Artículos de revistas: "Fiction, Rromance, Contemporary, Medical"

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Wolf, Peter. "Epilepsy in Contemporary Fiction: Fates of Patients". Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques 27, n.º 2 (mayo de 2000): 166–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0317167100052306.

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ABSTRACT:Fictional accounts of epilepsy are of interest because they may convey information on images and public views of epilepsy which are not contained in medical texts. Thus, medical and nonmedical traditions together form the cultural history of epilepsy. Of the numerous possible aspects of epilepsy in fiction, this paper looks especially at the writers'background of knowledge about epilepsy; epilepsy as a handicap and a reason for social rejection, with special reference to epilepsy under the Nazi rule; threats to patients'lives; the motive of the child with epilepsy as a divine child; and epilepsy as a fate, and a reason for distinction. Literary writers may help their readers understand that a person's suffering and fighting a condition like epilepsy very much deserves our attention and sympathy. Without being exclusive, the paper pays special attention to epilepsy in the writings of Canadian authors.

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Blashkiv, Oksana. "Vagaries of (Academic) Identity in Contemporary Fiction". Journal of Education Culture and Society 9, n.º 1 (27 de junio de 2018): 151–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20181.151.160.

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Aim. The article attempts to look at question of academic identities through the prism the academic novel. This literary genre emerged in English and American literature in early 1950s and centers on the image of the professor. In Slavic literatures the genre of the academic novel appears roughly in early 1990s, which is directly connected with the change of the political order following the fall of the Berlin Wall and disbanding of the Soviet Union. Contemporary Ukrainian literature with its post-Soviet heritage presents a unique source for the study of academic discourse. Methods. An interdisciplinary approach which combines sociological investigation of academic identity (Henkel 2005) and hermeneutic literary analysis is used for this study. In this respect three novels from the contemporary Ukrainian literature – “University” (2007) and “Kaleidoscope” (2009) by Igor Yosypiv, and “Drosophila over a Volume of Kant” (2010) by Anatoliy Dnistrovyj – are chosen for analysis. Results. Analysis of the novels shows that the literary representation of academics’ lives goes in line with the sociological findings, which, in defining a successful academic, put a strong accent on a discipline and academic institution. The interpretation of Yosypiv’s novels about a Ukrainian nephrologist at the American Medical School suggests that protagonist’s academic success is rooted in the field of applied science as well as an American institution of higher education, while Dnistrovyj’s novel sees a failure of a philosophy professor in the crisis of the Humanities as survived in post-Soviet Ukraine. Conclusion. The given novels of Igor Yosypiv and Anatoliy Dnistrovyj show that in case of academic identity theme, the academic novels support sociological studies, i.e. the discipline (Applied Sciences and Humanities) as well as the university rank (American vs. post-Soviet) play a decisive role in scholars’ academic life. This in its turn proves that the academic novel, like in the time of its emergence in the 1950s, continues to be a literary chronicler of higher education.

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Tanner, L. E. "Bodies in Waiting: Representations of Medical Waiting Rooms in Contemporary American Fiction". American Literary History 14, n.º 1 (1 de marzo de 2002): 115–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/14.1.115.

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Wigand, Moritz E., Hauke F. Wiegand, Ertan Altintas, Markus Jäger y Thomas Becker. "Migration, Identity, and Threatened Mental Health: Examples from Contemporary Fiction". Transcultural Psychiatry 56, n.º 5 (9 de agosto de 2018): 1076–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461518794252.

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In 2015, the world saw 244 million international migrants. Migration has been shown to be both a protective and a risk factor for mental health, depending on circumstances. Furthermore, culture has an impact on perceptions and constructions of mental illness and identity, both of which can be challenged through migration. Using a qualitative research approach, we analysed five internationally acclaimed and influential novels and one theatre play that focus on aspects of identity, migration, and threatened mental health. As a mirror of society, fiction can help to understand perceptions of identity and mental suffering on an intrapsychic and societal level, while at the same time society itself can be influenced by works of fiction. Fiction is also increasingly used for didactic purposes in medical education. We found that the works of fiction discussed embrace a multifaceted biopsychosocial concept of mental illness. Constructs such as unstable premigration identity, visible minority status (in the host country) and identity confusion in second-generation migrants are conceptualised as risk factors for mental illness. Factors portrayed as protective comprised a stable premigration identity, being safe with a family member or good friend, (romantic) love, therapeutic writing, art, and the concept of time having an element of simultaneousness. This literature challenges the idiocentric model of identity. Analysing fictional texts on migration experiences can be a promising hypothesis-generating approach for further research.

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King, Daniel. "Consulting Physicians: The Role of Specialist Medical Advisers in Cormac McCarthy's Contemporary Fiction". Literature and Medicine 30, n.º 2 (2012): 339–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lm.2012.0022.

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Friday, Akporherhe, Udi Peter Oghenerioborue y Esemedafe Emmanuel. "Folk Medical Practices and Treatments in African Fiction". Health Economics and Management Review 3, n.º 4 (2022): 92–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/hem.2022.4-10.

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This paper examines the enactment of cultural medical practices in the narratives of African writers. It aims at promoting the application of folk medicines in addressing the health problems of patients as enacted in artistic productions of fiction writers. It will celebrate, propagate and preserve these approaches to preventive and curative medical practices, which are indigenous to the African people. The study will be beneficial to health caregivers, researchers, health educators, health agencies and policy formulators, who are determined to promote the cultural healthcare system in society. It will reawaken and strengthen medical practitioners, patients and researchers, who may which to apply folk medical practices as an alternative treatment for health problems in socio-cultural settings. This research is field survey and library-based, with the literary texts carefully and purposively selected according to their thematic thrust and qualitatively analysed. Oral interviews were conducted to gather first-hand information and data on traditional medical practices from respondents, who have profound knowledge of the topic. The respondents were elderly men and women with profound knowledge of traditional medical practices, and they were drawn from various Urhobo communities, such as Ughelli, Akperhe-Olomu, Orogun, Okparabe, Edjekota-Ogor, and Agbarha-Otor. Among those interviewed were traditional medical practitioners, diviners, and patients, who often apply trado-medicines as alternative and supplementary treatments. Apart from the primary materials, scholarly works that are relevant to the current study were also consulted by the researchers. Findings showed that African societies are endowed with diverse forms of folk medicine, including the use of herbs, hydrotherapy, heat therapy, use of ointments, hot food as an intervention, talk therapy, etc. The study concluded that African writers are conscious of the utilitarian functions of their indigenous healthcare interventions, and so they integrate some of the practices into their artistic works, not only for the documentation but also to activate the awareness of readers on the efficacy of the traditional medicines. The various folk medical practices can serve as alternative and complementary treatments for people who cannot afford western healthcare interventions in contemporary societies.

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Tucherman, Ieda. "Fabricando corpos: ficção e tecnologia". Comunicação Mídia e Consumo 3, n.º 7 (23 de septiembre de 2008): 77–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.18568/cmc.v3i7.71.

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Desdobramento dos extensos estudos da autora sobre a ficção científica no cinema como narrativa representativa do mundo contemporâneo, o artigo enfoca especificamente as questões relacionadas ao corpo humano e à tecnologia que emergem dos filmes desse gênero nascido sob o signo da cultura visual médica. As narrativas fílmicas contemporâneas de ficção científica abrem espaço para reflexões sobre as sociedades atuais em mutação e para questionarmos até que ponto, diante da profunda interação homem-máquina, permanecemos ainda humanos. Palavras-chave: Ficção científica; cinema; tecnociência; corpo; subjetividade. ABSTRACT This article draws on my extensive studies on science fiction cinema as a form of narrative which represents contemporary world. The work focus specifically the questions related with the human body and the technology which emerges from sci fi films generated under the sign of medical visual culture. Contemporary filmic science fiction narratives give way to refletions over present mutating societies and to questioning how far, given the deep human-machine interaction, we are still human. Keywords: Science fiction; cinema; technoscience; body; subjectivity.

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Nosenko-Stein, Elena E. "The Weight of Stigma: Representation of a Disabled Person in Russian Contemporary Mass Fiction". Koinon 2, n.º 2 (2021): 48–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/koinon.2021.02.2.015.

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Another corporality has always been perceived differently in various societies in each epoch. Corporality — body and techniques of the body — of a disabled person was usually considered in archaic cultures in a negative perspective. Such a notion existed in European societies in Middle Ages. Since the Renaissance persons with impairments have appeared in art and fiction. Russian mass consciousness has retained a lot of negative stereotypes and labels concerning disabled people and their bodies. These notions and prejudices are often represented in mass fiction — detective stories, love stories, etc. On these pages, the author attempts to anthropologically analyze representations of disabled bodies and techniques of disabled bodies in contemporary Russian detective stories. The author has selected the texts of trendy women’s detective stories of the last two decades for this purpose. Analysis of these stories allows us to conclude that the medical model of disability, which is still widespread in the Russian society, results in profound stigmatization of disability and opposition “disabled person’ — ‘abled person,’ ‘worse people’ — ‘better people.’ Disabled people have worse corporality, worse futures, and worse abilities. Mass fiction is popular, and it not only represent prejudices and fears dealing with impaired persons but also promotes these stereotypes and thus impact on mass consciousness.

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Chernyshova, Svitlana. "DOMINANTS OF METAMODERNISM: CRITICAL RECEPTION". CONTEMPORARY LITERARY STUDIES, n.º 20 (20 de diciembre de 2023): 85–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.32589/2411-3883.20.2023.293576.

