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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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Xia, Kaiwei. "DeLillo’s Libra and the Subjunctive Mood as Fictionalization." Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures 7, no. 2 (2023): 117–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202302009.

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Don DeLillo’s Libra is often considered a postmodernist rendition of history, but there exist temporal distortions in his fiction that must be parsed into the subjunctive mood instead of the simple past tense. The fictive transformation from the temporal tense to the mood of potentiality underlies DeLillo’s fictionalization of history that attempts to problematize the ironclad facts. This would to power manifests the point that fiction is a poetic and emotive alternative to actualized reality. What is Real to fiction lies in its virtual reality.

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S, Sengol Mery. "Alternative History Creation in Su Venkatesan's Police Line." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-7 (2022): 367–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt22s757.

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The form of the novel is a historical record based on the fact that it is a reflection of the records of the past. Efforts to recreate the lifestyle of the ancestors through creation by gathering historical information from various fields such as archeology have increased in recent times. When the information thus collected becomes fiction, it becomes fiction or a program of historical events at the discretion of the creator. Novels written in a historical setting can be divided into two categories: direct historical novels and novels that prioritize history and fiction. Novels like Su Venkate

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Anistratenko, Antonina. "Terminological system of alternative history genre in fiction." Current issues of social sciences and history of medicine, no. 1 (February 28, 2019): 88–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.24061/2411-6181.1.2019.107.

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Putilo, Oleg O. "ALTERNATIVE IMAGE OF RUSSIA IN ALTERNATE HISTORY FICTION." Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures] 55 (2020): 151–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2020-55-151-162.

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González, Jesús Ángel. "'Another History': Alternative Americas in Paul Auster's Fiction." Comparative American Studies An International Journal 9, no. 1 (2011): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/147757011x12983070064836.

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Oh, Kyunghwan. "History of Alternative Histories: Towards an Extro-historical Fiction." Academic Association of Global Cultural Contents 49 (November 30, 2021): 175–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.32611/jgcc.2021.11.49.175.

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Brennen, Bonnie. "Newsworkers in Fiction: Raymond Williams and Alternative Communication History." Journal of Communication Inquiry 17, no. 1 (1993): 95–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019685999301700106.

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Anistratenko, Antonina V. "SUBGENRES OF THE ALTERNATIVE HISTORY NOVEL: POETICS AND GENEALOGY." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 2, no. 22 (2021): 8–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.32342/2523-4463-2021-2-22-1.

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The article deals with the basic characteristics of the alternative history subgenres, its style, metagenre markers, and common plot characteristics. The meta-genre of alternative history (AH) is presented here as the basic gender formation that derives its own subgenres with similar and different markers. The aim of the article is to determine how the special gender complexes and stylistic markers that form the AH are identified as a subgenres of the alternative history meta-genre in Ukrainian and in American literature dimensions. To present AH subgenre classifications description methods ar

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Barbaro, Ada. "I Will Tell You My History: Rewriting to Revolt in the Process of al-Tārīkh al-badīl (Allohistory)." Journal of Arabic Literature 52, no. 3-4 (2021): 351–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341447.

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Abstract In an epoch of revival of the historical novel, Arabic literature tries to provide its own response to the construction of al-tārīkh al-badīl, namely “alternative history” or, also, allohistory which, as a literary genre, was originally a branch of science fiction. By proposing the idea of a counter-narration, the search for historical alternatives becomes a matter of great importance and responsibility. What happens if the writer tries to construct an alternative point of view, a counter-narration in which “History” is transformed into an almost fictional story? Far from an act of be

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Suharmono. "Hermeneutika Dialogis sebagai Basis Filosofis dalam Fiksyen dan Sejarah, Suatu Dialog Karya Umar Junus." SASDAYA: Gadjah Mada Journal of Humanities 7, no. 1 (2023): 15–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/sasdaya.v7(1).15-38.

