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Ilyas, Safa. "Psychological Effects of Sadaat Hasan Manto’s Fiction on Youth of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan." Media and Communication Review 1, no. 2 (December 26, 2021): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/mcr.12.06.
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This study aims to look at the idea that Manto straightforwardly expounded on man and woman’s intimate relationships. Reading fiction, dramatizations and books are similarly impacted personalities of the readers as visual screenplays, Manto's fiction engravings in all accessible mediums of print and electronic although quotes from his fictions likewise broadly tune in and share in online communities. This persistence of his work accessibility and appreciation touched the researcher to deal with his fiction to check its psychological effects on the youth of Lahore. This inquiry is strengthened by the reader-response theory to identify the youth perception and understandings about his fictions and Uses and Gratification for the resolutions and intentions of youth to escalate his work. The quantitative survey method utilized, and data collected with Purposive sampling, 500 respondents were chosen, the findings of the study showed, that Manto's fictions make anxiety and eroticism in youth along with this his fictions create mindfulness about social taboo`s and social associations.
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Ilyas, Safa. "Psychological Effects of Sadaat Hasan Manto’s Fiction on Youth of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan." Media and Communication Review 1, no. 2 (December 26, 2021): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/mcr.12.06.
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This study aims to look at the idea that Manto straightforwardly expounded on man and woman’s intimate relationships. Reading fiction, dramatizations and books are similarly impacted personalities of the readers as visual screenplays, Manto's fiction engravings in all accessible mediums of print and electronic although quotes from his fictions likewise broadly tune in and share in online communities. This persistence of his work accessibility and appreciation touched the researcher to deal with his fiction to check its psychological effects on the youth of Lahore. This inquiry is strengthened by the reader-response theory to identify the youth perception and understandings about his fictions and Uses and Gratification for the resolutions and intentions of youth to escalate his work. The quantitative survey method utilized, and data collected with Purposive sampling, 500 respondents were chosen, the findings of the study showed, that Manto's fictions make anxiety and eroticism in youth along with this his fictions create mindfulness about social taboo`s and social associations.
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Wieland, Nellie. "Escaping Fiction." Croatian journal of philosophy 24, no. 70 (February 23, 2024): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.52685/cjp.24.70.6.
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In this paper I argue that a norm of literary fiction is to compel the reader to form beliefs about the world as it is. It may seem wrong to suggest that the reason I believe p is because I imagined p, yet literary fiction can make this the case. I argue for an account grounded in indexed doxastic susceptibilities mapped between a fictional context and the particular properties of a reader, more specifically the susceptibilities in her beliefs, attitudes, and psychological states. Works of fiction can be about different things at the same time, some of which are fictive and some of which are factual. Since belief can be weak or strong, partial or complete, tenuous or robust, opaque or clear, there are susceptibilities throughout a doxastic set out of which new beliefs are formed. Skillful works of fiction exploit these susceptibilities and create new ones. This is an aesthetic achievement of such works: they take what should be a norm-violating practice of belief-formation on the basis of imaginative engagement and they make it so.
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Seeman, Mary V. "The Psychological Uses of Fiction." Psychiatry 62, no. 1 (February 1999): 83–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332747.1999.11024855.
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Irshad, Saira, and Madiha Naeem. "Feminine Consciousness in Imran Iqbal's Fiction Writing." Negotiations 1, no. 3 (December 22, 2021): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.54064/negotiations.v1i3.25.
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Imran Iqbal's name is prominent in Urdu fiction. He is from Bahawalpur but he is residing in the United States for employment. Imran Iqbal tried his hand at travelogues, fiction, novels and memoirs. He has made women and her issues the subject of his fictions. Imran Iqbal has presented a true picture of a woman who at every step faces various forms of male repressive behavior, outdated customs, husband and father-in-law atrocities, domestic violence and sexual harassment. Her fiction depicts women's psychological problems, the sexual appetites of landlords, capitalists, bureaucrats and top officials. Imran Iqbal has awakened Tanila consciousness through his pen.
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Swartz, Kelly. "The Maxims of Swift’s Psychological Fiction." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 30, no. 1 (September 2017): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.30.1.1.
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Dubourg, Edgar, Valentin Thouzeau, and Nicolas Baumard. "The psychological origins of science fiction." Poetics 102 (February 2024): 101862. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101862.
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Carroll, Joseph. "Minds and Meaning in Fictional Narratives: An Evolutionary Perspective." Review of General Psychology 22, no. 2 (June 2018): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000104.
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This article presents a theoretical framework for an evolutionary understanding of minds and meaning in fictional narratives. The article aims to demonstrate that meaning in fiction can be incorporated in an explanatory network that includes the whole scope of human behavior. In both reality and fiction, meaning consists of experiences in individual minds: sensations, emotions, perceptions, and thoughts. Writing and reading fiction involve 3 sets of minds, those of authors, readers, and characters. Meaning in the minds of authors and readers emerges in relation to the experiences of fictional characters. Characters engage in motivated actions. To understand minds and meaning in fiction, researchers need analytic categories for human motives. A comprehensive model of human motives can be constructed by integrating ideas from evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology. Motives combine in different ways to produce different cultures and different individual identities, which influence experience in individual minds. The mental experiences produced in authors and readers by fictional narratives have adaptive psychological functions. By encompassing the minds of authors, characters, and readers within a comprehensive model of human motives, this article situates the psychology of fiction within the larger research program of the evolutionary social sciences.