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This article analyzes developments in the field of literary studies that concentrate on the aesthetics of metamodernism. Researchers emphasize the following inherent characteristics of contemporary fictional writings: a return to modernist-style experimentation, the reconstruction of grand narratives rejected by postmodernism, oscillation between different aesthetic palettes, openness, a return to history, depth, affect, and new sincerity. The identification of these dominants in contemporary literature provides grounds for asserting the «waning» and exhaustion of postmodernism and the development ofa new way of narrativization and understanding of reality, which encompasses both the realities of high technological progress and economic instability.Scholars argue that innovative spirit of the early twentieth century serves as the foundation for the metamodernism of the twenty-first century. Metamodernism explores how the modernists expanded the horizons of literary potential by challenging well-established notions of narrative consistency. In contemporary fiction, we witness a response to modernism as an artistic endeavor that transcends borders, finding expression in various cultures. Metamodernist narratives, in this context, set themselves apart from an earlier form of modernism by embracing a self-aware and enduring commitment to rebellion and the presentation of the unfamiliar as literary innovations that emerged specifically during the early twentieth century.The metamodern turn’s oscillation between «irony and sincerity» can be seen as a thought-provoking response to the complex political landscape of an era marked by economic instability. In a world where economic uncertainties often shape political agendas and public discourse, this dynamic interplay between irony and sincerity reflects the multifaceted nature of contemporary political engagement.

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Wälivaara, Josefine. "Marginalized Bodies of Imagined Futurescapes: Ableism and Heteronormativity in Science Fiction". Culture Unbound 10, n.º 2 (30 de octubre de 2018): 226–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.2018102226.

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This article aims to contribute to an understanding of marginalized bodies in science fiction narratives by analyzing how physical disability and homosexuality/bisexuality have been depicted in popular science fiction film and television. Specifically, it analyzes what types of futures are evoked through the exclusion or inclusion of disability and homo/bisexuality. To investigate these futurescapes, in for example Star Trek and The Handmaid’s Tale, the paper uses film analysis guided by the theoretical approach of crip/queer temporality mainly in dialogue with disability/crip scholar Alison Kafer. Although narratives about the future in popular fiction occasionally imagines futures in which disability and homo/bisexuality exist the vast majority do not. This article argues that exclusion of characters with disabilities and homo/bisexual characters in imagined futures of science fiction perpetuate heteronormative and ableist normativity. It is important that fictional narratives of imagined futures do not limit portrayals to heterosexual and able-bodied people but, instead, take into account the ableist and heteronormative imaginaries that these narratives, and in extension contemporary society, are embedded in. Moreover, it is argued that in relation to notions of progression and social inclusion in imagined futurescapes portrayals of homo/bisexuality and disability has been used as narrative devices to emphasis “good” or “bad” futures. Furthermore, homo/bisexuality has increasingly been incorporated as a sign of social inclusion and progression while disability, partly due to the perseverance of a medical understanding of disability, instead is used as a sign of a failed future. However, the symbolic value ascribed to these bodies in stories are based on contemporary views and can thus change accordingly. To change the way the future is envisioned requires challenging how different types of bodies, desires, and notions of normativity are thought about. Sometimes imaginary futures can aid in rethinking and revaluating these taken-for-granted notions of normativity.

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Bryant, Victoria. "Harry Potter and the Osteopathic Medical School: Creating a Harry Potter-Themed Day as a High-Yield Review for Final Exams". Medical Science Educator 31, n.º 2 (13 de enero de 2021): 819–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40670-021-01204-2.

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AbstractIncorporating contemporary fiction into educational activities that are interactive and memorable creates a positive learning environment for students. The current article describes how our medical school created a Harry Potter-themed educational event to review didactic material before a final exam. Students were sorted into Hogwarts houses and collected house points in the 8 themed classrooms that reviewed material for the individual disciplines. The event also included a Quidditch tournament and a Yule Ball. The event received positive feedback from students, encouraging the school’s faculty to look for other opportunities to create similar educational experiences during preclinical medical education.

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Smillie, Rachel. "Criminal Genius: Constructing Women of Science in L. T. Meade's Detective Fiction". Victoriographies 7, n.º 2 (julio de 2017): 143–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2017.0268.

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This article explores the construction of the criminal masterminds Madame Koluchy and Madame Sara in L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace's detective series The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings (1899) and The Sorceress of the Strand (1903). Previously overlooked in critical histories of detective fiction, Meade's work has begun to attract interest in recent years. However, studies of both Brotherhood and Sorceress have tended to focus on Koluchy's and Sara's criminality and, as such, have not addressed their significance as women of science. Focusing on Sara's and Koluchy's roles as medical practitioners, this paper reads these women in the context of late nineteenth-century debates on medical orthodoxy and quackery, professionalism, and gender. Approached in this way, Sara's and Koluchy's criminality becomes intrinsically linked to their genius and the professional threat they pose to their detective counterparts who stand as representatives of male institutional science. Sara and Koluchy constitute an uncontainable challenge to male scientific authority and play on anxieties which the narratives fail to assuage. These women are positioned as composite figures who simultaneously embody and interrogate competing sides of the contemporary scientific and medical debate.

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Browarny, Wojciech. "„Polskie Łużyce” – próba literackiej rewitalizacji. O powieściach Haliny Barań". Wielogłos, n.º 1 (55) (2023): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/2084395xwi.23.001.17989.

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"Polish Lusatia" – An Attempt at Literary Revitalization: On the Novels of Halina Barań The article "Polish Lusatia" – An Attempt at Literary Revitalization: On the Novels of Halina Barań describes the collective memory and the regional identity field of the contemporary inhabitants of the area between Kwisa and Lusatian Neisse. „Polish Lusatia” is a borderland and polycentric area, therefore the author of the article takes into account it’s relationship with Polish and Sorbian national identification, "post-German" traces in the local landscape and regionally dominant (Lower) Silesia. From this perspective, he discusses Halina Barań's novels about Lusatia, analyzing the historiosophy and geopolitics of her fiction, as well as popular tropes used by the Bogatynia’s writer, including the "sack" (panhandle) and "tripoint" metaphors.

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Hughes, William. "‘The evil of our collective soul’: Zombies, medical capitalism and environmental apocalypse". Horror Studies 12, n.º 1 (1 de marzo de 2021): 7–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/host_00026_1.

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Though frequently comprehended as a vehicle for social satire or post-cultural speculation, zombie fictions also demonstrably mobilize the climatic unease of the current Anthropocene. Focusing in particular upon Max Brooks’s 2006 novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, this article considers the complex politics which have frequently underwritten a mythical origin for pandemics in the Othered East, and their contemporary reproduction in western concerns regarding unregulated surgery and the capitalism of human tissue. The article then proposes that the deterioration of human culture consequent upon the fictional zombie pandemic interrogates the contemporary understanding of integrated nationhood and problematizes the dichotomy structured between geographically stable and refugee populations. The sudden eclipse of the competitive Anthropocene by a mindless Zombicene brings not renewal for a planet no longer supporting agriculture and industry but rather a hastening of perceived environmental collapse, where unregulated hunting and the uncontrolled burning of natural resources accelerate climatic deterioration, imperilling further the survival of residual humanity. As a type of apocalyptic fiction, the zombie narrative thus poses questions with regard to the persistence of conventional human behaviours, even in a post-capitalist environment, where the political concepts structuring nationhood have come to function as little more than a memory.

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Elena, Alberto. "Exemplary lives: biographies of scientists on the screen". Public Understanding of Science 2, n.º 3 (julio de 1993): 205–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0963-6625/2/3/002.

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Cinema has emerged in the twentieth century as one of the most powerful vehicles for the popularization of science. Medical melodramas, science-fiction films and biopics can be used to advantage by historians and sociologists of science alike in order to reconstruct the always elusive public opinion. As a subgenre of historical films, biopics constitute a vigorous attempt to communicate to the lay public the ethos conventionally associated with scientific endeavour. Much more than a simple illustration of the lives of great scientists, biopics are one of the best indicators of public attitudes towards science and technology in contemporary society.

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Iliuchenko, Mariia. "THE CONCEPT OF TIME IN AMERICAN LITERATURE THROUGH THE LENS OF METAMODERN PERCEPTION". CONTEMPORARY LITERARY STUDIES, n.º 20 (20 de diciembre de 2023): 91–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.32589/2411-3883.20.2023.293580.

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Time, as a basic concept of physics and philosophy, being an obligatory coordinate of our world, is present in modern American literature, both as an artistic effect that adorns the narrative, a tool for creating artistic reality, and as a system that changes the way of thinking. The action of the laws of time extends both to a person and to a literary work, but modern literature adapts these laws to fiction needs and experiments with its flow within a work. This article examines the artistic aspects of various concepts of time in modern American literature (starting from the end of XX to its current state) and their influence on the reader through the lens of the transition from postmodern to metamodern philosophical worldview provoked by the actual level of science development, globalization, and digitalization as well as the interaction of human perception of these processes and reactions to them with contemporary literary trends.

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Царева, Е. В. "Document and fiction in Julian Barnes’s The Man in the Red Coat". Вестник Рязанского государственного университета имени С.А. Есенина, n.º 3(80) (29 de septiembre de 2023): 127–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.37724/rsu.2023.80.3.013.

