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Khronopulo, L. Yu. "The influence of Fredric W. Brown’s micro fiction on Hoshi Shin’ichi’s and Akagawa Jirō’s short-short stories." Japanese Studies in Russia, no. 2 (July 4, 2022): 95–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.55105/2500-2872-2022-2-95-107.
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The short-short story was first introduced by Japanese writer Tsuzuki Michio, who in the late 1950s – the early 1960s familiarized the Japanese reader with extra-short stories of American author Fredric W. Brown (1906–1972); his traditions were followed by Japanese writer Hoshi Shin’ichi (1926–1997), Akagawa Jirō (b. 1948), and other authors experimenting in the new genre of social and psychological science fiction, as well as in the genre of fantasy and detective stories. In American literature, three major specific features of a short-short story were formulated: 1) a fresh idea, 2) an unexpected turn of events, 3) an unpredictable ending. These specific features can be traced in Japanese extra-short stories as well. Since the process of the emergence and development of the extra-short story as a new form of Japanese literature was influenced by American micro fiction, the research examines the elements borrowed from Fredric W. Brown’s micro fiction in Hoshi Shin’ichi’s and Akagawa Jirō’s first short-short stories; this includes genres, topics, canons, artistic styles and devices, as well as the treatment of certain social problems. The paper analyzes Hoshi’s and Akagawa’s short-short fiction from a comparative perspective, with an emphasis on intertextuality – shaping of a text’s meaning by another text, in this case, the texts by an American writer. Some literary parallels to Fredric W. Brown’s micro fiction can be found in Hoshi Shin’ichi’s first collection of short-short stories «Bokko-chan» (1971), which consists of stories written in 1958–1970, as well as in Akagawa Jirō’s first collection of short-short stories «The Dancing Man» (1986), which consists of stories written in the late 1970s – early 1980s. The succession of plots and philosophical ideas by Brown is examined on the material of seven early short-shorts by Hoshi, where the allusion to the American writer’s micro fiction can be traced; in addition, it is also noted that, in some mystic extra-short stories by Akagawa, it is not the plots which are borrowed, but mostly artistic devices and various techniques, such as psychologism, black humor, wordplay, and metaphorical images. American origins of the Japanese short-short story are investigated for the first time.
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Assi.Inst. Sumaya Ahmed. "Passive Voice in Short Stories: Analytical Study." Journal of the College of Basic Education 20, no. 82 (January 28, 2023): 923–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.35950/cbej.v20i82.9869.
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A short story is a work of fiction. A prose narrative of shorter length thanthe novel, and it usually concentrates on a single theme. Many writers preferwriting short stories when they want to present a single significant episode orscene involving a limited number of characters.
Writers differ in their style, but they agree on certain basic elements inwriting the short story. Readers also differ in their preference, some might prefercrime short stories, others like fantasy ones, while many are obsessed byromance or mystery short stories.
The way in which the writers present their short stories is restricted toeach writer’s point of view and the angle from which he wants to show hisopinion and makes it apprehensive for his readers. So different parts of speechare involved in writing short stories, and different structures are used, but thefocus of this paper is on the use of passive voice in short stories. Do writersprefer or prefer not to use the passive voice in their writings, and if they doprefer using it, will this affect the phrasing of the short story in a way that ties upthe process of comprehension in the mind of the reader? This paper tries toanswer this question, depending on the analysis of four short stories, chosenfrom different types for different writers.
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Payne, Christopher N. "In/Visible Peoples, In/Visible Lands: Overlapping Histories in Wang Chia-hsiang’s Historical Fantasy." International Journal of Taiwan Studies 2, no. 1 (January 20, 2019): 3–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24688800-00201002.
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This essay considers two narrative texts by the nature essayist and fiction writer Wang Chia-hsiang (Wang Jiaxiang); namely, the short story ‘On Lamatasinsin and Dahu Ali’ (1995), and the short novel Mystery of the Little People (1996). Structured around ethnographic journeys into the Taiwanese mountainous hinterland, the texts concern the main protagonists, two earnest (Han) Taiwanese ethnographers, who narrate stories that traverse the island’s histories, lands, and written remnants. The paper argues that the two stories purposefully overlap multiple historical, colonial, and environmental encounters and temporal moments as a means to fictionalise the past as inherently heterarchical. The tales thus fabulise new literary spaces in which the Taiwanese relationship to yesteryear—the peoples, the lands—can be cognised alternatively.
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Leatherland, Douglas. "The Capacities and Limitations of Language in Animal Fantasies." Humanimalia 11, no. 2 (March 20, 2020): 101–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9455.
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Drawing on the field of zoosemiotics, this paper explores the representation of language and other forms of communication in animal fantasy fiction, citing Richard Adams’s Watership Down (1972) as a key example of a text which depicts a wide spectrum of communication channels. Zoosemiotics provides a useful lens through which to conceptualize the spectrum of animal communication depicted in Adams’s novel and other notable texts, such as the short stories of Franz Kafka and Ursula Le Guin’s “Author of the Acacia Seeds” (1974). While examples of animal languages in such fiction seem more anthropomorphic than examples of sensory, non-vocal forms of communication, fictional languages such as Lapine actually reveal the limitations of human language as well as the conceptual abilities of nonhuman animals. The texts discussed in this paper attempt to imagine how the ways in which nonhuman animals communicate might be understood, or translated, in human language terms.
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Wenzel, Ryszard. "Science fiction and fantasy in general education." Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, no. 19/2 (June 15, 2022): 119–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/bp.2022.2.05.
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This article deals with the possible application of the genres of science fiction (SF) and fantasy – novels, short stories, films, dramas, spectacles etc. in secondary schools as part of the programme of general education. The discussion concerns both the production and the reception of such works by the students. The purpose of this educational proposal is to introduce in the system an opportunity for the students to coordinate and consolidate creatively the knowledge and the skills acquired in the classes of all the other disciplines of the curriculum. The basic assumption of the thesis is that the characteristic features of these genres, i.e., their appeal to the imagination, curiosity, and the natural need of the students for their own artistic creation, may prove effective to elevate the educational targets beyond the pragmatic level of absorbing information for the sake of the formal requirements of the school programme. These aims, which transcend the level of the practical utility of existential and psychosocial needs, concentrate on the search for objective knowledge about the world through the development of the skill of critical thinking in the domain of cognition, the search for the artistic talents and predispositions of all the students in the domain of creation, and on the essential issues of educing the need for harmonious and peaceful coexistence with other people and with the environment. The article presents the essential features of the theoretical grounding of this conception, the pedagogical implications of its introduction into the system and suggestions for its practical realization illustrated with examples of possible activities for students and teachers. The essay is concluded with a speculation on the future perspectives of a reciprocal reinforcement of the quality of general education and the development of the literary genres of SF and fantasy.
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Taisner, Kinga. "Wątki religijne i tożsamościowe w świecie literackim Mai Lidii Kossakowskiej – rozważania wstępne." Język. Religia. Tożsamość. 1, no. 23 (July 29, 2021): 237–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.0336.