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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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Rizvi, Noureen, and Muhammad Shouket Ali. "Analytical study of Rajindar singh Bedi’s Fiction." DARYAFT 14, no. 01 (October 31, 2022): 59–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.52015/daryaft.v14i01.211.
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Rajindar singh Bedi was a great writer. He was one of the best fiction writers. Bedi looked at life closely and presented the problems of life in his fiction. His writing style is also unique. Bedi wrote on all topics. He explains the problems of women in his writings. Different forms of women are presented in his stories. Bedi also describes the problems of children and the elderly. The people of subcontinent fought and sacrificed in the pursuit of freedom. All this was witnessed by Bedi and he saw rivers of blood flowing. He saw people were psychologically affected by this bloody situation. Bedi has portrayed their psychological confusion in fiction. Bedi describes minor incidents, common feelings and emotions of people. Bedi is a big name in the golden age of Urdu fiction.
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Sooryah, N., and Dr K. R. Soundarya. "Erraticism in the Cannibal – A Study of the Work of Thomas Harris." International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education 12, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.9756/int-jecse/v12i2.201052.
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Literature is the key to human life that resurrects and gives space for introspection, retrospection and various remembrances which are hued by overjoy, pain and trauma. Nowadays crime literature became one of the most popular genres in this era which centers mostly on murder and violence. It started from Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous fictional character Auguste Dupin, whose first appearance was on The Murders in the Rue Mogue, considered to be the first crime fiction, followed by Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes and the like. The genre crime fiction has contributed innumerable number of works in both fiction and non-fiction. Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Rising is one such fiction which tells about the life of a serial killer who is a psychiatrist as well as a cannibal. It is a series of novels about the famous character Hannibal Lecter. Cannibalism and Psychiatry are two extremes which rarely meet. This novel is intertwined with a mix of violence, emotions and childhood trauma. Trauma studies nowadays became a key aspect in literature. In this specific work of Thomas Harris, he describes how the centralized character is affected with psychological trauma, in particular, Acute and Separation trauma. Trauma theory became popularized in 1980s and played major role in Atwood’s novels. This study tries to explain how childhood shapes a person and how behaviorism plays a vital element in one’s life and it also tries to analyze the psychological issues, trauma and defense mechanism through the central character of the novel.
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Fernández, Richard Jorge. "Guilt, Greed and Remorse: Manifestations of the Anglo-Irish Other in J. S. Le Fanu’s “Madame Crowl’s Ghost” and “Green Tea”." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 42, no. 2 (December 23, 2020): 233–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.2.12.
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Monsters and the idea of monstrosity are central tenets of Gothic fiction. Such figures as vampires and werewolves have been extensively used to represent the menacing Other in an overtly physical way, identifying the colonial Other as the main threat to civilised British society. However, this physically threatening monster evolved, in later manifestations of the genre, into a more psychological, mind-threatening being and, thus, werewolves were left behind in exchange for psychological fear. In Ireland, however, this change implied a further step. Traditional ethnographic divisions have tended towards the dichotomy Anglo-Irish coloniser versus Catholic colonised, and early examples of Irish Gothic fiction displayed the latter as the monstrous Other. However, the nineteenth century witnessed a move forward in the development of the genre in Ireland. This article shows how the change from physical to psychological threat implies a transformation or, rather, a displacement—the monstrous Other ceases to be Catholic to instead become an Anglo-Irish manifestation. To do so, this study considers the later short fictions of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and analyses how theDublin-born writer conveys his postcolonial concerns over his own class by depicting them simultaneously as the causers of and sufferers from their own colonial misdeeds.
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RAGACHEWSKAYA, Marina. "POETICS OF DESIRE IN D.H. LAWRENCE’S SHORTER FICTION." Astraea 2, no. 1 (2021): 61–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.34142/astraea.2021.2.1.04.
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Desire is a specific subject of research in many areas, including literary studies and text analysis. The representation of desire in fiction is an inseparable part of the sub-genre of psychological prose; its interpretation by readers and scholars requires an interdisciplinary approach and relies on psychoanalytic theories and terminology for elucidation. Shorter psychological fiction – novellas and short stories – depend on the authors’ mastery of language use, while the formal textual length is limited. Therefore, the study of desire encoded in a short fictional piece is both difficult due to laconism and suggestiveness, and fruitful as a revelation of most subtle nuances of human nature through the examination of artistic discourse. D.H. Lawrence’s novellas and short stories articulate desire as the unconscious wish to obtain the object of love. It is the merit of the writer’s art to employ various artistic means that may serve as the manifest content. Interpreting imagery and symbolism, bodily consciousness and characters’ “syncopated” dialogues, opens up such aspects of a textual embodiment of desire as its elusiveness, impossibility to verbalize and often its “forbidden” nature. Instead, the Ragachewskaya Marina writer resorts to heavy suggestiveness, gaps and silences to be filled with the reader’s intuitive or professional knowledge, meaning-charged adjectives, metaphors and analytical intrusions. Examples from a selection of D.H. Lawrence’s short fictional works reveal defense mechanisms that balance the fulfilment of desire. The mastery of D.H. Lawrence’s shorter fiction rests on the skill to reveal the unnamable, to show the inner conflict working through desire fulfilment, to bring to consciousness the shame, guilt and pleasure irrespective of moral judgment.
