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Prof., Vikas Sharma, and Rathee Anita. "Graham Greene's Fiction from the Perspective of Dark Narrative." Graham Greene's Fiction from the Perspective of Dark Narrative 3, no. 3 (2024): 11–19. https://doi.org/10.53413/IJTELL.2022.3303.

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This research paper ‘Graham Greene’s Fictionfrom the Perspective of Dark Narrative’ attemptsto explore Greene’s works aiming to investigatewhether and which works of Greene fall underthis category; to determine how far Greene'sliterary world conforms to the characteristics of adark narrative, to trace how does an air of gloom,seediness, evil, corruption, and darknesspermeate the atmosphere of Greene's fiction. Italso undertakes to probe into Greene'sconviction, as reflected in his fiction, that mancannot get along without faith. If faith in religionis abandoned, some ot

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Tang, Zhien. "Role of Aliens in Science Fiction Film." Communications in Humanities Research 59, no. 1 (2025): 168–73. https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/2024.23312.

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This study examines the role of aliens, known as extraterrestrial life, in science fiction films exemplified by Independence Day (1996) and Arrival (2016). Through a comparative analysis, the research explores how aliens has symbolized the unknown and fear, reflect human characteristics, values, and social issues. The study reveals that the portrayal of aliens has shifted over the decades from merely stimulating curiosity and entertainment to conveying profound global messages. By depicting alien encounters, these films uncover the inner core of humanity and highlight the darker aspects of hum

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Leighton, Mary Elizabeth, and Lisa Surridge. "EVOLUTIONARY DISCOURSE AND THE CREDIT ECONOMY IN ELIZABETH GASKELL'SWIVES AND DAUGHTERS." Victorian Literature and Culture 41, no. 3 (2013): 487–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150313000065.

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When Elizabeth Gaskell died inNovember 1865, she left unfinished her final novel,Wives and Daughters(1864–66). TheCornhill Magazine's editor, Frederick Greenwood, published a tribute to Gaskell with the novel's final installment. Her fiction, he wrote, pulls you from “an abominable wicked world, crawling with selfishness and reeking with base passions into one where there is much weakness, many mistakes, sufferings long and bitter, but where it is possible for people to live calm and wholesome lives . . .” (Gaskell 685–86; ch. 60). As Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund observe, Greenwood shaped

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Shotwell, Gregg. "A Working-Class Sherlock." Monthly Review 68, no. 5 (2016): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/mr-068-05-2016-09_7.

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Timothy Sheard, the Lenny Moss mystery series (New York: Hardball).At its best, the art of fiction reveals the underlying truth of human relations: we are communal and collaborative by nature. Selfishness and greed are social aberrations because, ultimately, they violate the principle of self-preservation. No wonder we are drawn to crime stories: they mirror our common experience. Capitalism is high crime disguised as church doctrine. Conspiracy is evident, though the evidence is concealed. Hence, our fascination with the detective genre. We are in dire need of Timothy Sheard's scrutiny—a dete

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Teterina, Liliya. "REPRESENTATIONS OF SOCIO-CULTURAL STEREOTYPE “BACHELOR” IN MURIEL SPARK’S NOVEL “THE BACHELORS”." English and American Studies 1, no. 16 (2019): 202–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/381928.

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The main objective of this study is to examine representations of socio-cultural stereotype “bachelor” in Muriel Spark’s novel “The Bachelors” in the context of the national British picture of the world. Fiction text is understood here as a translator of both author’s worldview and language on the basis of which the reader can form an opinion or make a judgement about mental, behavioral, language stereotypes dominant in this or that national culture. Our main focus is on how the bachelors of the novel represent themselves in their dialogues and inner speech. Though they are fictional portrayal

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Mbewe, Ian. "Application of Political Satire in Mission to Kala and Devil on The Cross." Journal of Law and Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (2022): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.53974/unza.jlss.5.1.793.

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The study attempted to demonstrate how political satire is applied in a pre-independence African fiction Mission to Kala and a post- independence African fiction Devil on the Cross. Satire, mild or bitter, has a history of being used to expose the negative socio-economic and political realities perpetrated by both the sympathisers of colonialism and later the agents of neo-colonialism in the post-independence phase. The study employed the Marxist literary theory and Literary Onomastics through stylistic analysis and demonstrated how satire exposed the evils and how a ‘training camp’ in the col

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முனைவா், ஜெ. நிர்மலா தேவி /. Dr. J. Nirmala Devi. "தமிழ்ப் புனைகதைகளில் கடல் மாசுபாடு / Marine Pollution as Portrayed in Tamil Fiction". IJTLLS 6, № 1 (2023): 190–206. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10122437.

