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Journal articles on the topic "Fiction protagonists"

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Norbury, Kate. "‘On some precipice in a dream’: Representations of Guilt in Contemporary Young Adult Gay and Lesbian Fiction." International Research in Children's Literature 5, no. 2 (2012): 184–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2012.0062.

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This article explores the representation of guilt in six recent young adult novels, in which it is suggested that teen protagonists still experience guilt in relation to their emerging non-normative sexual identities. The experience of guilt may take several different forms, but all dealt with here are characterised by guilt without agency – that is, the protagonist has not deliberately said or done anything to cause harm to another. In a first pair of novels, guilt is depicted as a consequence of internalised homophobia, with which protagonists must at least partly identify. In a second group

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Kokotkiewicz, Martyna. "Extraordinary Protagonists, Average Issues." Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia 25, no. 1 (2018): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/fsp-2018-0016.

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Abstract Thriller is considered to be a subgenre of criminal fiction, in which the most significant role is played by fast-paced action, suspense, spectacular events. In case of so called international and political thrillers it should also be mentioned that their authors construct their plots around the problems such as global conflicts, international conspiracy, terrorism, the development of nuclear weapon. However, problems commonly mentioned by many authors of other subgenres of criminal fiction, are also present in the novels classified as thrillers. The collapse of well-being society, un

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Green-Barteet, Miranda A., and Jill Coste. "Non-normative Bodies, Queer Identities." Girlhood Studies 12, no. 1 (2019): 82–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2019.120108.

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In this article we consider the absence of queer female protagonists in dystopian Young Adult (YA) fiction and examine how texts with queer protagonists rely on heteronormative frameworks. Often seen as progressive, dystopian YA fiction features rebellious teen girls resisting the restrictive norms of their societies, but it frequently sidelines queerness in favor of heteronormative romance for its predominantly white, able-bodied protagonists. We analyze The Scorpion Rules (2015) and Love in the Time of Global Warming (2013), both of which feature queer girl protagonists, and conclude that th

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Ahmetagić, Jasmina M. "ESCHATOLOGICAL NOSTALGIAIN VLADAN DOBRIVOJEVIĆ’S FICTION." PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES 18, no. 1 (2020): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/1857-6060-2020-18-1-1-17.

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Nostalgia is the keyword of Vladan Dobrivojević’snovelistic opus—nostalgia for the “original condition”, as B. Hamvas described the primordial, yet highest order of human existence, nostalgia for the God-man, which is exactly what makes it eschatological—and in our intent to describe its nature, we have chosen Where Angels Come From: The Eastern Genealogy(2019), a book modest in volume,which enables us to speak about the central problems of this markedly coherent opus by following the principle of synecdoche. Where Angels Come Fromis a collection of ten stories which form a nested narrative in

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Kane, Mary Jo. "Fictional Denials of Female Empowerment: A Feminist Analysis of Young Adult Sports Fiction." Sociology of Sport Journal 15, no. 3 (1998): 231–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.15.3.231.

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Scholars have argued that sport is a highly gendered space where dominant and subordinate groups engage in struggles of resistance and counter-resistance. There are two limitations with this research. First, the majority of investigations have been confined to adult women; examinations of adolescent females are virtually nonexistent. Second, most research has focused on print and broadcast journalism. The influence of one important medium—young adult sports fiction—has been neglected. This investigation analyzed “lone girl” novels (where adolescent female protagonists try out for boys’ teams),

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Blatešić, Aleksandra. "Imaginary protagonists in idiomatic expressions of the contemporary Italian language." Kultura, no. 168 (2020): 112–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/kultura2068112b.

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The aim of this paper is to present imaginary personalities from oral and written literature who have found their place in Italian fixed expressions due to their character, specific circumstances, events or the things they have done or said. Most of the analysed characters in this paper are fictional, while some are associated with the most diverse stories and legends, mostly of unclear origin. If the analysed characters have been taken from a literary work, their creator is an individual and therefore a known subject. The creator of these characters can also be a collective author, and theref

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Pavlik, Anthony. "Being There: The Spatiality of ‘Other World’ Fantasy Fiction." International Research in Children's Literature 4, no. 2 (2011): 238–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2011.0029.

