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Harris, Christopher. "Fact or fiction? Libraries can thrive in the Digital Age." Phi Delta Kappan 96, no. 3 (2014): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0031721714557448.

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Today’s school library uses an increasing number of digital resources to supplement a print collection that is moving more toward fiction and literary non-fiction. Supplemental resources, including streaming video, online resources, subscription databases, audiobooks, e-books, and even games, round out the new collections. Despite the best efforts of even the hardest-working librarians in the best-funded libraries, there are many challenges to going digital.

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Bickford III, J. H. "Examining Historical (Mis)Representations of Christopher Columbus within Children’s Literature." Social Studies Research and Practice 8, no. 2 (2013): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-02-2013-b0001.

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Effective teaching, while supplemented by best practice methods and assessments, is rooted in accurate, age-appropriate, and engaging content. As a foundation for history content, elementary educators rely strongly on textbooks and children’s literature, both fiction and non-fiction. While many researchers have examined the historical accuracy of textbook content, few have rigorously scrutinized the historical accuracy of children’s literature. Those projects that carried out such examination were more descriptive than comprehensive due to significantly smaller data pools. I investigate how ch

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Barokatussolihah. "Upaya Meningkatkan Kompetensi Guru Bahasa dalam Menulis Buku Fiksi melalui Bimbingan Kelompok di MTs Negeri 6 Kulon Progo." Jurnal Pendidikan Madrasah 7, no. 1 (2022): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/jpm.2022.71.04.

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This research aims to find out the application of group guidance as an effort to improve the competence of language teachers in writing fiction books in MTs Negeri 6 Kulon Progo. This research uses academic supervision techniques through group guidance. Based on the results of guidance, it can be concluded that there is an increase in the competence of language teachers in writing fiction books by 95%. As a result of the data group's guidance, there were 7 language teachers who wrote books both single and anthology along with offline or online guidance. Overall, this best practice activity has

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Alam, Mohd Adeel. "Paradigm Shift in Fantasy Literature: Screen Adaptations as a Source of Infotainment." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 8, no. 1 (2023): 231–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.81.28.

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In the previous two decades, young adult fiction has dominated the best-selling books, owing to its popularity and the ease with which it is widely available over the internet. Young adult fiction and high fantasy have been extensively studied in the literature in connection to a variety of genres, which also include fantasy books. Numerous researchers have examined blockbuster fantasy series in this regard. Several academics have shed new light on cinema adaptation theory or its critical examination within this area of study. As such, this study will examine the intertextual utterances seen i

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Notable Books Council, RUSA. "From Committees of RUSA: Notable Books 2016." Reference & User Services Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2016): 308. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.55n4.308.

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The Notable Books Council, first established in 1944, has announced the 2016 selections of the Notable Books List, an annual best-of list comprising twenty six titles written for adult readers and published in the United States, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The list was announced today during the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in Boston.

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Day, Dian. "Food insecurity in books for children." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation 11, no. 1 (2024): 171–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.654.

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Issues of class and poverty are largely absent from children’s fiction and from elementary school curricula, even though, in Canada, one in every five children live in food insecure households. This paper examines the limited number of middle grade children’s books that feature depictions of food insecurity published in North America in English in the past forty years and interrogates their assumptions about children, poverty, food, and hunger. While the primary cause of food insecurity for children is inadequate household income, often due to systemic inequities, most children’s fiction sugge

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LaVoi, Nicole M., Erin Becker, and Heather D. Maxwell. "“Coaching Girls”: A Content Analysis of Best-Selling Popular Press Coaching Books." Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal 16, no. 2 (2007): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.16.2.7.

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Given the lack of nationalized and required coach education programs for those involved with youth sports, self-help coaching books are a common source of knowledge. With the exception of critiques of young adult sports fiction (Kane, 1998; Kreigh & Kane, 1997), sport media research has lacked investigation of mediums that impact non-elite youth athletes and adolescent girls, and youth coaches and parents of young female athletes. The purpose of this study is to examine ‘coaching girls’ books–specifically how differences between female and male athletes are constructed. A content analysis

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Pocock, Celmara. "Nostalgia and belonging: Henry George Lamond writing the Whitsunday Islands." Queensland Review 22, no. 1 (2015): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2015.5.

