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Majidova, Ilaha Adil. "The conceptual interpretation of S. King`s literary heritage." SCIENTIFIC WORK 62, no. 01 (February 8, 2021): 159–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/62/159-161.

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S.King is a modern American writer of supernatural, horror fiction, science fiction and fantasy. His works are powerful because he integrates his life experiences and observations into idiosyncratic stories. He uses a free style of writing. Generally By the help of supernatural beings, vampire, demon, insubstantial events he mystifies and shocks readers, confuses their minds. The writer’s psycho-emotional situation, inner world rebound his works. This article is devoted to the conceptual interpretation of S.King’s creativity. In his works he tries to show the depth of his imagination. Key words: modern American literature, fantasy, horror fiction, psycho-emotional creativity, mystical elements

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KOVTUN, Elena. "SLAVIC SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY IN INTERFACULTY COURSES AT LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY (2013-2020)." Ezikov Svyat volume 20 issue 3, ezs.swu.v20i3 (October 20, 2022): 422–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.bg.v20i3.13.

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The article shares the author’s experience of teaching interfaculty science fiction (sci-fi) and fantasy lecture courses at Lomono-sov Moscow State University, attended by students of all departments. In the period between 2013 and 2020 six such courses were taught, the number of students varying from 250 to 450 each. The courses comprised sci-fi and fantasy theory, sci-fi and fantasy status among other types of fiction narratives, the main stages of Russian and foreign sci-fi and fantasy history, the creative activity of outstanding sci-fi and fantasy writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Apart from the Russian, West European and North American writers, works by East European (Slavic) authors were thoroughly examined. The article contains neat observations on the degree of Slavic sci-fi and fantasy writers’ popularity among young Russian readers and on the most inter-esting fiction texts for students. The data obtained through the analysis of the students’ assignments comprise their answers to the questions about their favorite sci-fi writers and books lists, on the reasons of certain fantastic worlds’ attractiveness, on their preferences in sci-fi or fantasy. The article also clarifies the principles of writers and their works selection for the lecture cours-es, it characterizes the creative activity of Slavic writers and reveals the interrelation between Slavic writers’ fiction works and the general scope of problems discussed at interfaculty sci-fi lecture courses. Taking into account the students’ interest in works by Karel Čapek, Stanislaw Lem, Andrzej Sapkowski and other Slavic authors, we suggest some ideas about the potential structure of a specialized lecture course focusing on science fiction and fantasy in Slavic countries.

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Gordon, Andrew. "The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films." Journal of Popular Film and Television 20, no. 2 (April 1992): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01956051.1992.9943963.

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Anisimova, Olga Vladimirovna. "Portrait of the writer: the peculiarities of literary technique of Roger Zelazny." Litera, no. 4 (April 2021): 145–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2021.4.35298.

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The subject of this research is the unique literary technique of the prominent American fantasy and science fiction writer Roger Zelazny, the author of the world-renowned novels, such as “The Chronicles of Amber”, “This Immortal”, "The Lord of Light”, etc. The article is dedicated namely to determination of the key peculiarities of the poetics of his works. Special attention is given to characterization of his literary path, its periodization, the impact of Zelazny's predecessors – the authors of science fiction and classical world literature – upon his prose. It is noted that R. Zelazny was fascinated with various mythological systems, such as Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Celtic, and Christian. The scientific novelty of this article lies in the attempt to reveal and systematize the most remarkable features of the works of the American fantasy and science fiction writer, whose impact upon the modern fantasy literature can hardly be overestimated; however it has been poorly studied within the Russian literary studies. The conducted analysis of the poetics Roger Zelazny’s iconic novels, created within the framework of the four main stages, indicates the use such postmodernist literary technique as intertextuality. The matter of R. Zelazny is also characterized by psychologism, interpreted as the author's attention to the meticulous reconstruction of the inner cosmos of the hero, which resembles the result of the writer's passion for the ideas of psychoanalysis. Along with the other representatives of the New Wave, Zelazny was prone to the experiment with forms, as well as to the synthesis of the various fantasy genres. Therefore, many of his novels demonstrate the fusion of science fiction, fantasy, space opera, mystery, and detective fiction.

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Paranyuk, Dan. "“The End of Human Exceptionality”: The Shift of the Anthropological Dominant in Science Fiction." Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 104 (December 27, 2021): 163–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2021.104.163.

