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Journal articles on the topic "Fantasy fiction – History and criticism"

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D, Yogalakshmi, and Vijayalakshmi S. "The Gift of Writers in Animating the Past to the Present as Tales of Remembrance: A Comparative Study of Salman Rushdie’s Victory City and Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama." World Journal of English Language 13, no. 7 (2023): 292. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v13n7p292.

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The research focuses on how fantasy is manifested as part of storytelling. Salman Rushdie’s Victory City (2023) and Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama (2021) adopt ancient myths and histories that serve as remembrance tales. Both Rushdie and Ghosh evince a common interest in exploring social issues in their writings through an allegorical form. Rushdie’s Victory City is about the history of the Vijayanagar Empire, one of the most distinguished empires of medieval India (14th century to 16th century). Rushdie submitted his final edits of Victory City before the attack in New York City (Chautauqua) for

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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 (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 co

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Hauke, Alexandra. "A Woman by Nature? Darren Aronofsky’s mother! as American Ecofeminist Gothic." Humanities 9, no. 2 (2020): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9020045.

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In this essay, I discuss Darren Aronofsky’s 2017 feature film mother! in the context of an intersectional approach to ecofeminism and the American gothic genre. By exploring the histories of ecofeminism, the significances of the ecogothic, and the Puritan origins of American gothic fiction, I read the movie as a reiteration of both a global ecophobic and an American national narrative, whose biblical symbolism is rooted in the patriarchal logic of Christian theology, American history, female suffering, and environmental crisis. mother! emerges as an example of a distinctly American ecofeminist

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Ashutosh Kumar Yadav and Prof. Sanjoy Saxena. "The Role of Women Characters in the Select Novels of Salman Rushdie." Creative Launcher 8, no. 3 (2023): 67–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2023.8.3.08.

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Salman Rushdie, a postmodernist immigrant, is considered as one the greatest novelist of the 20th century. His apt use of magical realism, incorporates mythology, religion, history, fantasy, and humor into the real world. He narrates his life story and relates it to the national history of India. Rushdie uses the magical realist technique to deal about the postcolonial people of India, and various postcolonial issues. His writing focuses on India’s history, politics, and identity as seen through his narrators. There is a blending of fantasy and reality with his fantastical fiction. Salman Rush

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Üstün Külünk, Sema. "The novel Mütercim as a site of transfiction: A case of translation in life and the translation of life in the transformational republican era in Turkey." International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research 15, no. 1 (2023): 236–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.12807/ti.115201.2023.a12.

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Translation has a rich history in Ottoman and Turkish literature, and a study of transmesis in a transfiction has great potentials for analyzing the praxis and pragmatics of translation in Turkey. This study focuses on the translational action in the mirror of fiction with a case study on the Turkish novel Mütercim (2013) [Translator] by Alper Gürkan. Investigating translation both as a performance (i.e., text) and an experience (i.e., agency), the analysis is constructed upon four categories: 1) actual translation in its technical sense; (2) the agency of the translator as a subject and objec

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Berman, Ruth. "Fantasy Fiction and Fantasy Criticism in Some Nineteenth-Century Periodicals." Extrapolation 37, no. 1 (1996): 63–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.1996.37.1.63.

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György, Erik. "The women of N. K. Jemisin: Representations of women and gender roles in the science-fantasy The Fifth Season." Ars Aeterna 13, no. 2 (2021): 61–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2021-0011.

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Abstract The following paper deals with representations of women and gender roles in science-fiction and fantasy. It briefly discusses the issue in these genres in general, but it is primarily concerned with one specific example, i.e. N. K. Jemisin’s science-fantasy novel The Fifth Season. The paper’s main aim is to highlight the changing nature of representations of women in science fiction and fantasy and pay tribute to a literary work depicting women from a modern perspective. Thus, it presents the analysis of said novel from the perspective of feminist criticism and gender studies, focusin

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Repenkova, Maria M. "GÜlten DayioĞlu’s Alternative History Fantasy Novel." Oriental Courier, no. 2 (2022): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s268684310021600-8.