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Henry George Lamond is no longer a household name, but he was once popular and widely known in Australia and overseas. An extremely prolific writer, he published fifteen books of fiction and non-fiction, and more than 900 essays and magazine articles in his lifetime. His essays and articles include writing in a wide range of subjects and genres, from romantic fiction to practical agricultural advice. He was perhaps best known for his animal-based books, including Horns and Hooves (1931), An Aviary on the Plains (1934a), Dingo (1945), Brindle Royalist (1946) and Big Red (1953a). These titles we

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Sharma, Sweta, and Kavita Agnihotri Dr. Kavita Dr. "Chetan Bhagat: The best selling voice of Middle-class young India." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research 12, no. 2 (2024): 291–95. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14650220.

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<strong>Abstract</strong> In 2003, the Rupa publication published a novel titled "Five Point Someone.” Bookstores like “Oxford” and “Crossword” placed it under the “bookshelf genre” of “Indian Fiction.” On commercial frontiers, this new author was competing with literary Laurels like “Arundhati Roy,” Shobha De,” “Sudha Narayan” and Vikram Seth.”  The contents and pricing of the novel “Five Point Someone” was far from this classic league of “Indian Fiction.” It was a tale writt

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Marcus, Sharon. "How to Talk about Books You Have Read." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 130, no. 2 (2015): 474–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2015.130.2.474.

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I don't do much public writing, but each month I persuade others to do it in my role as the fiction editor in chief of public Books, a twice-monthly online review that I cofounded with Caitlin Zaloom in 2012. On the first and fifteenth of each month, Public Books publishes six to eight essays about books, nonprint works, the media, the arts, and ideas, written mostly by academics but also by journalists, novelists, activists, and artists. In addition to traditional reviews, we publish roundtables, interviews, visual essays, and Public Picks, our annual lists of best books and films.

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P., Bhavani, and M. Kannadhasan Dr. "HUMAN HARASSMENT IN AMITAV GHOSH'S THE CIRCLE OF REASON." International Journal of Computational Research and Development (IJCRD) 4, no. 1 (2019): 16–17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3979744.

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Ghosh is the leading contemporary Indian novelists in Indian Writing in English and whose sphere of pursuits is very wide.  He has made his mark in both fiction and non-fiction but is best known for his novels. The anthology includes critical papers and celebrated scholar of the respective field on the diverse aspects of Ghosh’s novels.  The Circle of reason is one of the finest books that critically assess almost all aspects of Ghosh. This anthology of scholarly and contemplated articles is not all about his novels.

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Hutton, Clare. "“THE PROMISE OF LITERATURE IN THE COMING DAYS”: THE BEST HUNDRED IRISH BOOKS CONTROVERSY OF 1886." Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no. 2 (2011): 581–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150311000155.

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In January 1886 Sir John Lubbock, a Liberal MP and scientist, addressed the members of the London Working Men's College on “Books and Reading,” and recommended a list of a “hundred good books.” The Pall Mall Gazette decided to publicise the list, as “the hundred best books,” a small but significant revision which has as its ultimate reference Matthew Arnold's idea that culture can make the “best that has been known and thought in the world current everywhere” (Arnold 113). Though Arnold himself declined to comment on Lubbock's list, the ensuing column on “The Best Hundred Books by the Best Jud

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Smith, Mikki. "Is “E” really for everybody? Picture books for older readers in public libraries." Education Libraries 31, no. 3 (2017): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/el.v31i3.256.

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Picture books for older readers present challenges for libraries in terms of how best to provide access to them. These books often have an “E” on the spine to indicate that they are “easy” or for “everybody,” and share lower shelves with a far greater number of picture books geared for the preschool and primary grade audience. However, this classification by format might encourage older readers to pass over these materials. At the same time, questions remain about the effectiveness of housing these picture books with juvenile fiction, or of creating separate collections. This article looks at

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Conţac, Emanuel. "The Reception of C. S.Lewis in Post-Communist Romania." Linguaculture 2014, no. 2 (2014): 123–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lincu-2015-0021.