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Статья посвящена книге современного британского писателя Джулиана Барнса «Портрет мужчины в красном» (2019). Актуальность работы заключается в необходимости осмысления жанровой природы книги, ее художественных и стилистических особенностей, не получивших в силу ее новизны достаточного научного освещения. Цель работы состоит в выявлении соотношения художественного и документального в книге «Портрет мужчины в красном». В результате работы обосновывается, что текст книги построен на взаимопроникновении художественного и документального начала. Доказывается, что художественное начало в книге Барнса представлено на различных уровнях, в разнообразии форм и средств. В первую очередь, это особенности нарративной стратегии. Во-вторых, художественное начало в книге обеспечивается обращением к широкому кругу литературных источников, что может быть охарактеризовано как интертекстуальность. Не менее значимыми являются использование интермедиальных тропов, обращения к живописи, фотографии, музыке и в целом к искусству эпохи рубежа XIX–XX веков. Список прецедентных текстов, произведений живописи и музыки при этом охватывает широкий круг авторов Франции и Великобритании рубежа XIX–XXвеков. Кроме того, художественное начало книги также обеспечивается образностью, яркостью и выразительностью языка, присущей стилю автора иронией и т. д. Таким образом, доказывается, что в книге представлены как документальное, так и художественное начало. Результаты исследования могут быть использованы при изучении курса зарубежной литературы в целом и творчества Дж. Барнса в частности. The article is devoted to a book written by the modern British writer Julian Barnes, The Man in the Red Coat (2019). The relevance of the work lies in the current need to comprehend the genre of the book, its artistic and stylistic bases, which have not been fully addressed by contemporary scholarship. The purpose of the work is to identify the relationship between fiction and document in the book The Man in the Red Coat. The conclusion to the research substantiates that the text of the book is based on interpenetration of artistic and documentary principles. The paper shows that this artistic principle is presented in Barnes’s book at various levels and in a variety of forms and means. First of all, these are the features of his narrative strategy. Secondly, the artistic principle in the book is provided by referring to a wide range of literary sources (intertextuality). Equally significant means embrace the use of intermedial tropes, allusions to painting, photography, music and, in general, to all arts at the turn of the 19th–20thcenturies. The list of precedent texts, paintings of and music embrace a wide range of French and British authors at the turn of the 19th–20thcenturies. In addition, the very opening of the book is characterized by figurativeness, brightness and expressive language, the irony inherent in the author’s style, etc. Thus, the paper proves that the book rests on both documentary and poetic bases. The results of the research can be further applied in teaching history of foreign literature and specifically J. Barnes’s works.

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Tsimbaeva, E. N. "Behind the stage of a literary text ‘The blessing of good health’". Voprosy literatury, n.º 2 (5 de mayo de 2022): 125–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2022-2-125-147.

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The article continues the discussion started in ‘Behind the stage of a literary text. ‘Custom is despot among men’’ (Voprosy Literatury, 2020, issue 6). Health problems caused by poor hygiene, limitations of medical care, and inadequate physical activity of people in the mid-18th — early 20th cc. get almost no mention in fiction of the period, although they definitely had bearing on the life of any literary character of the day. Analysis of the culture of the everyday reveals factors that shaped philosophies of bygone-era authors, who inevitably fell under the influence of contemporary cultural and gender stereotypes embedded in the daily life. Such factors proved highly influential for plots, in particular, through aposiopesis. The article offers a comparison of the attitudes to unappealing hygiene-related subjects in literature and visual arts. Examined in detail is the problem of physical culture and sport: the 20th c. brought about radical cultural and psychological shifts in the attitude to these areas of human activities, especially among women, which often limits appreciation of both fiction of the past and events of its authors’ lives.

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Zhao, Jialin. "Feminism in French Novels in the Late Renaissance-From the Perspective of Madeleine de Scudéry’s "The Story of Sapho"". Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature 3, n.º 5 (25 de junio de 2022): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.46809/jcsll.v3i5.165.

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At the end of the Renaissance, Madeleine de Scudéry, an early exponent of historical fiction, infused French feminism with the spiritual qualities of the Renaissance with her novel The Story of Sapho. In this context, this essay takes it as the main subject and analyses the feminist qualities of this novel by examining the influence of the work over a period of nearly four centuries and comparing it specifically with the ideas of Gournay, one of the pioneers of French feminism, Rousseau, a revolutionary tutor, and Mona Ozouf, a contemporary historian. The study reveals that, unlike the feminism of Gournay's novel, Scudéry uses Sapho to reveal the birth of a new era of women with feminine virtue, feminine friendship and feminine love, and in this way to leave behind the old feminism of power struggles and gender differences. In the 18th century, this novel influenced Rousseau's Émile, in which the heroes and heroines are highly similar, and he continues to some extent the universalist spirit of The Story of Sapho, Rousseau's examination of the relationship between men and women has a similar concern to that of Scudéry, the pursuit of a harmonious society for both sexes. Finally, this novel echoes the uniqueness of French feminism as described by contemporary historian Mona Ozouf. In the long line of French feminism, Scudéry’s vision embodies the humanistic concerns of a feminism with a humanist core.

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Murphy, Katharine. "An Epidemic of Apathy: Abulia and the Language of Pathology in Baroja’s Early Fiction". Hispanic Review 91, n.º 3 (junio de 2023): 387–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hir.2023.a903835.

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ABSTRACT: The literary exposition of abulia in Pío Baroja’s early novels, especially La lucha por la vida trilogy, illuminates the ways in which diagnostic language from psychopathology was adapted, assimilated, and disseminated through the trajectories of fictional characters who suffer from a loss of volition. This article analyzes cultural narratives about abulia in Baroja’s early fiction, demonstrating that they constitute a resonant pathological metaphor during a period in Spain’s history defined by national introspection and regenerationist debates. By tracing metaphorical explanations for social, political, and economic circumstances conveyed through the literary appropriation of medical terminology, this study explores comparisons between abulia and the gendered and class-based associations of neurasthenia at the turn of the twentieth century. Although the assumed causes of each condition are different, this process of transposition between medicine and metaphor anticipates the contemporary social, cultural, and ideological shaping of concepts such as stress and burnout.

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Klepuszewski, Wojciech. "‘The Delightful Logic of Intoxication’: Fictionalising Alcoholism". Acta Neophilologica 52, n.º 1-2 (17 de diciembre de 2019): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.52.1-2.97-118.

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Alcohol invariably connotes different, often conflicting, feelings. As Iain Gately rightly observes in Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol (2009), it “has been credited with the powers of inspiration and destruction” (1). This reflection is as relevant to classical antiquity, when wine was savoured during the Greek symposia, as to the modern world, in which alcohologists study the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. However, much as sociological, psychological, and medical research into alcoholism provide statistics, problem-analysis, and therapeutic approaches, literature offers representations of alcoholism which allow for a more profound insight into alcohol dependence and its many implications. This article focuses on how alcoholism is dissected and contextualised in literature, predominantly in contemporary English fiction.

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Stark, Alexander, Khairul Hiyam Baharuddin, Ariezal Afzan Hassan y Nazatul Syima Mohd Nasir. "Mystical Elements in the Novels of Marah Rusli". Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH) 9, n.º 1 (30 de enero de 2024): e002648. http://dx.doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v9i1.2648.

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Marah Rusli is widely recognized as a prominent figure in Indonesian literature, particularly in the field of writing novels. He is regarded as the 'father' of contemporary Indonesian fiction. His well-known writings, including Sitti Nurbaya, were the subject of numerous analyses. The mystical components, another aspect of Marah Rusli's writing that appears to be recurrent, will be examined by the researchers in this article. The findings indicate that Marah Rusli, despite being aligned with modernist ideals and expressing criticism towards traditional Minangkabau rituals, exhibited a profound inclination towards mystical concepts that can be characterized as rooted in folk beliefs. His autobiographical novel Memang Jodoh, in particular, includes numerous mystical influences and illustrates supernatural events. For the reader, this fact is fascinating as it provides new, important background information about the work of Marah Rusli.

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Paul, David y G. Alan. "Problematizing the Postmodern Condition in Em and the Big Hoom". Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, n.º 6 (1 de junio de 2022): 1114–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1206.11.

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This paper investigates and problematizes the postmodern condition in Jerry Pinto's novel, Em and the Big Hoom. The complex, medical, psychoanalytic, and psychiatric history of the characters’ psyche is traced out in the novel. Postmodernism is an outgrowth of Modernism. It denotes the status of contemporary society, the revolutions, modifications, and shifts in science, literature, and arts. Taking into account all of the significant shifts from Modernism to Postmodernism, the study explicates Postmodernism as a movement, the Postmodern era along with the postmodern condition, and the postmodern tenets. The Psyche of the postmodern characters as presented by the author in his psychological fiction is profoundly probed in the paper. There is an intense focus on how important tenets like fragmentation, non-linearity, intertextuality, and playfulness are inherent in the novel.

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Castillo, Debra A. "Male Pregnancy in Yucatán, 2218: Eduardo Urzaiz's Eugenia". Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 58, n.º 1 (marzo de 2024): 27–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2024.a931917.

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Abstract: This article studies the 1919 novel Eugenia by the prolific Yucatec writer and medical doctor Eduardo Urzaiz, focusing on gestational surrogacy and its implications as it is represented in this short novel. I argue that Urzaiz's fantasy of mainstreamed assisted reproduction technology and gestational surrogacy echoes current, more dissimulated discussions of what it means for affluent members of society with disposable income to place an order for a designer baby. While eugenics received a bad name after the excesses of the Nazi regime, its underlying principles certainly remain salient, as do the questions raised by contemporary watchdog institutes about what happens when science is not monitored by ethics. Novels like this speculative fiction presciently ask us to interrogate more fundamentally, what ethics are, and from whose limited cultural perspective we make universalist claims.

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Battersby, Doug. "‘Who in This World Knows Anything of Any Other Heart?’: Ford Madox Ford and the New Cardiology". Modernist Cultures 17, n.º 2 (mayo de 2022): 246–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2022.0370.