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The paper observes the artistic features of the fantasy novel Twilight Birds (Alacakaranlık Kuşları, 2005) by the famous contemporary Turkish writer Gülten Dayioğlu. The study aims to prove that the novel, in terms of its artistic and aesthetic attributes, belongs to a subgenre of science fiction, alternative history, which is new to Turkish literature. The following objectives were pursued: to characterise Turkish fiction literature in 1990–2000 (classification of genres, genre features, representatives of each genre), to outline the main stages in the study of Turkish fiction by national res

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Khorob, S. S. "CONCEPT OF "SOUL" IN THE NARRATIVE-FANTASY OF VOLODYMYR ARENIEV "DUSHNYTSIA"." PRECARPATHIAN BULLETIN OF THE SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY Word, no. 3(55) (April 12, 2019): 332–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.31471/2304-7402-2019-3(55)-332-337.

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Problem setting. Fundamental scientific research on science fiction in contemporary literary criticism is rather an exception than a regularity. For a long time fantasy did not have sufficient scientific support, remaining just a genre of mass culture. However, lately, science fiction is seen not only as something purely entertaining. After all, it gradually develops: from the scientific object of separate researches (M. Nazarenko, A. Niamtsu, S. Oliinyk, O. Stuzhuk, etc.) to the theme of the great conference “Slavic science fiction” at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University and later to th

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Bardsley, Jan. "Teaching Geisha in History, Fiction, and Fantasy." ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts 17, no. 2 (2010): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/ane.205.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fantasy fiction – History and criticism"

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Wong, Wai-yi Dorothy, and 黃偉儀. "Form, force, and sociality: a study of the literary fantastic with special reference to Angela Carter and MoYan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31246114.

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Selling, Kim Liv. "Nature, reason and the legacy of romanticism : constructing genre fantasy." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2565.

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Eckstein, Simon J. "The shadow of the past : fantasy, modernism, and the aftermath of a world at war." Thesis, Swansea University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678625.

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This study constitutes a single strand of a wider argument for a thorough-going reassessment of the place of fantasy literature within the canon. In particular, it aims to redress a marked lack of critical attention paid to the distinct movement towards fantastic modes of representation in the mid-twentieth century.

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Chau, Ka-wah Anna, and 周嘉華. "Imaginary spaces in children's fantasy fiction: a psychoanalytic reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice Booksand Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31364986.

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Melano, Anne. "On divergence in fantasy." Master's thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/17998.

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The original thesis contains the novel "Stranger, I" as an integral part of the thesis. However this novel has been omitted in this digital copy.<br>Thesis (MA (Hons))--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2006.<br>Bibliography: p. 93-97.<br>On divergence in fantasy -- Introduction -- Preliminary -- The thousand and one definitional nights -- Characteristic works: inclusions and exclusions -- Critical objections to fantasy -- Conclusion.<br>On Divergence in Fantasy explores the ways in which fantasy criticism continually redefines its boundaries, without arrivin

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Marling, Thomas Oliver. "The magician of reason, the plaything of enlightenment: grotesque fantasy and tabloid speculative fiction, 1900-1911 /Marling Thomas Oliver." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/375.

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The final decade of the Qing Dynasty, 1901-1911, witnessed a proliferation of works of fiction that incorporated, to a large extent for the first time, themes and images relating to material and technological progress. These "science fantasies" of global and interplanetary peregrination and travel across epochal time have typically been situated along various degrees of confederacy with the values and ideology of modernising China at large. This study however addresses the complex and oft-obfuscated relationship between much of this speculative fiction and the late-Qing tabloid press, which is

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Steenkamp, Elzette Lorna. "Identity, belonging and ecological crisis in South African speculative fiction." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002262.