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Based on the methodological proposals of literary anthropology, in particular on the conceptual ideas of C. Levi-Strauss (structural anthropology), J. Ortega y Gasset (“dehumanization of arts”), J.-M. Schaeffer (“the end of human exceptionality”), M. Foucault (the fall of a human being from the humanistic pedestal of culture), the article under studies emphasizes the violation of the anthropological dominant in science fiction, which is very typical of the fantasy genre. Consequently, there arise new principles of constructing personosphere of a literary text. On the example of the novel “City” (1953) by an American science fiction writer Clifford Simak, the article traces the way a human being shifts from the center of personosphere to the “outskirts” of narration, whereas its image acquires fictional parameters. This all happens due to the phenomenon of “anthropocene” (the term by G. Canavan), which implies the harmful consequences of the human reigning over the nature. In addition, the author of the article introduces the notion of “phantasoid’ – a character of the fictional world of fantasy (outlined by the narrator) that functions exceptionally in the imagination of a certain fantastic character and is somehow related to his previous experience. The novel by C. Simak outlines a gradual shift of the anthropological vector: the heterogeneous image of a human turns into a counter-image, whereby particular significance is attached to the change in the attitude towards mankind. In the text, human culture is perceived as something alien, while Simak’s image of a human being ruins the so called imagological stereotype, along with the reader’s receptive expectations. The role of the attractor in the novel is assigned to “antromorphized” and “humanized” creatures (plants, animals, objects, robots, mutants), which indicates the drastic breach with the previous genre tradition, as well as higlights a peculiar polemic connection with classical literary science fiction. This all proves the metamorphic nature of science fiction and its transition into the hyperreal dimensions of fantasy, where different artificial forms of life and mentality can peacefully coexist with each other.

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Bell, Erin. "BDSM in American Science Fiction and Fantasy LewisCall. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013." Journal of American Culture 36, no. 4 (December 2013): 366–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jacc.12058.

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Smith, Dina, Casey Stannar, and Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff. "Closet cosplay: Everyday expressions of science fiction and fantasy fandom among women." Fashion, Style & Popular Culture 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fspc_00004_1.

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Abstract Some American science fiction and fantasy (SF&F) female fans participate in Cosplay or costume play, the global practice of dressing in costume and performing fictional characters from popular culture. Cosplay is typically only socially sanctioned at conventions and other fan events, leaving fans searching for new ways to express their fandom in everyday life. Closet cosplay is one solution in which everyday clothing and accessories can be worn to express fandom. The motivations for wearing everyday fan fashion have been only briefly mentioned by other authors or studied within limited social contexts. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to explore SF&F female fans' participation in closet cosplay as it is worn in everyday contexts. An exploratory qualitative study was conducted using a social interactionist perspective, and Sarah Thornton's concept of subcultural capital and Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital. Semi-structured, online interviews were conducted with sixteen participants who wore closet cosplay related to SF&F films and/or television series, which included Star Wars, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Disney films, Harry Potter and anime fandoms like Sailor Moon (1995‐2000). The interview data were analysed using NVivo qualitative analysis software and the constant comparison method. Two themes emerged from the data: the definition of closet cosplay and motivations for wearing closet cosplay. Through examining these themes, it was evident that female SF&F fans used closet cosplay to express a salient fan identity, which enabled them to simultaneously gain subcultural capital and feminized cultural capital.

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M. Elizabeth Ginway. "A Paradigm of the Tropical: Brazil in Contemporary Anglo-American Science Fiction and Fantasy." Science Fiction Studies 40, no. 2 (2013): 316. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.40.2.0316.

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Mukhin, O. "XXI century as a cultural turn in American space fiction cinema." Culture of Ukraine, no. 78 (December 23, 2022): 73–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.31516/2410-5325.078.09.

