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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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Gajewska, Grażyna. "Myśleć fantastyką. Przez science fiction do posthumanizmu." Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication 28, no. 37 (2021): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/i.2020.37.01.

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 The author presents the thesis that fantastic literature and film, especially in the science fiction variant, is a privileged form of expression in posthumanist discourse. The themes, motifs and protagonists of science fiction are invoked in various contexts by Donna J. Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Luciana Parisi, and Pramod K. Nayar. The author analyzes various areas of the involvement and usage of science fiction in posthumanist discourse: on the ontological, axiological and epistemological levels.
 
 
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Kunze, Peter C. "Send in the Clowns: Extraordinary Male Protagonists in Contemporary American Fiction." Fat Studies 2, no. 1 (2013): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2012.659595.

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Semino, Elena. "Pragmatic failure, mind style and characterisation in fiction about autism." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 23, no. 2 (2014): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947014526312.

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This article presents an analysis of different types of pragmatic failure in the interactional behaviour of the ‘autistic’ protagonists of three recent novels. Three main types of pragmatic failure occur across all three novels: problems with informativeness and relevance in conversational contributions; problems with face management resulting in unintentional impolite behaviours; and problems with the interpretation of figurative language. These problems are salient and frequent enough to contribute to the projection of distinctive mind styles, and more generally to the characterisation of th
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Schneiderman, Leo. "Norman Mailer and Rank's Theory of the Creative Self." Imagination, Cognition and Personality 14, no. 1 (1994): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/5bc6-cxca-d48t-n941.

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The present article investigates Mailer's fiction and non-fiction in relation to Rank's views on creativity. Both Rank and Mailer are interpreted as examples of artists who invent themselves, the former as an intuitive therapist, the latter as the creator of a public and private persona. In Mailer's case, projections of the persona are traced to his fictional alter egos. Special attention is given to analyzing the significance of Mailer's creation of fictional protagonists who act out antisocial, anarchic impulses in a seemingly conflict-free way. This tendency, which characterizes Mailer's wo
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Fleischhack, Maria. "Possession, Trance, and Reincarnation: Confrontations with Ancient Egypt in Edwardian Fiction." Victoriographies 7, no. 3 (2017): 257–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2017.0283.

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Egyptianising fantastic fiction was a widely popular genre at the advent of the twentieth century, and, customarily, Egyptian characters act as a foil to the Western protagonists. This essay uses three Edwardian Egyptianising stories – Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903; 1912), Guy Boothby's ‘A Professor of Egyptology’ (1904), and H. Rider Haggard's ‘Smith and the Pharaohs’ (1912–13) – to demonstrate how these critical voices address the anxieties of the fin de siècle: issues including gender inequality, imperial arrogance, and archaeological entitlement. The Egyptian characters have
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Trisnawati, Ririn Kurnia. "SHIFTING NOIR ELEMENTS: AN OVERVIEW ON NOIR FICTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA." Jurnal Lingua Idea 8, no. 2 (2017): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.20884/1.jli.2017.8.2.249.

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The emergence of noir fiction in Southeast Asian countries has showcased particular evolvement of noir elements. The noir works produced in this region have embraced shifting noir themes and noir protagonists that slightly move away from what formerly constitutes noir fiction. Thus, this study aims at investigating to what extent these two noir elements from noir fiction produced in Southeast Asia has differed from its preceding noir works in the scholarship of noir genre. As a preliminary finding, this study only highlights the shifting noir elements taken from selected noir stories represent
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Zelezinskaya, N. S. "Young adult literature as a mirror of the society." Voprosy literatury 1, no. 1 (2020): 159–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-1-159-175.

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The article discusses contemporary young adult and post-adolescent literatures, which respond to the modern world with its catastrophes and challenges in a more acute manner than fiction for adults. A new literary genre, the problem young adult novel needs a comprehensive literary analysis. The age bracket of the genre, which is still open for discussion, is examined by the author in detail. While young adult fiction has a different agenda from children’s literature, it often surpasses ‘grown-up’ books in terms of issues raised and their relevance, which is especially true for the problem youn
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Morse, Carmel L. "Mary Roberts Rinehart and Her Autonomous Women Protagonists: Fiction as Personal Desire." Journal of Popular Culture 48, no. 1 (2015): 59–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12233.