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Sulaiman, Dr Muhammad, and Dr Badsha Munir. "Psychological and Sexual Study of the Characters of Prem Chand's Story "Bhoot"." DARYAFT 14, no. 01 (October 31, 2022): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.52015/daryaft.v14i01.208.
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Prem Chand was a great fiction writer of Urdu language and literature. He understood the requirements of art fiction writing. He had studied the works of world famous fiction writers and intellectuals. He was fully aware of social attitudes and human psychology. In the novel “Bhoot” he has described the psychological and sexual references that arise from defective family traditions and customs. This story teaches that the practice of giving birth to one and there should be abolished because it has deadly and negative effect on the family and society.
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Sulaiman, M., and Badsha Munir. "Psychological and Sexual Study of the Characters of Prem Chand's Story "Bhoot"." DARYAFT 14, no. 01 (October 27, 2022): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.52015/daryaft.14i01.208.
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Prem Chand was a great fiction writer of Urdu language and literature. He understood the requirements of art fiction writing. He had studied the works of world famous fiction writers and intellectuals. He was fully aware of social attitudes and human psychology. In the novel “Bhoot” he has described the psychological and sexual references that arise from defective family traditions and customs. This story teaches that the practice of giving birth to one and there should be abolished because it has deadly and negative effect on the family and society.
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Carveth, Donald L. "Discussion of Seeman’s “The Psychological Uses of Fiction”." Psychiatry 62, no. 1 (February 1999): 91–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332747.1999.11024856.
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MURADYAN, ARMENUHI. "MORAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL QUESTIONS IN ARSHAK CHOPANYAN’S FICTION." JOURNAL FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES 1, no. 64 (June 13, 2024): 141–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.24234/journalforarmenianstudies.v1i64.91.
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The article examines A. Chopanyan’s short fiction. The biographical facts and aesthetic views of the writer played an important role in the work, helping to understand Chopanya’s works, their peculiarities and depth. Arshak Chopanyan is a writer with exceptional talent. He dedicated himself to the homeland,the people, its history and culture. He is a poet, translator, scientist,critic, public figure. His literary views were greatly influenced by his famous teachers. The « Souls of Boys» Series occupies an important place in his work.He creates a series of portraits and raises moral and psychological questions in each story,examining the fate of the heroes. Many of his heroes are despised by society sometimes they feel guilty and try to atone for their sins. The writer has a lot of interests,but at the center of various topics is human being.First of all,he is attracted by the poor and defensless people of the lower class, with their severe mental suffering, gloomy lifestyle, violated rights,endless worries and vain illusions. We came to this conclusion, that Chopanyan’s prose is characterized by moral and psychological questions,which reflect the secret corners of the soul of human beings, darkness and suffering. The author tries to awaken love, kidness,pity in people attention to the heroes of his story. Chopanyan’s stories teach the reader to understand the other person’s silence, to discover their soul.Chopanyan is a considerate, psychological novelist.
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Joomi Lee. "Psychological mechanism of self-destruction in Shin Gyeong-sook' Fiction Psychological mechanism of self-destruction in Shin Gyeong-sook' Fiction." Review of Korean Cultural Studies ll, no. 28 (February 2009): 227–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17329/kcbook.2009..28.008.
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Lenoir, Norbert. "Le concept de domination politique chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau." Dialogue 39, no. 2 (2000): 317–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300005953.
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AbstractRousseau develops a genealogical reflection on political domination. The intelligibility of the genealogy does not rest on the psychological category of craving for power. That is why Rousseau differentiates between tyranny and despotism. Rousseau stresses this difference in two works: Discours sur l'origine de l'inégalité parmi les hommes and Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques. Tyranny and despotism differ in that the latter produces an ideological speech. Political domination depends upon a double process. In the first process, ruling implies creating inequality in the political order, thus excluding people from political decisions. In order to mask this political inequality, the ideological speech produces two fictions: the fiction of the guaranty and the fiction of the community. In the second process, ruling implies generating public opinion which, in turn, adheres to this political order.
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Mukhin, O. "Psychological portrait of astronaut in modern American space fiction films of XXI century." Culture of Ukraine, no. 77 (September 28, 2022): 51–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.31516/2410-5325.077.06.
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This paper discloses a general psychological portrait of astronaut, which is shown in latest American space fiction films of XXI century. The purpose of this article is to find the most typical psychological features of astronauts, which are presented in films “Interstellar” (2014, director — K. Nolan), “The Martian” (2015, director — R. Scott), “Ad Astra“ (2019, director — J. Gray).
The methodology of this article includes the using of axiological, systematic and comparative methods. Each of these methods helps to discover three important moral traits, which form the astronaut’s nature and personality.
The results of this article are a primary investment to the researches, which are dedicated to the modern era of American cinema space fiction.
The scientific novelty of this work lies in systematic review of American space fiction films, which belong to modern and actual realistic vector of storytelling, where the space fiction genre realizes it’s development nowadays.
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Sumaira Akbar, Dr Sumaira Akbar. "Starting Point of Stream of Consciousness in Urdu Fiction." Tasdiqتصدیق۔ 1, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.56276/tasdiq.v1i1.15.
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Stream of consciousness is a psychological theory which is presented by Professor William James in his book "The Principles of Psychology". Stream of consciousness is a continuous flow of sense-perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and memories in the human mind. This term is reserved for indicating an approach to the presentation of psychological aspects of character in fiction. In Urdu fiction, Syed Sajjad Zaheer first used this technique in his novel "London ki Aik Raat" very well.