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The article deals with the utilization and processing of religious themes by Maja Lidia Kossakowska in the collection of short stories – Żarna niebios and the first novel from the Angelic Cycle – Siewca wiatru. The article presents the ways of applying elements of various religions, the Judeo-Christian tradition in particular, as well as the identity themes inscribed in this work. Kossakowska's fiction has been analyzed in terms of the characters, genology, elements of the setting as well as cultural and linguistic games. The analysis is a preliminary reflection on contemporary Polish angelological fantasy.
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Pratiwi, Fatma Dian. "Revealing fantasy consumption on social media, how women read romantic novel on Wattpad app." International Journal of Communication and Society 4, no. 2 (December 31, 2022): 277–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.31763/ijcs.v4i2.842.
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This article aims to reveal how fantasy is consumed on social media, in the context of this research, Wattpad. That is an application that specializes in producing and consuming works of fiction in the form of novels and short stories. This research has a qualitative paradigm and collects data using in-depth interviews and documentation. Novel reading din this research, entitled The Mischievous Mrs. Maxfield, a novel with romantic genre, is then analyzed from the perspective of Psychoanalysis using Fantasy theory. There were two women who were resource persons and had different characters and backgrounds. From the research conducted, it was concluded that the fulfilment of fantasy was not fully carried out by informant X and Y, because according to them, there were other novels that could better fulfil their fantasies than this novel. In addition, the two informants felt that the theme raised in this novel was too exaggerated because it involved the forced marriage of women who were still underage.
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Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan, Santiago, and José R. Ibáñez. "Anthologies as Tools of Literary Hospitality." Journal of World Literature 8, no. 3 (August 16, 2023): 313–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00803001.
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Abstract This article examines the presence of Poe’s fiction in Spain, focusing on the reception of his anthologized short stories in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, and taking this as a case of literary hospitality that helped to develop the fantasy genre in the country. In the early decades of publication, collections of Poe’s short stories were generally introduced into Spain as translations of anthologies of Baudelaire’s French versions. These anthologies appealed to a broad readership and sold well, being published by both large, professional houses and smaller, family-run presses. Poe came to form part of the literary canon that was being shaped in the final decades of the nineteenth century in Spain, and was thus published alongside major literary figures, which attests to the kind of literary hospitality he enjoyed in Spain’s cultural world in the decades following his introduction into the country.
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Quevedo, Katherine. "Venom In The Cloud Forest." After Dinner Conversation 3, no. 3 (2022): 108–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20223328.
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How important is the person who controls the stories of the past? What happens when that person changes community stories to meet his needs? In this work of philosophical fantasy short fiction, Acoti is shot with a poison dart while in the forest. With much effort, his friend takes him to Cuadelo, the community medicine man. Acoti is suspicious because he had previously spoken out to the elders that the community petroglyphs seemed to always agree with Cuadelo. Cuadelo confesses to Acoti that he is the one who poisoned him and says he will only cure Acoti if he goes before the elders to confess he was wrong in accusing Cuadelo. Acoti agrees, and is cured, but not before grabbing Cuadelo’s magic wand. Now cured, Acoti goes before the elders and shows that Cuadelo has been using his magic wand to change the petroglyphs (and their community stories) so they always agree with his opinions.
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Schrager Lang, Amy, and Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky. ""Realists of a Larger Reality": On New Science Fiction." Monthly Review 67, no. 11 (April 5, 2016): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/mr-067-11-2016-04_5.
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<div class="quote-intro">Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.<p class="quote-intro-author">—Ursula K. Le Guin</p></div>Le Guin is undoubtedly right about resistance in the "real" world, but in reading, only some books offer a call to resistance and the possibilities of a new reality. Among the books considered here, some come to us as "literary fiction"; others are marked as belonging to another, historically denigrated, form, "science fiction" or "fantasy." This could be a distinction without a difference: two are near-future dystopian novels about corporate capitalism in the United States (both by well-established white authors); two are collections of near-future short stories that set out to critique the human powers that structure our world (written by both established and new voices, primarily writers of color). But the books that embrace rather than evade their status as science fiction or fantasy are the ones able to imagine the resistance and change that Le Guin invokes.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-11" title="Vol. 67, No. 11: April 2016" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>
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Sheila Oki Tarina, Selvia Selvia, and Dewi Hatri Nursai. "Analysis Characterization of Key Characters in Anthology Short Story Jantung Kehidupan by Tim Bubar." Aksis : Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 5, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 86–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/aksis.050108.
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Short stories or a writer's fantasy that was written briefly, has intrinsic elements, one is a character. The part of characters In literary fiction Is one of the elements In the facts the story is critical to his presence in the literary world. From these discussions then the problem that will arise is how is every character in short stories. So the purpose of this research is to describe the character of the main character found in a short anthology of the Jantung Kehidupan by Tim Bubar which results from this study may add to the theoretical content of character analysis the main character in a short anthology of the Jantung Kehidupan. It is also hoped that the results of this study will provide information for the kind of studies to come.
Keywords: main character and short story
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Cerpen atau karya fantasi seorang penulis yang ditulis secara ringkas, memiliki unsur intrinsik, salah satunya yaitu penokohan. Bagian penokohan dalam karya sastra fiksi merupakan salah satu elemen dalam fakta-fakta cerita yang sangat penting kehadirannya dalam dunia sastra. Dari pembahasan tersebut, masalah yang timbul yaitu bagaimana sifat pada setiap tokoh yang ada dalam sebuah cerpen sehingga tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mendeskripsikan karakterisasi tokoh utama yang terdapat dalam antologi cerpen Jantung Kehidupan karya tim bubar yang mana hasil dari penelitian ini dapat menambah perbendaharaan teori dalam analisis karakterisasi tokoh utama dalam antologi cerpen Jantung Kehidupan. Juga diharapkan hasil penelitian ini dapat menjadi bahan informasi untuk penelitian yang sejenis pada masa yang akan datang.
Kata kunci: karakter tokoh utama dan cerpen
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Obidjonova, Masuma. "GENRE FEATURES OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND “FANTASTIKA” IN SOME SHORT STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY AND HOJIAKBAR SHAYKHOV." Theoretical & Applied Science 95, no. 03 (March 30, 2021): 110–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15863/tas.2021.03.95.16.
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Vinczeová, Barbora. "A Journey Beyond Reality: Poetic Prose and Lush Imagery in Tanith Lee’s Night’s Master." Prague Journal of English Studies 5, no. 1 (July 1, 2016): 71–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2016-0004.
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Abstract Tanith Lee was a “highly decorated writer” (Chappell 1) whose work ranged from science-fiction, through fantasy and children’s literature to contemporary and detective novels. Although she published more than ninety novels and three hundred short stories, her audience has diminished through the years, affecting also the academic interest in her works. The aims of this article are to provide a literary analysis of one of her most famous novels, Night’s Master, and answer the question of why readers describe her prose as “lush” and “poetic”; and also interpret the recurring symbolism and themes of beauty, sexuality and metamorphosis in the work. This article also highlights the similarities between the novel and fairy tales in regard of numeric symbolism and morals.