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The Good Soldier (1915) is a novel famously preoccupied by disorders of the heart, whether real, invented, or misdiagnosed. This essay examines Ford Madox Ford's magnum opus in light of his own experiences of medical treatment (including in the spa town of Nauheim where the novel is set), showing just how directly it reflects contemporary innovations in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. These innovations were a result of the advent of ‘the new cardiology,’ a movement that sought to disaggregate cardiac and psychiatric diagnoses, bringing to an end a period in which doctors might consider emotions and desires ‘matters of the heart’ in a more than metaphorical sense. The essay aims, firstly, to illustrate how The Good Soldier captures a crucial moment in heart medicine, and secondly, to model an interdisciplinary approach to representations of affect and the body in modernist fiction that emphasises their enmeshment with early twentieth century medical culture.

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Лисанець, Юлія Валеріївна, Олена Миколаївна Бєляєва y Інеса Віталіївна Роженко. "МОТИВИ ЕПІДЕМІЇ ТА ПАНДЕМІЇ В ЛІТЕРАТУРНО-МЕДИЧНОМУ ДИСКУРСІ ПРОЗИ США". Наукові записки Харківського національного педагогічного університету ім. Г. С. Сковороди "Літературознавство" 1, n.º 99 (2022): 69–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.34142/2312-1076.2022.1.99.05.

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The aim of this research is to examine the narrative representation of epidemics in the 20th century U.S. literature, using the methods of narratological analysis and receptive aesthetics. The study relies on the corpus of the 20th century U.S. novels: Scarlet Plague (1912) by Jack London, Earth Abides (1949) by George R. Stewart, I am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson, The Stand (1978) by Stephen King, Contagion (1996) by Robin Cook, and Darwin’s Radio (1999) by Greg Bear. The aspects of epidemic representation in fiction have been studied using modern literary criticism research in the areas of narratology and receptive aesthetics, which determines the relevance of the present paper. The motif is rooted in the 19th-century Romantic literature (E.A. Poe’s fiction); it acquires further extensive development in the 20th century science fiction, horror, post-apocalyptic (dystopian) and contemporary medical thriller genres. In the second half of the 20th century, by using the motifs of epidemic and pandemic, the writers contemplate upon the issues of science, its capacities, limitations and potential hazards. In the frame of examined novels, the pandemic topos serves as a tool for «reloading» the human population on earth, «resetting» humanity and bringing it back ad fonts. It also acts as a reminder about the dangers of negligence and misuse of research advances. In such a manner, the authors caution the readers against the potential dangers of the 20th-century advances. In the light of COVID-19 pandemic, the study of the literary depiction of this motif in national literatures and different historical periods becomes especially relevant, because it allows us to re-consider this phenomenon and thus to try to help the mankind to learn one's lesson and perhaps avoid similar calamities in the future.

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Stachura, Paweł. "Anticipation and Divination of Technological Culture: Dialectic Images of the Internet in Emerson’s Nature". Polish Journal for American Studies, n.º 10 (2016) (29 de agosto de 2023): 147–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/pjas.10/2016.09.

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The article presents certain aspects of the Internet (interface design, user behavior, advertising, codes of conduct) as new incarnations of the American pastoralism, defined in terms derived from literary criticism and history of American literature. The rationale of this procedure is provided in terms of “dialectic images,” which are old pieces of imagery that seem to anticipate subsequent technological and social developments. Of particular importance is the set of dialectical images derived from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings, and the pastoral descriptions of nature derived from various American poets and fiction writers. Arguably, dialectic images of the Internet offer an opportunity for a better understanding of contemporary development of the Internet, and its possible future.

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Kakar, Sara Iqbal, Humaira Riaz y Nayab Ahmad Khan. "‘WAR AS REMEDY OR POISON’: READING THE BLIND MAN'S GARDEN AND THE KITE RUNNER WITH A CRITICAL LENS OF MBEMBE’S NECROPOLITICS". Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 9, n.º 3 (30 de junio de 2021): 1577–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2021.93158.

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Purpose of the Study: This study emphasizes the contribution of fiction in highlighting the American exercise of power around the world predominantly Pakistan and Afghanistan. It investigates how America has become a dictating body deciding the life and death of human beings mainly in South Asian developing countries. Methodology: Being Qualitative, this study uses Eaglestone’s (2000) close reading technique to analyze words and structure of the texts of Khalid Hosseini's The Kite Runner and Nadeem Aslam Khan’s The Blind Man’s Garden. It develops a descriptive thesis leading to construct arguments by drawing a theoretical framework from Mbembe’s necropolitics (2003). Mbembe took his inspiration from Foucault’s idea of bio-power. Modern narrative discourse on sovereignty and its relation to war is taken as the main subject of necropolitics. Mbembe’s idea of sovereignty as an exercise to get control of the mortality of the enemy helps to interpret the texts via the close reading method. Main Findings: This study evaluated two novels to assert that necropolitics by taking its four basic concepts, power, war, politics, and death was the actual controlling power of a country. It analyzed fictional characters to argue how individuals endured hardships because of the necropolitical exercise of America and Russia in Afghanistan. Mbembe’s conception of necropolitics helps in understanding fiction. Applications of this study: The present study has significant implications from both theoretical and interpretative perspectives. Necropolitics, originally a political notion is reworked in fiction, which asserts that using this concept, power relations, their roots, and exercise around the world can be explored in various fields. This study contributes to dismantling the latent necropolitics in the society represented in fiction. It elevates the social and political consciousness of the general public of South Asia, particularly Pakistan and Afghanistan. This study can be helpful in the field of psychology to popularize the notion of necropolitics in contemporary society. Novelty/Originality of this study: Comparatively a new field, Necropolitics has been discussed in the fields of medical sciences and education. This study significantly highlights its existence in the field of literary studies. Fiction as a direct reflection of society helps in deconstructing the prevailing exercise of necropolitics in South Asian society. It is also helpful in raising the social and political consciousness of South Asian people.

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Kyrchanoff, Maksym W. "Looking for a Bookstore in Town: Intellectual Readers and the Death of “Gutenberg Galaxy”". Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies 3, n.º 4 (18 de diciembre de 2021): 51–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i4.169.

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The author analyses the problems of erosion of the book culture and the role of bookishness in the contemporary Western and Russian identities. While analysing the processes of disappearance and displacement of bookshops, the author presumes that culture of bookstores and communication subcultures in them cannot compete with networks and e-commerce. It is assumed that the logic of capitalism favours the progress of on-line bookstores, specialising in the serial and mass literature while independent bookstores prefer to sell intellectual, non-fiction, and academic books that are not interesting to consumer readers of mass culture. The author tries to analyse causes of private non-mass bookstores crisis. The author believes that intellectuals of 2000s were optimistic in their prognosis for the development of bookstores as spaces of cultural initiatives. By the end of 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the number of independent bookstores decreased significantly when on-line bookstores occupied their place. It is assumed that the cultures of reading, book collections, personal libraries lost the positions they held in the 20th century and even in the first decade of the 21st century. The author presumes that independent bookstores became cultural ghettos and intellectual reservations, when net bookstores became successful actors of the mass culture. In general, it is predicted that heterogeneous, regionally localised minority book cultures and reading strategies of the New Medievalism may replace the “mass” book as a cultural institution of a modern political imagined communities as elements of the dying Gutenberg Galaxy with its heterogeneous national identities.

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Nachlik, Olesia. "“YOU CAN’T LIVE REMEMBERING, BUT YOU CAN’T LIVE FORGETTING”: UKRAINIAN RECEPTION OF CONTEMPORARY POLISH LITERARY REPORTS ABOUT THE WAR (W. TOCHMAN, W. JAGIELSKI, W. GÓRECKI)". Polish Studies of Kyiv, n.º 36 (2020): 263–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/psk.2020.36.263-275.

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During the last few years in Ukrainian translations appear more and more books belonging to non-fiction literature, including literary reports. The current popularity of this genre on the Ukrainian book market, as well as among readers, is caused by the topicality of the issues raised in such texts. A separate place in the Ukrainian reception of translations of contemporary Polish literature is occupied by the subject of war conflicts, because one of them during last several years takes place in Ukraine. So we perceive in the Ukrainian public discourse a sharp demand to discuss important and painful for most Ukrainians problems, related to rethinking of the ethical categories, moral values and adopting of traumatic experience related to war. Reports by W. Tochman (translated in 2009), W. Górecki (in 2018) and W. Jagielski (in 2019) devoted to completed or ongoing conflicts described in private stories, are not only testimonies of the fate of specific people, but they are also an element of the collective memory of nations. In the article have been analyzed texts-reactions that show the main accents of Ukrainian interpretations of these works. They all are connected by thinking about man and his world in and after the war, an attempt to search for its causes and effects, as well as the possibility of learning for the existence after the war with overcoming the pain, despair, hostility and mutual accusations of those who survived in it. In addition, the article has proved the important role of report, thanks to its reminder function, for modern Ukrainians in (re)updating the traumatic experience as part of their collective memory, which was removed from historical narrative in Soviet times, but is now being absorbed because of the war in the Donbas region. Separate attention (on the example of the Caucasian microcosm of Abkhazia) was devoted to sociological and historical analysis by the recipients of Ukrainian quasi-states with disputed borders and an unclear status with the inhabitants, who are constantly looking for their identity and being in the difficult relations with the rest of the world, which denies them to exist.

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Cho, Su-il. "Imagination of New Coexistence and Harmony: Focusing on Hiroyuki Itsuki’s “Good-bye Moscow”". Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities 14 (30 de junio de 2023): 175–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.37123/th.2023.14.175.

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This article aims to consider the imagination of new coexistence and harmony through the reading of Hiroyuki Itsuki(五木寛之)’s debut work, “Good-bye Moscow” (さらば,モスクワ愚連隊). This work, which was carried out from the perspective of Kitami(北見)=“I,” who was a jazz pianist and is currently representing a performing company, is a kind of middlebrow fiction published in 1966, and has been read as a text to redefine his origin through a Soviet boy named Misha. This paper also focuses on the speaker “I,” who is different from the character “I,” to explain where and how the speaker develops the novel, and what the imagination of new coexistence and harmony implies by overlapping the intended or unintended meaning of the narrative and expression with contemporary Japanese context.