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The purpose of this article is the analysis of new stage in American space fiction cinema’s history, which started from the XXI century and set the new directions for genre, which were shown in movies “The Martian” (2015, director — R. Scott), “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014, director — J. Gunn), “Interstellar” (2014, director — K. Nolan), “Thor” (2011, director — K. Brannah), “Ad Astra” (2019, director — J. Gray), “Avengers” (2012, director — J. Whedon). The methodology of this article includes the use of historical, comparative and systematic methods. Each of these methods helps to reveal the place of space fiction’s new era in the whole history of this genre in XX–XXI centuries, and to find the cultural senses and messages, which the new stage proposes to society. The results of this work present a detailed survey of newest stage of American cinema space fiction in XXI century and key directions, for which the new films are produced. Moreover, this work reveals how these directions from new stage influence on the genre’s perspectives and development in the future. The scientific novelty of the research. This work fills the gap of cultural studies dedicated to the topic of the article, as the vast majority of materials that analyze the theme of fantasy in cinema are humanitarian. The practical significance of the article. The article will be useful for scholars who want to expand their knowledge on the topic mentioned in the title, as well as for anyone interested in cinema, science fiction, American cinematography and media culture in general.

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Knighton, Andrew. "Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction (review)." Cultural Critique 56, no. 1 (2004): 213–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cul.2003.0060.

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Maksym W., Kyrchanoff. "SciFi Cinema as one of Spatial Localizations of Military Images in American Mass Culture." Humanitarian Vector 16, no. 5 (November 2021): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.21209/1996-7853-2021-16-5-77-86.

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War is one of the most popular topics in modern mass culture. The author analyzes the features of the perception of war in modern science fiction cinema. The purpose of this article is to analyze the representation of war in American science fiction as a form of historical memory in mass culture. The author uses inventionism methods to analyze the images of war in the film production of mass culture as “invented traditions” of the consumer society. The range of perception of war and military experience in popular culture is analyzed. Modern global film industry and national film industries regularly address military themes in the world or national contexts, producing films that actualize military experience of nations and states. The film industry segments that specialize in the production of science fiction and fantasy films also do not ignore the military theme. It is supposed that popular culture offers a variety of images of war, including militarism, violence, military collective trauma, and military political psychosis. The author believes that military theme in popular culture arose as a result of reflection on real military conflicts, and the creators of the pop-cultural project could reject the war or idealize it. The author believes that military science fiction in modern American mass culture actualizes the values of pacifism or militarism as reflections of the left or right preferences of the creators of such cultural product for the consumer society. Science fiction films actualize various forms of war, including global military clashes, civil conflicts, aggression, intervention and genocide. Popular culture is becoming the main sphere of existence of the memory of war because military conflicts of science fiction series can be perceived in the consumer society as more real than the historical wars of the past. Military images of mass culture are supposed to actualize various forms of war memory, including memory as trauma, memory as marginalization, and memory as nostalgia which idealize war.

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Drab, Ewa. "Teenage Identity in the Face of the Other in Nnedi Okorafor’s Organic Fantasy." Romanica Silesiana 19, no. 1 (June 29, 2021): 129–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rs.2021.19.11.

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The present paper aims at discussing What Sunny Saw in the Flames by Nnedi Okorafor as a fantasy novel for children and young adults focused upon the question of self-identification. In the framework of fiction for younger audiences, the fantasy mode becomes a tool which allows to examine the topics important to young readers, such as identity and their place within the society, by providing a confrontation with the Other. The example of Nnedi Okorafor’s book, known in the USA as Akata Witch, shows how the instrumentation of a fantasy novel enables an exposition of the process in which the protagonist grows on the intellectual, emotional and cultural levels. In other words, the fantasy mode aids in the exploration of Sunny’s American-Nigerian origin, her albinism, coming of age and the comprehension of her identity. Simultaneously, as additional topics emerge from the analysis, it becomes visible that the question of the Self cannot be separated from the concept of the Other, with the lesson of empathy and respect for what is different.

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Inloes, Amina. "A Muslim Reflection on Dangerous Games." American Journal of Islam and Society 33, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 138–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v33i3.930.

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For over two decades, a moral panic over fantasy role-playinggames has swept America, fuelled by a minority of fundamentalistChristians who have campaigned against games such as Dungeons& Dragons on the grounds that they led youth to Satanism, suicide,and violent crime. In his 2015 book, Dangerous Games: What theMoral Panic over Role-Playing Games says about Play, Religion,and Imagined Worlds, David Laycock explores why fantasy roleplayinggames seem similar enough to religion to provoke fear,as well as the dynamics of this moral panic. While he, apparently,did not set out to write a book about Islam, his insights about religion,fantasy, and narrative opened my eyes to the dynamics oftwentieth-century Islam. Additionally, as a Muslim reader livingduring a “moral panic” over Islam, Laycock’s analysis helped meunderstand that today’s Islamophobia in America has little to dowith Islam. Lastly, although Muslim gamers, fantasy/sciencefictionauthors, and game developers are usually underacknowledged,there is increasing interest in Muslims and fantasy/science-fiction. I hope to call attention to this invisible cohort.

