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Lieu, Angela, and Dangzhi Zhao. "How much of library digital content is checked out but never used?" Electronic Library 37, no. 2 (April 1, 2019): 255–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/el-10-2018-0208.
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Purpose This paper aims to identify patterns, trends and potential implications related to post-checkout non-usage (material that is checked out by a user, but subsequently never opened and/or downloaded) of library digital content. Design/methodology/approach A large urban Canadian public library’s data (2013-2017) from Rakuten OverDrive was analyzed. Pending items (items that are checked out, but neither opened nor downloaded) were compared with total checkouts to determine post-checkout non-usage rates. Findings Checkouts and overall rates of post-checkout non-usage of e-books and e-audiobooks have risen significantly and consistently. Juvenile and non-fiction e-books demonstrate higher post-checkout non-usage rates than adult and fiction e-books, respectively. The library spends up to US$10,700 per year on metered access e-books that are never opened by users. This number has grown significantly over the years. Originality/value E-materials in libraries have been growing rapidly, but their current lending models are still largely a direct application of concepts in traditional library services that have developed based on physical materials, such as checkouts, due dates, renewals, holds and wait times. However, e-materials do not have the limitation of physical materials that prevents other users from accessing a checked-out item, which makes many of the traditional concepts no longer applicable. New concepts and lending models should be developed that allow users to access any library e-materials at any time, and are financially functional and sustainable for both libraries and e-content providers.
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Adhuze, Dr Helen Idowu. "The Face And Phases Of Anthropomorphism In Children’s Literature." Tasambo Journal of Language, Literature, and Culture 1, no. 1 (December 20, 2022): 47–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2022.v01i01.006.
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Anthropomorphism, the imposition of human traits on nonhuman objects and animals, is an ancient tradition in the art of storytelling. Existing studies on anthropomorphism in literature have mostly focused on its being a satirical device in adult fiction but paid less attention to how anthropomorphism is constructed in literature for children. This study was executed to examine the depiction of anthropomorphism through folktales, modern fables, and digitales-in selected contemporary Nigerian prose narratives for children intending to establish the use of anthropomorphized characters to bring abstract concepts to life. Jean Piaget’s cognitive constructivism was adopted as the theoretical framework for the study. Five narratives were purposively selected because of their relevance to the study. The narratives were subjected to critical analyses. The face of anthropomorphism is revealed as a rhetorical tool through personification and metaphoric expressions. Anthropomorphism in children’s narratives serves as an attention grabber and a means of giving concrete information on learning through cognitive constructivism which is effective through a literature-based learning experience. In juvenile literature, anthropomorphism is used in building a relational attitude between the young readers and the fictional characters in the text for subtle facilitation of knowledge.
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Joo, Soohyung, Erin Ingram, and Maria Cahill. "Exploring Topics and Genres in Storytime Books: A Text Mining Approach." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 16, no. 4 (December 15, 2021): 41–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/eblip29963.
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Objective – While storytime programs for preschool children are offered in nearly all public libraries in the United States, little is known about the books librarians use in these programs. This study employed text analysis to explore topics and genres of books recommended for public library storytime programs. Methods – In the study, the researchers randomly selected 429 children books recommended for preschool storytime programs. Two corpuses of text were extracted from the titles, abstracts, and subject terms from bibliographic data. Multiple text mining methods were employed to investigate the content of the selected books, including term frequency, bi-gram analysis, topic modeling, and sentiment analysis. Results – The findings revealed popular topics in storytime books, including animals/creatures, color, alphabet, nature, movements, families, friends, and others. The analysis of bibliographic data described various genres and formats of storytime books, such as juvenile fiction, rhymes, board books, pictorial work, poetry, folklore, and nonfiction. Sentiment analysis results reveal that storytime books included a variety of words representing various dimensions of sentiment. Conclusion – The findings suggested that books recommended for storytime programs are centered around topics of interest to children that also support school readiness. In addition to selecting fictionalized stories that will support children in developing the academic concepts and socio-emotional skills necessary for later success, librarians should also be mindful of integrating informational texts into storytime programs.
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García-Muñoz, Núria, and Maddalena Fedele. "Television Fiction Series Targeted at Young Audience: Plots and Conflicts Portrayed in a Teen Series." Comunicar 19, no. 37 (October 1, 2011): 133–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c37-2011-03-05.
