evangelical Christianity over more than a century. The closing section discusses how the differences between the current crop of evangelical narratives and the historical ones are just as instructive as their similarities, for they demonstrate changing conceptions of children and childhood in the United States, and the place and purpose of religious-themed narratives for young readers on the eve of the new millennium and in the opening decade of the twenty-first century.
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Gabel, Aubrey. "Interview with Translator Edward Gauvin." European Comic Art 17, no. 1 (March 1, 2024): 91–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/eca.2024.170105.
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Abstract In this interview, award-winning translator and author Edward Gauvin reflects on his practice as a translator of over four hundred graphic novels, including works by major French comics artists, illustrators, and scriptwriters, such as Gébé, Marjane Satrapi, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Emmanuel Guibert, Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, Zeina Abirached, Christophe Blain, Philippe Druillet, Enki Bilal, Blutch, and so on. He discusses how he approaches the theoretical and practical problems he has encountered as a translator—from well-trodden topics like speech balloon fit to his dynamic understanding of genre fiction. He also offers an insider's perspective on translators’ (often precarious) position within the larger the comics industry and talks about his favourite translations, as well as his current and future projects.
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Stulov, Yu V. "Factual basis of Colson Whitehead’s novels." Philology and Culture, no. 3 (October 5, 2023): 182–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2023-73-3-182-188.
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Twice Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead bases the plot of his novels on various facts of American reality found in documents and newspaper publications. By juxtaposing fact and fiction, he transforms them to create a new reality, rooted in the events of real life but acquiring a universal or metaphorical character that could be seen even in his early works. In “John Henry Days” (2001) the writer makes use of the legend of the famous black laborer John Henry, its reflection in the folklore and everyday life of the American South and attempts to up-sell it in today’s USA with the help of social networks. In the novel “The Underground Railroad”, written after Whitehead’s archival research and his study of slave narratives of the mid-19th century, the document is woven into the artistic structure of the text by using authentic announcements about runaway slaves. The novel “The Nickel Boys” was written under the influence of the information about the horrible findings discovered on the grounds of the so-called Arthur Dozier School, established in early 20th century for juvenile delinquents, telling the story of two black boys who got there in the 1960s. The writer incessantly explores the impact of racism on American society and social injustice making use of a historical novel elements, of alternative history, neo-slave narratives and satire in his descriptions of the contemporary US media.
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Fisher, Rudolph, and Molly Anne Rothenberg. "Rudolph Fisher's Missing Story “The Shadow of White”: A Study in the Transformation of Race Consciousness." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 127, no. 3 (May 2012): 617–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2012.127.3.617.
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During the nine years of his writing career, rudolph fisher published two novels as well as fifteen short stories and won Crisis magazine's Amy Spingarn Prize for fiction. He also published two scientific articles and a much anthologized essay, while writing two plays, a revue (with Langston Hughes), and eight other stories unpublished in his time. Seven of the unpublished stories were collected after his death, but one simply disappeared. In May 1925 Fisher submitted his only copy of “The Shadow of White” to Survey Graphic at the invitation of its editor, Paul Kellogg, whom he had met at that year's Opportunity dinner. Thirteen months after the submission, Kellogg offered eighty dollars for the story and said he hoped to publish it in 1926–27. Yet the story never appeared.
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Riestra-Camacho, Rocío. "An Embodied Challenge to Femininity as Disciplinary Power in the Contemporary American Young Adult Sports Novels." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, no. 18 (April 15, 2019): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i18.295.
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The goal of this paper is to investigate the role of disciplinary power regimes of femininity in sporting institutions depicted in sports fiction. With a renewed interest in analyzing sports practices as specifically gendered, this paper addresses how contemporary narratives’ deeper address of the affective encounters of characters has reconfigured the sports literary panorama. As represented in Miranda Kenneally’s novel, Coming Up for Air (2017), friendship poses a challenge to the institutionalized, parental and gendered bodily vulnerability of sports. The analysis reveals how the adolescent body is manageable but can also contest, in direct questioning of the interests of authority. Enjoying friendship in sports, eventually, reveals paths towards more inclusive (bodily) practices in them. Finally, this paper speaks of the fact that juvenile fiction, traditionally considered an archive of negative influence on young readers’ behaviors, can exercise the opposite effect too. Article received: December 28, 2018; Article accepted: January 23, 2019; Published online: April 15, 2019; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Riestra-Camacho, Rocío. "An Embodied Challenge to Femininity as Disciplinary Power in the Contemporary American Young Adult Sports Novels." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 18 (2019): 65–77. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i18.295
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Bjork, Robert E. "The reception history of Beowulf." SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature. 25, no. 1 (September 29, 2020): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17811/selim.25.2020.1-19.