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Withers, Jeremy. "Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror ed. by Stefan Rabitsch et al." Science Fiction Studies 49, no. 3 (November 2022): 582–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0063.

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Khronopulo, L. Yu. "The influence of Fredric W. Brown’s micro fiction on Hoshi Shin’ichi’s and Akagawa Jirō’s short-short stories." Japanese Studies in Russia, no. 2 (July 4, 2022): 95–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.55105/2500-2872-2022-2-95-107.

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The short-short story was first introduced by Japanese writer Tsuzuki Michio, who in the late 1950s – the early 1960s familiarized the Japanese reader with extra-short stories of American author Fredric W. Brown (1906–1972); his traditions were followed by Japanese writer Hoshi Shin’ichi (1926–1997), Akagawa Jirō (b. 1948), and other authors experimenting in the new genre of social and psychological science fiction, as well as in the genre of fantasy and detective stories. In American literature, three major specific features of a short-short story were formulated: 1) a fresh idea, 2) an unexpected turn of events, 3) an unpredictable ending. These specific features can be traced in Japanese extra-short stories as well. Since the process of the emergence and development of the extra-short story as a new form of Japanese literature was influenced by American micro fiction, the research examines the elements borrowed from Fredric W. Brown’s micro fiction in Hoshi Shin’ichi’s and Akagawa Jirō’s first short-short stories; this includes genres, topics, canons, artistic styles and devices, as well as the treatment of certain social problems. The paper analyzes Hoshi’s and Akagawa’s short-short fiction from a comparative perspective, with an emphasis on intertextuality – shaping of a text’s meaning by another text, in this case, the texts by an American writer. Some literary parallels to Fredric W. Brown’s micro fiction can be found in Hoshi Shin’ichi’s first collection of short-short stories «Bokko-chan» (1971), which consists of stories written in 1958–1970, as well as in Akagawa Jirō’s first collection of short-short stories «The Dancing Man» (1986), which consists of stories written in the late 1970s – early 1980s. The succession of plots and philosophical ideas by Brown is examined on the material of seven early short-shorts by Hoshi, where the allusion to the American writer’s micro fiction can be traced; in addition, it is also noted that, in some mystic extra-short stories by Akagawa, it is not the plots which are borrowed, but mostly artistic devices and various techniques, such as psychologism, black humor, wordplay, and metaphorical images. American origins of the Japanese short-short story are investigated for the first time.

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Fawaz, R. "Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes / Do the Gods Wear Capes? Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes / Race in American Science Fiction." American Literature 85, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 199–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959652.

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Nasriddinov, Dilshod Azamkulovich. "SYSTEM OF IM STEM OF IMAGES IN GEORGE R.R. M GES IN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN’S F TIN’S FANTASY WORLD." Scientific Reports of Bukhara State University 4, no. 6 (December 29, 2020): 200–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.52297/2181-1466/2020/4/6/11.

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Abstract. The emergence of different genres and trends in literature has led to the creation of various unique works. Thus, creating a novel and accepting it by a reader with positive thoughts demonstrates the skill of the writer. The internal structure of the work plays an important role in it. This scientific article contains scientifically grounded ideas about the genre of the play, its internal structure, a life of author, the secondary world, the system of images in the work and etc. The scientific article is divided into four parts, and we present them on a short explanation. Introduction. There are many genres and trends in world literature and they have led to the birth of rare works. There are so many books that the readers see themselves in another world when they read them. The creation of such works requires a high level of writing skills. In this section, there is expressed opinions about American fantasy and science fiction writer George R.R. Martin and the growing interest of the reader to the novels that he created. Methods. This section presents scientific ideas about the genre of the author's work and the essence of its content

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Adinolfi, Roberto. "Some Interpretations of Foreign Literature during the Epoch of Socialism." Scientific knowledge - autonomy, dependence, resistance 29, no. 2 (May 30, 2020): 283–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v29i2.20.