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Blair, Peter. "Hyper-compressions: The rise of flash fiction in “post-transitional” South Africa." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 55, no. 1 (July 16, 2018): 38–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989418780932.
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This article begins with a survey of flash fiction in “post-transitional” South Africa, which it relates to the nation’s post-apartheid canon of short stories and short-short stories, to the international rise of flash fiction and “sudden fiction”, and to the historical particularities of South Africa’s “post-transition”. It then undertakes close readings of three flash fictions republished in the article, each less than 450 words: Tony Eprile’s “The Interpreter for the Tribunal” (2007), which evokes the psychological and ethical complexities, and long-term ramifications, of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Michael Cawood Green’s “Music for a New Society” (2008), a carjacking story that invokes discourses about violent crime and the “‘new’ South Africa”; and Stacy Hardy’s “Kisula” (2015), which maps the psychogeography of cross-racial sex and transnational identity-formation in an evolving urban environment. The article argues that these exemplary flashes are “hyper-compressions”, in that they compress and develop complex themes with a long literary history and a wide contemporary currency. It therefore contends that flash fiction of South Africa’s post-transition should be recognized as having literary–historical significance, not just as an inherently metonymic form that reflects, and alludes to, a broader literary culture, but as a genre in its own right.
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Dr. Shazia Akbar. "Desire of Death in Sadiq Hidayat,s selected short stories." DARYAFT 15, no. 02 (December 26, 2023): 57–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.52015/daryaft.v15i02.345.
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Sadiq Hidayat is renown Persian writer. He is one of the few Iranian Persian writers whose many fictions have been translated into Urdu. He introduced modern techniques in Persian fiction. In some of his stories Sadiq Hidayat has presented the subject of death from different angles. somewhere in the human being there is a desire to escape from his problems in the death. This desire of death can be found in some of his short stories because he also committed suicide by suffocating poison gas on April 9, 1951 in Paris. This research article is based on an effort to find different aspects of sadness and sensitivity in his Urdu translated short stories. He has skillfully made the individual and collective problems and psychological confusions of people in his fiction. He also tried to reflect the lives of depressed people and their emotional downfalls. In his fiction there is a noticeable deep observation of marital attitudes depression۔ He has also mentioned the life of animals and their death. The death, as solution of problems can be seen especially in his stories. This is an analytical research study, based on Urdu translations of his fiction. We can observe that death; especially suicide is very favorite subject of his characters.
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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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Altynbaeva, G. "Fiction and non-fiction in the “thirty-year-old” generation (“millennials”) prose." Philology and Culture, no. 2 (September 17, 2023): 104–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2023-72-2-104-110.
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Based on the analysis of the texts from contemporary Russian literature, the article investigates one of the features of the “thirty-year-old” generation prose (V. Bogdanova, O. Vasyakina, K. Hepting, K. Kupriyanov, E. Manoilo, V. Pustovaya, B. Khanov, I. Khanipaev, et al.). As an additional source, this research uses “thirty-year-old” writers’ interviews and the results of the comparison of their prose with the texts and manifestos of “new realists”. The purpose of the research is to understand the features characterizing the combination of fiction and non-fiction in the latest Russian prose. The article raises the problem of biographical, non-fictional and fictional boundaries in the “thirty-year-old” generation texts. In particular, it appears necessary to understand how the millennial author’s biography is reflected at the levels of the genre, composition and plot. Special attention is paid to the authentic and psychological aspects in the artistic method of “thirty-year-old” writers who include the elements of a diary, confession and Bildungs-roman in the structure and content of their prose. They also create their own pseudo-memories, an alternative history. The research concludes that the “thirty-year-old” generation prose problems and poetics are influenced by the writer’s biography and personality, as well as the specific period of the time they write in.
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Leś, Mariusz M. "O potrzebie optymizmu w fantastyce naukowej." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 61, no. 4 (March 12, 2024): 35–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.848.
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This article examines the role of optimism, a philosophical-psychological category, in science fiction literature discourse. Pessimism, the counterpoint to optimism, clearly dominates the contemporary form of this genre. Conversely, optimism in science fiction increasingly demands a deliberate stance from writers and readers, challenging the predominance of pessimism. The author identifies genre characteristics that lend themselves to optimistic perspectives and offers an overview of periods in science fiction history where optimism prevailed. Additionally, the article highlights projects where science fiction intersects with social activism.
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Leś, Mariusz M. "„To jest weryfikacja rzeczywistości”. Narracja drugoosobowa w fantastyce naukowej." Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze, no. 22 (2023): 171–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2023.22.10.
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The article contains an analysis of the function of second-person narrative in selected works of science fiction. This experimental type of narrative is characterised by a tendency to blur the line between the fictional and non-fictional worlds and to strengthen the reader’s empathic attitude. As the article shows, the combination of the possibility of deepening the psychological images of fictional characters with the complication of the ontological hierarchy of worlds and undermining their stability leads to interesting effects. Among them, the most promising seems the potential for strengthening the meanings that result from the confrontation of subjective worlds with the fictional worlds, understood as arenas for the characters’ actions.
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Anderson, Chrisha, Kathryn Van Asselt, and Bradley Willis. "Women in Online Science Fiction Fandoms: Psychological Well-Being." Journal of Counseling Research and Practice 7, no. 2 (March 1, 2022): 63–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.56702/uryu3207.