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<i>The world's largest ecosystem is the ocean. 97.2% of Earth's total water is found in oceans. Global warming, which is increasing day by day due to the arrogance, and selfishness of man, does not only affect the human race; It also shortens the lifespan of animals; It also leads to the extinction of various species. It also underlies the impact on the marine environment. So, the sea resource decreases and the marine populations suffer. Novels and short stories point out these effects and tend to create awareness among people. This article is based on the two novels 'Selukedu' and 'Kadal Adi'

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Dulghieru, Elena. "Identity Values and Cultural Memory in Contemporary Kyrgyz Cinema." Arta 33, no. 2 (2024): 105–10. https://doi.org/10.52603/arta.2024.33-2.10.

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The study examines the subject of several fiction feature films awarded at the first Bishkek International Film Festival (November 17-21, 2023). These films exalt the identity values and the cultural memory of Kyrgyz people and of other neighbored Central-Asian peoples, in order to put the question: “Which are conceptually these identity values?” and “Which are the narrative situations and the hero types that better emphasize them?” After identifying several such identity values, the study focuses on the motif or even the archetype of the abandoned child, a frequent motif in the films mentione

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Daugirdaitė, Solveiga. "Žemaitė XX a. II pusės lietuvių poezijoje ir prozoje." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā rakstu krājums 27 (March 10, 2022): 105–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2022.27.105.

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The article dedicated to the works of the Lithuanian literature written in the second half of the 20th century depicting the writer Žemaitė (pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė, 1845–1921). This writer was not rejected by the Soviet authorities because of her realistic outline and her democratic political views, the social criticism expressed in her work towards greed, selfishness and clericalism. Lithuanian writers dedicated to her their poetry, fiction, and drama works. However, Soviet writers were also impressed by Žemaitė’s personality traits, which mentioned less frequently in pu

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Kaiavo, Violetta A. "D. F. Wallace’s ‘E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction’ as a Key to the Understanding of American Culture and Society: An Analysis of Main Themes in the Context of ‘Infinite Jest’(1996) and ‘The Pale King’ (2011) Novels." Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология 16, no. 2 (2024): 69–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2073-6681-2024-2-69-78.

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The article analyzes the main ideas of the essay E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction (1993) written by the American writer David Foster Wallace (1962–2008). According to scholars and researchers studying the writer’s oeuvre, this essay reflects his worldview and serves as the basis of most of his literary works. In E Unibus Pluram, D. F. Wallace considered the following issues as characterizing modern American culture and society: addictions of American people caused by their loneliness and dissatisfaction with life; consumerism as an unproductive activity; individualism as the embodi

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Braithwaite, Elizabeth. "‘Many a story is but a crooked way to the truth’?" Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 27, no. 1 (2023): 77–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2023vol27no1art1707.

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The myth of King Arthur has been used for many purposes. In post-disaster fiction for young adults, the Arthurian myth has been drawn upon by a number of authors to advocate unity and equality as major factors in creating a just and peaceful world. This article focuses on seven texts set after major global disaster caused by human action has devastated, or is threatening to devastate, the world of the implied present-day reader. The texts for discussion are Ron Langenus’ Merlin’s Return; Janice Elliott’s The King Awakes and The Empty Throne; and Pamela Service’s Winter of Magic’s Return, Tomor

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Carrasco Carrasco, Rocío. "Alien Invasions and Identity Crisis: Steven Spielberg’s The War of the Worlds (2005)." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, no. 29 (November 15, 2016): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2016.29.01.

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The idea of national identity as threatened by foreign invasions has been at the centre of many popular Science Fiction (SF) films in the United States of America. In alien invasion films, aggressive colonisers stand for collective anxieties and can be read “as metaphors for a range of perceived threats to humanity, or particular groups, ranging from 1950s communism to the AIDS virus and contemporary ‘illegal aliens’ of human origin” (King and Krzywinska, 2000: 31-2). Such films can effectively tell historical and cultural specificities, including gender concerns. In them, the characters’ sens

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Zhou, Ziyang. "Analysis of The Great Gatsby from the Perspective of Western Marxism." International Journal of Education and Humanities 10, no. 1 (2023): 20–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ijeh.v10i1.10912.