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This paper will focus on some Bulgarian translations of works by foreign writers that were published during the epoch of Socialism. Throughout this period several works by authors from territories such as Latin America, Western Europe and the USA were translated into the languages of the Eastern European countries; some of them do not seem to fit the criteria of the Socialism realism: this is the case of genres such as science fiction or fantasy. Authors such as Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, the Italian writers Italo Calvino, Dino Buzzati and many others have been translated into languages such as Bulgarian and Russian. Many of them do not deal mainly with social and political themes, and some of them (for instance Dino Buzzati) are even highly critical towards doctrines such as Marxism. However, in the forewords of some of the Bulgarian translations of their works we can find political and social interpretations. Similar interpretations can also be found in science fiction works and in non-literary works, such as books devoted to practices such as Yoga, which in some books is analyzed from a Marxist point of view.

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Paranyuk, Dan, and Alyona Tychinina. "Simulacra of the hyperreal fantasy world in the novel by clifford simak “out of their minds"." Current issues of social sciences and history of medicine, no. 3 (31) (March 7, 2022): 35–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.24061/2411-6181.3.2021.289.

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The article under studies is an intertextual analysis of a minor novel by American science fiction writer Clifford Simak (1904–1988) “Out of Their Minds” (1970), which eclectically combines the elements of a fairy-tale, dreams and phantasmagoric narrative, transgressing into the quasi-real space through the images of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. The significance of the research has been stipulated by the growing interest of Ukrainian translators and literary critics in the creative activities of C. Simak, as well as by the lack of intertextual analyses of the writer’s classical texts. The objective of the paper is to outline the specifics of modelling a hyperreal fantasy world in the novel by C. Simak “Out of Their Minds” through a number of intertextual simulative forms that carry out “reversal of the imaginary” (the term by Jean Baudrillard) in practice. Methodology: the analysis of C. Simak’s text in the aspect of post-non-classical philosophy and methodology of intertextuality. Conclusions. C. Simak’s text under analysis indicates that fantastic can be combined with mystical, oneiric, phantasmagoric, grotesque and even carnival elements. Their semantic essence is emphasized by the intertextual nature of the personospere samples, devised by the author. The reminiscent origin of a transitive personopair Don Quixote – Sancho Panza is very indicative in the plot of the novel “Out of Their Minds”. C. Simak offers a specific analogy-ideologeme between the character of Horton Smith and Don Quixote-simulacrum, which functions exceptionally in imaginative dimensions of his memory. Such a metagenre aspect of fantasy requires a peculiar palimpsest, filled with numerous interpretants and simulacra of the hyperreal world

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Radaeva, E. A. "EXPRESSIONISM AND THE SCIENCE FICTION GENRE: THE SPECIFICS OF INTERACTION (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE WORK OF R. HEINLEIN)." Izvestiya of the Samara Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Social, Humanitarian, Medicobiological Sciences 24, no. 85 (2022): 67–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.37313/2413-9645-2022-24-85-67-72.

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In this article, the author aims to prove that the traditions of expressionism are also found among science fiction writers. The work of the American writer of the twentieth century Robert Heinlein was practically never mentioned by anyone in the expressionist paradigm, however, when studying his biography and literary heritage, we find a lot of details that go back to expressionism - this is magical realism, closely related to this direction, to the artistic method of which R. Heinlein resorted to, according to the researchers of his work; passion for solipsism, the doctrine of which can be regarded to a large extent as a manifesto of expressionism, and the very attempts to go beyond the genre of fantasy, with which the name of this writer is firmly linked. In each work of R. Heinlein, the notes of expressionism are present in different ways: either in the subject (pressure of the state machine or society on the individual), the spirit of freedom and the spirit of protest, attention to the problem of death, mysticism, the problem of limited human perception and the illusory nature of the visible world. All of the above once again indicates that, assimilated throughout the subsequent 1920s. culture, expressionist experience is able to manifest itself, no matter how bold it sounds, in the work of almost any writer - to one degree or another, at one stage or another of his path. In addition, in an artist whose works contain elements of expressionism, one can detect the movement of creative searches from realism to expressionism, but neither the way back, nor the reciprocity of these ways of worldview and world-modeling can be found.

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Byrne, Peter. "Of course it is (the delusion that's really true)." British Journal of Psychiatry 197, no. 2 (August 2010): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.197.2.140.