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Fantasy other worlds are often seen as alternative, wholly ‘other’ locations that operate as critiques of the ‘real’ world, or provide spaces where child protagonists can take advantage of the otherness they encounter in their own process of growth. Rather than consider fantasy fiction's presentations of ‘other’ worlds in this way, this article proposes reading them as potential thirdspaces of performance and activity that are neutral rather than confrontational such that, in fantasy other world fiction for children and young adults, the putative ‘other’ world may not, in fact, be ‘other’ at a

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Quynn, Kristina. "Drudgery Tales, Abjectified Protagonists, and Speculative Modes in the Adjunctroman of Contemporary Academic Fiction." Genre 52, no. 2 (2019): 85–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00166928-7585854.

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This essay presents an analysis of narratives of contingency in the contemporary academic novel, particularly the mode of the “adjunctroman.” It contends that adjunct protagonists frustrate the most recognizable mode of academic fiction—the “Professorroman”—with sagas of a Sisyphean lack of progress, unsympathetic or abjectified antiheroes, and tales of instructional drudgery and intellectual woe. Such recent academic fiction may be self-published and may feature protagonists who are adjuncts, non-tenure-track faculty, or workers just passing through the ivory tower on their way to better empl

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Giaimo, Genie. "Talking back through ‘talking Black’: African American English and agency in Walter Mosley’s Devil In a Blue Dress." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 19, no. 3 (2010): 235–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947010368308.

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With the rise in the number of ethnic detective novels published yearly it is important to consider how this new genre deviates from its predecessor, hard-boiled detective fiction; language is a place where this deviation is most apparent. Authors of ethnic detective fiction use marked varieties of English to call attention to the ethnicity of protagonists but, more important to this discussion, to highlight the complex ways in which they position themselves against White male hegemony. Ethnic detective fiction highlights the struggles, complications, dangers, and joys of the Other, a characte

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Matallana, Susana. "Ursula K. Leguin, o relatos para una puesta en escena distinta." La Manzana de la Discordia 1, no. 1 (2016): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.25100/lamanzanadeladiscordia.v1i1.1436.

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Resumen: Reconociendo la importancia de los relatos para la imagenque las mujeres se formarán de sí mismas, se plantea lanecesidad de acometer la tarea feminista de ir en busca denuevos relatos, de nuevos argumentos, que nos permitanreescribir la vida de las mujeres como protagonistas. En estaperspectiva se presenta el trabajo literario de Ursula K. Leguin,reconocida por la crítica como autora una de las mejores prosasde la literatura norteamericana contemporánea, y cuya obraha sido catalogada como ciencia-ficción social, ya que trabajael género de la ciencia ficción de tal modo que éste sirve

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fiction protagonists"

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Martin, Patricia L. "Minority protagonists in the young adult historical fiction novel." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2007. http://165.236.235.140/lib/PMartin2007.pdf.

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Ford, Peggy Kathleen Ollar. "Authors, Protagonists, and Moral Decision Making in Contemporary Young Adult Realistic Fiction: a Content Analysis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278823/.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate if there is a difference in the way male and female authors of contemporary realistic fiction for young adults portray decision making by their male or female protagonists. Questions asked in the study were: (1) Do female writers of contemporary young adult realistic fiction employ an ethic of justice or an ethic of care for male protagonists involved in moral decision making? (2) Do female writers of contemporary young adult realistic fiction employ an ethic of justice or an ethic of care for female protagonists involved in moral decision making? (

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Hill, Lorna. "Bloody women : a critical-creative examination of how female protagonists have transformed contemporary Scottish and Nordic crime fiction." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27352.

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This study will explore the role of female authors and their female protagonists in contemporary Scottish and Nordic crime fiction. Authors including Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Lin Anderson and Liza Marklund are just a few of the women who have challenged the expectation of gender in the crime fiction genre. By setting their novels in contemporary society, they reflect a range of social and political issues through the lens of a female protagonist. By closely examining the female characters, all journalists, in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series; Denise Mina’s Paddy Meehan series; Anna Smith

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Grant, Brianne Alia May. "Where hope lives : an examination of the relationship between protagonists and education systems in contemporary native North American young adult fiction." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7322.