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This study aims to explain dialogical hermeneutics, one of the scientific paradigms that can bridge the confusion of thinking in explaining the relationship between literature and reality/history. The material object used is Fiction and History of Dialogue, while the formal object is the dialogical hermeneutic paradigm in the book. The purpose of this study is to describe the basic assumptions; model; and the concepts that make up dialogic hermeneutics. The theoretical framework and method used as the basis for the analysis are Thomas Khun's thoughts related to paradigms. The results of the re

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Suharmono. "Hermeneutika Dialogis sebagai Basis Filosofis dalam Fiksyen dan Sejarah, Suatu Dialog Karya Umar Junus." Sasdaya: Gadjah Mada Journal of Humanities 7, no. 1 (2023): 15–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/sasdaya.7107.

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This study aims to explain dialogical hermeneutics, one of the scientific paradigms that can bridge the confusion of thinking in explaining the relationship between literature and reality/history. The material object used is Fiction and History of Dialogue, while the formal object is the dialogical hermeneutic paradigm in the book. The purpose of this study is to describe the basic assumptions; model; and the concepts that make up dialogic hermeneutics. The theoretical framework and method used as the basis for the analysis are Thomas Khun's thoughts related to paradigms. The results of the re

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Greenblatt, Stephen. "Racial Memory and Literary History." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 116, no. 1 (2001): 48–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2001.116.1.48.

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The national model of literary history—with its developmental, teleological narrative of emergence and its vision of ineffable belonging and uniqueness—has lost much of its traditional pedagogical centrality, but it has not vanished. Rather, it has migrated from the center to what was once the periphery, where it now flourishes as a way of affirming the identity claims of hitherto marginalized groups. Literary historians speaking for such groups may openly acknowledge that the terms associated with the old historical narrative—evolutionary, continuous, organic, and the like—are largely fictive

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Greenblatt, Stephen. "Racial Memory and Literary History." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 116, no. 1 (2001): 48–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900105024.

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The national model of literary history—with its developmental, teleological narrative of emergence and its vision of ineffable belonging and uniqueness—has lost much of its traditional pedagogical centrality, but it has not vanished. Rather, it has migrated from the center to what was once the periphery, where it now flourishes as a way of affirming the identity claims of hitherto marginalized groups. Literary historians speaking for such groups may openly acknowledge that the terms associated with the old historical narrative—evolutionary, continuous, organic, and the like—are largely fictive

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Abramov, Roman N. "Russian science fiction in the Genre of Alternative History as a Reflection of Mass Consciousness: Sociological Approaches." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya, no. 4 (2023): 106–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013216250024079-9.

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In Russia, fiction in the genre of alternative history has become popular over the past ten years. Book series of this kind are actively published and have a significant readership. This genre is part of ideological and utopian landscape of the Russian mass consciousness. It helps to understand imperial historical traumas, nostalgia for the Soviet past, and a high level of anxiety about the present and future. The theoretical part of the analysis is based on the G. Rosenfeld ideas about a close connection of this genre with the experience of the present and about ontological pluralization of t

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Cornum, Lou. "Seizing the Alterity of Futures." History of the Present 13, no. 2 (2023): 166–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/21599785-10630116.

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Abstract This article contextualizes growing interest in futurity and minoritarian futures as connected to movements in speculative fiction, particularly Afrofuturism and Indigenous futurism, and the ways in which this genre reimagines both history and futures. These developments are read through two groundbreaking anthologies—Dark Matter, a collection of speculative fiction from the African diaspora, and Walking the Clouds, a collection of Indigenous science fiction—and the social conditions of their publication. Using the work of Walter Benjamin and his writing against the notion of progress

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Anamika Shukla. "Rewriting History Through Creative Writing." Knowledgeable Research: A Multidisciplinary Journal 1, no. 4 (2022): 77–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.57067/96nt2k15.

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Rewriting history in creative writing involves reinterpreting, reimagining, or changing historical events, people, or periods in one's works of fiction. Authors may take a variety of approaches, from small alterations providing new insights to extensive changes deviating from history considerably. This critical rethinking of the past and its narrative representations can explore alternative histories, contest established views, and highlight the voices of people historically ignored. Several types of creative writing can be grouped under the definition of rewriting history, with each having it

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Latov, Yuri. "Paradoxes of the Russian Popadanets` Science Fiction." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya, no. 4 (2023): 117–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013216250025451-9.