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Abstract This paper presents the circumstances surrounding the publication of the Romanian translations of C. S. Lewis’s best known works. In the first part, the author gives information about the Romanian authors who were acquainted with Lewis’s writings during Communism, when the translation and printing of books on religious topics was under the tight control of a totalitarian government. In spite of that control, two Lewis titles-The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Mere Christianity-which were translated in the US, were smuggled into Romania. The second part of this paper deals with t

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Mandal, Somdatta. "Of Books and their Covers: Marketing Fiction in a Globalized Context." East West Journal of Humanities 2 (May 25, 2011): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.70527/ewjh.v2i.61.

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Though a book is not supposed to be judged by it cover, the truth is publishers do their best to make us do so. This paper looks at different strategies deployed by leading publishers to market books and their authors through carefully thought out covers and blurbs. It follows the history of the publication of some key novels by South Asian writers, namely Arundhoti Roy. Salman Rushdie and Jhumpa Lahiri, to show how their works have been designed for niche markets. In fact, it demonstrates how the same book is provided with different covers for different markets and different historical moment

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Van Overmeire, Ben. "Enlightenment in the Dark Forest: Chan/Zen in Cixin Liu’s Three Body Trilogy." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 51, no. 2-3 (2025): 137–49. https://doi.org/10.1163/15406253-12340136.

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Abstract This article explores the Chan/Zen Buddhist elements in Cixin Liu’s Three Body science fiction trilogy, particularly through the character of Luo Ji 羅輯. By exploring these references, the provocative moral and political philosophy articulated in the books can be better understood. Ultimately, I argue that Liu presents a modified version of Chan/Zen as the philosophy best fit for confronting a hostile universe.

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Al-Araj, Anna. "Mystical Experiences in the Fiction of Edward Stachura." Ruch Literacki 57, no. 5 (2016): 565–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ruch-2017-0084.

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Summary This article examines some aspects of the fiction of Edward Stachura, especially those that lend to it an aura of mystery and unreality. It cannot be denied that some kind of mystical experience (usually wrapped up in borderline situations of death or extreme suffering) lies at heart of his novels and short stories, and remains the object of his unflagging explorations. His fascination with the strange and elusive realms of human experiences can be traced back to his debut novel, All the Brilliance (Ca a jaskrawość). It grew more intense each year to reach its climax in 1977–1979, the

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Strikauskaitė, Roberta. "Translation of Stylistic Devices in Contemporary Young Adolescent Fiction." Jaunųjų mokslininkų darbai 2, no. 46 (2016): 71–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.21277/jmd.v2i46.60.

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General interest in teenage books has been upsurging because of films based on international best-sellers. Therefore, the scripture becomes a source of language, in a sense that youngsters learn new words, phrases, allusions or metaphors and incorporate them in their everyday language. Demand for popular reads requires a quick reaction translating these books as there are plenty of novels for young adults written in foreign languages. However, translation of adolescent fiction is a challenging task due to the use of slang and other colloquial vocabulary or stylistic devices. However, the trans

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Sajida Aslam. "فکشن اور فیکشن کا اتصال: اشفاق احمد کا گڈریا". Taṣdīq 6, № 1 (2024): 177–85. https://doi.org/10.56276/kyvhcm74.

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Ashfaq Ahmed entered Urdu literature through short story writing. His first short story “Touba” was published in the monthly “Adabi Duniya” in 1942. However, literary fame came from the epic “Gudriya”. Which is called fiction written in the context of migration. But a hidden aspect of this legend is that the story told orally by the narrator in “Gudriya” is the life of Ashfaq Ahmed himself. In which the town Muktsar, elder brother Aftab, Ammaji, father being a doctor and failing In 9th class are all his own real life events and relationships. The purpose of the paper is to clarify these simila

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Mr., Vitthal Gangaram Shinde. "Reflection of Social Norms in Ruth Rendell's Mystery Fiction." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research S6, no. 36 (2025): 67–73. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15544197.