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Bickford III, John H. y Taylor A. Badal. "Trade Books’ Historical Representation of Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the World". Social Studies Research and Practice 11, n.º 3 (1 de noviembre de 2016): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-03-2016-b0001.

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Contemporary education initiatives require English language arts educators spend half their time on non-fiction and history and social studies teachers to include diverse sources. Beginning in the early grades within the aforementioned curricula, students are to scrutinize multiple texts of the same historical event, era, or figure. Whereas trade books are a logical curricular resource for English language arts and history and social studies curricula, the education mandates do not provide suggestions. Research indicates trade books are rife with historical misrepresentations, yet few empirical studies have been completed so more research is needed. Our research examined the historical representation of Eleanor Roosevelt within trade books for early and middle-grades students. Identified historical misrepresentations included minimized or omitted accounts of the societal contexts and social relationships that shaped Mrs. Roosevelt’s social conscience and civic involvement. Effective content spiraling, in which complexity and nuance increase with grade level, between early and middle-grades trade books did not appear. Pedagogical suggestions included ways to position students to identify the varying degrees of historical representation within different trade books and integrate supplementary primary sources to balance the historical gaps.

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Osadchaya, Tatyana y Galina Lushnikova. "Synthesis of Documentary and Artistic Codes in Dave Eggers’ Story “The Monk of Mokha”". Philology & Human, n.º 1 (5 de marzo de 2023): 192–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.14258/filichel(2023)1-15.

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This article is devoted to the analysis of documentary fiction based on the material of the story “The Monk of Mokha” by a contemporary American writer Dave Eggers. The purpose of the study is to identify methods of implementing and synthesizing documentary and artistic codes in this work, as well as to determine the main functions of such a synthesis in the conceptual and thematic structure of the story. The study of factual and fictional narratives’ components in the story under consideration has shown that the factual narrative is determined by the author’s concern for authenticity, accuracy and truth, which is revealed through the following elements: using the names and descriptions of real geographical objects, depicting the typical attributes of the era, presenting historical facts and real-life events of our time, portraying real persons as characters. Fictional components include special forms of real facts interpretation: the author’s mode of narration, special narrative strategies, imaginative expression of ideas and themes, using various stylistic means and devices. As a result of such contamination, the author creates a certain model of artistic reality which is based on documentary materials.

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MÎRZEA-VASILE, Carmen. "Corpusurile de limba română și importanța lor în realizarea de materiale didactice pentru limba română ca limbă străină". Romanian Studies Today 1, n.º 1/2017 (1 de diciembre de 2017): 74–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.62229/rst/1.1/5.

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The Romanian Corpora and their importance in creating teaching materials for Romanian L2 The article has two aims: 1. to describe the corpora of contemporary non-dialectal Romanian, including both electronic corpora — The Romanian Balanced Annotated Corpus (ROMBAC), RoCo_News (a Journalistic Corpus of Romanian), The Reference Corpus of Contemporary Romanian Language (CoRoLa), etc. — and raw oral corpora, available in print only — Româna vorbită actuală (ROVA), Corpus de română vorbită (CORV), Interacţiunea verbală în limba română actuală (IVLRA), Corpus de limbă română vorbită actuală (CLRVA), etc.; 2. to plead for using corpora for pedagogical purposes, especially in creating teaching materials for Romanian as a foreign / second language. The article gives a short general description of the corpora and their applications in Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching. The Romanian corpora are hardly known even by the Romanian researchers; their presentation takes into account the stylistic structure, annotation, number of words and tokens, etc. (for electronical corpora); the number of texts, the period of time when the records were made, the type of texts, etc. (for oral corpora in print). The second part contains some examples of possible corpora applications for Romanian as a foreign/ second language: a list of the most frequent words; the refinement of the characteristics of various types of texts (medical, legal, journalistic, fiction, etc.); the most relevant contexts for the argumental structure of verbs, adjectives, etc. In fact, the aim of the paper is to argue for developing annotated corpora for Romanian, easily accessible to researchers, professors and even students, and for using the existing corpora for pedagogical purposes.

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Wisłocka, Kamila. "PORTRAYAL OF LOSS AND SUFFERING IN LITERATURE AND ART- A REVIEW OF “LORENZO’S OIL”". Researchers' Guild 2, n.º 1 (9 de octubre de 2020): 68–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/rg2019.7.

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Cinema has always been a powerful means of cultural, social and educational propaganda and people seem to be more receptive to the audio-visual media than just audio or print. Thus, films or movies have become a very effective means of social dissemination of information. The films are a reflection of the society and their stories come from society itself. The stories of the films do not just come from the present situation of societies around the world, rather since the time societies have been in existence. They revolve around a variety of themes ranging from romance to thriller or from science fiction to serious documentaries. A very crucial genre of films which began during the era of the ’70s communicated about the sufferings in human lives. The pivotal role in this genre was played by the films which revolved around the depiction of life-threatening diseases. This paper discusses the role and significance of cinema in unfolding the atrocities faced by the sufferers and how they handle it. The aim of this paper is to present the subject of suffering and death in contemporary cinema with the example of the film “Lorenzo’s oil”. The research not only explains how suffering is shown on the big screen, but also reveals the medical community's approach to patients in case of diagnosing and treating serious and rare diseases.

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Gaidash, Anna. "LITERARY GERONTOLOGY: DEFINITION, HISTORY, CONCEPTS". LITERARY PROCESS: methodology, names, trends, n.º 13 (2019): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2019.133.

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The goal of the article is to provide an extended definition and in-depth description of literary gerontology as a branch of humanities. Contemporary world witnesses how the number of elderly people increases that makes the research relevant. Literary gerontology forms in the mid-1970s in the framework of age studies. Scholars of literary gerontology examine the gerontological markers in fictional texts. Unlike sociologists or medical gerontologists who regard biological aging as involution of the body/brain and degradation of the individual, the literary scholars consider fictional representations of late adulthood in a much more contrastive and tragic focus: elderly people are forced to deal with numerous negative stereotypes of old age in a youth-oriented culture. Therefore the key concept of literary gerontology studies is ageism which etymology is traced in the lexical unit of “age”. Its initial meaning “lifetime; maturity; vital force” is lost over time, acquiring the connotation of “decline” (feebleness; senility). One of the problems of literary gerontology studies is the widespread use of ageist euphemisms in fiction. The methods used in the paper are mixed: historical data processing, analyses of interdisciplinary resources (literary gerontology, social gerontology, age studies). The results can be practical for classes of theory of literature and social gerontology. The findings of the paper inform of the origin of literary gerontology studies, its key concept of ageism and a set of semantic and poetic tools for further research.

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Kryshtof, Nadiia. "SOCIO-POLITICAL ISSUES OF THE DETECTIVE TRILOGY OF ZYGMUNT MILOSHEVSKY". Polish Studies of Kyiv, n.º 39 (2023): 203–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/psk.2023.39.203-217.

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The problems presented in the detective trilogy of Zygmunt Miłoszewski do not lose their relevance because there are connected with the past and the social life of the country. The author immerses the reader in historical plots in order to show social occurrence more fully. In “Entanglement” the leitmotif is the activities of the Security Service of the People’s Republic of Poland and the consequences of the existence and disintegration of this structure. “Grain of Truth” addresses the problem of anti-Semitism in Poland. In order to explain the genesis of this phenomenon, the author touches on the issue of common Polish-Jewish history. The third part, titled as “Rage” addresses a problem that has begun to be recognized and discussed recently, namely domestic violence. It was established that the detective touches on many aspects of this phenomenon, namely describing all types of domestic violence, namely psychological, economic, sexual and physical, showing its negative impact on children, as well as the problems the victim faces in society. The socio-political background of Zygmunt Miłoszewski’s trilogy is diverse and vivid. Detective intrigue does not dominate, but it allows to fully discuss a certain social problem, to look at it from a new, still unpopular point of view and to form the reader’s own opinion on the subject. The modern literary process is not characterized by genre purity, so the detective stories of the trilogy by Z. Miloszewski combine features of several subgenres, as well as other literary genres. The focus on the protagonist’s inner world and the psychological motives behind all the murders indicates a psychological detective story. The use of the motif of a crime that took place in the past and requires investigation in the present indicates that the trilogy belongs to historical detective fiction. «Entanglement» uses the motif of a closed space, supposedly as in a classic detective story, but the main rule was broken, as the killer entered from the outside. «Grain of Truth» with its constant plot tension and the only action scene in the entire trilogy, can be considered a thriller. “Rage” on the other hand, which pays great attention to the protagonist’s daily and personal life, contains elements of a novel of manners. In the context of this genre diversity, the social problems of contemporary Poland are shown comprehensively, realistically and with great artistic aesthetics. The problems signaled in the novels require further research in the future.

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Anatol, Giselle Liza. "Getting to the Root of US Healthcare Injustices through Morrison’s Root Workers". MELUS 46, n.º 4 (1 de diciembre de 2021): 186–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab053.