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This study examines a range of South African speculative novels which situate their narratives in futuristic or ‘alternative’ milieus, exploring how these narratives not only address identity formation in a deeply divided and rapidly changing society, but also the ways in which human beings place themselves in relation to Nature and form notions of ‘ecological’ belonging. It offers close readings of these speculative narratives in order to investigate the ways in which they evince concerns which are rooted in the natural, social and political landscapes which inform them. Specific attention is

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Langwith, Mark J. "'A far green country' : an analysis of the presentation of nature in works of early mythopoeic fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/313.

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This study undertakes an examination of the representation of nature in works of literature that it regards as early British ‘mythopoeic fantasy’. By this term the thesis understands that fantasy fiction which is fundamentally concerned with myth or myth-making. It is the contention of the study that the connection of these works with myth or the idea of myth is integral to their presentation of nature. Specifically, this study identifies a connection between the idea of nature presented in these novels and the thought of the late-Victorian era regarding nature, primitivism, myth and the impul

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Glover, Jayne Ashleigh. "The Harry Potter phenomenon literary production, generic traditions, and the question of values." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002243.

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This thesis is a study of the first four books of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. It accounts for the widespread success of the novels by examining their publication and marketing histories, and their literary achievement as narratives including a sophisticated mix of generic traditions. Chapter One looks at the popularity of the novels, comparing their material production and marketing by Rowling’s English language publishers: Bloomsbury in Britain and Scholastic in the United States of America. The publisher’s influence on the public perception of each book is demonstrated by comparativ

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Glover, Jayne Ashleigh. ""A complex and delicate web" : a comparative study of selected speculative novels by Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing and Marge Piercy." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002241.

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This thesis examines selected speculative novels by Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing and Marge Piercy. It argues that a specifiable ecological ethic can be traced in their work – an ethic which is explored by them through the tensions between utopian and dystopian discourses. The first part of the thesis begins by theorising the concept of an ecological ethic of respect for the Other through current ecological philosophies, such as those developed by Val Plumwood. Thereafter, it contextualises the novels within the broader field of science fiction, and speculative fiction in p

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Books on the topic "Fantasy fiction – History and criticism"

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1953-, MacGregor Susan, ed. Divine realms: Canadian science fiction and fantasy. Ravenstone, 1998.

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Lem, Stanisław. Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy. Secker & Warburg, 1985.

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Reginald, R. Reginald's science fiction and fantasy awards. 2nd ed. Borgo Press, 1991.

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Searles, Baird. Films of science fiction and fantasy. AFI Press, 1988.

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Leslie, Stratyner, and Keller James R. 1960-, eds. Fantasy fiction into film: Essays. McFarland & Co, 2007.

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Gadomska, Katarzyna. Science-fiction et fantasy comme merveilleux contemporain. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu ʹSląskiego, 2002.

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Bruce, Cassiday, ed. Modern mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writers. Continuum, 1993.

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F, Bleiler E., ed. Supernatural fiction writers: Fantasy and horror. Scribner, 1985.

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Bruce, Cassiday, ed. The illustrated history of science fiction. Ungar, 1989.

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Molson, Francis J. Children's fantasy. Borgo Press, 1989.

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Knight, Stephen. "Fantasy History, Historical Fiction, International Narratives." In G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429507748-6.

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Altazin, Keith. "Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy: Conspiracy and Rebellion in The Tudors." In History, Fiction, and The Tudors. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43883-6_14.

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Andrén, Ella. "The Dark Past of Our Bright Future: Concurrent Histories of Star Trek: Voyager." In History and Speculative Fiction. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5_9.

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AbstractThe Star Trek franchise is frequently described as utopian, the bright future of humanity, Earth, and the universe. The time and society of the Starfleet explorers is said to have overcome issues of inequality, racism, sexism, hunger, war, capitalism, greed, and environmental problems. This is at the same time a radical fantasy of the future and an artistic and commercial product of our own time. In their travels across the galaxy, the Starfleet explorers also encounter different civilizations, often depicted or even described as reminiscent of various time periods of Earth’s history. Here, our imagined future can meet a metaphorical past, a piece of well-known history made Other. In this way, past, present, and future exist concurrently, and the past is made both vivid, close and alien.