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The author supports proposed by R.N. Abramov interpretation of the Russian science fiction development in the genre of alternative history as a reflection of the mass consciousness dynamics of Russians, but attempts, taking into account bibliometric data, to significantly clarify it. The development of this genre should be seen in the context of the evolving historical mentality of "post-Soviet" Russians, which turned out to be characterized by a commitment to virtual versions of historical events. This finds expression in the mass popularity of not only pseudo-scientific literature on the top

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Anistratenko, Antonina V. "ALTERNATIVE HISTORY GENRE IN THE FINE LITERATURE. THE ROLE OF EUROPEAN MYTH IN CRYPTOHISTORICAL WRITING." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 2, no. 24 (2022): 8–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.32342/2523-4463-2022-2-24-1.

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The article is devoted to the Alternative History (AH) genre in fiction and function of the “European Myth” in cryptohistorical writing. The article aims to determine the identity and path of the alternative historical novel in Ukraine and its comparative characteristics at the current stage of modern fiction. The tasks of the study are to determine the ways of European myth functioning in the artistic space of the neomodern AI novel in Ukraine which creates a new genealogical pattern in Ukrainian literary studies. Research methods are subordinate to the aim of the study and tasks. They are co

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Morgan, Glyn. "Detective, Historian, Reader: Alternate History and Alternative Fact in William Gibson’s The Peripheral." Polish Journal for American Studies, no. 12 (Autumn 2018) (April 30, 2022): 307–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/pjas.12/2/2018.04.

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Alternate history is on one level liberated from the narrative of history and verifiable fact, but it is also mercilessly reliant upon that narrative for its effectiveness. This paper analyses how William Gibson’s The Peripheral subverts familiar elements of the alternate history genre, combining it with similarly distorted conventions from detective fiction, manipulating the reader’s response, and causing them to question accepted truths, realities and roles, problematizing narratives of history and justice.

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Lavocat, Françoise. "Dido Meets Aeneas: Anachronism, Alternative History, Counterfactual Thinking and the Idea of Fiction." Journal of Literary Theory 14, no. 2 (2020): 194–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2020-2009.

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AbstractThe anachronistic character of the loving relationship between Dido and Aeneas was widely and commonly discussed among commentators, critics, and writers in the early modern period. From the 16th century onwards, when the word »anachronism« appeared in vernacular languages, its definition was even inseparable from the example borrowed from the Aeneid. The purpose of this article is to interrelate early modern debates on anachronism, reflections on the status of fiction and the history of fiction.Starting with the hypothesis that anachronism is a form of counterfactual, the questions po

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Michelson, Jared. "Covenantal history and participatory metaphysics: formulating a Reformed response to the charge of legal fiction." Scottish Journal of Theology 71, no. 4 (2018): 391–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930618000595.

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AbstractTo combat the charges raised by Radical Orthodoxy and others, which allege that Protestant soteriologies amount to a legal fiction, Bruce McCormack and Michael Horton suggest that Reformed theology embrace a covenantal ontology, which aims to overcome legal fiction objections without sacrificing Reformational insights or making recourse to medieval participatory metaphysics. For both theologians, covenantal history and participatory metaphysics are treated as rival paradigms. I suggest that their proposals display serious weaknesses and propose an alternative approach, inspired by the

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Golovashina, Oksana V. "DOES GOD PLAY DICE? THE SPIELRAUM PRINCIPLE AS AN APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF PROBABILISTIC PLOTS IN FICTION." Ural Historical Journal 77, no. 4 (2022): 86–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.30759/1728-9718-2022-4(77)-86-95.