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Abstract Although a number of scholars have tackled the figure of the Black folk-healer in Toni Morrison’s novels, the character deserves greater attention in the present moment for the insights she provides into two contemporary catastrophes: the coronavirus pandemic and the structural racism that precipitates rampant violence against brown-skinned people in the United States. Beginning with M’Dear, the elderly woman who is brought in to treat Cholly’s Aunt Jimmy in The Bluest Eye (1970), I survey descriptions of several root workers, hoodoo practitioners, and midwives in Morrison’s fiction, including Ajax’s mother in Sula (1973) and Milkman’s aunt Pilate in Song of Solomon (1977). Morrison’s portraits of these women and their communities capture the endurance of African folk customs, the undervalued knowledge of aged members of society, and a sense of Black women’s strength beyond that of the physical, laboring, or hypersexual body. The fictional experiences of Morrison’s healers also alert readers to the very real injustices that have historically impeded the successes of African Americans—and continue to hamper them, as has been exposed during the COVID-19 crisis and public outrages over police brutality. These injustices include inequities in lifelong earning potential, education, housing, and access to healthcare. Paying closer attention to the Nobel Laureate’s root-working women makes her novels more than simply “transformative” and “empowering” for individual readers; analyzing these figures allows one to unearth important critiques of medical bias and other forms of discrimination against marginalized members of society—disparities that must be dismantled in the push for social change.

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Trammell, Matthew. "“DREAMING TRUE”: EMBODIED MEMORY, TRANSUBJECTIVITY, AND NOVELTY IN GEORGE DU MAURIER'SPETER IBBETSON". Victorian Literature and Culture 46, n.º 2 (16 de mayo de 2018): 365–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150318000050.

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InConfessions of an EnglishOpium Eater(1821), Thomas De Quincey famously describes the mind as a palimpsest upon which inscribed memories are never truly lost to the passage of time. These memories, especially of childhood, lurk under the conscious surface of the mind, waiting to be rediscovered during intervals of intensified desultory memory that are made possible for De Quincey by opium-induced dreaming. Opium is utilized during these dreams as a perception-altering technology; memories of childhood are not only recalled while under the influence of the drug, but are revivified in a way that extends beyond the dreamer's normal mental capacity. The formulation of dreaming as a state in which memories buried under the palimpsest of time were retrieved and “relived” was important to a wide array of philosophers, medical doctors, and psychologists over the course of the long nineteenth century, culminating in Freud's seminalThe Interpretation of Dreamsin 1899. Alongside the theorization of ‘dream science’ in psychological and medical contexts, the Victorian literati provided their own contributions in both sensation novels and realist fiction. Reciprocally, as has been discussed in much recent work within Victorian studies, well-known characters and scenes from contemporary literature were often used to illustrate dream theories, neurological conditions, and philosophical conceptions of the self in scholarly journals and medical textbooks. The most fantastical literary treatment of dream space as a wholly separate realm within which the dreaming subject can fully recover and even surpass the sensations associated with earlier memories occurs in George Du Maurier's oft-overlookedPeter Ibbetson(1891). Over the course of the novel, the titular narrator reveals (inconsistently and in sometimes contradictory ways) dream space to be a world in which the habitual reliving of childhood events is an endlessly satisfying, novel, and strangely embodied experience for the protagonist and his lover, while also possessing connections to human evolutionary precursors and the afterlife. InPeter Ibbetson, habit is not the deadening enemy of novelty and experience that is so often portrayed in contemporary interpretations of Victorian literature. Rather, habit qua the mental technology of “dreaming true,” a form of intense, consciously-directed dreaming practiced by the novel's central characters, is paradoxically portrayed as a method by which the freshness of sensation associated with an original event can be endlessly recreated and even surpassed within a dream of that event. Contrary to twenty-first century depictions of dreams as events that help the subject to become habituated to emotional stresses, Du Maurier presents dreaming true as a practice that intensifies rather than inures the dreaming subject's emotional relationship to vivid or traumatic childhood events (Hartmann 2). Inherent in this reading is a radical formulation of the relationship between habit and novelty as understood in the late Victorian novel, revealing the generative power of habit that is disclosed within dream space.

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Fedoriaka, Liudmyla y Iryna Klymenko. "THOMAS NASHE IS NOT A SATIRIST: THE IMAGE OF “THE BLACK DEATH” IN HIS POETRY". Fìlologìčnì traktati 14, n.º 2 (2022): 126–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/ftrk.2022.14(2)-13.

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The authors of this article focus on poetics of “triptych about the Black death”, which is included in the play “Summer’s Last Will and Testament” (1592) written by the Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe. As this writer is well-known to modern literary scholars mostly as a talented satirist, the author of a novel and numerous pamphlets, the attention to his poetic heritage is nowadays surprisingly relevant from the view point of their thematic vector and from the viewpoint of the author’s contribution into the development of the Elizabethan poetic tradition. The three poems about the London plague of 1592-1594 forced T. Nashe to change both his lifestyle and concepts of his fiction. Faced with inevitable illness and death, the writer demonstrated his imagination about plague in poems that enrich the fictional structure of drama. Being united by the ideas of the life transience and the fear of death, the author’s psycho-emotional state and his contemporaries’ universal vision of the medical disaster are manifested in different ways. In this article, there is also an attempt to find out the ideological and fictional specificity of the poems and their correlation with the structural and compositional organization of the play, as well as to define so-called theatricality as an artistic feature of drama. Some unfamiliar facts from the author’s life and socio-cultural context are also placed in the given article. Having analyzed the poems, the authors of the research came to conclusion that their uniqueness lies in the following: in his first drama Nashe represented his first poems, moreover, for the first time in the Late Renaissance literature, they were devoted to the Black death. This artistic achievement differs Th. Nashe from contemporary men-of-letter. Thanks to these poems, Nashe can be henceworth considered not only a great satirist, but also as a talented poet of the Elizabethan age.

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Popova, S. y V. Bilokon. "DYSTOPIAN VISION OF 2052 IN HENLEY’S “SIGNATURE”". Studia Philologica 2, n.º 17 (2021): 86–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2311-2425.2021.1711.

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Modern drama tends to catch up with the representation of the dystopian alternative worlds much like the contemporary mass culture. Sci-fi and dystopian productions become popular onstage because the medical and technological breakthroughs occur so rapidly in our present-day life that the humanity fails to reflect them properly. There are the following main features pertaining to science fiction in drama, namely dystopian play: fantastical concepts in tune with the modern scientific theory; the illusion of authenticity via scientific methodology; creation of a fictional world on the basis of the factors and tendencies of wide public importance. The aim of this article is to study the generic features of sci-fi subgenre of dystopia on the material of Henley’s drama “Signature” (1990). The play written by the US woman dramatist introduces the world deprived of meaningful lives for its characters whose fake values drive them to grave consequences (death, loss of the beloved). This text for staging warns the audience about the devaluation of human life in favor of elusive success. Henley’s 2052 Hollywood is a dystopic space for rather emotionless characters (the T-Thorp brothers, L-Tip, the Reader), who understand their failures and losses when it is too late. The only exception is William, selfless and unafraid of predicaments. The fundamental for the Western civilization phenomenon of love is distorted and disregarded in favor of immediate satisfaction and addiction to fame. Like her predecessors in sci-fi Henley predicts a mass human alienation in not so distant future. Yet the open end of Boswell’s story somewhat decreases the horror of dystopia – there is a remote chance that after anagnorisis the protagonist will find his beloved and make peace with her even though for a very short time. Henley’s dystopia constructs the ambivalent vision of the future, charged with questions of cryonics, cloning, global digitalization, omnipresent euthanasia, environmentalism and feminism.

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Bordignon, Irene. "Botanical Awareness and Adolescent Maturation in Siri Pettersen’s Odin’s Child". Plant Perspectives 1, n.º 1 (15 de abril de 2024): 145–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/whppp.63845494909710.

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This article supports the thesis that (eco)fantasy novels written for young adult people are nowadays crucial to give the next generation an ecological expertise to face environmental challenges. It is therefore important to consider what perceptions of nature are actually conveyed through the reading of these literary works, thus involving a pure dissemination of knowledge about flora. The novel Odin’s Child (Odinsbarn, 2013) by Siri Pettersen is considered here, giving voice to arboreal and botanical perspectives and basing the analysis on phytocriticism and the recent developments in ecocriticism. Odin’s Child supports the belief that a deep knowledge about botanical elements can be shared through the practice of embodiment and through an active interaction with the plant world, especially at a young age; for this reason, the importance of liminality and the role of contemporary literature in the human maturation process are underlined here. Plants play multiple sustainable roles in our life and for the survival of the planet: they are sources of medical treatments, and absorbers of carbon dioxide and other air pollutants (Jones and MacLeod 2022). Yet, it is only recently that scholars from the humanities have started analysing the role of plants in fiction, inaugurating the so-called ‘plant-turn’. The aim of this study is to highlight the importance of plants and botanical knowledge in young people’s understanding of and engagement with the natural world via young adult literature. This article’s approach will underscore the pedagogical value of ecofantasy as a suitable genre in creating empathy and a positive attunement towards flora in young readers. The central part of this paper, informed by the work of John C. Ryan (2018) and his phytocritical method, provides an analysis of the botanical elements of the econovel Odin’s Child, with an emphasis on its affective potential. A final reflection will involve new materialistic visions – such as the concepts of hybridisation (Curry 2013) and transcorporeality (Alaimo 2010) – in considering the liminal space of human/non-human and the girl/woman maturation process through which the novel develops.

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KRISBAI, Raluca. "Teodora Popescu (Editor). Cognitive approaches to contemporary media. New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. Pp. i-xi, 1-210. ISBN: 978-1-5275-6953-9". Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education 14, n.º 2 (15 de diciembre de 2021): 187–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.29302/jolie.2021.14.2.11.