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<em>The present paper is an attempt to focus on the social norms which are reflected in the mystery   with specific reference in fictional work of the acclaimed British Woman Novelist. Ruth Rendell is known as the second queen of mystery fiction. Rendell uses her mystery literature to illustrate a number of issues. She employs enigma, suspense, crime, and murder in her novels. Even though she was a female novelist, she was just as adept at expressing today's societal themes as male novelists. She often made the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her best-selling books include standalone p

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Petasyuk, O. "THE PHENOMENON OF THE "EXECUTED RENAISSANCE" (FOR THE 80TH YEAR OF THE COMMEMORATION OF THE VICTIMS OF THE EXECUTION IN THE SANDARMOKH FOREST MASSIF)." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. History, no. 132 (2017): 39–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2017.132.1.08.

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In this paper we review the contribution of the writers, poets and painters of the so-called "Executed Renaissance" to Ukrainian culture. We showcase the peculiarities and dimensions of this phenomenon. The Ukrainian National Revival of the 1920s is shown as a spiritual process and movement, a model of perception of the world of the executed generation. We try to outline the most important features of the Ukrainian elite's worldview and to showcase their political, ideological and ethical principles which partly caused further repressions. The creative process of the Ukrainian intellectual eli

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Bala, Rahmad. "MADRASAH LIBRARY COLLECTION MANAGEMENT (CASE STUDY AT MAN 1 YOGYAKARTA)." Proceeding of The Postgraduate School Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta 1 (October 26, 2023): 409. http://dx.doi.org/10.24853/pi.1.0.2023.409-428.

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The purpose of this study was to determine the system and model of library collection management in MAN 1 Yogyakarta library. This research is a qualitative research with descriptive analysis of the interactive model of Milles and Huberman. The results showed that to provide maximum service, the library must make various innovations. MAN 1 Yogyakarta library utilizes digital technology in providing services. Since 2010 until now this library has reformed and transformed library management from CD-ISIS software to the Ibra V.4 software system. The library also excels in the availability of coll

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Hutchinson, George. "A Historicist Novel." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 134, no. 2 (2019): 391–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.2.391.

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The vortex of the twentieth century, the late 1930s and early to mid 1940s, provides an appropriate setting for Jennifer Egan's experiment in historical fiction. Many popular histories have glorified the bands of brothers and Rosie the Riveters of the so-called greatest generation. The best fiction and poetry of the 1940s offered a different, unflattering view. Journalists from that era—Martha Gellhorn, for one—said they needed fiction to get the history right (313). Literary treatments of the war focus on its incommunicability and on the crisis of meaning it inspired, but they have been vastl

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Cook, Daniel. "BODIES OF SCHOLARSHIP: WITNESSING THE LIBRARY IN LATE-VICTORIAN FICTION." Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no. 1 (2010): 107–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015031000029x.

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In one of the fictive dialogues from his 1872 book The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. dispensed advice to any scholar planning to start a private library: I have a kind of notion of the way in which a library ought to be put together – no, I don't mean that, I mean ought to grow. . . . A scholar must shape his own shell, secrete it one might almost say, for secretion is only separation, you know, of certain elements derived from the material world about us. And a scholar's study, with books lining its walls, is his shell. It isn't a mollusk's shell, either; it's a caddi

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Dr., K. Karthikeyan. "SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE NOVELS OF DOS PASSOS." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Humanities (IJIRAH) 4, no. 2 (2019): 34–36. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4652515.

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Dos Passos wrote more than forty books during his lifetime, including poetry, plays, travel books, political tracts, histories, and biographies. He is better known, though, for his novels, and best of all for the documentary style fiction he wrote during the twenties and thirties. He is the best known for, and to those others which are representative of a period in his career or of a change in political or stylistic direction. Though it is certainly true that no American writer has been more subjected to political judgment than Dos Passos, has the history of the critical response shows that wh

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Madhavan, Adya. "The Fine Print on AI: Debunking AI Myths." Indian Public Policy Review 5, no. 6 (2025): 125–28. https://doi.org/10.55763/ippr.2025.05.06.005.