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Höglund, Anna. "The Wild Boar Never Strikes Without Cause: Monstrous Hybrids, National Identity, and Gender in the Horror Movie Chawu." In History and Speculative Fiction. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5_10.

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AbstractThe wild boar has found its own unique space in the genre animal horror. The story of the monstrous wild boar describes conflicts between nature and culture, animal and human, and the criticism of civilization is a prominent theme. The place that produced the monstrous boar is important in the genre and it describes monstrous places where something has gone horribly wrong. The landscapes where the wild boar causes destruction are horrid liminal spaces between past and present. This chapter explores themes connected to South Korea’s dark history of colonial oppression and civil wars in the wild boar horror film Chawu (2009). In particular, it addresses issues regarding the construction of national identity, gender, and the hybridization of masculinities in contemporary South Korea.

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Iser, Wolfgang. "Fiction—The Filter of History: A Study of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley." In New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism: A Collection of Essays. Princeton University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400866984-005.

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Nelson, Claudia, and Anne Morey. "History is a Palimpsest 2." In Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846031.003.0003.

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This chapter explores a further set of palimpsestic texts, E. Nesbit’s fantasy The Enchanted Castle (1907) and five historical novels: Caroline Dale Snedeker’s Theras and His Town (1924), The Forgotten Daughter (1933), and The White Isle (1940); Elizabeth George Speare’s The Bronze Bow (1961); and Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth (1954). It is argued that these texts emphasize family as a mechanism for representing both disparate experiences between parents and children and continuity over time, in keeping with the topological resources of the palimpsest figure. Palimpsestic texts are fundamentally about a maturing or an aging that the child has not yet experienced, and that maturation is sometimes represented as a kind of inevitable damage or loss to both place and person. Indeed, a dominant facet of this set of palimpsestic texts is an analogy between damage to the landscape that the characters inhabit and damage to the human body. Methodologically, these works are examined with the aid of critics who consider the representation and cultivation of empathy in fiction.

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Levenson, Michael. "Criticism of Fiction." In The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521300124.022.

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Battersby, Doug. "Vladimir Nabokov’s Unbearable Intimacy." In Troubling Late Modernism. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192863331.003.0002.

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Abstract Chapter 1 considers Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction in light of his own understanding of the history of the novel form, highlighting the importance he places on the technical innovations of Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce. Though Nabokov regarded Ulysses (1922) as the definitive modernist novel, he also criticized its use of stream of consciousness narration, firstly for presenting thoughts and feelings as more linguistic than they ‘really’ are, and secondly for presupposing an objective perspective from which a character’s experience might be neutrally ‘recorded’. This suspicion of modernist narration’s putative affectation of objectivity is apparent in Nabokov’s own derangements of interior monologue and free indirect narration in Ada or Ardor (1969), his most formally ambitious and ethically provocative novel. Other critics have approached Ada as a dramatization of the processes by which the mind gradually comes to know the world in ever more detail. By contrast, a more formally attentive and affectively attuned close reading demonstrates that its experiential descriptions are so saturated with particularities of emotion, fantasy, and desire as to be irreconcilable with conceptually consistent epistemological accounts of this kind. The chapter concludes by assessing Nabokov’s contribution to late modernism and elaborating on the implications of a revised understanding of the philosophical charge of Nabokov’s aesthetics for ethical readings of his fiction, suggesting that his perversion of Flaubertian and Joycean techniques recalibrates the assumption, often propagated by modernist forms, of the inherent virtue of being intimate with another person’s thoughts, feelings, and desires.

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Rieder, John. "On defining sf, or not: Genre theory, sf, and history." In Science Fiction Criticism. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474248655.0013.

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Yaszek, Lisa. "The women history doesn’t see: Recovering midcentury women’s sf as a literature of social critique." In Science Fiction Criticism. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474248655.0030.

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