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This paper presents the main findings of a research project on teen series, which are television fiction series featuring teenagers and specifically targeted at a young audience. The analysis of the portrayal of young people in television fictional series specifically targeted at a young audience has a meaningful value both for television production and for audience reception. In fact, the potential consumers of the teen series –the teenagers– find themselves at a key moment in the construction of their identities. First, the article presents a review of the background literature on young people’s portrayal in television fiction series. Secondly, it discusses the concept of teen series and their relationship with youth consumption. Finally, the article presents a case study that consisted of a content analysis of the North American teen drama Dawson’s Creek. Content analysis was conducted on a representative sample of three seasons of the show, in order to analyse two groups of variables: the variables of the characters’ personalities and those of plot and story characteristics. The article discusses the results of the second group of variables, focusing on the main characteristics of the plots and on the characters’ roles in the development and resolution of the conflicts. Acceptance of one’s personal identity, love and friendship have been identified as the most highly recurring themes. In addition, the importance of social relationships among the characters in the development of plots and conflicts has been highlighted.Se presentan los principales hallazgos de un estudio sobre las «teen series», es decir las series de ficción televisiva protagonizadas por personajes adolescentes y dirigidas expresamente a una audiencia juvenil. El análisis del retrato de los jóvenes representados en productos específicamente dirigidos a un público juvenil tiene un valor muy significativo tanto por la producción de ficción como por la recepción, ya que los consumidores potenciales se encuentran en un momento clave del proceso de construcción de sus identidades. Después de repasar los principales antecedentes en el estudio de la representación de los jóvenes en la ficción televisiva, se describe el marco conceptual relativo a las «teen series» y se discute su relación con el consumo juvenil. Sucesivamente se presenta un estudio de caso que consiste en un análisis de contenido de la serie norteamericana «Dawson’s creek», realizado sobre una muestra representativa de tres temporadas de la serie, para analizar dos grupos de variables: variables relativas a los personajes y variables relativas a las tramas y a los conflictos. Se discuten los resultados relativos al segundo grupo de variables, con particular atención a las características de las tramas y al papel de los personajes en el desarrollo y en la resolución de las mismas. La aceptación de la identidad personal, el amor y la amistad han resultado ser las temáticas más recurrentes. Además, las relaciones sociales entre los personajes han resultado ejercer un papel fundamental en el desarrollo de las tramas y de los conflictos.
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Patranobish, Paromita. "Speaking Crows and Alien Fish: Nonhuman Cosmopolitanisms in Satyajit Ray's Speculative Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 51, no. 2 (July 2024): 258–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2024.a931155.
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ABSTRACT: I approach Satyajit Ray's sf stories as postcolonial interventions into Western Enlightenment discourses of scientific rationality. I trace the trajectory of these concerns as they are reflected in narratives centered around nonhuman animals, published in various Bengali juvenile magazines between 1961 and 1992. Ray's stories offer a critical site for interrogating, revising, and expanding the possibilities of a Kantian moral philosophy of cosmopolitanism for post-independence contexts of democratic governance, industrialization, and urbanization. Ray's sf enables readers to imagine a posthuman cosmopolitics (to use Isabelle Stengers's concept) as an alternative to colonial cartographies of personhood and the centrifugal impulse of postcolonial nation formation. My article addresses the significant but underexplored role played by Ray's ecological thinking and care for the nonhuman animal in his postcolonial politics. Ray's sf harnesses the possibilities of Bengali speculative fiction, including Kalpavigyan's model of a fluid science to posit a speculative vision of a future-oriented cosmopolitics where the possibility for non-reciprocal and untranslatable proximities becomes a conceptual foundation for thinking about alterity.
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Mitchell, Paul. "Science Fiction Re-Visioned: Posthuman Gothic in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 45, no. 1 (June 29, 2023): 112–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.1.07.
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In this essay, I analyse two episodes from the recent television series, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams. I contend that, by adapting Philip K. Dick’s short stories from the 1950s for the screen, the creators of “Impossible Planet” and “The Commuter” offer an important new perspective from which to appreciate the value of his early fiction, which is too often dismissed by critics as juvenilia. Moreover, by re-visioning Dick’s work as posthuman Gothic narratives, the episodes refract long-standing Gothic anxieties about alterity and (post)human existence through a lens that is more often associated with science fiction. This hybridization is instrumental to Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ interrogation of the paradigmatic binaries between life/death, interiority/exteriority and reality/virtuality. In my analysis, I use Rosi Braidotti’s theory of posthuman death, as well as Roger Luckhurst’s concept of Weird zones, to illuminate how Electric Dreams explores some of the existential issues that arise from human-technological imbrication.