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AI has gone from a distant possibility in the realm of science fiction to a promising new technology in a short span of time. This has left much room for confusion about its capabilities, and there are many misconceptions and fears that are perpetuated today. Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor’s book ‘AI Snake Oil’ provides a comprehensive and easy to understand reality check, and the authors’ future-looking perspective makes it easy to understand the potential the technology could bring. Arguably, it is one of the best books on AI thus far-- bringing knowledge that is traditionally complex to

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Kang, Moon Jong. "A Study on the popularization of classical novel: An analysis of cases." Research of the Korean Classic 59 (November 30, 2022): 57–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.20516/classic.2022.59.57.

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First, in the field of related search terms, it is as poor as ‘Chunhyangjeon’ that is directly related to Korean classical novels. Except for educational materials, about 『the classic novel Odyssey』 appears on the first screen, and as for videos, popularized videos do not appear except for educational materials. Related news is also not receiving attention except for distributing press releases. Books related to classical novels also mentioned the degree of publications of institutions that distribute press releases. In particular, from January 1, 2021 to August 16, 2022, there were no books r

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Desai, Priyal. "Book Genre Prediction." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. 10 (2021): 593–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.38409.

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Abstract: The present work aims to classify the genre of the books automatically using the Python programming language. A genre is a subset of art, literature, or music that has a distinct form, substance, and style. In many instances, a book can be classified as belonging to more than one genre. It's difficult to categorize a book or piece of literature as belonging to one genre over another. Many novels end up badly categorized or pushed under the super-genre umbrella of fiction since there is no clear criterion to determine how much of a book belongs to a given genre. Therefore, it's critic

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Dinçkan, Yeşim. "Culture-Bound Collocations in Bestsellers: A Study of Their Translations from English into Turkish." Meta 55, no. 3 (2010): 456–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/045065ar.

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This paper discusses the treatment of culture-bound collocations in translations of three recent English bestsellers into Turkish. The findings are categorized as per the nature of the example and translation strategy, and they are further discussed within the framework of domestication and foreignizing. Factors that may affect translators, such as context, the demands of publishers in Turkey and the genre of the novels – bestsellers – and the relations between best-sellerization, popular fiction, and translation are also discussed. The conclusion includes reflections concerning the consistenc

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Chaudhry, Abdus Sattar, and Amel Al-Adwani. "Reading Practices of EFL Students: A Survey of Kuwaiti College Students." English Language Teaching 12, no. 5 (2019): 130. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v12n5p130.

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Reading is important for students by contributing significantly to success in their studies and their career development. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted in the English Department of the College of Basic Education, Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), in Kuwait. Based on 410 responses of EFL college students in Kuwait on their reading practices, it was found that students read mainly for entertainment, and reading does not appear to be a popular activity among students. Fiction, fashion, and best sellers were the three main types of reading, indicating that a

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Morrissey, Thomas J. "Pamela Sargent’s Science Fiction for Young Adults: Celebrations of Change." Science Fiction Studies 16, Part 2 (1989): 184–90. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.16.2.184.

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Pamela Sargent’s five SF novels for young adults display the same insight and concerns that characterize her novels for adult readers. The latter extrapolate from a broad range of contemporary technologies, including cybernetics, biological engineering, space travel, and atomic science. Regardless of the setting, however, her principal focus is always the carefully drawn characters who must live with the consequences of the technological revolution—or, in some cases, devolution. Her five SF novels for younger readers—Watchstar (1980), The Eye of the Comet (1984), Homesmind (1984), Earthseed (1

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Shiloh, Ilana. "Conceptual Metaphors in Visual Language The Graphic Novel City of Glass." Research in Language 21, no. 1 (2023): 43–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1731-7533.21.1.03.

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The paper explores the use and impact of conceptual metaphors in the graphic novel City of Glass published by Paul Auster as a free-standing story in 1985. Two years later Auster turned it into the first part of The New York Trilogy, which has since become one of the most iconic works of postmodern fiction. Artists Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli have adapted Auster’s novella into a graphic novel and their version figures on the list of the best comic books in the 20th century. The aim of this paper is to examine how the two artists’ use of conceptual metaphors has elicited the visual dime

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Uddin Noonari, Azhar, Muhammad Ibrahim Khokhar, and Rubina Shaheen. "Analysis of Focalization: A Case of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”." Journal of Asian Development Studies 13, no. 1 (2024): 716–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.62345/jads.2024.13.1.59.