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The article considers the principle of ranges (Spielraum) of J. von Kries and its interpretation by M. Weber to analyze the eventual plots in fiction. It draws upon the works of Russian authors, referred to the genre of alternative history. In the first step, the author, analyzing the approaches to the study of probabilistic plots, notes that, thanks to the works of researchers, probabilistic plots began to be considered on the basis of their own logic, and alternativity was justified as a manifestation of objective relations of reality. The application of new methodological tools and the incl

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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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Brovko, Olena. "Альтернативний погляд на альтернативну історію". Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 52, № 3 (2021): 291–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.635.

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The article is a review of a text entitled Alternative history as a meta-genre of Ukrainian and foreign prose: Comparative genealogy and poetics by Antonina Anistratenko, scientific editor: Halyna Syvachenko (Chernivtsi, 2020). The monograph consists of 548 pages. The subject of the study is the comparative genology and poetics of the alternative history meta-genre. According to the researcher’s well-founded belief, the subgenre accumulates a corpus of science fiction texts, fantasy literature with a component of the formula of alternative history in the artistic structure. Antonina Anistraten

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Altynbaeva, G. "Fiction and non-fiction in the “thirty-year-old” generation (“millennials”) prose." Philology and Culture, no. 2 (September 17, 2023): 104–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2023-72-2-104-110.

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Based on the analysis of the texts from contemporary Russian literature, the article investigates one of the features of the “thirty-year-old” generation prose (V. Bogdanova, O. Vasyakina, K. Hepting, K. Kupriyanov, E. Manoilo, V. Pustovaya, B. Khanov, I. Khanipaev, et al.). As an additional source, this research uses “thirty-year-old” writers’ interviews and the results of the comparison of their prose with the texts and manifestos of “new realists”. The purpose of the research is to understand the features characterizing the combination of fiction and non-fiction in the latest Russian prose.

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Barr, Marleen. "Oy, It's Superfeminist: An Ethnically Tinged Alternative History Starring a Science Fiction Scholar." Extrapolation 44, no. 4 (2003): 456–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2003.44.4.09.

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Zambrzycka, Marta. "Historie alternatywne i postapokaliptyczne wizje przyszłości w prozie Ołeksandra Irwancia." Literaturoznawstwo 1, no. 13 (2020): 32–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.25312/2451-1595.13/2019__03mz.

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Alternative histories and post-calocaltist visions of the future in the prose of Oleksandr Irwancec The text deals with alternative histories and catastrophic visions of the future in the prose of the Ukrainian writer Oleksandr Irvanets. Two out of four nowels were written in the alternative history style another two were written in post-apocalyptic convention. The prose of Oleksandr Irvaniec is strongly based in the realities of post-Soviet Ukrainian society and is a kind of commentary to the problems that bothers that society. Keywords: alternative history, postapocalyptic prose, political f

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Dymet, Marcin. "Letters from the Future." Digital Culture & Society 4, no. 2 (2018): 203–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2018-0211.

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Abstract Sociologists have long used the biographical approach as a research method. Diaries, memorials and personal correspondence are treated as existing source material, which can help enrich social knowledge about the life of social groups. This can embrace different genres, for instance autobiographical novels. These, although fictional, are still grounded in the reality of an author and can be utilized as material for social analysis. The same rules apply to science fiction literature. Worlds presented in it are versions of the future or alternative realities, anchored frequently in the

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Sey, J. "Psychoanalysis, science fiction and cyborgianism." Literator 17, no. 2 (1996): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v17i2.607.

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Central to this paper is the understanding that much of crucial importance to psychoanalytic thought rests on a conception of the subject as inseparable from a history of the body a history in turn inseparable from the central tenets of Oedipus, in its turn a concept which originates in and is illustrated by literature. The paper will suggest that when recent cultural theorists, drawing on the implications of cybernetics and infoculture theory, contest the psychoanalytic notion of the subject, it is not surprising that they do so in terms of the possibility of an alternative body - a hybrid fo

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Manning, Alan, and Nicole Amare. "Mark Twain’s Early Contributions to Fantasy and Science Fiction and “Mormon” Narratives of Reconciliation." Mark Twain Annual 21 (November 2023): 40–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/marktwaij.21.1.0040.