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Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the most outstanding novelists in America of the 1920s and the spokesman of the “Lost Generation”, as well as the creator of “the Jazz Age”. As a typical writer of “Lost Generation” in the United States during the post-war period of the economic prosperity, he not only experienced false prosperity of “the 1920s-full of clamor” – “the Jazz Age”, but also predicted that it would not last long. His representative works The Great Gatsby, is a novel about a typical American young man -- Gatsby’s pursuit of the American dream, which vividly portraits the trend of mon

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Colăcel, Onoriu. "IN PURSUIT OF ONE'S SELF-INTEREST: AYN RAND'S LITERATURE AND RIGHT-WING POPULIST DISCOURSES IN ROMANIAN MEDIA." Messages, Sages and Ages 8, no. 2 (2021): 32–44. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5741028.

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Coined by the American writer Ayn Rand, the so-called ‘virtue of selfishness’ may well be indicative of a certain literary legacy that shapes the populist discourses of the right. Such statements maintaining that self-interest is self-esteem – and particularly Rand’s way of legitimizing egotism and greed – are very much alive in Romanian political communication, being loosely associated with notions of unregulated capitalism by center-right parties. As the literary muse of individualism, Rand proves that her fiction and philosophy of objectivism can be appropriate

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Zelezinskaya, Natalia S. "The Archetype of the Irresponsible Parent in the Young Adult Novel of the 21st Century." Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология 14, no. 3 (2022): 95–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2073-6681-2022-3-95-105.

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The article considers archetype as a constant primary image that reflects the value system of humanity and, due to its universality, undergoes changes very reluctantly and very slowly, thus reflecting only the most significant tendencies taking place not only in literature but also in culture as a whole, and in the mentality. Such significant changes in the 20th and 21st centuries include the reassessment and redistribution of the parent-child roles when the child reaches adolescence, which is reflected in realistic young adult fiction. The article shows that the binary Mother / Stepmother arc

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Sohr-Preston, Sara L., Holly Kliebert, Olivia Moreno, Timothy Dugas, and Dylan Zepeda. "Expectations of Male and Female Adoptive Parents of Different Marital Status and Sexual Orientation." International Journal of Psychological Studies 9, no. 3 (2017): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v9n3p92.

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Adults in the U.S. (undergraduate college students and adults recruited online) read vignettes about a fictional individual seeking to adopt an infant. Based on random assignment, participants read versions in which the prospective adoptive parent described was either an implied male or female and single, married to someone of the opposite sex, or married to someone of the same sex. After reading the vignettes, participants rated their expectations of the prospective parent’s ability to parent and their perceptions of the prospective parent’s personal characteristics. Female participants repor

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Kononenko, Vitaly. "Author and Style: Intellectualization of Victor Domontovych`s Artistic Discourse." Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University 8, no. 2 (2022): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.15330/jpnu.8.2.45-55.

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The article highlights the features of the idiostyle of Victor Domontovych, a writer of 1920s, a representative of modernist artistic discourse. The stylistic manner of the author's writing shows his intellectualism, principles of his extraordinary scientifically oriented linguistic thinking. V. Domontovych depicts artistic reality through the prism of the ontological clash of categories of rational and irrational, real and unreal, intellectual and primitive-bourgeois, sexual and asexual. Using the concepts of plausible and implausible, real and conditional, the author characterizes the psycho

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Musiichuk, Tetiana, Elina Koliada, and Olha Pelypenko. "CONSTITUENT LEXEMES OF THE ENGLISH COMPARATIVE IDIOMS DENOTING HUMAN CHARACTER AND TEMPERAMENT TRAITS." Naukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu «Ostrozʹka akademìâ». Serìâ Fìlologìčna 1, no. 19(87) (2023): 58–62. https://doi.org/10.25264/2519-2558-2023-19(87)-58-62.

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The article deals with the study of the constituent lexemes of the comparative idioms denoting human character and temperament traits in modern English, taken from Concise Dictionary of Metaphors and Similes. The authors of the article have analyzed comparative idioms denoting positive and negative character traits, which express a person’s attitude toward his or her work, himself/herself, other people and things, and comparative idioms denoting traits that are inherent to the four temperaments – choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, and melancholic. A person’s attitude toward work is manifested thr

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Hansen, Nils Gunder. "Den etiske læser: Om K. E. Løgstrup og den etiske vending i litteraturteorien." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 36, no. 106 (2009): 12–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v36i106.22022.

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The Ethical Reader: K. E. Løgstrup and the Ethical Turn in Literary Theory:Literary studies have on an international level witnessed a turn to ethics in the past fifteen years, but in Denmark the ethical turn in literary theory was anticipated in the 1960s by K. E. Løgstrup, theologian and philosopher. Løgstrup worked in the tradition of phenomenology (Martin Heidegger and Hans Lipps) and explored the fundamental structures of everyday life. His basic claim was that interhuman phenomena such as trust and compassion are of an inherent and spontaneous ethical nature. Løgstrup regarded literature

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Small, Douglas R. J. "Consumptive Killers: Tuberculosis and Crime Fiction From L. T. Meade to Doc Holliday." Journal of Victorian Culture, March 28, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcae022.