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<p>A qualitative research design was used to listen to the experiences of women who engaged in science fiction fandom activities through online social media and how these experiences impacted their psychological well-being. The study targeted a specific population of science fiction fandom users who engaged in social media activities for at least one hour per week and had done so for at least one year. The sample consisted of 12 participants. Thematic analysis was used with the qualitative software program ATLAS.ti to analyze, code, and categorize data obtained via the transcripts. Five themes appeared from the data: nonjudgmental fandom culture, positive impact on personal relationships, mental health-related experiences, fandom as coping, and impact of negative experiences. Results showed that women who engaged in fandom activity were drawn to those communities due to the nonjudgmental nature of that fandom culture and the relationships that they formed. All participants felt their participation positively affected their psychological well-being and actively used it as an emotional coping skill. Future research could focus on a quantitative study to better understand how women utilize science fiction fandom for social interaction and coping. This insight may aid in generalizability to the broader comprehension of fandom engagement’s perceived effect on psychological well-being. Additionally, looking at computer-mediated versus face-to-face communication to include a third category combing the methods may benefit counselors in better understanding the world of their clients.</p>
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Anderson, Chrisha, Kathryn Van Asselt, and Bradley Willis. "Women in Online Science Fiction Fandoms: Psychological Well-Being." Journal of Counseling Research and Practice 7, no. 2 (March 1, 2022): 63–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.56702/uckx8598/jcrp0702.4.
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<p>A qualitative research design was used to listen to the experiences of women who engaged in science fiction fandom activities through online social media and how these experiences impacted their psychological well-being. The study targeted a specific population of science fiction fandom users who engaged in social media activities for at least one hour per week and had done so for at least one year. The sample consisted of 12 participants. Thematic analysis was used with the qualitative software program ATLAS.ti to analyze, code, and categorize data obtained via the transcripts. Five themes appeared from the data: nonjudgmental fandom culture, positive impact on personal relationships, mental health-related experiences, fandom as coping, and impact of negative experiences. Results showed that women who engaged in fandom activity were drawn to those communities due to the nonjudgmental nature of that fandom culture and the relationships that they formed. All participants felt their participation positively affected their psychological well-being and actively used it as an emotional coping skill. Future research could focus on a quantitative study to better understand how women utilize science fiction fandom for social interaction and coping. This insight may aid in generalizability to the broader comprehension of fandom engagement’s perceived effect on psychological well-being. Additionally, looking at computer-mediated versus face-to-face communication to include a third category combing the methods may benefit counselors in better understanding the world of their clients.</p>
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Nikolajeva, Maria. "Recent Trends in Children's Literature Research: Return to the Body." International Research in Children's Literature 9, no. 2 (December 2016): 132–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2016.0198.
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Twenty-first-century children's literature research has witnessed a material turn in strong response to the 1990s perception of childhood and the fictional child as social constructions. Cultural theories have generated fruitful approaches to children's fiction through the lenses of gender, class, race and sexual orientation, and psychoanalytically oriented theories have explored ways of representing childhood as a projection of (adult) interiority, but the physical existence of children as represented in their fictional worlds has been obscured by constructed social and psychological hierarchies. Recent directions in literary studies, such as ecocriticism, posthumanism, disability studies and cognitive criticism, are refocusing scholarly attention on the physicality of children's bodies and the environment. This trend does not signal a return to essentialism but reflects the complexity, plurality and ambiguity of our understanding of childhood and its representation in fiction for young audiences. This article examines some current trends in international children's literature research with a particular focus on materiality.
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Liu, Yuhuan. "Mental Writing and Mental Health and Cultural Identity in Doris Lessing’s Science Fiction." Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2022 (August 27, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2215829.
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As one of the most outstanding female writers in post-war Britain, Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has a strong spirit of the times in her works. In order to further understand the characteristics and spirit of the times in Doris Lessing’s novels, Doris Lessing’s science fiction is taken as the research object in this study, through in-depth research on novel storytelling, philosophical psychology, thematic forms, etc., from the perspective of emotional psychology model, to deeply analyze the characteristics of psychological writing, mental health, and cultural identity in their science fiction. Doris Lessing’s science fiction reflects the political, cultural, and historical background of the times, and on this basis, it reflects humanitarian concerns through characters’ psychological writing and cultural identity. It is shown in the results of the study.
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Benedetti, Fabrizio. "Placebos and Movies: What Do They Have in Common?" Current Directions in Psychological Science 30, no. 3 (June 2021): 274–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09637214211003892.
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Placebos are fake therapies that can induce real therapeutic effects, called placebo effects. It goes without saying that what matters for inducing a placebo effect is not so much the fake treatment itself, but rather the therapeutic ritual that is carried out, which is capable of triggering psychobiological mechanisms in the patient’s brain. Both laypersons and scientists often accept the phenomenon of the placebo effect with reluctance, as fiction-induced clinical improvements are at odds with common sense. However, it should be emphasized that placebo effects are not surprising after all if one considers that fiction-induced physiological effects occur in everyday life. Movies provide one of the best examples of how fictitious reality can induce psychological and physiological responses, such as fear, love, and tears. In the same way that a horror movie induces fear-related physiological responses, even though the viewer knows everything is fake, so the sight of a syringe may trigger the release of pain-relieving chemicals in the patient’s brain, even if the patient knows there is a fake painkiller inside. From this perspective, placebos can be better conceptualized as rituals, actions, and fictions within a more general framework that emphasizes the power of psychological factors in everyday life, including the healing context.