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Abstract Mark Twain is best known in popular culture as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is somewhat less widely known that he wrote on the leading edge of the writing genre we now know as Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF). He stands with Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, and H. G. Wells as one of the early developers of basic themes that are with us still: time travel, political dystopia, alternative history, future history, ESP, alien/demonic visitation, travel to alien worlds, and world-altering inventions. Twain likewise had fictional align

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Gramatchikova, Natalia B., and Natalia V. Veselkova. "“FRAGMENTS OF SOME NOT YET REALIZED PLAN”: UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY IN THE URAL ESSAYS AND PROSE OF THE 1930S." Ural Historical Journal 77, no. 4 (2022): 112–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.30759/1728-9718-2022-4(77)-112-121.

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The article considers the comprehension of the Urals industrialization in the fiction and non-fiction texts. The authors reveal three perspectives of alternative history: firstly, “future that did not happen” — planned but not written texts about the Urals by M. Prishvin, L. Alpatov, B. Pasternak, I. Ehrenburg, secondly, “future-in-present” — propagandistic projects of recruiting people to build new factories (the essays of A. Malenky and N. Lovtsov), and thirdly, “the creation of the present” — a piece of art, born from topographical accuracy and the author’s transforming will. In the latter

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Reutova, M. A. "ALTERNATIVE HISTORY IN DRAMATIC POEM «THE SIEGE» BY YURY KOSACH: BETWEEN SPECULATION AND FICTION." Тrаnscarpathian Philological Studies 11, no. 2 (2019): 103–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.32782/tps2663-4880/2019.11-2.18.

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Marton, Péter. "Reflections on the Analysis of Counterfactual Propositions and Alternative History Speculative Fiction about WWI." Corvinus Journal of International Affairs 4, no. 2-4 (2019): 120–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.14267/cojourn.2019v4n2a9.

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PHILIP, KAVITA. "Speculative Histories: Photo essay." BJHS Themes 1 (2016): 239–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bjt.2016.10.

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History and Speculation, Past and Future, are not as separate as they once were in our disciplinary imaginations. Science fiction has emerged as one of many new speculative frequencies in today's scholarly spectrum. Visual representation is an older mode that brings thought and feeling, analytics and prediction together. It pre-dates both historical and fictional narrative forms. Shaped by long histories of artistic and critical conversations, images today are being used in ways that extend and complicate our interdisciplinary scholarly methods. Here, they are put to work in order to pose diff

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Acharya, Rajendra. "An Alternative Reading of Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow." Interdisciplinary Journal of Management and Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (2021): 149–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijmss.v2i1.36753.

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This paper explores Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) as an Alternative Reading of Stalinian Era in terms of its reinterpretation of the Russian history and scrutinization of the historical documents. In doing so, this paper endeavors to study Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), through the vantage point of Foucauldian discourse supported by Friedrich Nietzsche’s notion of ‘freewill’, Catherine Gallaher and Stephen Greenblatt’s notion of ‘counter history. This Article further delves in to the official history and examines the power-politics of and behind the critique of Stalin

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Chen, Ting-fu. "Illuminating Obscurity: The Youming Lu and the Optical Dynamic in Early Medieval Chinese Gothic." Gothic Studies 26, no. 1 (2024): 18–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2024.0183.

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This article reads the Youming lu ( Records of the Hidden and Visible Realms) as an epitome of the central tension in the tradition of ‘anomaly accounts’ ( zhiguai) between a desire for order and an openness to uncertainties. By conceptualizing the zhiguai as ‘early medieval Chinese Gothic’, this article attempts to disclose the contemporary significance of a premodern non-Anglo-European genre, as well as unbind the Gothic from cultural or socio-historical determinism. It attends to an ambivalent solicitude for the obscure embedded in the Youming lu’s iconic dynamic of light and darkness to th

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Koutras, Konstantinos. "Documentary Fictions: Jacques Rancière and the Problem of Indexical Media." Film-Philosophy 27, no. 2 (2023): 262–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/film.2023.0229.