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The book entitled Cognitive approaches to contemporary media offers a valuable insight into modern developments in cognitive linguistics, which can contribute to the advancement of both research and practice in the field. The purpose of this edited volume is to deliver fresh insights into the metaphorical language used in the current media from a cognitive-linguistic perspective. Considering the manipulative framings of reality in which mass media can engage at present, investigations into how figurative language functions may be valuable in order to instruct audiences and to improve their decoding skills to prevent deception and bias. The overall research methodology draws on well-established approaches to the analysis of metaphors, such as Pragglejaz method (2007), the MIPVU technique (2010), the critical metaphor analysis framework (Charteris-Black 2004) and multimodal metaphor analysis theory (Forceville 2009). Both quantitative and qualitative analyses of corpora were conducted, as well as word frequency and concordance searches using AntCoc and ConcAppor #LancsBox software. The book is a compilation of ten contributions by Romanian researchers in the field of cognitive linguistics, and is structured into three main parts. Part One consists of three chapters that focus on the metaphors that are used in business journalese. The chapter by Crina-Maria Herțeg, ‘The conceptualisation of the MARKET in English and Romanian. A corpus-based approach’, focuses on MARKET metaphors in English and Romanian that were obtained from two sizeable corpora of Romanian and British journalese, each consisting of around 600,000 words, and representing business articles that were amassed during the period between 2012 and 2016. Herțeg conducted a corpus-based contrastive investigation to underline the similarities and differences in the ways in which the market is conceptualised in both the Romanian and the English languages. The author explores lexical, semantic and cultural differences, as well as intersecting cognitive categories, and compares and contrasts a series of conceptual metaphors, such as LABOUR MARKET IS WAR and LABOUR MARKET IS COMPETITION. Further subcategories of MARKET IS A LIVING ORGANISM, such as the MARKET IS AN ANIMAL metaphors, were identified in various instances of BEAR and BULL MARKETS. Chapter Two, authored by Andra Ursa and entitled ‘A comparative study of business metaphors in English, French and Romanian economic discourse in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic’ presents a comparative inquiry into newspaper articles in three European languages that were published during July 2020, all focusing on economic issues of wider interest. The chapter investigates the conceptual metaphors employed in the media discourse to help readers to comprehend different facets related to the workings of their national economies. The author conducted both automatic (using AntConc software) and manual analyses to identify and catalogue the metaphors. The results revealed that the three economies under investigation were typically conceptualised in terms of war, objects, human beings or organisms, with a high recurrence of the metaphor ECONOMY IS A SICK PERSON, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ursa revealed that there appeared to be a tendency towards metaphorical expressions indicating that the economy was in a state of war in both the French and the British corpora, which was encountered less frequently in the Romanian articles. The third chapter, ‘Conceptualisations of economic relations between the US and China’ by Andra Corpade, presents how economic relationships amongst countries are envisioned in the written media. The most important cognitive categories that the author noted were COMPETITION IS A RACE, COMPANIES ARE INSTRUMENTS OF DOMINATION, COMPETITION IS WAR, ORGANISATIONS ARE PEOPLE/THINKING ENTITIES and COUNTRIES ARE PEOPLE. Of these, the most frequent pertained to COMPETITION IS WAR, as the author found a wide range of exponents included in the semantic field of WAR. The second part of the book consists of three chapters grouped according to the subject matter of health and illness in metaphorical concepts within the specific context of the new coronavirus. Teodora Popescu’s chapter, ‘Waging war against COVID-19. A case study of Romanian metaphorical conceptualisations of the novel coronavirus’, delves into cognitive metaphors pertaining to the coronavirus, as determined using a corpus of almost 67,000 words from the Romanian nation-wide broadsheet Adevărul (‘The Truth’), which was compiled during the period from September to October 2020. The most important categories identified were FIGHTING COVID-19 IS FIGHTING A WAR, COVID-19 IS A MURDERER, COVID-19 IS COLLECTIVE SUFFERING, LACK OF DISEASE TREATMENT/RESTRICTIONS OBSERVANCE IS LACK OF CONTROL, LOCKDOWN IS DETENTION, LOCKDOWN IS DEPRESSION and COVID-19 IS A SHAM. Recurrent instances of emotional conceptualisations of the pandemic were identified, including EMOTIONAL STATE IS HARM CAUSED BY PREDATORY ANIMALS, which alludes to people’s all-encompassing dissatisfaction generated by the lockdown, accounting for the generalised discontent and frustration in Romanian society, coupled with deep scepticism with regard to the medical system and political rulers. Chapter Five, entitled ‘Conceptual metaphors in medical journalese’ by Oana-Elena Stoica, emphasises the function of conceptual metaphors in medical communication, specifically in the mass media, and considers how they are used with a view to having maximum impact on the reader. The author identified the following categories: TREATING ILLNESS IS FIGHTING A WAR, DISEASES AND VIRUSES ARE ENEMIES, FOOD ADDITIVES ARE ENEMIES, A PROBLEM IS A BODY OF WATER, THE HUMAN BODY IS A FRIEND, THE HUMAN BODY IS A MACHINE, LONG-TERM PURPOSEFUL CHANGE IS A JOURNEY and A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE IS A FRIEND. Stoica maintained that medical language can be somewhat vague and abstract, as well as relatively difficult to comprehend; consequently, metaphors can contribute greatly to clarifying or mitigating distressing issues for readers. The sixth chapter, Adela Natalia Neciu’s ‘THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS A BODY. A case study of metaphorical conceptualisations – the case of Sweden’, scrutinises the metaphorical conceptualisations derived from a progress report on the implementation of the principles of value-based healthcare (VBHC) in Sweden, as documented by health economists, healthcare providers and policymakers. Neciu identified 11 categories, namely SYSTEMS ARE BUILDINGS, PROBLEMS ARE ENEMIES/DEALING WITH A PROBLEM IS FIGHTING A WAR, COUNTRIES ARE PEOPLE, IDEAS ARE OBJECTS, INFORMATION IS MONEY, SYSTEMS ARE PERSONS/PEOPLE, ORGANISATIONS ARE PEOPLE/THINKING ENTITIES, LAWS ARE CONTAINERS, INFORMATION IS A MOVING OBJECT, INFORMATION IS A SUBSTANCE and BUILDINGS ARE PEOPLE. The chapter by Gabriela-Corina Șanta (Câmpean), ‘COVID-19 in journalese. A case study of health, lifestyle, and political agenda domains’, examines the impact of COVID-19 on a number of domains in daily life: POLITICAL AGENDA, ECONOMY, HEALTH, EDUCATION and LIFESTYLE. The network of multidirectional relationships presented by the author are characteristic of the state of affairs that we have witnessed. Șanta concludes by explaining that institutions, companies and countries across the world are perceived as being endowed with human features. Furthermore, all the concepts except EDUCATION were assigned human characteristics; hence, they could be mapped according to their interconnectedness. She further asserted that political leaders have determined finding appropriate mechanisms for putting an end to the virus that has affected all areas of our lives to be a priority. Part Three consists of three contributions addressing multimodal metaphors in films. The eighth chapter, written by Diana Emanuela Tîrnăvean and entitled ‘Metaphors in fiction films. A discourse analysis of “Before I Wake”’ presents an investigation of the verbal, pictorial and gestural metaphors that contribute to creating the identity of the central characters and which chart the central hero’s evolutionary journey via the compelling metaphor of change. This transformation is artfully embodied throughout the film as we witness the transitional life phases of a butterfly. On one hand, Tîrnăvean aims to detect, interpret and decipher the pictorial, gestural and verbo-visual metaphors; on the other, she conducts an exploration of the hero’s quest, which is that of becoming a mother to the orphaned Cody. Chapter Nine, ‘Myth and metaphor in “The Matrix” trilogy’ by Adina Botaș, presents an inquiry into the multimodal metaphors pertaining to the central character, Neo, which can be found in this trilogy. Botaș focuses on three major myths that can be traced in the films’ narratives, namely Alice’s Wonderland, the Bible archetype and the myth of conspiracy. Accordingly, the multimodal metaphors investigated in the study materialised as concurrent expressions of diverse maximally consistent metaphors. The author explains that mappable traits are indicative of various metaphor scenarios, such as NEO IS THE SAVIOUR and NEO IS ALICE IN WONDERLAND from the vantage points of both the theological myth (references to the passion of Jesus Christ) and the conspiracy myth (correlations with an occult society working against humankind). Chapter Ten, authored by Bianca Moisi and entitled ‘The multimodal metaphor in film: A case study of “The Shack”’, provides an analysis of how cinematography exploits metaphors, beginning with the assumption that the development of metaphorical language is concurrent with the development of human thought processes. Moreover, Moisi explores metaphors that are representative of the postmodern individual; that is, those that are shaped by individuals’ intrinsic awareness of gender, emotion, religion and their very existence. Moisi identifies various conceptual categories, such as STATES ARE CONTAINERS (with the subcatrgory THE HUMAN HEART IS A BUILDING/PHYSICAL CONSTRUCTION), ANGER IS A RAVAGED PLACE, DEPRESSION IS A PERSON, POSITIVE EXPERIENCE IS LIGHT/WARMTH (and subsequently, NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE IS DARKNESS/COLDNESS), POSITIVE EXPERIENCE IS SPRING (and accordingly, GOD IS A WOMAN/GOD IS A MOTHER, NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE IS WINTER) and LOVE IS A BOND/LOVE IS A UNITY OF PARTS, amongst others. Moisi ultimately demonstrates the evolution of metaphor from the classical perspective to a postmodern understanding, which revisits and reinvents ancient myths via the use of cinematography. In conclusion, the edited collection Cognitive approaches to contemporary media provides a novel perspective on the metaphorical language that is used in present-day society’s mass media, and will be a valuable contribution to the field as it is both informative and captivating for the general audience and specialists alike.

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R, Bhuvaneswari, Cynthiya Rose J S y Maria Baptist S. "Editorial: Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future". Studies in Media and Communication 11, n.º 2 (22 de febrero de 2023): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/smc.v11i2.5932.