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This paper traces both the scholarly and popular reception of the Old English epic Beowulf from the publication of the first edition of the poem in 1815 to the most recent English novel based on it from 2019. Once the work was first made available to the scholarly community, numerous editions in various languages began to appear, the most recent being in English from 2008; once editions were published, Old English scholars around the world could translate the text into their native languages beginning with Danish in 1820. Translations, in their turn, made the poem available to a general audience, which responded to the poem through an array of media: music, art, poetry, prose fiction, plays, film, television, video games, comic books, and graphic novels. The enduring, widespread appeal of the poem remains great and universal.
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Svahn, Elin. "Looking sideways." STRIDON: Studies in Translation and Interpreting 3, no. 2 (November 30, 2023): 51–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/stridon.3.2.51-81.
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This article presents an overview of contemporary bibliomigrancy patterns of translated fiction from the province of Quebec to Sweden, between 2000 and 2020. Quebec and Sweden offer an interesting comparison, since French is considered a central language but the province of Quebec occupies a peripheral position in comparison with its Anglophone neighbours, whereas Swedish is considered a semi-peripheral language but Sweden occupies a central position in the Scandinavian subsystem. Drawing on theories on bibliomigrancy and polysystem, the article investigates 26 titles from the point of view of external translation history, focusing on the following questions: What was translated? When was it translated? Where was it translated? Who translated it? Why was it translated? The analysis shows that different genres, notably novels, picture books, and graphic novels, have been translated into Swedish during the investigated time frame, with different patterns regarding factors such as publication interval, translators, and translation subsidies. The increasing tendency of Quebecois titles appearing in Swedish follows the increasing trend of French as a source language in Sweden’s literary market, in contrast to the more even pace of translated literature into Swedish more generally. The results further suggest that a region’s language may have a more significant influence than its geopolitical position in the international market of translations.
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Knauf, Carl. "‘He Was Derek Raymond’: Revisiting the Factory Series, Black Novel, and the Beautiful Obscenity in I Was Dora Suarez." Crime Fiction Studies 4, no. 2 (September 2023): 243–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2023.0101.
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Through his Factory series and the ‘black novel’, Derek Raymond highlights that violence in crime fiction not only provides a shock factor, but parallels societal issues at the time of a work’s publication and serves as a vessel for philosophical thought. This paper explores Raymond’s background and writing style in an attempt to align his Factory series with the issues British society faced during the 1970s and 1980s, such as class wars, economic downturn, political power, and a rise in violence. Raymond’s work, specifically, included the design of the disturbing acts taken place in I Was Dora Suarez, the fourth instalment in the Factory series. A qualitative study was conducted to address the shock value of the criminal acts in I Was Dora Suarez, and whether or not the author went too far with his graphic descriptions and overpowered the message he was attempting to achieve through his black novels.
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Milton, John, and Rosemary Ruck. "Library use by patients in an English maximum security hospital." Psychiatrist 37, no. 6 (June 2013): 188–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.112.039420.
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Aims and methodScant clinical attention is usually paid to (a) forensic patients' reading interests or (b) the potential that library services may offer in providing information and therapy to patients. We undertook a cross-sectional service evaluation of patients' library attendance and use at Rampton high secure hospital in a 12-month period between July 2009 and June 2010.ResultsWe collected information for 326 patients across all 28 wards. Almost 79% used the library service in some way, 66% borrowing music, 67% borrowing books and some borrowing both. Factual books were borrowed more than fiction, with graphic novels, talking books and self-help books about mental disorder all proving popular.Clinical implicationsReading and library use should be considered by clinicians in terms of the positive impact of improving literacy to enhance wider recovery, in relation to the impact of illness and medication effects on reading ability and the potential for providing health-related messages, illness education and reading therapy.
