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Pilyasova, Olimpiada, and Yuliya Smirnova. Children's literature: theory and practice of expressive reading. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1864380.
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The textbook covers theoretical and applied issues of teaching children to read literature based on the material of works of Russian and foreign literature, including folklore. The content of the book introduces the reader to the world of children's literature, introduces the genre features of the works of the circle of children's readers and the most famous authors.
The publication is a workshop on expressive reading, which is one of the components of students' speech training. The book recreates the world of writers primarily through the word and a kind of artistic thinking. Numerous quotations from works of fiction fulfill this task.
The textbook describes the stages of development of genres of oral folk art: fairy tales, songs, jokes. Examples with distinctive features of "Christian fantasy" and "occult fantasy" are given. The works of Russian poets are briefly described: K.I. Chukovsky, V.A. Zhukovsky, A.S. Pushkin and other authors.
The content of the manual meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of secondary vocational education of the latest generation.
The publication is distinguished by the completeness of the presentation of educational material as much as possible in the textbook, a high scientific and theoretical level and is intended for students of secondary vocational education, high school students and anyone interested in the history of world literature.
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Raghunath, Riyukta. Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53452-3.
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Ryan, Marie-Laure. Possible worlds, artificial intelligence, and narrative theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
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Forest, Philippe. Le roman, le réel: Un roman, est-il encore possible? Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire: Pleins Feux, 1999.
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McGregor, Rafe. A Criminology Of Narrative Fiction. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529208054.001.0001.
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This book answers the question of the usefulness of criminological fiction. Criminological fiction is fiction that can provide an explanation of the causes of crime or social harm and could, in consequence, contribute to the development of crime or social harm reduction policies. The book argues that criminological fiction can provide at least the following three types of criminological knowledge: (1) phenomenological, i.e. representing what certain experiences are like; (2) counterfactual, i.e. representing possible but non-existent situations; and (3) mimetic, i.e. representing everyday reality in detail and with accuracy. The book employs the phenomenological, counterfactual, and mimetic values of fiction to establish a theory of the criminological value of narrative fiction. It begins with a critical analysis of current work in narrative criminology and current criminological work on fiction. It then demonstrates the phenomenological, counterfactual, and mimetic values of narrative fiction using case studies from fictional novels, graphic novels, television series, and feature films. The argument concludes with an explanation of the relationship between the aetiological and pedagogic values of narrative fiction, focusing on cinematic fictions in virtue of the vast audiences they reach courtesy of their place in global popular culture.
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Ronen, Ruth. Possible Worlds in Literary Theory (Literature, Culture, Theory). Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Ronen, Ruth. Possible Worlds in Literary Theory. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Raghunath, Riyukta. Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction. Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
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Raghunath, Riyukta. Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction. Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
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Bell, Alice, and Marie-Laure Ryan. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
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Bell, Alice, and Marie-Laure Ryan. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
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Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
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Berto, Francesco, and Mark Jago. Impossible Worlds. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812791.001.0001.
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The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed an ‘intensional revolution’, a great collective effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world and of ourselves—from meaning and information to knowledge, belief, causation, essence, supervenience, conditionality, as well as nomological, metaphysical, and logical necessity—in terms of a single concept. This was the concept of a possible world: a way things could have been. Possible worlds found applications in logic, metaphysics, semantics, game theory, information theory, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of mind and cognition. However, possible worlds analyses have been facing numerous problems. This book traces them all back to hyperintensionality: the need for distinctions more fine-grained than the possible worlds apparatus can easily represent. It then introduces impossible worlds—ways things could not have been—as a general tool for modelling hyperintensional phenomena. The book discusses the metaphysics of impossible worlds and applies them to a range of central topics and open issues in logic, semantics, and philosophy: from the problem of logical omniscience in epistemic logic, to the semantics of non-classical logics, the modelling of imagination and mental simulation, the analysis of information and informative inference, truth in fiction, and counterpossible reasoning.
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Boxall, Peter, and Bryan Cheyette, eds. The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749394.001.0001.
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This book offers an account on the last eight decades of British and Irish prose fiction. It begins during the Second World War, when novel production fell by more than a third, and ends at a time when new technologies have made possible the publication of an unprecedented number of fiction titles and have changed completely the relationship between authors, publishers, the novel, and the reader. The chapters look at the impact of global warfare on the novel from the Second World War to the Cold War to the twenty-first century; the reflexive continuities of late modernism; the influence of film and television on the novel form; mobile and fluid connections between sexuality, gender, and different periods of women’s writing; a broad range of migrant and ethnic fictions; and the continuities and discontinuities of prose fiction in different regional, national, class, and global contexts. Across the volume there is a blurring of the boundary between genre fiction and literary fiction, as the literary thinking of the period is traced in the spy novel, the children’s novel, the historical novel, the serial novel, shorter fiction, the science fiction novel, and the comic novel. The final chapters of the volume explore the relationship of twenty-first century fiction to post-war culture, and show how this new fiction both emerges from the history of the novel, and prefigures the novel to come.