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LATHAM, PETER. "“Irreversible Torpor”: Entropy in 1970s American Suburban Fiction." Journal of American Studies 54, no. 1 (2018): 131–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875818000956.

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Although entropy has been identified as a theme in urban American fiction of the 1960s, it is far more significant in a strand of 1970s suburban fiction, in Joseph Heller'sSomething Happened(1974), John Updike'sRabbit Is Rich (1981), and the stories of Raymond Carver. I argue that in these texts the suburbs function as closed systems, subject to entropy, and that the suburbanite protagonists have a heightened sense of physical and metaphysical entropy, a reflection in part of the prevailing sense of irreversible economic and cultural decline and decay in that decade
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Byrne, Deirdre, and Mary-Anne Potter. "FALLING DOWN IN ORDER TO GROW UP: TWO WOMEN’S JOURNEYS FROM UN-DOMESTICATION TO DOMESTICATION IN FANTASY FICTION." Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies 33, no. 2 (2015): 73–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/0027-2639/272.

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AbstractIn this article, following the convention adopted in The annotated Alice (Gardner 2000), the authors refer to the combined volume of Lewis Carroll’s works – entitled Alice in Wonderland – which includes Alice’s adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass – as ‘the Alice texts’. In the Alice texts, Alice is presented as a Victorian female protagonist who has to ‘fall down’ in order to ‘grow up’. This is also true of Yvaine in Neil Gaiman’s Victorian-based novel, Stardust (1999). Both protagonists experience ‘falling down’, which also carries the sy
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Ingman, Heather. "‘Strangers to themselves’: Ageing, the Individual, and the Community in the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, John Banville, and John McGahern." Irish University Review 48, no. 2 (2018): 202–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2018.0350.

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Irish literary gerontology has been slow to develop and this article aims to stimulate discussion by engaging with gerontologists' assertions that ageing in a community of peers is enriching. Juxtaposing the experience of ageing individuals in the novels of Iris Murdoch and John Banville with the more social experiences of John McGahern's protagonists, the article finds parallels between Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea (1978) and Banville's fiction with its emphasis on the ageing individual, invariably male, who attempts to fashion a coherent identity through narration. By contrast, McGahern's The
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TOAL, CATHERINE. ""Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened": Fiction, Identification, and "Benito Cereno"." Nineteenth-Century Literature 61, no. 1 (2006): 32–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2006.61.1.32.

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Observing that Herman Melville's most significant fictional addition to his source text for "Benito Cereno" (the San Dominick's skeleton figurehead) reverses the terms of a trope used in the "Agatha" letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne of 13 August 1852, this article proposes that the skeleton's role in the tale converts a perhaps frustrated attempt at professional identification with Hawthorne-detectable in the scheme of semi-collaboration broached by the letter-into a dismantling of the foundations of American identification,and of the identificatory lures involved in the processes of fiction-maki
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Saranya, N., and SP Sasi Rekha. "Existence and Alienation in AmitavGhosh’s The Glass Palace." Shanlax International Journal of English 9, S1-i2-Dec (2020): 18–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v9is1-i2-dec.3684.

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The existence craving at no time gratified. This paper deliberates round the substantial and diaspora adversity which speculates the peculiar facets of the country. The nation endures with the content of partition, rootlessness, alienation and search for identity. Amitav Ghosh distinctly interprets the jolt of the dispute on the ignorant lives of the country people. Ghosh’s novel The Glass Palace exposes the three lives of discrete generation. The protagonists of the fiction were uprooted from their inhabitant lands and agonize for their survival in the new space. The author characterized his
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Sarkar, Shilpa. "Feministic Images of Women in Shashi Deshpande's Fiction Roots and Shadows and The Binding Vine." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 4 (2020): 269. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i4.10545.