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Sharpley, Christopher F., Vicki Bitsika, and David H. R. Christie. "Psychological Distress among Prostate Cancer Patients: Fact Or Fiction?" Clinical medicine. Oncology 2 (January 2008): CMO.S955. http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/cmo.s955.
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Although the detrimental effect upon psychological well-being of receiving a diagnosis of, or treatment for, cancer has been demonstrated across many different types of cancer, three recent reviews of the psychological health of prostate cancer patients have produced contradictory conclusions. In order to elucidate the reasons for these apparent different conclusions, each of these reviews is described, with principal methods and findings summarised. Actual data, methodology used to select/reject research studies for inclusion in reviews, plus the validity of strict methodological culling of some research studies are discussed. Several extra studies and commentaries are also described, and a resolution of the apparent contradictory review conclusions is offered.
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Ratele, K. "The Interior Life of Mtutu: Psychological Fact or Fiction?" South African Journal of Psychology 35, no. 3 (September 2005): 555–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124630503500310.
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This article seeks to understand the routes to, and pasts, possibilities and forms of, the interior world of the African or black person in its relations to the politics and economy of superiority and separation. The world that is explored is primarily sexual, and therefore, incorporates embodied life, but of necessity widens to include affective, cognitive, and purposeful aspects. In the face of the scarcity of scholarly psychological literature in the area of the intimate lives of black individuals, particularly when seen against the backcloth of colonial and apartheid arrangements, the article begins by arguing for the importance of turning to other, imaginative, sources for help in trying to comprehend African interiors. It then turns to meanings of intimacy on which interiority is indexed, going on to discuss the notion in relation to the social, political and economic history of South Africa, while taking in the notion of soul along the way. Next, the interest of colonial and apartheid regimes in intimacy is traced, showing that this interest stretched beyond interpersonal relations to the very calculus of discrimination and domination. The article concludes by urging African scholars to take black inner life a little more seriously and without abandoning creativity, still locating such efforts within radical and ethical theoretical frameworks.
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Bachmair, Ben. "A Psychological and Hermeneutical Method to Analyse TV fiction." Interfaces 6, no. 1 (1994): 109–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/inter.1994.962.
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Javed, Muhammad Saleem. "گڈیکو نظر، افسانہ نا نفسیاتی جاچ اس." Al-Burz 13, no. 1 (December 23, 2021): 22–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.54781/abz.v13i1.261.
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Psychological analysis of Brahui short story is quite new in Brahui research. This paper describes the psychological disorders of various characters of ‘’Guddiko Nazar”. In the 1986 century Waheed Zaheer penned down “Guddiko Nazar”, a psychological short story in Brahui language. It was first published in his book “Shanza”. The aim of this paper was to reveal the mental disorders as depicted in the mentioned short story. Mental illness is a state of mind where psychological problems impose not only hurdles in a harmonious co-existence but create distress felt by the individual who suffers from one. A mental condition may even hurt those around the sufferer. In this study, the researcher employed content analysis, a branch of descriptive and analytical research to conduct a psychological review of fiction writing, in comparison with modern psychological theories, especially related to mental illness. The investigation revealed that “Guddiko Nazar” is a master piece of literary work of Brahui language, which focuses the important psychological disorders, like obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) including anxiety, guilt, complexes and many more mental disorders. The short story reflects the writing skills in line with contemporary psychological fiction writing techniques.
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Bodnár, Kata. "Aspects of Analysing Trauma Fiction by Observing Lolita’s Impact on the 21st Century Novel, My Dark Vanessa." Folia Humanistica et Socialia 1, no. 2 (June 11, 2024): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.69705/fhs.2023.1.2.1.
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Trauma studies in literature have only appeared towards the end of the 20th century, hence psychological analysis in fiction is a relatively new field, therefore observing pieces of trauma fiction has its challenges. Further improvement of trauma analysis is essential since earlier pieces of the literary canon can gain new interpretations with this method. This article aims to apply several methods of analysing trauma fiction from both psychologists and literary theorists. The focus is on the impact of trauma and its effect on the narrator’s memories making her fractured narration unintentionally unreliable. Consequently, the reader plays a significant part while reading trauma fiction since they are the ones who put the pieces of the story together when the narrator is set back by the overwhelming event. Moreover, due to the fact that repeated trauma is more likely to happen in captivity, it is essential to observe the setting of the novel. The emphasis is not only on the physical setting but also, due to PTSD, on psychological aspects like memories and dissociations.
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Green, Melanie C., Christopher Chatham, and Marc A. Sestir. "Emotion and transportation into fact and fiction." Scientific Study of Literature 2, no. 1 (August 13, 2012): 37–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.2.1.03gre.
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“Transportation into a narrative world” is a psychological mechanism through which narrative communication can affect beliefs (Green & Brock, 2000). Transportation, or psychological immersion into a story, entails imagery, emotionality, and attentional focus. Two studies (N = 92 and 126) suggested that when readers’ pre-reading emotional states match the emotional tone of a narrative, transportation into that narrative is increased. Low-arousal positive emotions (contentedness, thoughtful) also increase transportation. Transportation is also associated with greater story-consistent emotional response, even if the emotions evoked by the ending of the story are different from the emotional tone at the start of the story (and readers’ pre-reading emotions). Furthermore, labeling a narrative as fact versus fiction does not affect the intensity of emotional response.