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Nikolina, Natalia N. "Graphic Method of Stylization of Children’s Speech and Modeling a Child’s Perception of the World in Literary Fiction (a case study of the novels ‘Room’ by E. Donoghueand ‘All the Lost Things’ by M. Sacks)." Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология 14, no. 4 (2022): 106–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2073-6681-2022-4-106-114.
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The article discusses graphic techniques used in the speech of a child narrator in works of fiction intended for an adult audience. Imitation of a child narration in such works is a challenge for the author since the speech of a child character cannot fully correspond to the speech of a real child. Therefore, the child narrative in adult literature appears to be highly artificial and is perceived by the reader as a device. The analysis of scientific papers devoted to the speech of child characters shows that their speech is stylized as a child’s. Stylization implies that authors use a certain set of linguistic elements that correlate to the real characteristics of children’s speech, but at the same time can be artistically enhanced. Authors can stylize children’s speech at different language levels. The graphic way of stylizing children’s speech and modeling a child’s worldview is rarely distinguished and is called unconventional by some researchers. It can be used for expressing the intonation, marking new words and phenomena, communicating someone else’s words, etc. The article analyzes modern works in English where the narrators are children aged 5 and 7: Room (by Emma Donoghue, 2010) and All the Lost Things (by Michelle Sacks, 2019). In the chosen novels, the graphic way of stylizing children’s speech and thinking is used both as an independent and as an additional method. Independently, the graphic technique is used to mark words and phrases that are new, incomprehensible, difficult for the characters, words in another language, as well as someone else’s words in their speech. As an additional method, it is used to enhance other techniques and linguistic units that imitate children’s speech: personifications, onomatopoeic interjections, hyperbole.
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Oberyukhtina, M. V. "Speech portrayal of a PR officer as a means of artistic expression (based on the material of Christopher Buckley's novels)." Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology 28, no. 1 (April 13, 2022): 126–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.18287/2542-0445-2022-28-1-126-132.
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A lot of research is devoted to both the language of advertising and politics and a character`s image in the works of fiction, respectively. However, some issues related to the specificity of PR officers' work regarding public relations as a separate form of business different from advertising or marketing practices might require some clarification. In the present article the author concentrates, in particular, on the determination of types of stylistic means and other means of artistic expression in the speech of a particular character, as well as on the formation of speech portrayal of a specialist in the field of public relations. In addition, the article concerns itself with considering the functions of such specific linguistic and phraseological units, and stylistic, syntactic and graphic means that may be typical of the speech of the same character in several novels by Christopher Buckley. Using the material of such novels as No Way to Treat a First Lady and Thank You for Smoking, the author seeks to analyse Nick Naylors speech in order to see how consistently his speech portrayal is constructed in the two novels and to what extent his profession defines him as a person. As far as the theoretical background of the article is concerned, the author relies on and does research into the following issue: is it possible to challenge the research results stating the correspondence of a characters speech characteristics to his work environment and employment sphere? In addition, the author gives credit to the research of the Russian linguists for investigating philological aspects of advertising texts production and word play.
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Rouleau, Brian. "A Pint-Sized Public Sphere: Compensatory Colonialism in Literature by Elite Children During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 23, no. 1 (January 2024): 9–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781423000348.
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AbstractDuring the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, thousands of middle-class youths published their own amateur newspapers. These periodicals were printed using the so-called toy (or “novelty”) press, a portable tabletop device that helped democratize word processing. Children often used their presses to compose miniature novels and short stories. They then shared their prose with a national community of fellow juvenile writers collectively known as “Amateurdom.” Adolescent fiction explored an array of subjects, but the frontier, territorial expansion, and empire in the West became some of its particular fixations. All that imperial storytelling, however, possessed a rich subtext. Boys and girls, reacting to late-nineteenth-century changes in the lived experience of childhood, used their printing presses to challenge various constraints imposed upon them. But in so doing, they both perpetuated and reinforced a pernicious culture of settler colonialism that celebrated the subjugation of American Indians. Ultimately, the amateur publications of children remind us that fiction is not exclusively an adult enterprise. The creative output of young people provides important insight into an underexplored realm of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era’s literary world.