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William Burroughs described the paranoid man as one ‘who knows a little of what's going on’. In that rare beast, a mainstream Hollywood film that portrays schizophrenia with humanity and without a murder, A Beautiful Mind (2001), John Nash (Russell Crowe) irritates his wife when he says he heard the garbage truck outside at night. He has been hospitalised with psychosis and in that movie convention much imitated in life, anything he says must be taken as fantasy, unless proven otherwise. But the garbage guys are outside and thus begins a process where she (and the audience) begin to trust and identify with Nash again. This is the exception that proves the rule. When a filmic character with mental illness reports the ‘unfortunate event’ on which the film turns, nobody believes him/her: The Couch Trip (1988), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Independence Day (1996), Conspiracy Theory (1997) and K-Pax (2001) all milk this conceit for its full comic potential. Director Alan J. Pakula's paranoid trilogy Klute (1971), The Parallax View (1974) and All the President's Men (1975) project the angst of the unbelieved onto a battered American audience, reeling from Vietnam and Nixon. A flavour of paranoia excites modern science fiction (Total Recall, 1990 and the Matrix trilogy, 1999–2003), and infuses the contemporary celebrity film, The Truman Show (1998).

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Kirsch, Breanne A. "Science Fiction and Fantasy: Redefining Humans from the Past to the Future. A Report of the Lita Imagineering Interest Group Program, American Library Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, June 2014." Technical Services Quarterly 32, no. 2 (March 17, 2015): 206–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2015.1000721.

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Allen, Thomas J. "Science Fiction/Fantasy and Information Technology: Where We Are and Where We Could Have Been. A Report of the LITA Imagineering Interest Group Meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference. Orlando, June 2016." Technical Services Quarterly 34, no. 1 (December 12, 2016): 84–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2017.1238208.

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Magnussen, Amanda. "Comprehensive, engagingandfunny!: Buker, Derek MThe science fiction and fantasy readers’ advisory: the librarian’s guide to cyborgs, aliens and sorcerers.ALA readers’ advisory series. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002. 230 pp. US$38.00 (ALA members US$34.20) soft ISBN 0838908314." Australian Library Journal 52, no. 3 (August 2003): 298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2003.10721568.

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Filippo, Paul Di. "A science-fiction fantasy." Nature 465, no. 7301 (June 2010): 1110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/4651110a.

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Howells, Coral Ann, and David Ketterer. "Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy." Yearbook of English Studies 25 (1995): 349. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3508927.

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Fagan, Edward R. "Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 9, no. 2-3 (April 1989): 202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/027046768900900223.

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Wolf, Virginia. "Fantasy and Science Fiction—Again?" Children's Literature Association Quarterly 10, no. 3 (1985): 151–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.0.0476.

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Offutt, Jeff. "Editorial: Science Fiction and Fantasy." Software Testing, Verification and Reliability 18, no. 3 (September 2008): 123–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/stvr.398.

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Calloway Sueda. "Milton in Science Fiction and Fantasy." Milton Studies 63, no. 1 (2021): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.63.1.0136.

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Farmer, Lesley S. J. "Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia." Reference Reviews 32, no. 2 (February 19, 2018): 14–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rr-01-2018-0004.

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Dias, Jocimar. "Bacurau as Science-Fiction Revenge Fantasy." Film Quarterly 74, no. 2 (2020): 84–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2020.74.2.84.

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When Bacurau (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, 2019) was released in Brazil, it was mainly received as a left-wing critique of the rise of the far right in the country’s political landscape. But some critics argued that the feature’s insistence on graphic violence was actually a celebration of barbarism, equating the oppressed villagers to their genocidal oppressors. This article refutes this view, borrowing from the analysis of science-fiction revenge fantasies and also following Foucault’s genealogical perspective. It argues that Bacurau actually reenacts Brazil’s foundational colonial violence through its complex temporality, in order to rediscover the forgotten past of real struggles that remain surreptitiously inserted in all levels of society, perhaps in the hope that new ways of resistance may flourish from its spectatorial experience.

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Kovtun, Elena. "The Sociology of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Monitoring Within Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies Classes at Lomonosov Moscow State University." Stephanos Peer reviewed multilanguage scientific journal 51, no. 1 (January 31, 2022): 95–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.24249/2309-9917-2022-51-1-95-119.