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Knighton, Mary A. "Toddler-Hunting in Wartime: Kōno Taeko’s “On the Inside”." Japanese Language and Literature 56, no. 2 (September 30, 2022): 473–517. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jll.2022.230.
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In the postwar 1960s, Kono Taeko (1926-2015) debuted with shocking stories of alienated modern women whose fantasies of pleasure in sadistic violence, masochism, and pederasty belied their otherwise routine exterior worlds. Kono's "Todder-Hunting" (Yojigari, 1961) remains most well known and representative but other works, including the Akutagawa Award-winning "Crabs" (Kani, 1963) that appeared in Lucy North's translated collection, cemented Kono's reputation and her reception in English as a writer of disturbing psychosexual fantasy. If critics read history into her work at all, it would be in order to note how Kono's heroines, like their author, emerged with such violent and repressed force on the literary scene precisely because of an unsustainable historical exclusion of women's voices. While this is partially true, it does not tell the whole story. This essay argues that Kono Taeko's fictional world can best be understood by also taking into account her reputation in Japan as a member of the senchuha, or wartime generation. In short, her wartime experiences in Osaka would go on to shape her choice of career and the kind of fiction she would later write. This essay analyzes in depth "Behind Bars" (Hei no naka, 1962), one of the few explicitly autobiographical works published by Kono around the same time as "Toddler Hunting," in order to contend that her wartime experiences of factory mobilization and terrifying daily bombing on the so-called "home front" would later shape her stories of violent gender relations, oppressive household institutions (ie seido), and lost childhood. Superimposing the irrational realities of wartime structures over fantasies of normal domestic life in "Behind Bars," Kono found a productive locus of distortion to motivate much of her later fiction.
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Martín Gómez, Jonatán. "Desacralizando el espacio de lo narrable: (pos)memoria, autoficción y mercado editorial en Los topos y 76 de Félix Bruzzone." Catedral Tomada. Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 7, no. 13 (January 8, 2020): 75–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ct/2019.406.
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The aim of this article is to present the novel Los topos and the book of short stories 76 by Félix Bruzzone as the texts that initiate a new public narrative space where the generation of the children of the disappeared articulate their own perspective on trauma in Argentina. I propose a double reading of this new space from these two texts: first, I make an analysis of the reconfiguration of the Argentine literary field after 2001 and how the case of Bruzzone, with an organically fluid transit between independent and commercial publishers and local and international circuits, opens the way for other later authors with a similar aesthetic and ideological position; later, I analyze in detail how Bruzzone proposes to desacralize the space of the narrable through parody and even the dialogue with genres such as crime fiction and fantasy, and the use of autofiction as a mechanism to subvert the limits of reality and fiction and deny the possibility of constructing absolute representations. In addition, I argue that the objective of these two works is to create a continuous line between repression and the disappearances of the dictatorship and the violence in the present.
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Čipkár, Ivan. "Mystery or not? Quantum cognition and the interpretation of the fantastic in Neil Gaiman." Ars Aeterna 8, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 24–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aa-2016-0003.
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AbstractThe present paper describes a reader-response experiment focusing on the perception of the genre of the fantastic. It also proposes an update of the genre’s structuralist definition to better conform to contemporary cognitive research. Participants answered questions relating to the interpretation of events and important symbols in a Neil Gaiman short story and were also asked if they considered the story “fantasy” or “realistic fiction.” Tzvetan Todorov characterized the fantastic as a hesitation between the uncanny (realistic interpretation) and the marvelous (supernatural interpretation). Neil Gaiman, a popular contemporary author of genre fiction, has utilized this hesitation between psychological and supernatural explanations of his stories to great effect. The results show a consistently higher degree of enjoyment in readers who were aware of the dual interpretation and partook in the hesitation. This paper also introduces the concept of quantum cognition into literary theory and explains the benefit of using terminology from this discipline in a reader-response context. The findings of this study could be the first step towards a better understanding of the different ways in which readers cognitively approach the fantastic or genre in general.
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Christianto, Victor, and Florentin Smarandache. "Beyond Cryptic Equations: Reimagining Concepts in Physics Through Metaheuristics and Fantasy Stories using Neutrosophic Venn Diagram." HyperSoft Set Methods in Engineering 1 (February 15, 2024): 71–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.61356/j.hsse.2024.110250.
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Physics, the grand narrative of the universe, has long been viewed as a realm of cold, hard equations. But what if we looked beyond the formulas and considered a more imaginative origin for some of its concepts? This article explores the intriguing possibility that physics, and even cosmology, might share a surprising kinship with metaheuristics and fantastical fiction. Metaheuristics, a branch of computer science, deals with finding approximate solutions to complex problems. Perhaps the universe, in its vastness, employs a set of "rules" that lead to the most likely outcomes, much like an algorithm searching for the best solution within a vast space of possibilities. The connection strengthens when we consider the fantastical. Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, known for his thought-provoking short stories, often explored themes of infinity, labyrinths, and forking realities. In this article, we discuss, among other things, how to look at physics laws from an alternative fundamental viewpoint that is fluid dynamics perspective. As an example, we provide an outline for deriving the Newton gravitational law from the Kutta-Joukowski theorem, and then deriving the Kutta-Joukowski theorem from Bernoulli principles. In the meantime, it is known that vortex flows, related to solar convective turbulent dynamics at granular scales and their interplay with magnetic fields within intergranular lanes, occur abundantly on the solar surface and in the atmosphere above.
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Bartles, Jason A. "Navigating Uncertainty: The Ambiguous Utopias of Le Guin, Gorodischer, and Jemisin." Utopian Studies 33, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 107–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.33.1.0107.
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ABSTRACT The phrase “ambiguous utopia” was coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in the subtitle of her novel, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974). That work appeared when utopian narratives had been displaced by dystopian imaginaries. This article embarks on a comparative analysis of three short stories: Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973), Angélica Gorodischer’s “Of Navigators” (1979), and N. K. Jemisin’s “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” (2018). Each author installs ambiguity at the center of their open-ended utopian imaginaries as a way to challenge dogma, pessimism, and complacency. Le Guin interrogates the boundary between belief and knowledge to hold the threat of authoritarianism at bay. Gorodischer, a friend and contemporary of Le Guin, is considered a central figure of Argentine science fiction and fantasy. Her story imagines the discovery of a second Earth set in 1492 and highlights the need for utopianism to challenge the legacy of colonization. Finally, Jemisin’s story is a critical homage to “Omelas.” Jemisin shares the decolonial impetus of Gorodischer’s fiction, and she constructs Um-Helat on an explicitly antiracist foundation. Instead of walking away, her characters actively fight the creeping threat of intolerance while working toward that better place.
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Hapsari, Indah, and Wika Soviana Devi. "KRITIK SASTRA: KEKERASAN DALAM NOVEL 00.00 SEPASANG LUKA YANG BERAKHIR DUKA KARYA AMEYLIA FALENSIA." Matapena: Jurnal Keilmuan Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pengajarannya 5, no. 2 (December 21, 2022): 218–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.36815/matapena.v5i02.1998.