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Villar Secanella, Eva María. "El despertar de la conciencia a través del espejo en algunos textos de literatura infantil y juvenil." Tropelías: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, no. 23 (December 24, 2014): 508. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201523792.
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Este trabajo parte del concepto de que los textos literarios reconstruyen un escenario ficcional en el que se representa y reactualiza una memoria colectiva que es reflejo, también cooperante, en la producción de los cambios sociales y el imaginario de una sociedad, e influyen en la enculturación y formación de la construcción de la identidad de sus lectores. Tomando como espacio de estudio la cultura española de finales del siglo XX y centrado el análisis en tres textos pertinentes a la literatura infantil y juvenil donde la niña ficcional cumple una función protagónica: Veva y el Mar, Caperucita en Manhattan y Bella y Oscura, se busca descubrir, a través de la memoria literaria, los procesos de cambio que se produjeron en nuestro imaginario colectivo; la convivencia de antiguas y nuevas relaciones que el texto establecía con su lector y las identidades que se pretendieron formar a través de la literatura juvenil difundida por la sociedad. This essay is based upon the concept that literary texts build a fictional scenario where the collective memory is represented and actualized. The collective memory is a reflection as well as cooperating agent in the production of social changes where literary texts influence the reader’s processes of enculturation and construction of identity. The study is framed in the late 20th century and it is focussed on the analysis of Children and Young literature where the fictional girl is the main character: Veva y el Mar, Caperucita en Manhattan y Bella y Oscura. The essay aims at defining the processes of change that took place in the collective imaginary through the analysis of the literary memory as well as the coexistence of old and new relationships that the texts establishes with its interpreters and the identities which were moulded by the literature of that time.
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Junior, Roberto Ferreira. "From slavery to prison: necropolitics and the (neo)slave narrative in Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys." Cadernos de Letras da UFF 34, no. 66 (September 9, 2023): 293–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/cadletrasuff.v34i66.56778.
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In his seventh novel Colson Whitehead focuses on the recent scandalous discovery of clandestine mass graves found at Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a reform school in Florida. During its 111 years of existence the school became the target of various investigations as rumors about maltreatment of its juvenile detainees were sporadically spread. Whitehead focuses on the mass graves and specifically on the black corpses and produces a fictional narrative out of these corpses as a form to reject forgetting and unbury a scandalous event that most Americans would prefer not to be informed. Through Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics I claim that The Nickel Boys reveals another scandal: the persistent necropolitical nature of US incarceration system. My argument is that the palimpsest structure of the novel as it juxtaposes the prison novel with the (neo)slave narrative eventually creates a precise illustration of Mbembe’s critique on modern democracies as postulated in his concept of necropolitics.
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Taimia Sabiha and Qudsia Jabeen. "بچوں کے انگریزی ادب میں اسلامی تہذیب و ثقافت کی ترویج: منتخب کہانی نگار خواتین کی کاوشوں کا جائزہ." FIKR-O NAZAR فکر ونظر 59, no. 2 (December 31, 2021): 9–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.52541/fn.v59i2.1390.
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Children’s literature has always been created and published due to its importance to the aesthetical, cultural, and educational needs of young brains. It is purposefully written not only for pleasure and fun but also to teach fundamental socio-cultural values and develop early academic concepts. A voluminous juvenile literature has been produced in the English language for more than a century. However, it was dominated by British-American culture in its context, structure, vocabulary, presentation and even illustration. On the other hand, the growing number of immigrants and children who read English stories worldwide, either for learning or fun, felt it hard to relate themselves to the cultural settings of these stories. Eventually, this need drove giant publishers like Oxford, Cambridge, Macmillan, Scholastic Inc., and others to incorporate diversity and multi-ethnicity in their publications, rather than to make them Euro-American-centric. In general, Muslims—being a significant community in English speaking world—have been striving to maintain their religious identity, while attempting to assimilate into the majority culture. In addition to their various endeavours, from the dawn of the twenty-first century a significant number of women have started writing various fictional, non-fictional, illustrated, and non-illustrated books for children of different ages. In this context, this study provides an overview of women’s contributions to the promulgation of Islamic culture and civilization, using the children’s literature in the English language as their tool.
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St.-John, Walter M., Ilya A. Rybak, and Julian F. R. Paton. "Potential switch from eupnea to fictive gasping after blockade of glycine transmission and potassium channels." American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 283, no. 3 (September 1, 2002): R721—R731. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.00004.2002.