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The indexicality of film and sound recordings remains an unresolved problem in contemporary documentary theory. The prevailing conceptualisation of the documentary assigns it the status of a sober discourse, a framing in which history is modelled as absent cause and the unqualified distinction between fiction and non-fiction is considered sacrosanct. The denotative literalism characteristic of indexical media, however, confounds this conceptualisation, which in turn encourages the devaluing of documentary aesthetics; the documentary is not a medium of art, it is said, but of argument. In this

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Mason, Jessica. "Making fiction out of fact." Narrative Inquiry 29, no. 2 (2019): 293–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.19023.mas.

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Abstract This article explores fictionality within the context of the discourse of conspiracy. In particular it examines the phenomenon of ‘false flag’ narratives: alternative versions of an event constructed by individuals who have become convinced that a news story has in fact been staged for malfeasant purposes. The article uses figure-ground analysis, which facilitates examination of how attention is distributed within a text. Specifically, it enables an examination of the prominence and salience that is afforded to particular elements within a text, and how this can be used to construct a

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Gyimesi, Brigitta. "The Nonidentical Twin: The Possible Worlds of Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and Look at the Harlequins!" Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 29, no. 1 (2023): 143–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/1/8.

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Abstract The article examines how Vladimir Nabokov probes the boundaries between autobiography and fiction in his autobiography, Speak, Memory, and his last finished novel, Look at the Harlequins! Both autobiographies and first-person novels project possible worlds, that is, alternative perspectives on empirical reality. The Nabokov of Speak, Memory and V.V. in Look at the Harlequins! are both focalizers in possible worlds derived from the historical Nabokov’s empirical reality. The common origin that binds them together opens up a multi-directional channel between the worlds, allowing the rea

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Szűcs, Orsolya. "Ireland and the Balkans Conflict in Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 12, no. 1 (2020): 110–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0009.

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Abstract History has always been a major critical exploration point in Edna O’Brien’s works. Notable for its realistic Irish specificity, her fiction interrogates problems of history, memory, and society with an audacious awareness. In her 2015 novel, The Little Red Chairs, O’Brien goes beyond the familiar Irish cultural context and creates a propitious alternative life-story for Radovan Karadžić, a Serbian war criminal from the Balkans conflict of the 1990s. Attending closely to the novel’s factual-fictional narrative strategies and its visceral language, this essay explores how O’Brien combi

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Hack, Daniel. "Introduction." Victorian Literature and Culture 47, no. 1 (2018): 93–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150318001328.

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Catherine Gallagher's importance as a scholar of nineteenth-century British culture and a historian and theorist of the novel makes the appearance of a new monograph by her an event for Victorianists (among others). This is true even when few of the materials she discusses are, strictly speaking, Victorian, as is the case with her new book, Telling It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction. In Telling It Like It Wasn't, Gallagher traces the emergence and development of analytic and narrative discourses premised on counterfactual-historical hypotheses. As the auth

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Gillam, William Joseph. "A Solarpunk Manifesto: Turning Imaginary into Reality." Philosophies 8, no. 4 (2023): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8040073.

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In the last century, science fiction has become an incredibly powerful tool in depicting alternative social imaginaries, particularly those of the future. Extending beyond their fictious nature is a commentary on the stark realities of modern society. The ‘cyberpunk’ subgenre, for example, offers a dystopian critique on the dangers of technological dependence and hypercapitalism. In studying science fiction, future imaginaries can be developed as utopian goals for governance systems to strive for. In contrast to cyberpunk, the subgenre of ‘solarpunk’ depicts a utopian society where humanity li

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B. Almalki, Salma. "The Resistance Narrative in Arabic Science Fiction: Azem’s The Book of Disappearance (2014)." Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies 8, no. 1 (2024): 159–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol8no1.12.