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Literary works have several types such as novels, prose (fiction), poetry, drama, romance, and short stories or better known as poetry. In this research, the writer will examine the novel. Novel is a work of prose fiction written in writing, containing elements of imagination and fantasy. Literary criticism is an analysis that examines elements that contain errors. In literary criticism, it is usually more focused on the author's writing in his writings. Literary criticism is a field of literary science and usually applies to the evaluation of literary works. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method with library techniques. In this case, the author uses the novel 00.00 A Pair of Luka that Ends Grief by Ameylia Falensia as research data. By reading it over and over again and determining the results of the research. There is a lot of violence in the novel. Both physical and non-physical violence. We never know someone's mentality, more precisely someone has a different mentality. Victims of violence usually experience trauma and fear in their daily lives and can even do things beyond reason, the perpetrator often ends in death, namely suicide because of the pressures of life that continue to be experienced. Keywords: literary criticism, novel, violence.
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Christianto, Victor, and Florentin Smarandache. "Ermakov Equations can be Derived from Zel’dovich Pancake, and they are Cold and Nonlocal through using Neutrosophic Venn Diagram." Neutrosophic Optimization and Intelligent Systems 2 (April 5, 2024): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.61356/j.nois.2024.2213.
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As we argue in the previous article [3], the labyrinthine worlds of Jorge Luis Borges are more than captivating narratives; they are portals to a deeper understanding of existence. By weaving elements of science-fiction fantasy with philosophical and ethical inquiries, Borges's short stories bridge the seemingly disparate realms of physics and the humanities, offering fertile ground for contemporary physics research. The present-day universe consists of galaxies, galaxy clusters, one-dimensional filaments and two-dimensional sheets or pancakes, all of which combine to form the cosmic web. The so called ”Zeldovich pancakes”, are very difficult to observe, because their overdensity is only slightly greater than the average density of the universe. Falco et al. presented a method to identify Zeldovich pancakes in observational data, and the method were used as a tool for estimating the mass of galaxy clusters [2]. Here we provide an outline from Zel’dovich pancake to Burgers equations to represent cosmic turbulence, and then from Burgers equations to Ermakov dynamics systems, which in turn they plausibly lead to nonlocal current.
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Fomin, Hlib. "AUTHOR’S WORLD IN THOMAS LIGOTTI’S SHORT STORY “THE MUSIC OF THE MOON”." Odessa National University Herald. Series: Philology 28, no. 2(28) (December 23, 2023): 43–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-8332.2023.2(28).299786.
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The purpose of the article is to study the nature of the author’s world as expressed in Thomas Ligotti’s short story “Moonlight Music”. The starting point of the article is the understanding of the author’s world as the writer’s response to the main set of problems of reality, which he reproduces in the work with the help of artistic techniques and means. The author’s world is always based on certain artistic principles and is conditioned by the structure of the writer’s soul, as well as by the peculiarities of artistic thinking specific to this writer. The main method of research in the article is typological. The story by T. Ligotti is studied by comparing it with the work of another author, Edogawa Rampo, “The Magic Spell of the Moon”. The works are similar in the subjective form of narration, coincidences in the characters of the narrators, time and place of action. Both works have similar plot motifs. At the same time, there is a fundamental difference between these works: one of them is a fantasy, mystical fiction, and the other is a detective story in which every thing mysterious is motivated by the actions of the criminal. On the basis of highlighting the main difference between the stories of T. Ligotti and E. Rampo, the article offers a conclusion about the productivity of the typological study of literature as a way to study the author’s world.
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Perera, K. K. N. L., and S. D. Somaratna. "Undergraduates’ Perspectives on Promoting Pleasure Reading Facilities in University Libraries: A Case Study." Sri Lanka Library Review 38, no. 1 (February 28, 2024): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sllr.v38i1.67.
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Pleasure reading refers to free, voluntary, and non-goal-oriented reading that provides enjoyment or pleasure to the reader. The promotion of pleasure reading is not typically considered a priority in most university libraries. However, recent studies strongly suggest that pleasure reading can have significant, positive impacts on the overall performance of university library users. This study presents undergraduates' perceptions of pleasure reading facilities at the main library of the University of Colombo, as well as their expectations regarding the promotion of these facilities. The results of this study demonstrate a significant population of pleasure readers with diverse reading habits. Most pleasure readers are frequent readers (74.6%, n=209). Novels are the most popular type of reading material (77.5%), followed by non-fiction and short stories. Realistic fiction (33.3%) is the most popular genre among them, followed by fantasy and mystery. A majority of pleasure reading undergraduates have a very positive perception of the benefits of pleasure reading. The three most accepted benefits of pleasure reading were; pleasure reading helps to relax, gives enjoyment and helps to escape from routine work. Most of the participants believe that the promotion of pleasure reading should be a priority for a university library. Among all the facilities related to pleasure reading at the Main Library of the University of Colombo, most of the readers have rated the suitable library environment and the availability of a supportive staff. Pleasure readers prioritize suggested initiatives such as displaying new arrivals and implementing a Readers' Advisory Service to promote pleasure reading in the library.
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Ladzekpo, Gershon, John Attiye, and Sampson Davi. "Exploring Gender Roles and Stereotypes in Literature: An Analysis of Contemporary Works." International Journal of Gender Studies 9, no. 2 (July 15, 2024): 25–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.47604/ijgs.2782.
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Purpose: This study aims to explore the representation of gender roles and stereotypes in contemporary literature. The analysis was conducted using secondary data from a variety of literary works published in the past decade. The study aimed to investigate how gender dynamics are portrayed and whether traditional gender roles and stereotypes are reinforced or challenged. Methodology: A comprehensive literature review was conducted to select appropriate works for analysis. A total of 30 novels and short stories were selected across different genres, including fiction, drama, and science fiction. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis to identify common themes and patterns related to gender roles and stereotypes. Findings: The findings of the study revealed a complex depiction of gender roles in contemporary literature. While some works challenged traditional gender norms and portrayed more fluid, non-stereotypical characters, others reinforced traditional gender roles and stereotypes. Additionally, the study found that the portrayal of gender roles varied across genres, with science fiction and fantasy literature often presenting more progressive and diverse gender representations. The study also identified several common stereotypes associated with gender, such as the nurturing and caring nature of women and the dominance and aggressiveness of men. However, it is important to note that these stereotypes were not universally present, and many works depicted characters who deviated from these norms. Overall, this study contributes to our understanding of how gender roles and stereotypes are represented in contemporary literature. It reveals the complexity and diversity of gender dynamics portrayed in literary works, highlighting both the presence of traditional gender roles and stereotypes and the emergence of more fluid and non-stereotypical characters. Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The findings suggest that literature has the potential to challenge and redefine gender norms and that the portrayal of gender roles varies across genres. This study provides insights for scholars, educators, and readers interested in understanding and discussing gender representation in literature and encourages further exploration of gender dynamics in contemporary literary works.