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The publication is the final part of the research dedicated to the analysis of the results of written works made by the students of inter-faculty courses of science fiction and fantasy studies undertaken at Lomonosov Moscow State University during 2013–2020. In the previous articles we provided statistical data on the students’ composition, summarized information about their favorite writers and books of science fiction and fantasy as well as about preferred types of such a literature; summarized students’ remarks about under what circumstances their interest to science fiction and fantasy has been emerged. In this publication we introduce the students’ considerations on future and also on books of science fiction and fantasy the students are planning, may be, to write themselves.

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Hatfield, Len, Everett F. Bleiler, Casey Fredericks, Hal W. Hall, C. N. Manlove, Roger C. Schlobin, George E. Slusser, et al. "Recent Studies of Science Fiction and Fantasy." College English 47, no. 3 (March 1985): 275. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/376778.

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Landon, Brooks. "Science Fiction Cinema: between fantasy and reality." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 31, no. 1 (March 2011): 144–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2011.553455.

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Ober, Juliane, and Thomas Krebs. "Chemical Elements in Fantasy and Science Fiction." Journal of Chemical Education 86, no. 10 (October 2009): 1141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ed086p1141.

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Saldivar, R. "Historical Fantasy, Speculative Realism, and Postrace Aesthetics in Contemporary American Fiction." American Literary History 23, no. 3 (August 2, 2011): 574–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajr026.

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Osteen, M. "Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction." American Literature 74, no. 3 (September 1, 2002): 680–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-680.

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Lee, Gabriela. "Past Selves, Future Worlds: Folklore and Futurisms in Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults." Comparative Critical Studies 19, no. 3 (October 2022): 417–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2022.0456.

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Science fiction written specifically for young readers has had difficulty in establishing itself as a separate genre from fantasy, especially since there is a blurred notion of what constitutes fantasy vis-a-vis science fiction in children’s literature. This difficulty is reflected in the stumbling development of children’s and YA science fiction compared to the relatively clear development of children’s and YA fantasy. As such, trying to define what science fiction for young readers is takes on a malleable, inconsistent quality compared to the more established megatexts of science fiction for adult readers. It is through these unstable definitions of science fiction for adolescents that this essay examines how selected stories from the 2016 anthology Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults, the first anthology of Philippine sf writing that caters directly for a young adult audience, negotiate the genre definitions of ‘science fiction’ and ‘young adult’ for a non-Western audience. Studying how these imagined futures represent the experiences of young non-Western readers who have otherwise been excluded from YA science fiction reveals how the genre can widen and expand its parameters.

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CROWNSHAW, RICHARD. "Deterritorializing the “Homeland” in American Studies and American Fiction after 9/11." Journal of American Studies 45, no. 4 (November 2011): 757–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875811000946.

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Literary criticism has debated the usefulness of the trauma paradigm found in much post-9/11 fiction. Where critiqued, trauma is sometimes understood as a domesticating concept by which the events of 9/11 are incorporated into sentimental, familial dramas and romances with no purchase on the international significance of the terrorist attacks and the US's response to them; or, the concept of trauma is understood critically as the means by which the boundaries of a nation or “homeland” self-perceived as violated and victimized may be shored up, rendered impermeable – if that were possible. A counterversion of trauma argues its potential as an affective means of bridging the divide between a wounded US and global suffering. Understood in this way, the concept of trauma becomes the means by which the significance of 9/11 could be deterritorialized. While these versions of trauma, found in academic theory and literary practice, invoke the spatial – the domestic sphere, the homeland, the global – they tend to focus on the time of trauma rather than on the imbrication of the temporal and the spatial. If, instead, 9/11 trauma could be more productively defined as the puncturing of national fantasies of an inviolable and innocent homeland, fantasies which themselves rest on the (failed) repression of foundational violence in the colonial and settler creation of that homeland, and on subsequent notions of American exceptionalism at home and, in the exercise of foreign policy, abroad, then the traumatic can be spatialized. In other words, understood in relation to fantasy, trauma illuminates the terroritalization and deterritorialization of American history. After working through various examples of post-9/11 fiction to demonstrate parochial renditions of trauma and trauma's unrealized global resonances, this article turns to Cormac McCarthy's 9/11 allegory The Road for the way in which its spaces, places and territories are marked by inextricable traumas of the past and present – and therefore for the way in which it models trauma's relation to national fantasy.