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Hossain, Md Amir. "Doris Lessing’s Fiction as Feminist Projections." International Journal of English and Cultural Studies 1, no. 1 (March 6, 2018): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijecs.v1i1.3081.
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Doris Lessing, an unrivaled novelist in the literary genres around the globe, portrays the fundamental problems of women as well as social system of her times. Lessing searches for new models to communicate the experiences of a blocked woman writer, who spends her early life in Africa, becomes an active and a disappointed communist, who is a politically committed writer, a mother, a wife, or a mistress sometimes a woman. With her very keen and subtle attitude, Lessing wants to present women’s psychological conflicts between marriage and love; motherhood and profession, unfairness of the double standard; alienation of a single career woman; hollowness of marriage in the traditional order and society. Lessing portrays her women in various social problems and with various perspectives of male against female. She tries to awaken women community to protest against the patriarchy through her feminist writings. For this purpose, this research paper would like to examine the psychological conflicts and traumatic experiences of powerful heroines, including- Anna Wulf of The Golden Notebook, Mary Turner of The Grass Is Singing, and Clefts of The Cleft.
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Shen, Fanxi. "Freud’s Psychoanalysis Perspective on the Characteristics of the Monster in Frankenstein." IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies 20, no. 1 (March 13, 2024): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v20.n1.p3.
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The famous English writer Mary Shelley wrote <em>Frankenstein</em> in 1818, which is regarded as the world’s first science fiction novel, and thus Mary Shelley was awarded the title of Mother of Science Fiction. With a gothic plot, this novel contains the philosophy of technology, psychology and epistemology, expressing the author’s exploration of human nature. The psychological and action descriptions of the characters in this novel, to a certain extent, show the psychological characteristics of the character’s id, ego and superego. Therefore, this paper will elaborate the psychological characteristics of the characters from the aspects of id, ego and superego from Freud’s psychoanalysis theory, thus exploring the character traits of the novel and providing a new perspective for the interpretation of the novel.
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Sokolova, Irina V., and Irina A. Shishkova. "COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES OF POST-POSTMODERNISM (ON THE MATERIAL OF MODERN AMERICAN SHORT FICTION)." Vestnik of Kostroma State University 28, no. 4 (February 28, 2023): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2022-28-4-47-53.
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The article deals with the latest methods of constructing a literary text in American short fiction. There are two main types of narrative: theatrical performance and psychological sketch. Theatricality finds expression in the elements of surrealism, magical realism, absurdity. Sometimes it develops into an overt puppet theatre performance. The psychological sketch takes the form of an emotional monolog or an impression. The article analyses the transformations of the author – he constantly changes masks, breaks up into plurality of self; as well as of the protagonist, a passive, problem creature, often a person with damaged psyche. The article substantiates the need to study new concepts of constructing a literary text. Modern authors create “explosions of truth”, most often impartial, moving away from the usual canons and inventing new ones, sometimes taken to the extreme, exaggerated means of artistic expression. It is argued that a story is able to “capture” the momentary and barely noticeable. A striking sample of modern literary techniques is Frederic Tuten's collection “Self-Portraits: Fictions” (2010), an example of intertextuality, essential for the aesthetics of post-postmodernism.
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Dobson, Eleanor. "Emasculating Mummies: Gender and Psychological Threat inFin-de-SiècleMummy Fiction." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 40, no. 4 (July 4, 2018): 397–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2018.1484615.
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Fleischhack, Maria. "Possession, Trance, and Reincarnation: Confrontations with Ancient Egypt in Edwardian Fiction." Victoriographies 7, no. 3 (November 2017): 257–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2017.0283.
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Egyptianising fantastic fiction was a widely popular genre at the advent of the twentieth century, and, customarily, Egyptian characters act as a foil to the Western protagonists. This essay uses three Edwardian Egyptianising stories – Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903; 1912), Guy Boothby's ‘A Professor of Egyptology’ (1904), and H. Rider Haggard's ‘Smith and the Pharaohs’ (1912–13) – to demonstrate how these critical voices address the anxieties of the fin de siècle: issues including gender inequality, imperial arrogance, and archaeological entitlement. The Egyptian characters have the ability to hypnotise or psychologically influence the Western protagonists, highlighting their helplessness when confronted with the ancient Other. Simultaneously, a deep connection between archaeological and psychological discoveries (and thus antiquity and modernity) comes to light.
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Brakovska, Jelena. "JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU: METAMORPHOSES AND INNOVATIONS IN GOTHIC FICTION." CBU International Conference Proceedings 1 (June 30, 2013): 182–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v1.32.
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Notwithstanding the fact that the Anglo-Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was one of the most popular writers of the British Victorian era, his name and most of his works are not well-known to a common reader. The present research investigates how the author inventively modifies traditional Gothic elements and penetrates them into human’s consciousness. Such Le Fanu’s metamorphoses and innovations make the artistic world of his prose more realistic and psychological. As a result, the article presents a comparative literary study of Le Fanu’s text manipulations which seem to lead to the creation of Le Fanu’s own kind of “psychological” Gothic.
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Oyebode, Femi. "Fictional narrative and psychiatry." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 10, no. 2 (March 2004): 140–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.10.2.140.