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Parille, Ken, Kenneth Kidd, Jay Mechling, Victoria Cann, and Edward W. Morris. "Editorial Board Reflections on Formative Books and Other Media." Boyhood Studies 15, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2022): 183–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2022.15010212.
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Reading Characters, People, and PropertiesIn this piece, I reflect on superhero comic books I read in my childhood and adolescence, noting that as I collected and read stories featuring the character known as the Silver Surfer, I slowly began to realize that the character’s traits, as established in the first comic in which he appeared, seemed to change in comics published later. In searching for explanations for these changes, I began to pay attention to a comic’s credits, recognizing that different writers and artists understood the character in different ways and often felt no obligation to maintain a consistent approach. I eventually realized that a comic’s credits sometimes misrepresented the labor invested by each of the story’s creators. This long process led to an ongoing interest—in both my writing and teaching—in the ways that our interpretation of a story and its characters can be enriched by understanding the conditions under which it was produced.Books of the HeartWhat might reflecting on favorite books from our childhood tell us about our past and current selves? This short meditation on that question first considers reading memoirs and experiments in rereading, and then reviews some favorite books from the author’s own childhood, speculating on their appeal and potential significance for identity consolidation.The Fantasy of the Boy Scout HandbookBorn and raised in Miami Beach, Florida, I opened my new Boy Scouts of America Handbook for Boys in the summer of 1956, at age 11, in anticipation of moving from the Cub Scouts to the Boy Scouts that fall. I found in those pages a fantasy that moved me deeply, a romantic fantasy of hiking and camping in the wilderness with a band of boy buddies. That fantasy has deep roots in fiction for boys and in books like the Handbook, appealing to the boy’s desire to escape the surveillance and control of adults and to fashion a community of “lost boys” in a wilderness setting ideal for strong male bonding in friendship.“I Never Had Any Friends Later on Like the Ones I Had When I Was Twelve. Jesus, Does Anyone?”: Reflections on Learning about Boyhood through Stand by MeThis piece offers reflections on the 1986 movie Stand by Me, drawing on some of the main themes and contextualizing them in relation to my own childhood as a girl growing up in the 1990s. I reflect on how in my rewatch of the movie, I was struck by the ways that the class positions of the boys echoed my own experiences of transition and liberation through education. I also reflect on the significance of seeing boys cry and be scared—feelings that the boys at my school were policed out of performing in public.Boy Genius: Reflections on Reading The Great BrainBased on reflection and analysis of a formative childhood text, this essay disentangles the relationship between reading, intelligence, and masculinity. The author argues that although reading fiction appears to encourage empathy, books written specifically for boys may contain detrimental messages about masculinity. The analysis reveals that the popular Great Brain series reinforces notions of whiteness, ableism, and masculine superiority. These messages are reinforced by the books’ emphasis on pragmatic “genius” and the savior trope in boyhood.
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Jin, Huan. "Multiple Otherness: Identity Politics in the Taiping Civil War." Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 7, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 215–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8313598.
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Abstract During and after the Taiping Civil War (1851–64), the notion of the Other was implicated in the provocation and mediation of violence and, as a result, acquired a multitude of new meanings and manifestations. Focusing on the discourse surrounding the Taiping War, this article explores the multiple political, moral, and cultural implications embedded in the idea of otherness. Unpacking the propaganda discourse of both the Taiping rebels and the Qing government, the author investigates the making of the political enemy by opposing regimes. In particular, the construction of a religious and political enemy is vital to Taiping identity formation. The author focuses on marginal figures in historical and fictional accounts who traverse political boundaries and constitute a third category beyond demarcations of “us” and Other in Taiping propaganda and its Qing counterpart. In short stories, however, these figures are subject to moral judgment and thus subsumed under another form of normative narrative involving otherness. Only in the realm of fantasy and imagination are political and moral efforts to construct and modulate otherness finally called into question. This article explores the acute malleability of the Other during the violent and chaotic Taiping Civil War and in its aftermath.
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Roditi, Edouard, Ceza Kassem, and Malak Hashem. "Flights of Fantasy: Arabic Short Stories." World Literature Today 60, no. 1 (1986): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40141400.
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Attebery, Brian. "Affordances of Fantasy." Genre 57, no. 1 (April 1, 2024): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00166928-10982852.
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Abstract Each of the functions of fantasy described by J. R. R. Tolkien in his essay “On Fairy-Stories” can be reframed through affordance theory into a kind of re-visioning. Such re-visioning is comparable to the formalist notion of defamiliarization or the science fiction technique that Darko Suvin called “cognitive estrangement.” Whereas science fiction projects alternative futures, fantasy's affordances allow writers to generate alternative worldviews grounded in real or invented mythic pasts. The initial move away from claiming to imitate reality allows fantasy writers to project inner experience onto an outer storyworld (there is no pathetic fallacy in fantasy), to depict multiple contradictory selves (housed within a single body or spread out over several characters), and to invite readers to consider alternatives to commonsense assumptions and seemingly inevitable social orders.
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Majidova, Ilaha Adil. "The conceptual interpretation of S. King`s literary heritage." SCIENTIFIC WORK 62, no. 01 (February 8, 2021): 159–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/62/159-161.
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S.King is a modern American writer of supernatural, horror fiction, science fiction and fantasy. His works are powerful because he integrates his life experiences and observations into idiosyncratic stories. He uses a free style of writing. Generally By the help of supernatural beings, vampire, demon, insubstantial events he mystifies and shocks readers, confuses their minds. The writer’s psycho-emotional situation, inner world rebound his works. This article is devoted to the conceptual interpretation of S.King’s creativity. In his works he tries to show the depth of his imagination. Key words: modern American literature, fantasy, horror fiction, psycho-emotional creativity, mystical elements
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Deng, Yasheng. "A Comparative Study of Shanhaijing and Modern Science Fiction Stories in Film and Video Animation." Journal of Education and Educational Research 5, no. 3 (October 1, 2023): 145–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/jeer.v5i3.13661.
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The Classic of Mountains and Seas is an ancient Chinese text, which is regarded as a treasure trove of ancient Chinese fantasy literature. Modern science fiction stories, on the other hand, have gradually emerged under the progress of science and technology and have been widely used in the field of film and animation. In this paper, we compare the presentation form, narrative structure and thematic content of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and modern science fiction stories in film and animation. It is found that although the time background and cultural origins of the two are different, there are certain commonalities in the creation of the fantasy world, characterisation, and exploration of the relationship between man and nature, man and science and technology. At the same time, it also highlights the differences in cultural inheritance and innovation between the two. Through the comparative study, the value and significance of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and modern science fiction stories in film and animation can be better understood and appreciated.
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Perrier, Marie. "Translating imaginary territories in fantasy short fiction." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 5, no. 1 (October 1, 2015): 91–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict.5.1-2.91_1.