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Shashi Deshpande is the most prolific writer among her contemporaries. Her writing reflects her image of middle class Indian woman. In most of her novels her protagonists are modern, well‑educated and financially independent women. The main theme of her novels are problems of middle class women who were trapped between tradition and modernity. The protagonists always try to maintain their marriage in spite of the fact that they are mentally and physically tortured by their husbands. The objective of this study is to show the feminist perspective of Shashi Deshpande's women characters in her tw
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Sarah Hudspith. "TRAVERSING THE LABYRINTH: FEMALE PROTAGONISTS' EXPERIENCE OF MOSCOW IN FICTION OF THE 1990s." Modern Language Review 110, no. 3 (2015): 759. http://dx.doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.3.0759.

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Banchenko, Aleksandra. "The Poetic Concept of Art of L.F. Dostoevskaya." Dostoevsky and world culture. Philological journal, no. 3 (2020): 270–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2020-3-270-291.

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L.F. Dostoevskaya’s oeuvre consists of short stories and two novels, together with a biography of F.M. Dostoevsky. Her fiction is perceived by researchers as largely autobiographical; her book about F.M. Dostoevsky as a father is considered the least reliable source of biography. Therefore a mixture of genres can be considered: her prose displays features of the poetics of autobiography; her documentary contains fiction, while the author’s discourse dominates the character of the book. This article discusses some features of the poetics of fiction and the documentary prose of L.F. Dostoevskyay
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Gasztold, Brygida. "In Pursuit of the American DREAM, or Mirage? Undocumented Youth in YA Fiction." Ad Americam 20 (December 31, 2019): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/adamericam.20.2019.20.02.

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The problems of undocumented youth in contemporary American immigrant fiction have been given a major focus, as political shifts and competing agendas fuel an ongoing national debate. Especially for young people who are on the brink of adulthood, their status as documented or undocumented results in inclusion in or exclusion from social, economic and political spheres, which affect their daily experiences and influence their plans for the future. This paper will explore the ways in which illegal status informs, impacts, and shapes the protagonists’ identity. The concept of undocumented status
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Kim, Rina. "SEVERING CONNECTIONS WITH IRELAND: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Writing." Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 15, no. 1 (2005): 57–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757405-015001008.

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Beckett's female characterization in his early fiction is grotesque, devouring and sexually provocative. The intention of this article is to examine how such characterization is closely related to Beckett's resistance to the Irish Free State and the Celtic Revival movement by showing that the characterization can be attributed to the impulse to satirize the Celtic revivalists' portrayal of the idealized woman-as-Ireland. This article will argue that the male protagonists' attempt to achieve detachment from the possessive women in Beckett's early fiction gives expression to the author's desire
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Zlatnar Moe, Marija, and Tanja Žigon. "When the audience changes." Translation and Interpreting Studies 15, no. 2 (2020): 242–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tis.20015.zla.

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Abstract Much is expected to change when a work of fiction is translated from one language and culture to another, but the intended reader is not. This paper deals with the issue of the change of the intended reader from adult to child/adolescent in translations of fiction from English into Slovene. The intended reader is most likely to change in translations of comics/cartoons, fantasy, and realistic fiction with child or animal protagonists. The reasons for the change can be both textual and extra-textual: on the one hand, books are categorized as children’s books by libraries, award boards
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Aziz Mohammadi, Fatemeh. "A Study of Carter’s The Snow Child in the Light of Showalter’s Theories." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 48 (February 2015): 133–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.48.133.

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Angela Carter was an English fiction writer and journalist. Her female protagonists often take an empowered roles where they rise up against oppression and fight for both sexual and political equality. The actions of these women are direct reflections of the feminist movement that took place in the 1970s. The concepts within this movement relating specifically to the ideologies of radical- libertarian feminist, and regarding the extent to which she promotes feminist due to her style, referred to as "Galm-Rock" feminism. Carter began experimenting with writing fairy tales in 1970, which coincid
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Nouri, Azadeh, and Fatemeh Aziz Mohammadi. "A Gynocritical Study of The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 48 (February 2015): 100–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.48.100.