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Meretoja, Hanna. Narrative Ethics of Implication. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190649364.003.0005.
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Chapter 5 problematizes the prevalent way of conceptualizing the relationship between fiction and history in terms of the actual and the possible. It argues that both fictional and autobiographical narratives have potential to cultivate one’s sense of history as a sense of the possible, and it examines four different aspects of their contribution to historical imagination. The chapter analyzes how Günter Grass’s Hundejahre (1963, Dog Years) and his autobiography Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (2006, Peeling the Onion) explore the historical world of Nazi Germany as a space of possibilities, how they self-reflexively examine—against idealist and determinist conceptions—the way history consists in concrete actions and inactions, how they unearth the ways narrative interpretations of the past shape one’s orientation to the present, and how they address the duty to remember—and to engage with the conditions of possibility of atrocity—through a future-oriented narrative ethics of implication.
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Auyoung, Elaine. George Eliot’s Promise of More. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845476.003.0005.
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This chapter recovers the aesthetic significance of a reader’s mediated relation to the objects and experiences represented in realist fiction. When George Eliot’s intrusive narrators in Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Middlemarch cue readers to form impressions that are as distinct as possible, they expose the indeterminacy that persists in the most concrete passages of literary description, alerting us to the limits of how much we can ever know about a fictional world. By drawing on the aesthetics of indeterminacy advanced by Edmund Burke, this chapter reveals that Eliot’s commitment to narratives of disillusionment exists in tension with a surprisingly Romantic aversion to finitude, and that literary realism enchants ordinary things by freeing them from the solidity and determinacy they possess in everyday life.
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Garrard, Greg. Introduction. Edited by Greg Garrard. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199742929.013.035.
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Ecocriticism began as an environmentalist literary movement that challenged Marxists and New Historicists over the meaning and significance of British Romanticism. An important component of the environmental humanities, ecocriticism has been characterized using the metaphor of waves. “First-wave” ecocriticism is inclined to celebrate nature rather than query “nature” as a concept and to derive inspiration as directly as possible from wilderness preservation and environmentalist movements. “Second-wave” ecocriticism is linked to social ecological movements and maintains a more skeptical relationship with the natural sciences. The contributions to the book, which encompass both “waves”, are organized in a widening spiral, from critical historicizations of “nature” in predominantly Euro-American literature in the first section to a series of surveys of work in ecocriticism’s “emerging markets” – Japan, China, India and Germany – in the last. The “Theory” section includes essays adopting perspectives from Latourian science studies, queer theory, deconstruction, animal studies, ecofeminism and postcolonialism. The “Genre” section demonstrates the diverse applications of ecocriticism with topics ranging from British literary fiction, Old Time music, environmental humour, climate change nonfiction.
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Pak, Chris. Terraforming. Liverpool University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781382844.001.0001.
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This book explores the emergence and development of terraforming in science fiction from H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1898) to James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar (2009). Terraforming is the process of making other worlds habitable for human life. Its counterpart on Earth—geoengineering—has been positioned as a possible means of addressing the effects of climate change. This book asks how science fiction has imagined the ways we shape both our world and other planets and how stories of terraforming reflect on science, society and environmentalism. It traces the growth of the motif of terraforming in stories by such writers as H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon in the UK, American pulp science fiction by Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, the counter cultural novels of Frank Herbert, Ursula K. Le Guin and Ernest Callenbach, and Pamela Sargent’s Venus trilogy, Frederick Turner’s epic poem of terraforming, Genesis, and Kim Stanley Robinson’s acclaimed Mars trilogy. It explores terraforming as a nexus for environmental philosophy, the pastoral, ecology, the Gaia hypothesis, the politics of colonisation and habitation, tradition and memory. This book shows how contemporary environmental awareness and our understanding of climate change is influenced by science fiction, and how terraforming in particular has offered scientists, philosophers, and many other readers a motif to think in complex ways about the human impact on planetary environments. Amidst contemporary anxieties about climate change, terraforming offers an important vantage from which to consider the ways humankind shapes and is shaped by their world.
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Branham, R. Bracht. Inventing the Novel. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841265.001.0001.