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May, John J. "Japanese and American Horror: A Comparative Study of Film, Fiction, Graphic Novels and Video Games. By KatarzynaMarak. McFarland & Company, 2015." Popular Culture Review 26, no. 1 (December 2015): 123–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2831-865x.2015.tb00664.x.
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Leleń, Halszka. "“A harper went here and there with his songs”: Modern Reworking of Northern Narrative Tradition in Vinland by George Mackay Brown." Tekstualia 1, no. 4 (January 1, 2018): 19–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.5149.
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Vinland, George Mackay Brown’s fourth novel, is critically categorised as very traditional historic fiction and it is often overlooked, with more attention granted to his other novels Magnus and Greenvoe, which are perceived as more innovative. While the discussed text does reveal the influence of older narrative motifs and techniques (such as the saga or epic traditions), they are there not for their own sake. They are combined with some experimental techniques of rendering perception and activating cognition which are used to comment on and to illustrate the role of storytelling in constituting and disseminating identity. Brown achieves this through experimenting with the experiential and intersubjective patterns of narration that engage the reader in the process of textual discovery. This projects a different reading style compared to the one provoked by the novel’s surface focus on juvenile adventure.
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Novikova, S. Yu. "Thomas Bernhard: a portrait of the artist in comics." Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies 8, no. 2 (June 30, 2023): 53–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.18522/2415-8852-2023-2-53-67.
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The article offers an analysis of graphic books based on the works of Thomas Bernhard (1931−1989), the classic of Austrian literature of the 20th century. The material for the study consists of graphic novels, graphic memoirs, and biographical books created by two Austrian artists − Nicholas Maler and Lucas Kummer. The techniques used by the creators in their work with the “hypotext” (G. Genette) − Bernhard's dramatic and narrative oeuvre: the play “The World-Fixer” (Der Weltverbesserer, 1978), the novel “Old Masters: A Comedy” (Alte Meister: Komödie, 1985), and the autobiographical novellas “An Indication of the Cause” (Die Ursache: Eine Andeutung, 1975), “The Cellar: An Escape” (Der Keller: Eine Entziehung, 1976), “Atem: Eine Entscheidung” (Breath: A Decision, 1978), and “In the Cold” (Die Kälte: Eine Isolation, 1981) – are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the methods of conveying the writer's poetics through artistic means, such as drawing techniques, color palette, panel composition, character stylization, and scenes. The selection of thematic complexes (theatricality and metatheatricality, the problem of truth and fiction, trauma, etc.) and the peculiarities of translating the writer's individual literary style (syntax, rhythm and rhetoric, etc.) are examined. The comparative analysis allows to identify similarities and differences in the ways of visualizing and interpreting the literary material, to reveal the diversity of visual solutions and approaches towards the artistic world of Thomas Bernhard. The research results enable a comprehensive understanding of the potential of comics as a means of conveying literary aesthetics and creating a unique visual space that complements and expands the textual dimension of literary works.
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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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Valentová, Kateřina, and Marc Macià Farré. "Giving a Voice to the Silenced Women of Francoist Spain." AUC STUDIA TERRITORIALIA 23, no. 1 (November 7, 2023): 11–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363231.2023.8.
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During the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship that followed, women were shielded from the public eye. Their predetermined social role was that of submissive and devoted wives to their husbands as well as homemakers and childcare providers. There are few artistic works that suggest otherwise. However, during the Civil War and after, many women were in fact politically active. They occupied important positions in the resistance and were present along with the men in the trenches. Spanish graphic novels have managed to create many works of fiction based on the Civil War, mainly drawing on (auto)biographical accounts. There are so many significant works dealing with the war and Francoist repression that they represent a genre of their own. Nevertheless, the authors of these works, as well as their main protagonists, are usually men. This is true despite the fact that after the war, during the four decades of the Franco dictatorship, many women suffered from political persecution. The aim of this article is to analyze the role of women outside the domestic space as it appears in selected graphic narratives set in the period of Franco’s regime. Given the extent of the regime’s repression, these works are frequently set in the prisons around Spain where female prisoners were incarcerated and tortured. The narratives we analyze are based on real testimonies from real victims. Their individual experiences are joined together in a collective whose voice has long been silenced until recently.