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In 1979, Carter published one of her mast renowned collections of short fiction, The Bloody Chamber. The majority of Angela Carter’s work revolve around a specific type of feminism, radical libertarian feminism and her critique of the patriarchal role that have been placed on women. which she promotes feminist due to her style, referred to as "Galm-Rock" feminism In this article, the main concentrate is on heroine’s internalized consciousness which echoes in their behavior. All of the female protagonists in carter’s short stories; such as The Werewolf, The Wolf_Alice,and mainly in The Company
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Willging, Jennifer. "Leisure and alienation in Houellebecq’s fiction." French Cultural Studies 32, no. 4 (2021): 428–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09571558211012966.

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This article examines representations of leisure in Michel Houellebecq’s fiction. Theorised as a new human need that arose from the alienating nature of work in industrial society, leisure is one of three sectors of everyday life explored by modern sociologists. Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre saw in leisure a domain in which human beings could experience moments of freedom and fulfilment, but which was becoming increasingly controlled and commercialised and therefore as potentially alienating as work. This article argues that Houellebecq’s fiction portrays contemporary leis
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O'Meara, Lucy. "Georges Perec and Anne Garréta: Oulipo, Constraint and Crime Fiction." Nottingham French Studies 53, no. 1 (2014): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2014.0071.

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This article examines two novels written by members of the Oulipo group, exploring the ways in which Georges Perec's La Disparition (1969) and Anne F. Garréta's La Décomposition (1999) both use Oulipian constraints within a narrative infrastructure drawn from subgenres of crime fiction: La Disparition is a whodunnit, and La Décomposition a first-person noir narrative. I argue that Perec and Garréta use the alliance of constraint and crime fiction in order to articulate a probing account of their protagonists’ impossible quests for metaphysical certainty in the face of death and loss. The genre
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Sharify, Somaye, and Nasser Maleki. "Semiotics of Clothes in Postcolonial Literature." Chinese Semiotic Studies 16, no. 2 (2020): 203–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2020-0011.

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AbstractThe present study intends to examine the link between clothes and cultural identities in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Hema and Kaushik” (2008). It will argue that Lahiri explores her protagonists’ cultural displacement through their items of clothing. We want to suggest that the protagonists’ clothes are employed in each narrative as signifiers for the characters’ cultural identities. The study will further show that each item of clothing could be loaded with the ideological signification of two separate cultures. In other words, it aims to demonstrate how ideology imposes its values, beliefs, and
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Lai-Ming, Tammy Ho. "Female Researchers in Neo-Victorian Fiction." American, British and Canadian Studies Journal 26, no. 1 (2016): 72–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/abcsj-2016-0005.

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Abstract Neo-Victorian novelists sometimes use postgraduate students – trainee academics – who research nineteenth-century writers as protagonists. This article discusses four neo-Victorian novels, Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip (2006), Justine Picardie’s Daphne (2008), A.N. Wilson’s A Jealous Ghost (2005) and Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr Y (2006), in which female postgraduate students take the centre stage. In Victorian literature, which mirrors the gender bias in the academic world and in society at large at that time, most scholars are male. The contemporary writers’ choice of female trainee a
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Messer, Jane. "The Maternal Heroine." Cultural Studies Review 11, no. 1 (2013): 129–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v11i1.3452.

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There is a Chinese curse quoted in glib desk calendars that have a phrase for each day: ‘May you live in interesting times’. In fiction, maternity has not often been seen as terribly interesting, and in the real world having babies often stops a mother from writing, off and on and even for years. The story of mothers and babies seems elusive, not fit for the imagination, for where’s the story? The ‘maternal heroine’, a protagonist and main character whose actions and identity are closely bound up with her work and experience of herself as a mother of young and dependent children, is rare. How
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Nouri, Azadeh, and Fatemeh Aziz Mohammadi. "A Study of Carter’s Wolf_Alice Based on Showalter’s Gynocriticism." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 48 (February 2015): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.48.1.