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Modern studies in narratology provide some fine models to study the structure of novels and stories. The modern narratological approaches divide books and stories into story, narrative, and narration. There is also a further division of these units, the focalization of which is very important. Focalization gives the idea of the center of perception, which means who the focalizer is and what is being focalized. The important advancement in this study is that this approach distinguishes between the narrator and the focalizer and states that the narrator is not always the focalizer. The Grapes of

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Knight, Stephen. "Detection and Gender in Early Crime Fiction: Mrs Bucket to Lady Molly." Crime Fiction Studies 3, no. 2 (2022): 89–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2022.0068.

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Crime fiction is often mistakenly held to be based on books and male detection. In fact, in the nineteenth century periodicals were a major mode of publication and from the mid-century on women inquirers played a recurring role in the developing genre, while most early male detectives were, by later standards, distinctly under-gendered. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal was a major early source; by the 1860s, female detectives were being created by male writers and in Bleak House (1852–53), Dickens gave Inspector Bucket’s wife distinct inquiring capacities. The major Australian author Mary Fortune

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Salman and Prof Rani Tiwari. "Exploring Conspiracy Theories of the Illuminati in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s The Illuminatus! Trilogy." Voice of Creative Research 7, no. 1 (2025): 290–97. https://doi.org/10.53032/tvcr/2025.v7n1.33.

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Famous American authors Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Joseph Shea are considered to be one of the best conspiracy thriller fiction writers. Both were impressed by conspiracy theories. Both have explored conspiracy theories about secret societies like the Assassins, Knights Templars, Freemasons, the Illuminati, and conspiracy theories about depopulation agendas, cults, anti-Semitism, discordianism, New World Order, famous assassinations and world domination plans in The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975). Terms like conspiracy theories, secret societies, Freemasons, and the Illuminati, Baphomet, Assa

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Nisar Ali, Dr. Mian Humayun, and Dr. Ghuncha Begum. "A Review of Urdu Children's Literature in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (In the Context of Contemporary Requirements)." GUMAN 8, no. 1 (2025): 20–31. https://doi.org/10.63075/guman.v8i1.885.

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The importance of children's literature in Urdu literature is Muslim. Since the beginning of writing Urdu literature, children's literature has also started, which consists of not hundreds but thousands of pages. Children's literature has some important features that distinguish it from other literature. Curiosity, wonder and responsiveness are basic characteristics that are naturally present in every child. It is essential for children's literature that children's literature should be based on knowledge and morals and its objectives should include the best education and training so that natur

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Pikun, Lesia. "The Frank Einstein Books by Jon Scieszka as a Variant of the Literary Game with Cultural Heritage." Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu Serìâ Fìlologìâ 14, no. 25 (2021): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-3055-2021-14-25-79-86.

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The article is dedicated to the study of the literary mirror game with the cultural heritage in the Frank Einstein books by Jon Scieszka. The Frank Einstein books were first translated and published in Ukraine in 2019. This article is the first investigation of the Frank Einstein series by J. Scieszka as a literary game. Six Frank Einstein books (“Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor” (2014), “Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger” (2015), ‘Frank Einstein and the BrainTurbo” (2015), “Frank Einstein and the EvoBlaster Belt” (2016), “Frank Einstein and the Bio-Action Gizmo” (2017) and “Frank

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Pecina, Jozef. "The Shadow and the dual-identity avenger tradition in American popular fiction." Ars Aeterna 12, no. 1 (2020): 63–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2020-0005.

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AbstractA secret identity is one of the definitional characteristics of comic-book superheroes. However, American popular literature had been populated by characters with secret identities long before the first superhero comics appeared. The crime-fighting dual-identity vigilantes enjoyed their heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, during the golden era of pulps. Selling usually for 10 cents, pulp magazines were the best source of cheap thrills and heroics. In this era, dozens of costumed avengers appeared and the most popular was undoubtedly The Shadow. Between 1931 and 1949, Street and Smith publis

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Wilson, Virginia. "Boys are Reading, but their Choices are not Valued by Teachers and Librarians." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 4, no. 3 (2009): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8h91w.