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Mazurkiewicz, Adam. "Kryminałki dla najmłodszych. O nurcie polskiej literatury kryminalnej adresowanej do dziecięco-młodzieżowego czytelnika po roku 1989. Rekonesans." Literatura i Kultura Popularna 23 (May 31, 2018): 121–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0867-7441.23.9.
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Crime stories for the youngest. About the current of Polish crime novels addressed to children and teenagers after 1989: ReconnaissanceLiterature intended for children and teenagers has got a specific character because of the specificity of the reader. What attracts our attention is first of all the didactic level of texts addressed to young concerning both age and literary knowledge readers and the instrumentalism, understood as a flow of particular information which aim is exerting a pedagogical influence. Therefore, the criminal intrigue is not in the centre of reader’s attention. It does, however, play an important role as the fiction mode, which enables genealogical instantiation of a particular text. This property draws the crime story for children and teenagers near to the novel of manner which is addressed to the juvenile reader; in this novel, the central theme point remains the closest setting of a protagonist, who is modelled on the assumed reader and his or her relationship with surroundings. The criminal thread is then fulfilling a function of a background which allows boosting the plot of the novel. However, reading texts for children and teenagers can be treated as an introduction to adult-oriented novels, especially when the reader has an opportunity to solve the mystery together with protagonists and outrun them in uncloaking the killer.
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Newman, Scott. "“Limitless Black Resonance”: The Grotesque Sonority of Dambudzo Marechera and Sony Labou Tansi." Comparative Literature 75, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 52–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10160641.
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Abstract This article examines the figuring of Black voices in literature, specifically addressing the grotesque sonority of Anglophone and Francophone African writing. The analysis focuses on the Zimbabwean Dambudzo Marechera’s stuttered speech in the semi-autobiographical short fiction The House of Hunger (1978) and the Congolese Sony Labou Tansi’s tropical sounds in the dictator novels La vie et demie (1979) and Les septs solitudes de Lorsa Lopez (1985). The article argues that the authors reprise colonial misconceptions of Africa as a noisy continent and parody racist mishearings of Black voices as illegible or dissonant in order to establish a literal and conceptual proximity of voice to violence. Marechera and Sony Labou Tansi thus identify the truly grotesque brutality of colonialism, including its sounded modes of bodily regulation, racist accent policing, ableist speech norms, and inimical linguistic control. The authors reject notions of proper speech and beautiful sound altogether. Instead, they turn to screaming, stuttering, and other postlingual utterances to cast doubt on the governability of sounded language in both graphic and phonic iterations. The article contributes to postcolonial literary criticism and sound studies by revising approaches to orality in African writing and racialized sound in literature more broadly.
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Uma, T. "Childhood Experience - the Building Blocks of Life: A Psychoanalytical Study of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Fiction One Amazing Thing." Shanlax International Journal of English 8, no. 2 (March 1, 2020): 21–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v8i2.1810.
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Some people cannot love even their family members, while some seemingly normal people have few paradoxical qualities. Is there a connection between their strange behavior and their childhood experiences? What is the role of childhood in the character development of a person? The psychologists consider childhood experiences as the building blocks of a person’s personality. Freud believed that the child’s bond with the parents is the key to his/her psyche. Erikson divides a person’s life into eight stages of development. Every child faces a crisis or a challenge at each stage. The resolution of the crisis would lead to the acquisition of virtue, while failure caused maladaptive. Karen Horney also puts forth similar views. If the child’s basic need is not met, he/ she would either move towards people or move against or move away from people. This article examines the portrayal of children, their challenges, idiosyncrasies, and impact of their experiences on their psyche in the fiction One Amazing Thing, written by famous Indian American author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni from a psychoanalytical perspective. She has written a few children’s novels also. A master storyteller, she weaves reality, imagination, and psychology together and creates both adult and juvenile characters who are true to life.