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This article addresses how mental illness and psychiatry are dealt with in fictional narrative. The starting point is Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre. The characterisation of madness in that novel provides the basis for exploring how the physical and psychological differences of mentally ill people are portrayed, and how violence and the institutional care of people with mental illnesses are depicted. It is also argued that the fact that in Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason, the madwoman in the attic, is rendered voiceless is not accidental but emblematic of the depiction of mentally ill people in fiction. A number of novels are used to illustrate these issues.
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Wagaa Ali AL-Juboori, Dr Intisar Mohammed. "A Socially Realistic Study of Crime and Corruption in P.D. James’ Works." Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities 31, no. 1 (January 21, 2024): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jtuh.31.1.2024.23.
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P.D. James is a well - known author of both crime and mysteries who is recognized with enlarging the mystery subgenre. Even though she uses aspects of traditional detective fiction, James is particularly concerned in establishing the psychological motivations of her characters. James is renowned for her sophisticated written style, which is accentuated by literary allusions and quotations, as well as for the vivid, realistic characters and locations she creates. Writing detective fiction is one of James's passions and she strives to use the techniques that make "serious fiction" gratifying while still adhering to the genre's rules. She was interested in realism as early as her writings show. Her literary style is distinct from the classic "country house mystery" of conventional British detective fiction, in which static characters exist solely to further the plot of the mystery. Despite being constructed in the traditional "whodunnit" way, these novels rely on developed, convincing characterizations.
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Yankovska, Zhanna. "PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL ASPECTS OF REPRESENTATION OF EMIGRATION IN UKRAINIAN FICTION." CONTEMPORARY LITERARY STUDIES, no. 19 (March 15, 2023): 69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.32589/2411-3883.19.2022.274084.
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Ukrainian emigration is an extremely multifaceted phenomenon, therefore approaches to its study and research can be very different. The article deals with the reflection of emigration in Ukrainian literature and journalism as the most psychological and emotional source of information, which always pays attention to the problems of the time and in its own way looks for ways to solve them. Starting from the end of the 19th century, that is, from the first stage of emigration, the beginnings of Ukrainians’ departure abroad were different. Mainly, each stage is characterized as «labor» or «political» (sometimes these two directions were synthesized), but always leaving from the native land caused deep experiences and emotions associated with the unknown, a different way of life, a break with the family, closest people in general. In the scholarly works, the penultimate «worker» stage, or as it is also generally called the «іtalian» stage of emigration, has been insufficiently described. Not studied is the last stage, which is connected with today’s war on the territory of Ukraine, which is still continuing. But the artistic thinking of the people, associated with the emotional perception of events in extreme conditions, manifests itself faster. And we already have new works. Perhaps they cannot yet compete with the works of V. Stefanyk, Y. Sverstyuk, U. Samchuk and other writers who have already become classics, but these works are actual and there is a need for them. There are still not enough scientific works in which the issue of emigration is considered in the literature.
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Bánházi, Judit Anna. "Non-Linear Temporal Experience in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Fiction." Eger Journal of English Studies 21 (2023): 35–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.35.
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The goal of my article is to familiarise the reader with the notions of ‘non-linear temporality’ and ‘non-linear temporal experience.’ Based on studies of memory and neurobiology, I would like to highlight that episodic memory is a narrative process, and the past-present-future trichotomy is a bias, which can be overruled in so-called ‘non-neurotypical’ states of mind, such as trauma-induced shock and psychological illness. Edgar Allan Poe’s characters often present symptoms of psychological illnesses undefined in the early/mid-19th century with surprising accuracy, among them displaying common symptoms of NLTE (Non-Linear Temporal Experience). I aim to outline how these experiences are manifest in the particular context of his short fiction.
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Bezrodnykh, Iryna, and Oksana Bohun. "METAPHORS AND SIMILES IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PROSE." English and American Studies, no. 20 (June 23, 2023): 126–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/382316.
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The article presents a survey of the metaphor- and simile-related researches in modern linguistics and considers stylistic functions of metaphors and similes in contemporary fiction. It is based on the novel The Goldfinch (2013) written by the American writer D. Tartt, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2014). It proves that the tropes in question used in the book are unique and striking. They perform figurative and descriptive functions, contribute to the expressiveness and emotiveness of the text, help to convey the characters’ psychological frame of mind and produce a dramatic effect.
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Khadeeja Mushtaq and Muhammad Safeer Awan. "Trauma and War: The Psychological Implications for Survivor-victims in Iraqi Fiction." Panacea Journal of Linguistics & Literature 2, no. 2 (December 22, 2023): 182–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.59075/pjll.v2i2.306.
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War-time literature about Iraq reflects the terror and the trauma that the civilian population in Iraq have had to live with in recent years. As conflicts and wars overtook the country in a rapid fashion and the state’s hold weakened, the country plunged into total chaos. The infrastructure crumpled, the economy collapsed, and multiple rebel groups surfaced halting peace process in the country. The present paper examines the fictional text, The Sirens of Baghdad, to understand the civilian psychological trauma resulting from repeated wars on Iraqi soil. The gruesome deaths and uncertainty about country’s future have contributed to an overall feeling of dejection and apathy among the civilian population. This research paper concludes that the psychological trauma of the civilian population belies simple categorization like PTSD, and there is a need to determine the true scale of psychological damage suffered over years of exposure to terror.