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One of the most radical and stylish fiction authors of the 20th century, Angela Carter, expresses her views of feminism through her various novels and fairy tales. Carter began experimenting with writing fairy tales in 1970, which coincided with the period of second wave feminism in the Unites States. The majority of Angela Carter’s work revolve around a specific type of feminism, radical libertarian feminism and her critique of the patriarchal role that have been placed on women. In this article, the main concentrate is on heroine’s internalized consciousness which echoes in their behavior. A
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Gray, Madeleine. "Making Her Time (and Time Again): Feminist Phenomenology and Form in Recent British and Irish Fiction Written by Women." Contemporary Women's Writing 14, no. 1 (2020): 66–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpaa014.

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Abstract This article reads Ali Smith’s 2014 novel How to Be Both alongside Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk (2016) and Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends (2017). Using Lauren Berlant’s conception of neoliberal “crisis subjectivity” and Sara Ahmed’s vision of feminist wonderment as an antidote to the neoliberal “promise of happiness,” it argues that each novel considers what might be salvaged and what might grow from situations in which young women become attuned to their mutual incarceration in neoliberal time’s double bind. It contends that the forced improvisation and feminist reorientation u
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Kamhieh, Celine. "Female Emirati University Students’ Book Reading Choices: An Investigation." International Journal of Linguistics 9, no. 6 (2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v9i6.12095.

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The inescapable link between college students' reading habits and their academic success suggests the importance to educators of investigating their students’ reading interests and preferences. The study reported here was an open investigation into the book reading choices of first-year female Emirati university students to see what genres, authors, main protagonists and book settings they preferred. Book titles were mined from data which was gathered during a larger in-depth research on students’ reading habits over a period of two years, through interviews, journal entries, surveys, emails a
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Schneiderman, Leo. "Philip Roth: The Exploration of the Self and the Writing of Fiction." Imagination, Cognition and Personality 11, no. 4 (1992): 317–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/lr14-nclg-khdq-gdg3.

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Using Philip Roth's writings as a basis, the present study examines the relationship between self-analysis and the writing of fiction. Insofar as Roth's novels depend heavily on introspective data, as well as the recreation of relationships and events taken from the author's direct experience, they provide valuable data concerning the links between autobiography and directed fantasy. The limitations of the confessional novel are discussed with reference to the fate of narrative and empathic characterization. Also examined are the effects of the writer's psychological conflicts on the treatment
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Goldman, Marlene. "Autobiography in the Anthropocene. A Geological Reading of Alice Munro." European Journal of Life Writing 9 (December 28, 2020): BE75—BE92. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.9.37326.

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In the autobiographical stories of Nobel Prize award-winning author Alice Munro, questions of ontology and mortality are inextricably connected to matters of space and place. Fundamental existential dilemmas expressed in Munro’s corpus – signaled by the title of her second short story collection Who Do You Think You Are? – are linked to basic questions concerning orientation. Although autobiographical fiction frequently interweaves concerns about identity and deceased parents with recollections of ancestral spaces, as the literary critic Northrop Frye famously stated, the question ‘Where is he
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Kaewruean, Kevalin. "Understanding the Human Condition through the Depiction of Protagonists in Crime and Mystery Novels." MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities 24, no. 1 (2021): 87–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-02401003.

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Abstract Extant criticism of crime and mystery fiction has indicated how protagonists have freedom of choice in dealing with difficult situations in different forms of risky or challenging settings. In this article, previous criticism is evaluated in terms of its reflection of an essential element of the human condition: the Self’s free will to construct the existential and spatial meanings of its phenomenological existence in relation to the Other. The article further indicates that protagonists tend to disregard their freedom and responsibility for their actions, especially when they make ex
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GRAHAM, SARAH. "Unfair Ground: Girlhood and Theme Parks in Contemporary Fiction." Journal of American Studies 47, no. 3 (2013): 589–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875812002083.