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A Review of:  McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.). “ ‘Spiderman is not for Babies’ (Peter, 4 Years): The ‘Boys and Reading Problem’ from the Perspective of the Boys Themselves.” The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 30.1/2 (2006): 57-67.   Objective – This study looks at what constitutes legitimate reading material for boys and how this material is defined in light of assessed gender differences in reading, and is part of a larger, ongoing research project on the role of public libraries in the development of youth as readers.  Design – Semi-structured, qual

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Ue, Tom. "Solving crimes, telling stories: An interview with Tom Ryan." Book 2.0 12, no. 2 (2022): 207–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00077_7.

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Like the interviewer, Tom Ryan is based in Nova Scotia, in Canada’s Maritimes. Ryan is the author of more than a half-dozen books, including some critically acclaimed works for young readers: Keep This to Yourself (), for example, earned the 2020 Arthur Ellis Award for YA Crime Book and the 2020 ITW Award for Best YA Thriller; more recently I Hope You’re Listening () was awarded the 2021 Lambda Literary Award. In what follows, Ryan and I dwell on these two novels to explore what attracts him to the YA genre, his writing process, central themes in his oeuvre and how he imbues his characters wit

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Ibarrola-Armendariz, Aitor. "The Effective and the Controversial Uses of Code-Switching: Edwidge Danticat’s 'Claire of the Sea Light' as Case Study." Complutense Journal of English Studies 28 (November 24, 2020): 23–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/cjes.61429.

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This article explores the different uses that Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat makes of code-switching in her last novel Claire of the Sea Light (2013). It also delves into the effects Danticat seeks to produce on her readers by the introduction of Creole words and expressions. While the incorporation of the mother tongue is not new in Danticat’s fiction, critics have paid little attention to the diverse purposes such a tongue purports to serve in her books and to the kind of responses it has aroused from her audience. Her uses of code-switching are observed to pursue various purposes:

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Sherratt-Bado, Dawn Miranda. "‘Gentility Keeps Breaking Through’: Women and the Middle-Class Northern Protestant House in Janet McNeill’s The Maiden Dinosaur." Review of Irish Studies in Europe 3, no. 1 (2019): 36–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.32803/rise.v3i1.2212.

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Janet McNeill’s fiction has experienced a recent revival, led by London-based publisher Turnpike Books, which reissued three of her novels between 2014 and 2015, with a fourth due in autumn 2019. The Maiden Dinosaur (1964/2015) is her best-known book, and it depicts Northern Ireland at a transitional moment in its history, during the post-war period and preceding the recommencement of the Troubles. McNeill explores vestigial systems of power that endure in Northern Ireland amidst the shifting gender, class, religious, and political contexts of the early 1960s. This essay analyses her rendering

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Khvastunova, Yulia V. "The Promotion of Transhumanism in Modern Bestsellers Based on the Example of D. Brown’s Novel “Inferno”." Общество: философия, история, культура, no. 3 (March 19, 2025): 65–70. https://doi.org/10.24158/fik.2025.3.8.

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The popularization of the ideas of modern transhumanism, most clearly expressed in the Human Enhance-ment project, is actively carried out in popular culture through certain types of art: literature, cinema, animation, etc. In particular, in fiction, these ideas are reflected in such areas as cyberpunk, fantasy, mystery novel with elements of thriller and intellectual detective. Among the authors specializing in mystical and paranormal ide-as, D. Brown, who devoted a number of best-selling books to the modern transhumanist movement and its in-dividual ideologists, applying elements of game the

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Sinduja, Chinnaveeran S.M. Kavitha K.Gayathri R.Rejina. "IDENTITY QUEST AND EMANCIPATION OF URMILA IN KAVITA KANE'S SITA'S SISTER." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research 2, no. 20 (2022): 164–66. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7049921.