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Bakhtin as a philosopher and a student of the novel is intent upon the novel’s role in the history of consciousness. His project fails if he is wrong about the dialogic nature of consciousness or the cultural centrality of the novel as the only discourse that can model human consciousness and its intersubjective character. Inventing the Novel is an argument in four stages: the Introduction surveys Bakhtin’s life and his theoretical work in the 1920s, which grounded his work on the novel, as investigated in following chapters. Chapter 1 sketches Bakhtin’s view of literary history as an agonistic dialogue of genres, concluding with his claim that the novel originates as a new way of evaluating time. Chapter 2 explores Bakhtin’s theory of chronotopes: how do forms of time and space in ancient fiction delimit the possible representation of the human? Chapter 3 assesses Bakhtin’s poetics of genre in his account of Menippean satire as crucial in the history of the novel. Chapter 4 uses Petronius to address the prosaics of the novel, exploring Bakhtin’s account of how novelists of “the second stylistic line” orchestrate the babble of voices expressive of an era into “a microcosm of heteroglossia,” focusing it through the consciousness of characters “on the boundary” between I and thou. Insofar as this analysis succeeds, it evinces the truth of Bakhtin’s claim that the role of Petronius’s Satyrica in the history of the novel is “immense.”
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Floreano, Dario, and Nicola Nosengo. Tales from a Robotic World. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13489.001.0001.
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Stories from the future of intelligent machines—from rescue drones to robot spouses—and accounts of cutting-edge research that could make it all possible. Tech prognosticators promised us robots—autonomous humanoids that could carry out any number of tasks. Instead, we have robot vacuum cleaners. But, as Dario Floreano and Nicola Nosengo report, advances in robotics could bring those rosy predictions closer to reality. A new generation of robots, directly inspired by the intelligence and bodies of living organisms, will be able not only to process data but to interact physically with humans and the environment. In this book, Floreano, a roboticist, and Nosengo, a science writer, bring us tales from the future of intelligent machines—from rescue drones to robot spouses—along with accounts of the cutting-edge research that could make it all possible. These stories from the not-so-distant future show us robots that can be used for mitigating effects of climate change, providing healthcare, working with humans on the factory floor, and more. Floreano and Nosengo tell us how an application of swarm robotics could protect Venice from flooding, how drones could reduce traffic on the congested streets of mega-cities like Hong Kong, and how a “long-term relationship model” robot could supply sex, love, and companionship. After each fictional scenario, they explain the technologies that underlie it, describing advances in such areas as soft robotics, swarm robotics, aerial and mobile robotics, humanoid robots, wearable robots, and even biohybrid robots based on living cells. Robotics technology is no silver bullet for all the world's problems—but it can help us tackle some of the most pressing challenges we face.
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Eller, Jonathan R. New Worlds: Graphic and Television Adaptations. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036293.003.0040.
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This chapter focuses on graphic and television adaptations of some of Ray Bradbury's science fiction stories in the 1950s. Bookstores continued to provide a favorite recreation for Bradbury. He and his wife Maggie were beginning to buy more books for their home library. His newer reading discoveries now included the works of Sean O'Casey, Luigi Pirandello, and Marcel Aymé. This expansion of Bradbury's reading favorites coincided with the opportunity to extend his rather limited interaction with the world of television and film. Perhaps the most significant event of 1951 for Bradbury was a dinner with John Huston. This chapter examines graphic adaptations of Bradbury stories, including comic strips that were possible “lifts,” as well as television adaptations such as the broadcast of “Zero Hour” on NBC's Lights Out and Sidney Lumet's direction of “The Rocket” for CBS Television Workshop. It also discusses the problem of rights over many Bradbury pulp stories sold during the early and mid-1940s that complicated negotiations for other deals.
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Fiddes, Paul S. Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845467.001.0001.
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This study of the literary relationship between Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis during the years 1936–1945 focuses on the theme of ‘co-inherence’ at the centre of their friendship. The idea of co-inherence has long been recognized as an important contribution of Williams to theology, and had significant influence on the thought of Lewis. This account of the two writers’ conviction that human persons ‘inhere’ or dwell both in each other and in the triune God reveals many interrelationships between their writings that would otherwise be missed. It also shows up profound differences between their world views, and a gradual, though incomplete, convergence onto common ground. Exploring the idea of co-inherence throws light on the fictional worlds they created, as well as on their treatment (whether together or separately) of a wide range of theological and literary subjects: the Arthurian tradition, the poetry of William Blake and Thomas Traherne, the theology of Karl Barth, the nature of human and divine love, and the doctrine of the Trinity. This study draws for the first time on transcriptions of Williams’ lectures from 1932 to 1939, tracing more clearly the development and use of the idea of co-inherence in his thought than has been possible before. Finally, an account of the use of the word ‘co-inherence’ in English-speaking theology suggests that the differences between Lewis and Williams, especially on the place of analogy and participation in the human experience of God, might be resolved by a theology of co-inherence in the Trinity.