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This essay explores the representation of adolescence in three contemporary American novels set in theme parks. It argues that, as a microcosm of American society, the theme park reproduces the norms of gender and sexuality even as it reveals them to be constructed. In contrast to the way that theme parks foster coming of age for boys, Lorrie Moore's Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1995), Miriam Toews's A Complicated Kindness (2004), and Karen Russell's Swamplandia! (2011) demonstrate the limitations imposed on girls. Although female protagonists challenge gender norms, heteronormativity prov
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YOUSAF, NAHEM. "Regeneration through Genre: Romancing Katrina in Crime Fiction from Tubby Meets Katrina to K-Ville." Journal of American Studies 44, no. 3 (2010): 553–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875810001234.

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This essay examines detective fiction that takes New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina as setting and theme. It explores the ways in which stories told in novels and prime-time TV shows across the interlocking genres of police procedural and crime thriller have steered a sensationalist course through the recovery of the city over the last five years. It considers the role and representation of the New Orleans Police Department in particular, and of law enforcement officials more broadly, as post-Katrina protagonists who protect and serve the city, a rejoinder to media-made myths according to which
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Newman-Stille, Derek. "From Slash Fan Fiction to Crip Fan Fiction: What Role Does Disability Have in Fandom?" Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 8, no. 2 (2019): 73–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v8i2.492.

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Slash fiction is perceived by scholars like Henry Jenkins as capable of presenting a counterhegemonic message that critically questions and disrupts power structures in the production of fiction. Slash fiction presents a critical queering of characters, disrupting the heterocentrism of canonical fiction. Slash fiction is a creation of fan fiction where canonically heterosexual couples are paired with one another in love relationships, allowing for an imagined queer potential. 
 Even though slash, with its queering of relationships would seem to be a doorway into empowerment for disability
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Henderson, Phyllis A. "Black and White Protagonists in Contemporary Fiction: Findings and Recommendations for Interventions on Race Relations." Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development 18, no. 4 (1990): 180–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-1912.1990.tb00449.x.

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Agosto, Denise E., Sandra Hughes-Hassell, and Catherine Gilmore-Clough. "The All-White World of Middle-School Genre Fiction: Surveying the Field for Multicultural Protagonists." Children's Literature in Education 34, no. 4 (2003): 257–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:clid.0000004894.29271.bb.

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Filipczak, Dorota. ""Alternative Selves" and Authority in the Fiction of Jane Urquhart." Text Matters, no. 1 (November 23, 2011): 27–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10231-011-0003-x.

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The article engages with "alternative selves," a concept found in The Stone Carvers by a Canadian writer, Jane Urquhart. Her fiction is first seen in the context of selected texts by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro, who explore the clash between female characters' conventional roles and their "secret" selves. My analysis was inspired by Pamela Sue Anderson's A Feminist Philosophy of Religion, which stresses the need for "reinventing ourselves as other" in the face of biased beliefs and dominant epistemology. In particular, my article refers to Anderson's concern with Ka
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Petterson, Tim. "Patterned neuromuscular stimulation." Reviews in Clinical Gerontology 7, no. 4 (1997): 349–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959259897007478.

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The ability to differentiate science from science fiction might be considered an essential quality in those who stand on their soapboxes to proclaim the virtues of particular therapies. Not so the protagonists of electrotherapy. It is difficult to think of any treatment modality which until recently has been so neglected by the purists. This is reflected in the plethora of literature churned out on the subject, much of which relates to 'back street' studies which are woefully short on science and method.
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Arizpe, Evelyn. "Obsidian Knives and High Tech: Latin America in Contemporary Adventures Stories for Young Adults." International Research in Children's Literature 3, no. 2 (2010): 190–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2010.0107.

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Adventure fiction set in Latin America remains a largely unexplored territory in children's literature studies. This article examines a group of 21st century young adult novels set in this region and considers the ways in which readers are positioned in relation to the Latin American image repertoire derived from colonial discourse about landscape, culture and inhabitants (Pre-Hispanic civilisations as well as contemporary indigenous and mestizo peoples). It also looks at the juxtaposition of advanced technology and traditional indigenous practices represented in the texts. It argues that desp
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