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IntroductionIndian Literature with its multiplicity of languages and the plurality of cultures dates back to 3000 years ago, comprising Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas and Epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata. India has a strong literary tradition in various Indian regional languages like Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and so on. Indian writers share oral tradition, indigenous experiences and reflect on the history, culture and society in regional languages as well as in English. The first Indian novel in English is Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Rajmohan’s Wife (1864). Indian Writing in English can be viewed in three phases - Imitative, First and Second poets’ phases. The 20th century marks the matrix of indigenous novels. The novels such as Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935), Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupé (2001), and Khuswant Singh’s Memories of Madness: Stories of 1947 (2002) depict social issues, vices and crises (discrimination, injustice, violence against women) in India. Indian writers, and their contribution to world literature, are popular in India and abroad.Researchers are keen on analysing the works of Indian writers from historical, cultural, social perspectives and on literary theories (Post-Colonialism, Postmodernity, Cultural Studies). The enormity of the cultural diversity in India is reflected in Indian novels, plays, dramas, short stories and poems. This collection of articles attempts to capture the diversity of the Indian land/culture/landscape. It focuses on the history of India, partition, women’s voices, culture and society, and science and technology in Indian narratives, documentaries and movies.Special Issue: An Overview“Whatever has happened, has happened for goodWhatever is happening, is also for goodWhatever will happen, shall also be good.”- The Bhagavad-Gita.In the Mahabharata’s Kurukshetra battlefield, Lord Krishna counsels Arjuna on how everything that happens, regardless of whether it is good or bad, happens for a reason.Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future portrays the glorious/not-so-glorious times in history, the ever-changing crisis/peace of contemporary and hope for an unpredictable future through India’s literary and visual narratives. It focuses on comparison across cultures, technological advancements and diverse perspectives or approaches through the work of art produced in/on India. It projects India’s flora, fauna, historical monuments and rich cultural heritage. It illustrates how certain beliefs and practices come into existence – origin, evolution and present structure from a historical perspective. Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future gives a moment to recall, rectify and raise to make a promising future. This collection attempts to interpret various literary and visual narratives which are relevant at present.The Epics Reinterpreted: Highlighting Feminist Issues While Sustaining Deep Motif, examines the Women characters in the Epics – Ramayana and Mahabharata. It links the present setting to the violence against women described in the Epics Carl Jung’s archetypes are highlighted in a few chosen characters (Sita, Amba, Draupati). On one note, it emphasises the need for women to rise and fight for their rights.Fictive Testimony and Genre Tension: A Study of ‘Functionality’ of Genre in Manto’s Toba Tek Singh, analyses the story as a testimony and Manto as a witness. It discusses the ‘Testimony and Fictive Testimony’ in Literature. It explains how the works are segregated into a particular genre. The authors conclude that the testimony is to be used to understand or identify with the terror.Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the select Partition writings by Muslim Women, explores the predicament of women during the Partition of India through Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’s The Heart Divided (1990) and Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column (2009). It addresses ‘Feminist Geography’ to escape precarity. It depicts a woman who is cut off from her own ethnic or religious group and tries to conjure up her memories as a means of coping with loneliness and insecurity.Nation Building Media Narratives and its Anti-Ecological Roots: An Eco-Aesthetic Analysis of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, analyses the post-Partition trauma in the fictional village, Mano Majra. It illustrates the cultural and spiritual bond between Mano Majrans — the inhabitants of Mano Majra — and nature (the land and river). It demonstrates how the media constructs broad myths about culture, religion, and nation. According to the authors, Mano Majrans place a high value on the environment, whilst the other boundaries are more concerned with nationalism and religion.Pain and Hopelessness among Indian Farmers: An Analysis of Deepa Bhatia’s Nero’s Guests documents the farmers’ suicides in India as a result of debt and decreased crop yield. The travels of Sainath and his encounters with the relatives of missing farmers have been chronicled in the documentary Nero’s Guests. It uses the Three Step Theory developed by David Klonsky and Alexis May and discusses suicide as a significant social issue. The authors conclude that farmers are the foundation of the Indian economy and that without them, India’s economy would collapse. It is therefore everyone’s responsibility—the people and the government—to give farmers hope so that they can overcome suicidal thoughts.The link between animals and children in various cultures is discussed in The New Sociology of Childhood: Animal Representations in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Garden in the Dunes, Amazon’s Oh My Dog, and Netflix’s Mughizh: A Cross-Cultural Analysis. It examines the chosen works from the perspectives of cross-cultural psychology and the New Sociology of Childhood. It emphasises kids as self-sufficient, engaged, and future members of society. It emphasises universal traits that apply to all people, regardless of culture. It acknowledges anthropomorphized cartoons create a bond between kids and animals.Life in Hiding: Censorship Challenges faced by Salman Rushdie and Perumal Murugan, explores the issues sparked by their writings. It draws attention to the aggression and concerns that were forced on them by the particular sect of society. It explains the writers’ experiences with the fatwa, court case, exile, and trauma.Female Body as the ‘Other’: Rituals and Biotechnical Approach using Perumal Murugan’s One Part Woman and Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women, questions the society that limits female bodies for procreation and objectification. It talks about how men and women are regarded differently, as well as the cultural ideals that apply to women. It explains infertility, which is attributed to women, as well as people’s ignorance and refusal to seek medical help in favour of adhering to traditional customs and engaging in numerous rituals for procreation.Life and (non) Living: Technological and Human Conglomeration in Android Kunjappan Version 5.25, explores how cyborgs and people will inevitably interact in the Malayalam film Android Kunjappan Version 5.25. It demonstrates the advantages, adaptability, and drawbacks of cyborgs in daily life. It emphasises how the cyborg absorbs cultural and religious notions. The authors argue that cyborgs are an inevitable development in the world and that until the flaws are fixed, humans must approach cyborgs with caution. The Challenges of Using Machine Translation While Translating Polysemous Words, discusses the difficulty of using machine translation to translate polysemous words from French to English (Google Translate). It serves as an example of how the machine chooses the formal or often-used meaning rather than the pragmatic meaning and applies it in every situation. It demonstrates how Machine Translation is unable to understand the pragmatic meaning of Polysemous terms because it is ignorant of the cultures of the source and target languages. It implies that Machine Translation will become extremely beneficial and user-friendly if the flaws are fixed.This collection of articles progresses through the literary and visual narratives of India that range from historical events to contemporary situations. It aims to record the stories that are silenced and untold through writing, film, and other forms of art. India’s artistic output was influenced by factors such as independence, partition, the Kashmir crisis, the Northeast Insurgency, marginalisation, religious disputes, environmental awareness, technical breakthroughs, Bollywood, and the Indian film industry. India now reflects a multitude of cultures and customs as a result of these occurrences. As we examine the Indian narratives produced to date, we can draw the conclusion that India has a vast array of tales to share with the rest of the world.Guest Editorial BoardGuest Editor-in-ChiefDr. Bhuvaneswari R, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. She has pursued her master’s at the University of Madras, Chennai and doctoral research at HNB Central University, Srinagar. Her research areas of interest are ELT, Children/Young Adult Literature, Canadian writings, Indian literature, and Contemporary Fiction. She is passionate about environmental humanities. She has authored and co-authored articles in National and International Journals.Guest EditorsCynthiya Rose J S, Assistant Professor (Jr.), School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. Her research interests are Children’s Literature, Indian Literature and Graphic Novels.Maria Baptist S, Assistant Professor (Jr.), School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. His research interests include Crime/Detective fiction and Indian Literature.MembersDr. Sufina K, School of Science and Humanities, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, IndiaDr. Narendiran S, Department of Science and Humanities, St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

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Mzoughi, Imen. "On the Aesthetics of Humor in Contemporary Egyptian Fiction". SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4386596.

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Topper, Ryan. "Postsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction". Journal of the African Literature Association, 23 de febrero de 2023, 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2023.2178197.

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Guignery, Vanessa. "Moseley Merritt. A History of the Booker Prize. Contemporary Fiction Since 1992". Études britanniques contemporaines, n.º 62 (1 de junio de 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ebc.12155.

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Ganteau, Jean-Michel. "The Great Chain of Vibrancy: Scalar Remanences in Contemporary Climate Change Fiction". Études britanniques contemporaines, n.º 62 (1 de junio de 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ebc.11705.

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Holder, Matthew. "Imagining Accessibility: Theorizing Disability in Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction". Disability Studies Quarterly 40, n.º 3 (10 de septiembre de 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v40i3.6685.

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With its emphasis on futurity, its close association with scientific plausibility, and its dedicated interrogation of contemporary ideologies, science fiction stands as a genre ripe with possibilities for disability studies. Many scholars have used the genre and its texts as platforms from which to either condemn or laud representations of disability within a field explicitly concerned with a society's future. My essay contributes to this discussion by foregrounding a science fiction text to theorize what a disabled future looks like. I take as my primary text a selection of short fiction from Uncanny Magazine, an online magazine that published a disability-themed issue Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction in 2018. The stories contained are penned exclusively by authors that identify as disabled; their visions of a disabled future, then, emerge from the contemporary experience of the disabled community. In addition to centering themselves in the discourse, these writers envision a disabled future as one that emphasizes community and frequently critiques and interrogates the costs, emotional and physical, inherent in the medical model of disability, announcing that a truly disabled future is one that features rather than erases the disabled mind and body. Running with the banner of destroying SF, these writers challenge the conventional, harmful tropes that SF has perpetuated and erects in its place an inclusive, intersectional, and disabled future.

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Thirriard, Maryam. "Monica Latham, Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives: The Author as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama". Études britanniques contemporaines, n.º 63 (1 de diciembre de 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ebc.13097.

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