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Indigenous children’s and young adults’ literature remains in the margins of the academic community – either misidentified as multicultural fiction or left aside in favour of critiquing controversial literature produced by non-Aboriginal writers. Through children’s and young adults’ literature, Aboriginal writers are expressing their own perspectives on the way Western education has affected and continues to affect their lives, and these representations present a significant contribution to the way North American children learn about the history of Aboriginal relations with the dominant socie

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Taft, Alison. "Feminist noir or chick noir? : protagonist, voice, tone and sexuality in female-led contemporary noir fiction." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2018. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/34729/.

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This exegesis is a critical and reflexive commentary on my first novel (Taft, A.J. (2011) Our Father, Who Art Out There ... Somewhere, Caffeine Nights: Kent) and my struggle to fit my writing to pre-existing or newly-emerging genres. At the time Our Father was published (September 2011) a new publishing category was seeking to establish itself in the marketplace. Chick Noir first emerged as a feminist reinvention of the traditionally male noir genre with stories centred around a criminal story question. However, following the phenomenal commercial success of chick noir books like Before I Slee

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Olsson, Madeleine. "Representation of Psychopathic Characteristics in Fiction : A Transitivity Analysis of the Protagonist’s External and Internal Dialogue in the TV-series You." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101833.

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The series You (2018) challenges the traditional characteristics of a protagonist and introducesthe audience to a psychopathic protagonist with traits which are typically recognised in thetraditional villain. This study investigates the portrayal of the fictional character JoeGoldberg’s psychopathic characteristics by analysing the language used in his external andinternal dialogues. More specifically, drawing on the tools of transitivity analysis (Halliday1985), the study focuses on the process types and corresponding semantic roles assigned tothe pronouns I and you used by the protagonist ov

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Shoot, Erin Janel. "Spinning the Plan Sideways." UKnowledge, 2016. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/32.

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Spinning the Plan Sideways is the story of Clara Gantz, a thirty-eight year old architect who spent her twenties getting her plans—and sections and elevations—just right. She built buildings in lieu of a family and has considered these buildings her children, but lately she’s been finding a void in wood, marble, and steel. Encouraged, with methods bordering on coercion, by Greta, her “sister” from the Gantz Home for Girls, Clara agrees to mentor Julien, a troubled twelve-year-old. Years ago, when Julien was five, his mother split their house apart, lifting it to make three-stories from one, an

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Souza, Maristela da Soledade e. "Do indivíduo às redes da vida política e social: protagonismo e construção identitária em Padre Nando (Antônio Callado) e Aníbal (Pepetela)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-16062015-132156/.

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O estudo tem como objetivo analisar comparativamente o processo de formação identitária das personagens Padre Nando e Aníbal, respectivamente protagonistas dos romances Quarup, publicado em 1967, pelo escritor Antônio Callado e A Geração da Utopia, publicado em 1992 por Pepetela. Ambos os romances abordam de forma marcante como se configuraram aspectos do processo da luta armada de sentido libertário, no Brasil e em Angola. No entrecruzamento de ficção e História, os escritores, através das marcas de seus autores implícitos, em nível dos sujeitos da enunciação (narradores) ou do enunciado (per

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Iafrancesco, Maria Cristina. "Irony and the portrayal of immigrant and ethnic protagonists in Canadian fiction." Thesis, 1986. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/3530/1/ML32259.pdf.

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Drescher, Barbara. "Vanishing female protagonists in the Weimar, exile, and postwar fiction of Irmgard Keun, Dinah Nelken, and Ruth Landshoff-Yorck." 2001. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/68916833.html.

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Books on the topic "Fiction protagonists"

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Salzmann-Brunner, Brigitte. Amanuenses to the present: Protagonists in the fiction of Penelope Mortimer, Margaret Drabble, and Fay Weldon. P. Lang, 1988.

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Goffman, Richard W. Heartless cruelty. NY, 2013.

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Jackson, Joanna. An examination of the psychological effects on child protagonists of enforced journeys in children's fiction set in the second world war. University of Surrey Roehampton, 2002.

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Carmiña, Navia Velasco. La mujer, protagonista en la narrativa colombiana. Editorial El Búho, 1992.

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Schneiderman, Leo. Motherless children, fatherless waifs: Fictional protagonists and the artistʼs search for the real self. Borgo Press, 1996.

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N, Elvia Montes de Oca. Protagonistas de las novelas de la revolución mexicana. Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, 1996.

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Bini, Federico. Caccia ai tesori: [100 luoghi, storie e protagonisti di inestimabili ricchezze perdute]̀. Gallucci, 2011.