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Luiz, Fernando Teixeira. "A CONSTRUÇÃO DO HERÓI NO DESENHO ANIMADO: O PERÍODO DAS NARRATIVAS HÍBRIDAS (1980 – 2000)." Revista Graphos 21, no. 1 (July 4, 2019): 239–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1516-1536.2019v21n1.46557.

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Revela-se, nas últimas décadas do século XX, a incidência de séries animadas protagonizadas por heróis primordiais, afinados à mitologia pagã e às Novelas de Cavalaria. Nessa direção, o presente estudo ocupa-se em rastrear, a partir de uma perspectiva crítica, descritiva e historicista, as propostas veiculadas pelo cinema gráfico entre 1980 e 2000 e suas articulações com a literatura, o cinema e os quadrinhos. Não está em cogitação, assim, a análise minuciosa de uma obra, mas o delineamento de um panorama histórico que permita visualizar as perspectivas de representação de heróis tradicionais ao longo de vinte anos. Para tanto, recorre-se à crítica especializada, às teorias da narrativa e aos estudos sobre desenho animado e indústria cultural. Em linhas gerais, a pesquisa apontou para um quadro curioso, se comparado às décadas anteriores, marcado, predominantemente, pelo hibridismo. Assim, diversos estúdios lançavam mão de uma teia de signos típicos de circuitos específicos, como o universo da mitologia, o substrato medieval, a literatura arturiana, a fantasia futurista, o faroeste norte-americano e as fontes lendárias dos samurais. Palavras-chave: Desenho animado. Literatura. Estética. Leitor. Herói. THE CONSTRUCTION OF HEROES IN CARTOONS: THE PERIOD OF HYBRID NARRATIVES (1980 – 2000) Abstract: The last decades of the 20th century saw the incidence of animated series featuring primordial heroes, attuned to pagan mythology and to chivalric romance. From a critical, descriptive and historical perspective, this paper aims to track the initiatives conveyed in animated movies between 1980 and 2000 and their correlation with literature, cinema and comic books. The paper offers a historical outline, which provides an overview of perspectives that traditional heroes were represented within a twenty-year time span. In order to do so, it relies on specialized criticism, narrative theory, and on studies about animation and cultural industry. Overall, it points towards an interesting scenario if compared to earlier decades, which were mostly marked by the presence of hybridity. Thus, diverse studios employed a network of signs from specific contexts, such as mythology, medievalism, Arthurian literature, science fiction, American western, and Japanese samurai epics. Keywords: Animated Cartoon. Literature. Aesthetics. Reader. Hero.

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Kovtun, Elena. "Sociology of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Monitoring within Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies Classes at Lomonosov Moscow State University." Stephanos. Peer reviewed multilanguage scientific journal 33, no. 1 (January 31, 2019): 78–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.24249/2309-9917-2019-33-1-78-92.

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Ross, Stephen. "Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 48, no. 2 (2002): 488–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2002.0039.

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Carter, Brenda Choresi. "Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction (review)." Modernism/modernity 9, no. 2 (2002): 349–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2002.0025.

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Prothero, James. "Fantasy, Science Fiction, and the Teaching of Values." English Journal 79, no. 3 (March 1990): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/819231.

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Cox, Mitch. "Engendering Critical Literacy through Science Fiction and Fantasy." English Journal 79, no. 3 (March 1990): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/819232.

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BFN, Diane Strickland, Linda S. Slusser, James Francis O'Neil, Edith S. Tyson, Claudia J. Wehmann, and Richard L. King. "Booksearch: Favorite Writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy." English Journal 82, no. 6 (October 1993): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/820174.

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Davidson, Arnold E. "Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 38, no. 4 (1992): 952–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1364.

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Barnes, Lawrie, and Chantelle van Heerden. "Virtual Languages in Science fiction and fantasy literature." Language Matters 37, no. 1 (January 2006): 102–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228190608566254.

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Kovtun, Elena. "The Sociology of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Monitoring within Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies Classes at Lomonosov Moscow State University." Stephanos. Peer reviewed multilanguage scientific journal 36, no. 4 (July 23, 2019): 140–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.24249/2309-9917-2019-36-4-140-158.

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