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Lee, Gabriela. "Past Selves, Future Worlds: Folklore and Futurisms in Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults." Comparative Critical Studies 19, no. 3 (October 2022): 417–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2022.0456.
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Science fiction written specifically for young readers has had difficulty in establishing itself as a separate genre from fantasy, especially since there is a blurred notion of what constitutes fantasy vis-a-vis science fiction in children’s literature. This difficulty is reflected in the stumbling development of children’s and YA science fiction compared to the relatively clear development of children’s and YA fantasy. As such, trying to define what science fiction for young readers is takes on a malleable, inconsistent quality compared to the more established megatexts of science fiction for adult readers. It is through these unstable definitions of science fiction for adolescents that this essay examines how selected stories from the 2016 anthology Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults, the first anthology of Philippine sf writing that caters directly for a young adult audience, negotiate the genre definitions of ‘science fiction’ and ‘young adult’ for a non-Western audience. Studying how these imagined futures represent the experiences of young non-Western readers who have otherwise been excluded from YA science fiction reveals how the genre can widen and expand its parameters.
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Vuohelainen, Minna. "Traveller's Tales: Rudyard Kipling's Gothic Short Fiction." Gothic Studies 23, no. 2 (July 2021): 181–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0093.
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Between 1884 and 1936, Rudyard Kipling wrote over 300 short stories, most of which were first published in colonial and cosmopolitan periodicals before being reissued in short-story collections. This corpus contains a number of critically neglected Gothic stories that fall into four groups: stories that belong to the ghost-story tradition; stories that represent the colonial encounter through gothic tropes of horror and the uncanny but do not necessarily include any supernatural elements; stories that develop an elegiac and elliptical Gothic Modernism; and stories that make use of the First World War and its aftermath as a gothic environment. This essay evaluates Kipling's contribution to the critically neglected genre of the Gothic short story, with a focus on the stories' persistent preoccupation with spatial tropes of travel, disorientation and displacement.
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Pachori, Satya S. "Translating Fiction: Jayashankar Prasad's Short Stories." South Asian Review 22, no. 1 (December 2001): 97–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2001.11932217.
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Oktaviani, Danissa Dyah. "Konsep Fantasi dalam Film." REKAM 15, no. 2 (October 1, 2019): 125–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.24821/rekam.v15i2.3356.
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Fantasy films were born from the development of fiction films that have shown existence since the beginning of its history. Fantasy films have their own charm because they can penetrate time and space compared to other genres. Fiction films develop from their creators both in terms of story and cinematography because fiction films are at the center of the poles: real and abstract. Its greatest strength lies in its ability to integrate and combine with other genres without exception and can be broadly developed unlimitedly. That is because fantasy films contain elements with different characteristics from other films where if a fantasy film has one element in the making of the film then it has been said to be a fantasy film. The elements or components that are seen are derived from the narrative and cinematic elements of filmmaking which contain ideas of stories, characters, and settings in a film. These three elements are the forming components of fantasy films that are fictitious and imaginative. The idea of the story is not based on an imaginary reality, that is a fiction that makes no sense. In the case of fantasy films, filmmakers will compete to develop and present ideas that have not been thought of before, so the audience seems to be carried away in a new world outside of real life. Character characters in fantasy films are the imagination of creators in fictitious forms, such as: animal characters, extraterrestrials, monsters, robots, and non-physical characters such as ghosts, spirits and holograms. While the background elements in fantasy films have a character setting place and time imaginative events are unique in unknown times or dimensions, can be past, present, and future with the centuries formed by the creators.
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Sullivan, James D. "Reviews: An Omnibus Review of Six Introductory Fiction Ahthologies." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 33, no. 2 (December 1, 2005): 211–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/tetyc20054646.
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Reviews of 6 books: An Omnibus Review of Six Introductory Fiction Ahthologies 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology, 2nd ed., ed. Beverly Lawn; Fiction: A Pocket Anthology, 4th ed., ed. R. S. Gwynn; Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction, 10th ed., ed. James H. Pickering; Exploring Fiction: Writing and Thinking about Fiction, ed. Frank Madden; Understanding Fiction, ed. Judith Roof; The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction: Stories and Authors in Context, ed. Dana Gioia and R. S. Gwynn.
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Voicehovičs, Renārs. "Analītisks skatījums uz jaunākajiem latviešu zinātniskās fantastikas stāstiem." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā: rakstu krājums, no. 25 (March 4, 2020): 176–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2020.25.176.
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The present paper provides a brief look and an analysis of contemporary Latvian science fiction short stories. Three speculative fiction short story collections of the same series have been analysed: „Purpura karaļa galmā” (2013, Zvaigzne ABC), „Zilie jūras vērši” (2015, Zvaignze ABC) and to this day the latest collection of stories „Piena ceļa dvēseles” (2017, Zvaigzne ABC). These short stories are the result of a literary contest. All three books combined add up to fifty-two different stories of the speculative fiction genre. Some of the stories are the author’s literary debut. This article focuses on clearly defined science fiction stories, with the aim to make a precise comparison with science fiction stories published abroad or a comparison with global trends in the same period. To analyse all science fiction stories from all three story collections, specific guidelines were created. The title, the characters, the place and time, the topic and conflict as well as the originality and authenticity were all factors taken into account. Alongside with stating the facts, a comparison with global works and trends was made. The article ends with the author’s summary of the meaning of contemporary science fiction stories as well as their role in the field of Latvian literature.
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Eliphase, Ndayikengurukiye. "Role of Fantasy in Intellectual Development of Children." Shanlax International Journal of English 7, no. 4 (September 1, 2019): 32–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v7i4.583.
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This paper discusses the concept of fantasy. There is much in the word of fiction today so that the number of writers on imagination is increasing. After people have come to realize that romance is serving as much as a sea in the intellectual development of children, most of them have started to encourage their children to like more reading fantasy books. Some parents have even made it a great deal by deciding to build a small home library of fantasy books for children.The paper’s purpose is to discuss the role of fantasy literature in children’s intellectual development by including different forms of fantasy and its various advantages. The latter include creativity, entertainment, imagination and language skills improvement, the schematic knowledge, enjoyment, strategies applied for problem-solving, knowing the do’s and don’ts of the society, etc. Some Critics have made assertions on children’s ways of learning. This paper incorporates some of the claims and discusses them with some excerpts of illustrative stories related to fantasy.Enhanced by the fact that fantasy is the roadmap to the child thinking ability development, the paper will finally show why parents should motivate their children to get interested in fiction, which has a lot to do with children’s learning process.
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Cranton, Patricia. "Reflection Through Fiction." EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES, no. 1 (June 2012): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/erp2012-001002.
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If we can learn to recognize ourselves and position ourselves in stories, we can identify beliefs, assumptions, and social norms that shape the way we see ourselves and the world around us. This has the potential for reflection and, in some cases, transformative learning. In this paper, I illustrate the process of positioning ourselves in stories using four Canadian short stories. I include the voices of participants who were engaged in a 12 week course on learning through fiction.