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<strong><em>Abstract</em></strong> <em>India is a land of cultural conglomeration which is built on the hope and faith of Indian folk. It is deeply rooted on mythology. Mythology is a genesis of every religion and culture in the world. Kavita Kane is an Indian writer and former journalist. She is known for writing Mythology- fiction. All of her books are based on Indian mythology. She is an author of the new era of retelling. She is the best- selling author of five books, a senior journalist and a columnist and is considered a revolutionary force in Indian writing. She gives mythological accou

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Gnyusova, Irina F. "Books About Yermak in the Library of Gavriil Tyumentsev as an Indicator of the Siberian Reader’s Cultural Self-Identification (Based on Materials from the Research Library of Tomsk State University)." Tekst. Kniga. Knigoizdanie, no. 24 (2020): 68–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/23062061/24/4.

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Yermak Timofeevich, the conqueror of Siberia, is a key figure of the Siberian frontier and a special “myth” about Siberia in Russian culture. The aim of the article is to find out the idea of Yermak that Siberian intellectual readers formed at the turn of the 20th century. The library of the eminent Tomsk teacher Gavriil Tyumentsev is a representative material for this study. During his life, Tyumentsev collected books and various materials about Siberia. The corpus of publications on Yermak belongs to the period from 1832 to 1897. The books are mainly issued by the capital’s publishing houses

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Mr., Vitthal Gangaram Shinde. "Representation of Criminal Women Characters in Ruth Rendell's Mystery Fiction." Literary Enigma 1, no. 2 (2025): 58–65. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15315978.

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Abstract   The present paper is an attempt to analyze the criminal women characters which are represented in the mystery and crime with specific reference in fictional work of the acclaimed British Woman Novelist. Ruth Rendell is known as the second queen of mystery fiction. Rendell uses her mystery literature to illustrate a number of issues. She employs enigma, suspense, crime, and murder in her novels. Even though she was a female novelist, she was just as adept at expressing today's societal themes as male novelists. She often made the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her best-selling bo

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Ekblad, Sven. "Umberto Eco - författare, semiolog, tänkare." Moderna Språk 96, no. 2 (1992): 150–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v96i2.10228.

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A summary: In this article Sven Ekblad gives a portrait of the eminent Italian weiter, semiotician and thinker Umberto Eco. He approaches his subject from three different angles. Firstly, it describes Eco's academic career: his undergraduate studies at the University of Turin, his appointment to the chair of Semiotics at the University of Bologna in 1975, a post he still holds today, and his international success as a lecturer. A general discussion of semiotics is exemplified by his fiction and his academic work. Secondly, the article deals with Eco's role as a cultural commentator, on TV and

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Roman, Luke. "The Representation of Literary Materiality in Martial's Epigrams." Journal of Roman Studies 91 (November 2001): 113–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3184773.

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Around the world, covers have become advertisements for their books. The dignity that characterizes something self-contained, lasting, hermetic — something that absorbs the reader and closes the lid over him, as it were, the way the cover of the book closes on the text — has been set aside as inappropriate to the times. The book sidles up to the reader; it no longer presents itself as existing in itself, but rather as existing for something other, and for this very reason the reader feels cheated of what is best in it. Theodor AdornoIn his last book, at the end of a successful, literary career

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Abdullah, Noorhidawati, and Forbes Gibb. "Students’ attitudes towards e‐books in a Scottish Higher Education Institute." Library Review 58, no. 1 (2009): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00242530910928906.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the third of three inter‐related experiments investigating the use and usability of e‐books in Higher Education based on experiments conducted at the University of Strathclyde. This study has looked in greater detail at user interactions with e‐books for reference purposes by focusing on searching and browsing tasks using three search tools: back‐of the‐book index (BoBI), table of contents (ToC) and full text search (FTS).Design/methodology/approachThis study was carried out by subject‐specific users and using a between‐subjects approach. The targ

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Rüsse, Paul, and Karita Nuut. "Rehepapp and Robin Hood: Tricksters or Heroes?" Interlitteraria 21, no. 1 (2016): 130. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2016.21.1.11.

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In reference books and specialised literature, the traditional distinction between the culture hero and the trickster remains surprisingly unequivocal: the latter mythological character is usually defined as the demonic or comical counterpart of the former. While it might be a useful if rigid description for an encyclopaedia, does it always hold true in works of fiction? The present essay attempts to demonstrate that the interaction of the two types is much more ambiguous, and this complex and contradictory relationship is traced through the juxtaposition of probably the best-known characters

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