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Ball, Warwick. East of the Wardrobe. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197626252.001.0001.
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This book teases out hitherto unrecognised Eastern aspects in and influences on C. S. Lewis’s Narnia Chronicles. These include storylines, plots, themes, imagery, and even cities and landscapes in the East, as well as the ‘Persian’ style of illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Although never having ventured east himself, Lewis wrote that ‘I am the product of endless books,’ and in recognising Eastern references—many only subconsciously intended by Lewis—it is possible to enter the rich world of books that Lewis lived and breathed all his life and, perhaps less obviously, overhear the conversations he had with his fellow Inklings or that he might have overheard himself in an Oxford pub. Religious messages other than the obvious Christian ones find their way into Narnia, but so, too, do the Arabian Nights and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as well as the other great Persian poets. Great travellers from Herodotus and Marco Polo to T. E. Lawrence and Robert Byron are there, but so, too, are the great fictional travellers Baron Munchausen, Gulliver, and Sindbad. Themes borrowed from the great epics, from the Odyssey and the Aeneid to the Kalevala and the Knight in the Panther’s Skin, can also be found. Delve deeper, and Christianity is there along with paganism, but so, too, are Zoroastrian, Manichaean, and even Islamic messages. Ultimately, they are a reflection of the complex intellectual world that Lewis inhabited and of the wider social and intellectual climate of Oxford in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Fennell, Jack. Rough Beasts. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620344.001.0001.
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This book looks at Irish Gothic and horror texts, in both English and Irish, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, examining how this kind of fiction represented the cultural and political concerns of the day through the deployment of monsters, both as characters and as representative figures. Monsters disrupt both our definition of ‘history’ (as a record of past events arranged into a narrative structure) and our scientific, political, or ‘common sense’ understanding of what is possible or impossible; the monster exists outside any notion of a universal morality (or even moral relativism), and with its strange biology it complicates ideologies of gender and race. To be confronted by a monster is to witness the breakdown accepted models of reality, and plunges the subject into a nihilistic world where human action is meaningless. Since Irish history is often conceived of as a sequence of ‘ruptures’ (e.g. the Plantations, the 1641 Rebellion, the Great Famine, the Anglo-Irish War and the Troubles), monstrosity is an apt lens through which to scrutinise Irish culture. Each chapter of this book looks at a different category of monster in turn, and looks at the distinctive ways in which they rupture human history.
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Moffatt, Gregory K. Stone Cold Souls. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216019077.
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History's most notorious and brutal killers still enjoy fame as public fascination with their lives and their crimes continues to grow. Stone Cold Souls is a detailed examination of the most brutal killers in history. Moffatt does what he does best by looking at historical accounts of events, analyzing them from a psychological perspective, and presenting his assessment in captivating fashion. He examines different types of killers, offers case studies and historical context, and describes what sets these cases apart from other kinds of killings. Even in a day and age where pop culture has made serial crime a mainstay of movies and books, the depravity of the killers profiled in this work will still shock even a desensitized reader. Men, women, and children alike have committed crimes so atrocious that it is hard to imagine that these events are not works of fiction. Moffatt examines the difficult questions that inevitably arise when one reads cases of unthinkable torture and cruelty. Why? Were these people simply evil or is it possible that, given other circumstances, they could have redirected their energies into more productive outlets? The author answers these questions and others and reveals the lives and crimes of these ruthless killers. Stone Cold Souls features such well-known cases as: Andrei Chikatilo, Marc Dutroux, Herman Webster Mudgett, Charles Ng, Leonard Lake, Lawrence Bittaker, Roy Norris, Ed Gein, Edmund Kemper, Henry Lee Lucas, Gilles de Rais, Ivan the Terrible, Richard Ramirez, Holly Ann Harvey, Sandy Ketchum, Mary Bell, Jesse Pomeroy, Josef Mengele, Marshall Applewhite, Jeffrey Lundgren, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Father Oliver O'Grady, Charles Cullin, Harold Shipman, Michael Swango, Myra Hindley, Karla Homolka, Aileen Carol Lee Wuornos, Elizabeth Bathory, Charles Sobhraj, Albert Fish, Donald Harvey, and Dennis Rader.