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Cipriani, Fernando. Il romanzo d'infanzia in Francia, 1913- 1929: Problematiche e protagonisti. Campus, 2000.

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Donne e scrittrici (nuove): Protagoniste nel romanzo femminile tardovittoriano. XL, 2007.

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The female protagonist in the nouvelles of Madame de Villedieu. P. Lang, 1993.

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Book chapters on the topic "Fiction protagonists"

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Ní Dhúill, Caitríona. "Rethinking the Protagonist: Subaltern Narrators and Biographical Fictions." In Metabiography. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34663-8_4.

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Mukherjee, Tutun. "Tagore's Women Protagonists Through Ray's Camera." In Filming Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198075936.003.0008.

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Moran, Patricia. "‘The feelings are always mine’: Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys’s Fiction." In Jean Rhys. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474402194.003.0010.

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In an interview with Mary Cantwell in 1975, Jean Rhys denied that her fiction was thinly veiled autobiography, although, she added, “the feelings are always mine.” This essay argues that many of the feelings that Rhys explores in her fiction constellate around the shame affect, an affect that references not just feelings of embarrassment and humiliation, but more broadly feelings of being out of place, alienated and estranged, found contemptible and unworthy by the very people from whom the protagonists had come to expect intimacy, love, and respect. This chronic and pervasive state of shame engenders profound despair, leading the protagonists to wonder if they have any worth at all, or if others’ rejection, abandonment, and betrayal of them somehow speaks to who or what they truly are. What is more, though, shame feeds into the sadness and anger that function as emotional substitutes for the more totalizing eradication of self that shame involves, thereby concealing the painful recognition of being shamed; sadness and anger in turn develop into the depression and rage that are hallmarks of the Rhysian protagonist.

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El Arem, Hajer. "The Mystical Experience in Doris Lessing’s Early Fiction." In Les enjeux de l’écriture mystique. Editions des archives contemporaines, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17184/eac.3666.

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In her later career, the British woman writer Doris Lessing (1919-2013) becomes interested in Sufism, which “believes itself to be the substance of that current which can develop man to a higher stage in his evolution”[^1]. This interest in Sufi philosophy provides a template for the protagonists’ reconstructive journey in Doris Lessing’s novels. In fact, the heroines transcend the limits of ego-centeredness and gain the kind of superior knowledge beyond immanence—“the limits of the matter, the body, sensibility, being worldliness.”[^2] This article therefore sheds light on this specific dimension and reveals how Martha Quest, the protagonist of _Children of Violence_, manages to escape her solipsistic world through spiritual assent and best incarnates the concept of awakening central to Sufism. No longer individualistic and self-centered, the heroine of Doris Lessing’s novel stands as a witness of and reflector upon the surrounding selves and their life conflicts.

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Toliver, S. R. "Eliminating Extermination, Fostering Existence: Diverse Dystopian Fiction and Female Adolescent Identity." In Beyond the Blockbusters. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827135.003.0013.

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This chapter engages in a much needed exploration of the popular sub-genre of dystopian texts with female main characters. An intersectional examination of female protagonists of color provides readers with a valuable resource to introducing diverse texts to readers and classrooms. By disrupting the hypercanon of YA dystopian texts that focus largely on white protagonists, this chapter moves conversations about identity and the treatment of marginalized populations in future societies into a more central space in the discussion surrounding these texts.

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Jones, Gwyneth. "Consider Her Ways: The Fiction of C.J. Cherryh." In Deconstructing the Starships. Liverpool University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780853237839.003.0011.

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This chapter contains Jones’ review of Carolyn J. Cherryh’s novels, mainly Serpent’s Reach and Cyteen. In her review, Jones foregrounds Cherryh’s use of strong female protagonists, and looks at the methods and techniques used to realistically put forward a futuristic piece of fiction.

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Nelson, Claudia, and Anne Morey. "History is Fractal." In Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846031.003.0006.

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This chapter explores dystopian works—Diana Wynne Jones’s The Game (2007), Alan Garner’s Red Shift (1971), John Christopher’s Fireball series (1981–6), N. M. Browne’s Warriors series (2000–9), Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy (2008–10), Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes and its two sequels (2015–18), and Megan Whalen Turner’s The Queen’s Thief series (1996–2017)—whose dominant spatial metaphor is that of the fractal. The fractal structure offers a jaundiced view of progress marred by conflicts large and small whose protagonists are caught within uncontrollable repetition. It is argued that memory is central to this exploration of conflict and that memory is intertwined with guilt and empathy. While these works also foreground the agency of the young protagonist, efforts at communication are as likely to be damaging as healing, and emotion is often revealed to be a matter of performance rather than authenticity.