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Abstract This article examines the figure of the criminal consumptive in British and American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While there is a substantial body of criticism dealing with the connections between criminal and pathological discourses in the fin-de-siècle and the first decades of the twentieth century, this piece argues for a more direct imaginative connection between tuberculosis and criminality in medical literature and fiction of this time. Beginning in the mid-century, but intensifying after Robert Koch’s identification of the tuberculosis bacil

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Bakşi Yalçın, Olgahan. "HOPE AND SURVIVAL IN ZOMBIE POST-APOCALYPSE ENVIRONMENTS: WORLD WAR Z AND ZONE ONE." Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, September 23, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1500502.

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The recent popularity of zombie apocalypse narratives across various media highlights their deep engagement with social, cultural, political, and environmental issues. These narratives often use zombies as allegorical figures to explore contemporary problems, such as ecological neglect and societal collapse. The emergence of a zombie-creating virus in contemporary fiction mirrors fears of biological and ecological disasters, framing zombie culture as a reflection on environmental degradation in industrial-capitalist societies. By highlighting the potential consequences of ecological destructio

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Korbut Salman, Volha. "THE CONCEPT OF THE EXISTENTIAL FALL IN ALBERT CAMUS’ THE FALL AND WILLIAM GOLDING’S FREE FALL." Dicle Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, October 4, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.15182/diclesosbed.1450613.

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The atrocities of World War II and the following grim period of recovery in Europe resulted in the fact that human innocence was wiped away and replaced by the state of never-ending guilt for crimes committed in the pre- and post-WWII period. The overwhelming majority of people realized that their lives were wrought by the previously dormant qualities of selfishness and hypocrisy leading them to experience their “fall”, standing for the loss of innocence and disappearing trust in the meaning of rationalised existence, from then on was undermined by the absurdity of everyday life. The concept o

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Smith, Jorden. "The Gypsy King by M. Fergus." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 3, no. 3 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g23w42.

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Fergus, Maureen. The Gypsy King. Toronto: RazorBill Penguin Canada, 2013. Print.Described by the publisher, Penguin Canada, as “The Princess Bride meets A Game of Thrones with a hint of Ever After,” this book holds great promise. As a fan of all three, my expectations were high and I was a little disappointed. The book is enjoyable, the writing is engaging, the plot has a few interesting twists, the main characters are interesting, but the abrupt ending felt like a marketing ploy. At least it is an effective ploy. I am already watching the shelf for the next book in the series to arrive.Fergus

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Ali, Muhammad Said. "04. Ikramullah's fictional collection "The Jungle”: Critical Study." DARYAFT 13, no. 2 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.52015/daryaft.v13i2.158.

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Ikramullah's legendary collection "Jungle" has nine stories in total. The first four stories are based on realism, while the next four stories are symbolic and abstract. An allegorical drama is also part of the book. Human psychology, lust, social injustice, selfishness, poverty, compulsions, hunger, sex desire, virtual love, Man's tampering with nature, human instability are the main themes of these stories. These stories prove that Ikramullah's pen has immense potential for narrative, dialogue, observation, feelings, play of consciousness and subconscious, characterization and imagery. The b

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Ensor, Jason. "Web Forum: Apocacide, Apocaholics and Apocalists." M/C Journal 2, no. 8 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1814.

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Apocacidal Tendencies: Three Excerpts from the Heaven's Gate Website 1995 (A term which blends apocalypse with suicide, apocacides could be best described as those groups or individuals who understand salvation from an imagined approaching armageddon to involve, indeed depend upon, the voluntary sacrifice of one's own life on earth.) 1. '95 Statement by An E.T. Presently Incarnate: "... We brought to Earth with us a crew of students whom we had worked with (nurtured) on Earth in previous missions. They were in varying stages of metamorphic transition from membership in the human kingdom to mem

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Hawkins, Katharine. "Monsters in the Attic: Women’s Rage and the Gothic." M/C Journal 22, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1499.

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The Gothic is not always suited to women’s emancipation, but it is very well suited to women’s anger, and all other instances of what Barbara Creed (3) would refer to as ‘abject’ femininity: excessive, uncanny and uncontained instances that disturb patriarchal norms of womanhood. This article asserts that the conventions of the Gothic genre are well suited to expressions of women’s rage; invoking Sarah Ahmed’s work on the discomforting presence of the kill-joy in order to explore how the often-alienating processes of uncensored female anger coincide with contemporary notions of the Monstrous F

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