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Mateus, Rui. "Breaking the Borders of Fantasy Travelling through the Stillness in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy." Via Panoramica: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos 10, no. 2 (2021): 45–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/2182-9934/via10_2a3.
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As the genre of fantasy literature continues to grow, new authors strive to innovate and stray from the traditional principles that ruled it for many decades when epic fantasy was more prominent. Though epic features still remain a great part of the genre,the characteristics that rule fantasy worlds, stories, and characters have changed over time, bringing new aspects into the fold and introducing new voices. As academics attempt to categorize a genre as diverse as fantasy to better understand it and define it, authors continue to expand and mingle fantasy elements with components from other genres, especially science-fiction. The aim of this article is to identify how a taxonomy of fantasy can be used to understand the relation between the fantastic and the narrative. By analyzing N. K. Jemisin’s novels in the Broken Earthtrilogy throughFarah Mendlesohn’s categorization of fantasy proposed in Rhetorics of Fantasy(2008), the goal is to discover the aspects in which Jemisin brings innovation into the fantasy genre by applying elements from various categories.
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Frank, Margot K., and Sergey Zalygin. "The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories." World Literature Today 64, no. 2 (1990): 325. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40146523.
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Anistratenko, Antonina, and Anatoliy Kotsur. "Fantasy interpretation model for historiography Fantasy novel plus AH subgenre." Current issues of social sciences and history of medicine, no. 2 (August 14, 2023): 104–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.24061/2411-6181.2.2022.364.
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Taking into account the different goals of the AH and Fantasy novel plus AH subgenre writing, we can try and develop one definition of both. AH writing reconstructs the national or world history and the changed facts, conclusions draw our attention to specific facts, key moments of well-known stories that are invisible for us, since of everyday life’s obvious reality prevents us from analyzing processes, we turn on the automatic mode instead. While Fantasy novel plus AH subgenre writing is rather monumental work, because it turns to the world history or historiography model making. Fantasy novel plus AH subgenre works use the historyographical method, but they exist in unreal time dealing with well-known constructions of the action world history of civilization. For example, one of the first uchronic stories by George Richard Raymond Martin “The Hedge Knight” (Martin) uses the space of Middle Ages in Europe for fiction story modeling. Also, it is an abstract of the world of the latest “Game of Thrones” – the greatest fiction saga of the new age literature in the 2000s. There is no doubt that “A Song of Ice and Fire” is constructed based on the matrix of such myth as “The Elder Edda” and “The Lord of the Rings” by John R. R. Tolkien. Legendary fantasy writer J. R. R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating, and teaching ancient tales of northern Europe at Oxford and drew on them for his own writing. These epic stories, with their wizards and knights, dragons and trolls, cursed rings and magic swords, are as fascinating today as they were thousands of years ago. Reading them brings us as close as we will ever get to the magical worlds of the Vikings and the origins of their twentieth-century counterpart: Tolkien’s Middle Earth gave G. R. R. Martin, according to his own confession, the idea of the fantasy world of Westeros. The article deals with the specifics of the Fantasy novel plus AH subgenre in comparison to the Alternate history itself. The aim of the study is to emphasize the main features of the Fantasy novel plus AH subgenre and its common and different characteristics. The study uses such a method as comparative, descriptive, analysis and statistics counting. The novelty of the current research is realized by the essence of the first-time study of the AH subgenres on the world literature sources. The sources of the study are novels written by G. R. R. Martin “A Song of Ice and Flame”, “Kaiser and the War” by Simon J. Ortiz and V. Neff “Queens Don’t Have Legs”. Conclusions. As well as “A Song of Ice and Flame” by G. R. R. Martin, V. Neff’s trilogy exhibits a gallery of kings, queens, dukes, wizards, captains, people. Some of them are real, some are prototypes of actual statesmen; some characters come from Greek myths, while some – from the author’s fantasy. Although the objective of the alternative history method in the both works is quite different, it plays a similar role in the plot construction. Alternative history builds the walls of fantasy world from the bricks of actual historical elements, making the novel interesting for readers and involving them as betrayers.
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Lhamo, Dechen, and S. Chitra. "The Trope of Fantasy in Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 10, no. 1 (February 26, 2022): 81–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2022.10111.
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Purpose of the study: This study aims to explore how fantasy probes the embedded meanings of creativity and communication. It also seeks to reiterate the role of fantasy and imagination in confronting contemporary issues in real life.
Methodology: This study uses an interpretative approach using J.R.R Tolkien's theory of fantasy to analyze the text as an allegory. Through close reading and textual analysis, the text is analysed, relating the events to a personal and political context, which it allegorizes. Online scholarly materials on fantasy and storytelling, collected from various digital sources and libraries were explored to assist in analyzing the role of fantasy in dealing with the contemporary issues in the real world.
Main Findings: The study has found that the power of imagination has brought fantasy into existence and fantasy is analyzed as a tool to resist the contemporary issues regarding the freedom of thought and speech in the real life. The study has also found that storytelling brings a union in the community to build an egalitarian society.
Applications of the study: This study can be helpful in children’s literature, to prepare the children for their adulthood by equipping them with problem-solving skills and creative skills by empowering their power of imagination. It can also facilitate the children to empower be aware of their the sense of right to information and expression in their life.
Novelty/Originality of the study: The study proves the text as fantasy fiction, not just for fun with the supernatural features, but has embedded messages in the symbols and metaphors, revealed through the storytelling technique. Fantasy and creativity draw a link between the imaginary world and the real world as it is an outlet for repressed desires and also a tool to resist the contemporary issues of real-life through creativity.
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Bloshchynskyi, Ihor, Yuliya Boyko, and Oleksandr Yemets. "The quantitative aspect of foregrounding in the classical and contemporary short stories." Forum for Linguistic Studies 5, no. 2 (August 25, 2023): 1675. http://dx.doi.org/10.59400/fls.v5i2.1675.
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The article considers the language means of realizing the quantitative aspect of foregrounding in the short stories by Chopin and contemporary flash fiction. The major technique of the quantitative aspect of foregrounding in Chopin’s stories is stylistic convergence. Stylistic convergences in her stories normally include extended metaphors and phonetic repetitions. They are usually located in such a strong position as the beginning (in 8 out of the 10 analyzed stories) where the writer describes the personality and appearance of the main character. The use of alliterations makes the stories very poetical. Stylistic convergences in contemporary flash fiction stories are also used in the most foregrounded fragments in the texts, similar to Chopin’s stories. The difference lies in the place of convergences: in the analyzed stories they are placed in another strong position, in the ending. Thus, the writers give or suggest their own conclusions about the importance of such values as family, tolerance, and sympathy to other people. The convergences in flash fiction contain two major components-metaphors and syntactic repetitions. Also, the convergences in the analyzed flash fiction stories are smaller in size than in Chopin’s texts and include such stylistic devices as play for words, oxymorons.
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Alkhalaf, Shatha. "Women and Men in Writing Science Fiction Short Stories." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 8, no. 6 (November 30, 2019): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.6p.126.