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This study evaluated possible neuronal mechanisms responsible for the transition from normal breathing (eupnea) to gasping. We hypothesized that a blockade of both inhibitory glycinergic synaptic transmission and potassium channels, combined with an increase in extracellular concentration of potassium, would induce a switch from an eupneic respiratory pattern to gasping. Efferent activities of the phrenic, vagal, and hypoglossal nerves were recorded during eupnea and ischemia-induced gasping in a perfused in situ preparation of the juvenile rat (4–6 wk of age). To block potassium channels, 4-aminopyridine (4-AP, 1–10 μM) was administered. Strychnine (0.2–0.6 μM) was used to block glycinergic neurotransmission. After administrations of 4-AP, excess extracellular potassium (10.25–17.25 mM), and strychnine, the incrementing pattern of eupneic phrenic activity was altered to a decrementing discharge. Hypoglossal and vagal activities became concentrated to the period of the phrenic burst with expiratory activity being reduced or eliminated. These changes in neural activities were similar to those in ischemia-induced gasping. Results are consistent with the concept that the elicitation of gasping represents a switch from a network-based rhythmogenesis for eupnea to a pacemaker-driven mechanism.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "JUVENILE FICTION / Concepts"
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Pinheiro, Melina Galete Braga. "Uma leitura do romance A vida no céu, de José Eduardo Agualusa, à luz do conceito de Crossover fiction." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/14619.
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Mestrado em Línguas, Literaturas e CulturasO presente trabalho pretende analisar o livro A vida no céu – Romance para jovens e outros sonhadores (2013), do escritor angolano José Eduardo Agualusa, a partir do conceito de crossover fiction. Para isso, recorreu-se, como principal bibliografia de apoio, ao livro Crossover fiction. Global and historical perspectives (2009), de Sandra L. Beckett, com vista a identificar as características desta produção literária e a compreender a sua relação com a literatura canônica e a literatura juvenil. Assim, na primeira parte deste trabalho, é apresentada a definição de literatura crossover e as suas principais características. Em seguida, são identificadas algumas dessas características no romance selecionado, alvo de análise neste estudo. Posteriormente, é apresentada uma análise do romance, centrada no conceito de crossover fiction. Pretende-se, com esta dissertação, refletir sobre as leituras possíveis do romance analisado, destacando as suas qualidades literárias, semelhantes a outras obras de José Eduardo Agualusa destinadas preferencialmente ao público adulto.
This paper analyzes the book A vida no céu – romance para jovens e outros sonhadores (2013), written by the angolan author José Eduardo Agualusa, focusing on the concept of crossover fiction. For this, we used the book Crossover Fiction. Global and historical perspectives (2009), by Sandra L. Beckett, as our main bibliographic support. The first chapter of this paper presents the definition of crossover literature and its main characteristics, followed by the identification of these characteristics in the novel. The second chapter presents a literary analysis of the novel, with special focus on the concept of crossover fiction. In this thesis I intend to clarify that this novel has enough quality to be equated with other works by the same author that are preferably aimed at adult audiences.
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Gani, Safiyyah. "The fortifying and destructive power of love in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5304.
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The aim of this study is to explore the importance of love in its various manifestations in
the lives of the Harry Potter characters and its power to consequently influence the
paths that they eventually choose to walk. Love is investigated as the reason behind the
choice between good and evil as well as paradoxically both a fortifying as well as a
destructive force. Furthermore, it attempts to examine the importance that love plays in
the healthy or dysfunctional development of the characters.
Numerous philosophies and theories that span two different eras will form the
theoretical framework of this research paper. There will be a constant interplay between
the theories and the main text, that is, the seven Harry Potter books that together
represent the Harry Potter series. Additionally, the author‟s opinion acquired from
invaluable fan interviews will be utilized in order to improve the understanding of the
characters motivations.
The introduction is a brief explanation of key terms and theories that are essential to the
exploration of love in the Harry Potter series. The study comprises five chapters. The
first three chapters are concerned with the three main manifestations of love
represented in the series, namely; parental love, friendship and romance respectively.
Chapter Four focuses on the adaptation of the novels into movies and the subsequent
result that this has on the depiction of love. Chapter Five highlights the finding of the
study conducted.English Studies
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Books on the topic "JUVENILE FICTION / Concepts"
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Lobel, Anita. 10 hungry rabbits: Counting & color concepts. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
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illustrator, Hinton Stephanie (Illustrator), ed. At the carnival! New York, NY: Little Bee Books, an imprint of Bonnier Publishing USA, 2017.
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McBratney, Sam. Look what I can do: A first concepts book. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2014.
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