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This paper aims to analyze the mode of resistance narrative in Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance (2014), which is read within the frame of Arabic Science Fiction. The study answers the following questions:(1) What are the Arabic Science Fiction tropes in Azem’s novel? (2) How does ASF subserve resistance narratives in Azem’s novel? (3)Why does Azem utilize the Dystopian Narrative for resistance narratives? The study examines the structure and themes of Azem’s The Book of Disappearance in terms of postcolonial and science fictional theories. The study’s methodology considers Kanafani’s r

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Sharma, Khum Prasad. "Magic Realism as Rewriting Postcolonial Identity: A Study of Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children." SCHOLARS: Journal of Arts & Humanities 3, no. 1 (2021): 74–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sjah.v3i1.35376.

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Magic realism as a literary narrative mode has been used by different critics and writers in their fictional works. The majority of the magic realist narrative is set in a postcolonial context and written from the perspective of the politically oppressed group. Magic realism, by giving the marginalized and the oppressed a voice, allows them to tell their own story, to reinterpret the established version of history written from the dominant perspective and to create their own version of history. This innovative narrative mode in its opposition of the notion of absolute history emphasizes the po

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Lemann, Natalia. "Historie alternatywne − pomiędzy pisarstwem historycznym a fantastycznym, czyli czasem tertium est datur…" Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, no. 28 (February 19, 2017): 77–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pspsl.2016.28.4.

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The aim of this article is to define alternative history genre (branch of fantastic literature) as a participating in the historical writing formula (H. White). The author juxtaposes literary studies, literature and history as neighboring branches of humanistic knowledge. Alternate history genre could be displaced as displaced by both, the history and literary studies. This genre, as a type of fantastic literature, is understood as dangerous phantasm, because of fictional abilities. In this article historiography and literary studies are diagnosed as forming a sisterhood relationship. When the

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Hermann, Pernille. "Islændingesagaer og erindring." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 42, no. 118 (2014): 245–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v42i118.19847.

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Based on the assumption that the longstanding discussion about history/fiction has exhausted itself, this article suggests an alternative approach to the sagas of Icelanders. It approaches the sagas from a memory perspective and illustrates how two concepts of memory: cultural memory and artificial memory, provide us with useful methodological tools for opening new dimensions of saga narratives.

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Stanko, D. V. "TYPOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF ENGLISH FAN FICTION." Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology, no. 1(48) (July 5, 2022): 125–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-4604.2022.1(48).259820.

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The article highlights typological features of the English fanfiction. The work offers a brief outline of history, main forms and modern trends in fan fiction studies as a genre of web literature. The relevance of the study of fan fiction is due, above all, to the fact that these works are a bright example of the so called live language. They reflect all modern language trends, express the musical, literary and film preferences of the society. In addition, fan fiction is an understudied phenomenon that has existed in various forms, but has received the greatest impetus in development only in r

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Duncan, Rebecca. "Decolonial Gothic: Beyond the Postcolonial in Gothic Studies." Gothic Studies 24, no. 3 (2022): 304–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2022.0144.

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This article theorises decolonial Gothic as a novel approach to Gothic fiction from formerly colonised regions and communities. It responds to an emerging body of Gothic production, which situates itself in a world shaped by persistently racialised distributions of social and environmental precarity, and where colonial power is thus an enduring material reality. To address such fiction, the article proposes, requires a reassessment of the hauntological frameworks through which Gothic and the (post)colonial have hitherto been brought into contact. Forged in the cultural climate of late-twentiet

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DESIREE ROBERT, JENNA. "POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM IN SABAH: A REVIEW." BORNEO AKADEMIKA 5, no. 1 (2021): 34–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/ba/v5i1/49882.

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Sabah, formerly known as North Borneo during the period of British colonisation from 1888- 1963 produced many texts about the British presence and their activities on the island. This review highlights that the post-war studies especially Sabah’s colonial literature is the missing link to its alternative history. Colonial literature has left its legacy in the form of history, anthropology and art but also in the textual and literary representations of Sabah through a western lens. The critique of colonial fiction and non-fiction texts in former colonies in Malaya and Sarawak have paved the way

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