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No one can deny the role that short stories have played in the life of humans since time immemorial. They do not only keep family members close, but also strengthen the bond of those who share the same interest and happen to exchange them with each other. The current study discusses the significance of short stories in general and investigates the impact of writer’s gender on the writing of science fiction short stories. To do so, eight short stories were analysed.
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Al-Sha'r, Awatif Abu. "Extent of Using Fiction Short Stories in Teaching English and their Effect on Primary Stage Students' Communicative Competence." International Journal of Linguistics 9, no. 6 (December 19, 2017): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v9i6.12186.
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This paper attempted to trace the effectiveness of teaching fiction short stories on EFL learners' communicative competence in English at the primary stage at school level. More specifically, this study aimed to determine whether teaching fiction stories has any effect on EFL sixth grade learners' communicative competence or not. It also tried to investigate if language productive skills (speaking and writing) are improved due to discussing the elements of fiction stories orally or in writing. Furthermore, the study tended to identify which elements of fiction stories (character, setting, plot, conflict or theme) the learners focused on more in their communicative sessions as a result of reading fiction stories. The sample of the study consisted of 54 EFL learners at a private school in the primary stage who were already divided into two sections A and B (27 learners in each); and were assigned as control (A) and experimental (B) groups. A pre-post test was administered for both groups to test their communicative competency of oral and written skills. The findings revealed that using discussion sessions and activities about fiction stories has a positive impact on the learners' communicative competence. Participants who attended the communicative sessions performed better on certain elements of fiction stories than those in the control group. It was recommended that teaching fiction stories should be included in the curriculum for all stages at schools.
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Ni, Zhange. "Xiuzhen (Immortality Cultivation) Fantasy: Science, Religion, and the Novels of Magic/Superstition in Contemporary China." Religions 11, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11010025.
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In early twenty-first-century China, online fantasy is one of the most popular literary genres. This article studies a subgenre of Chinese fantasy named xiuzhen 修真 (immortality cultivation), which draws on Daoist alchemy in particular and Chinese religion and culture in general, especially that which was negatively labelled “superstitious” in the twentieth century, to tell exciting adventure stories. Xiuzhen fantasy is indebted to wuxia xiaoshuo 武俠小說 (martial arts novels), the first emergence of Chinese fantasy in the early twentieth century after the translation of the modern Western discourses of science, religion, and superstition. Although martial arts fiction was suppressed by the modernizing nation-state because it contained the unwanted elements of magic and supernaturalism, its reemergence in the late twentieth century paved the way for the rise of its successor, xiuzhen fantasy. As a type of magical arts fiction, xiuzhen reinvents Daoist alchemy and other “superstitious” practices to build a cultivation world which does not escape but engages with the dazzling reality of digital technology, neoliberal governance, and global capitalism. In this fantastic world, the divide of magic and science breaks down; religion, defined not by faith but embodied practice, serves as the organizing center of society, economy, and politics. Moreover, the subject of martial arts fiction that challenged the sovereignty of the nation-state has evolved into the neoliberal homo economicus and its non-/anti-capitalist alternatives. Reading four exemplary xiuzhen novels, Journeys into the Ephemeral (Piaomiao zhilv 飄渺之旅), The Buddha Belongs to the Dao (Foben shidao 佛本是道), Spirit Roaming (Shenyou 神遊), and Immortality Cultivation 40K (Xiuzhen siwannian 修真四萬年), this article argues that xiuzhen fantasy provides a platform on which the postsocialist generation seek to orient themselves in the labyrinth of contemporary capitalism by rethinking the modernist triad of religion, science, and superstition.
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Irfan, Kashif. "U-3 Stylistic Approach of Urdu Short stories(Historical Background and Possibilities)." Al-Aijaz Research Journal of Islamic Studies & Humanities 5, no. 3 (August 10, 2021): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.53575/u3.v5.03.25-37.
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This article is about urdu fiction writing. The article covers the histological and philosophical back ground of different styles in urdu short. Story writing. It also covers different time periods of popular styles and narrates this writing styles of pioneers of some popular styles. It's also shows the literary work of some popular urdu fiction writers. The article is a brief history of short story and it also tells about future stylistic approaches in the field of urdu short stories. This article narrates significant work of prominent short stories writers and shows the different styles of short stories writers in specified way. Romanticism, realism and symbolism are the major parts of short stories writing. this article cover all this aspects.
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Correia, Alda. "Regionalist short fiction as humble fiction." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 10, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 161–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00025_1.
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The representation of the world cannot be separated from its spatial context. Making the effort to understand how space and landscape influence short stories and their structure, and are represented in them, can help us to make sense of the role of this formerly underestimated subgenre, its social and cultural connections and dissonances, its relation to storytelling and popular narratives, and its alleged low importance. How does the short story genre relate to regional and landscape literature? Can we see it as humble fiction and, in this case, how does the humbleness of this subgenre play a part in the growth of the modernist short story? The oral, mythic and fantastic sources of the short story, together with the travel memoir tradition that brought the love for landscape description and the interest in the narration of brief and easily publishable episodes of local life, helped to consolidate a connection between the short story form and regional literature. ‘Humbleness’ is used here in association with the absence of complexity, plainness, simplicity of approach to a complex reality, straightforwardness. From this perspective, aesthetic value was usually absent from regionalist fiction as its only aim was to render the local truth faithfully. However, this ‘aesthetic humbleness’, which should not be used as a generalization, has been increasingly questioned in regard to modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism and also when we consider specific works.
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Y, Lalitha. "Postmodernism in the Fiction Synchology Summary of Kumaraselvas Fiction." International Research Journal of Tamil 3, S-1 (June 14, 2021): 132–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt21s121.
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The article Post Modernism, written by writer Kumaraselva, examines the emergence of postmodernism in the short stories Nagamalai, Karatam, Ukilu, Vidalu and Uyirmaranam, and then modernity does not see anything as universal and analyses everything separately. It is also expanding beyond the limits of art and literature to philosophy, politics, lifestyle, technology, architecture, drama, cinema. Postmodernism created myths with a mystery that distorts language, distorts stories and expresses the poetry of the language. It also attracts the attention of the readers and gives them a happy reading experience. It is noteworthy that postmodernism is not theory but also in life.
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Azmat Shehzad and Dr Ghuncha Begum. "Social Realism in Khalid Fateh Muhammad’s Short Stories." DARYAFT 15, no. 01 (June 22, 2023): 87–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.52015/daryaft.v15i01.334.
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Khalid Fateh Muhammad is a prominent writer of current era. He has gained prominence in Urdu fiction due to his unique style, thematic diversity, and technical expertise in the creation of fiction. He has keenly observed the society. This is the reason that his stories are full of psychological and sexual diverse attitude of human beings as well as social conflicts and problems. Being a social realist, he is the spokesman of his age. He has exposed hunger, poverty, greed, unfair distribution of capital, social injustices, and hypocritical attitude of humans in his short stories. In this article, the element of social realism in Khalid Fateh Muhammad’s stories will be discussed.