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Lassner, Phyllis. "Double Agency: Women Writers of Espionage Fiction." In Espionage and Exile. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401104.003.0003.

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This chapter examines the fiction of Helen MacInnes, Ann Bridge, With different narrative techniques, each of them dramatise ethical and political concerns about the viability of a second world war. They also reshape the genre of spy fiction by creating women protagonists who represent keen insights into narrative and political relationships, particularly deracination, exile, and antisemitism. Their novels respond critically to the way conventional spy thrillers draw heroes and villains as caricatures of good and evil and women as disposable attractions. Each writer engages gender analysis as a significant part of international politics and the genre of spy fiction.

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Margree, Victoria. "Speculative society, risk and the crime thriller: The Datchet Diamonds." In Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890-1915. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526124340.003.0005.

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Marsh’s The Datchet Diamonds (1898) weaves together crime and romance elements with a financial plot concerning stock market speculation. Drawing on New Economic Criticism, this chapter argues that the novel is fascinatingly ambivalent in its treatment of speculation, appearing to condemn it as dishonourable and criminal while surreptitiously endorsing the very risk-taking behaviour on which it relies. The novel’s ‘decent-man-tempted’ protagonist is rendered attractive to readers through his willingness coolly to stare down danger and play the odds, putting him in uncomfortable proximity to the models of criminal masculinity that the text presents. As a crime thriller, The Datchet Diamonds works by soliciting readerly enjoyment of exposure to risk: as such, it reveals the limitations of crime scholarship that has focused too narrowly upon ‘ideologically conservative’ detective fiction, pointing instead to the willingness of readers to identify with transgressor-protagonists, to see laws broken and social hierarchies questioned.

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Schmeink, Lars. "Coming of Age and the Other." In Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496816696.003.0008.

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Paolo Bacigalupi, known for his eco-fiction, sets his Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities in dystopias of flooded environments controlled and exploited by huge corporations. Everything is commodified, including children’s bodies. Lars Schmeink demonstrates how the adolescent protagonists Nailer and Mahlia resist genetic determinism and find hope as they create alternative value systems. The animal-human hybrid Tool, common to both novels, also resists his supposed DNA-determined behavior as mindless warrior and frees himself to become tool to no one. Critical, or ethical, posthumanism offers a vision for creating subjectivities that embrace the Other and forge paths to a better future.

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Conference papers on the topic "Fiction protagonists"

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Malá, Markéta. "English and Czech children’s literature: A contrastive corpus-driven phraseological approach." In Eighth Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English. Masaryk University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9767-2020-8.

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The paper explores the recurrent linguistic patterns in English and Czech children’s narrative fiction and their textual functions. It combines contrastive phraseological research with corpus-driven methods, taking frequency lists and n-grams as its starting points. The analysis focuses on the domains of time, space and body language. The results reveal register-specific recurrent linguistic patterns which play a role in the constitution of the fictional world of children’s literature, specifying its temporal and spatial characteristics, and relating to the communication among the protagonists

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Connan-Pintado, Christiane. "Métamorphoses d’une histoire d’eau en littérature de jeunesse (1865-2004) Perspectives scientifiques/ littéraires/pédagogiques." In XXV Coloquio AFUE. Palabras e imaginarios del agua. Universitat Politècnica València, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/xxvcoloquioafue.2016.2489.

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En lien avec l’axe littéraire du colloque, la présente contribution à la réflexion s’attachera à trois « histoires d’eau » publiées en France pour la jeunesse, en l’espèce trois fictions qui ont en commun de prendre pour protagoniste une goutte d’eau : Métamorphoses d’une goutte d’eau, de Zulma Carraud (Hachette, « Petite Bibliothèque rose illustrée », 1864), Histoire de Perlette goutte d’eau de Marie Colmont (Flammarion, « Père Castor », ill. Béatrice Appia, 1936 et Gerda Muller, 1960) et Histoire courte d’une goutte de Beatrice Alemagna (Autrement jeunesse, 2004). Dans la mesure où la littér

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