Log in

Relevant bibliographies by topics / Social fiction / Journal articles

To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Social fiction.

Journal articles on the topic 'Social fiction'

Author: Grafiati

Published: 4 June 2021

Last updated: 25 July 2025

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the top 50 journal articles for your research on the topic 'Social fiction.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Browse journal articles on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.

1

Beer, David. "Fiction and Social Theory: E-Special Introduction." Theory, Culture & Society 33, no. 7-8 (2016): 409–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276415595912.

Full text

Abstract:

This E-Special issue brings together a range of articles from the Theory, Culture, & Society archive that directly explore the relations between fiction and social theory. Each article develops a different perspective on these relations, yet they all share a common interest in probing at the different ways in which fiction might enrich and provoke our conceptual imaginations. These articles ask how theory might be used to understand or illuminate fiction, whilst also considering how theory might be extended, challenged or informed by fictional resources. In general terms, the articles take

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Markussen, Thomas, Eva Knutz, and Tau Lenskjold. "Design Fiction as a Practice for Researching the Social." Temes de Disseny, no. 36 (October 1, 2020): 16–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.46467/tdd36.2020.16-39.

Full text

Abstract:

The aim of this paper is to contribute to a new conceptual foundation for design fiction. Much attention is dedicated to theorising how design fictions relate to our so-called actual world. This work can be seen as an attempt at securing the seriousness and legitimacy of design fiction as an approach to design research. The theory of possible worlds has proven promising in this regard. We argue, however, that a detailed understanding of design fiction is still lacking. In design fiction literature, authors often engage in critiquing techno-centric approaches while paying less attention to how

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Bacanu, Horea. "Globalisation of Cultural Circuits. The Case of International Awards for Fiction." European Review Of Applied Sociology 8, no. 11 (2015): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eras-2015-0008.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract In the international circuit of fictional texts from the last fifty years (perhaps even one hundred years, in some cases), several independent international organizations, academic and editorial platforms of critique and debate have been established. They have been organizing international contests, fine authorities of critical appreciation, evaluation and awarding of most prolific authors and most successful fictional texts: novels, short stories, stories or utopian and dystopian fictions. The allotment on cultural corridors, the geographical identification of both author and title d

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Johnson, Scott. "Social Science Fiction." Journal of Feminist Family Therapy 24, no. 1 (2012): 75–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08952833.2012.629134.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Spitzer, Alan B., and Michael S. Lewis-Beck. "Social Science Fiction." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30, no. 2 (1999): 259–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002219599551976.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Ilyas, Safa. "Psychological Effects of Sadaat Hasan Manto’s Fiction on Youth of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan." Media and Communication Review 1, no. 2 (2021): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/mcr.12.06.

Full text

Abstract:

This study aims to look at the idea that Manto straightforwardly expounded on man and woman’s intimate relationships. Reading fiction, dramatizations and books are similarly impacted personalities of the readers as visual screenplays, Manto's fiction engravings in all accessible mediums of print and electronic although quotes from his fictions likewise broadly tune in and share in online communities. This persistence of his work accessibility and appreciation touched the researcher to deal with his fiction to check its psychological effects on the youth of Lahore. This inquiry is strengthened

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Ilyas, Safa. "Psychological Effects of Sadaat Hasan Manto’s Fiction on Youth of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan." Media and Communication Review 1, no. 2 (2021): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/mcr.12.06.

Full text

Abstract:

This study aims to look at the idea that Manto straightforwardly expounded on man and woman’s intimate relationships. Reading fiction, dramatizations and books are similarly impacted personalities of the readers as visual screenplays, Manto's fiction engravings in all accessible mediums of print and electronic although quotes from his fictions likewise broadly tune in and share in online communities. This persistence of his work accessibility and appreciation touched the researcher to deal with his fiction to check its psychological effects on the youth of Lahore. This inquiry is strengthened

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Grimmett, Helen. "It's All In the Details." Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal 8, no. 1 (2023): 323–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.18432/ari29727.

Full text

Abstract:

Patricia Leavy’s Re/Invention: Methods of Social Fiction presents a highly readable how-to guide to writing social fiction as an accessible and impactful form of research inquiry. Providing extensive background information on the development and purposes of the genre and then discussing examples from her own social fiction novels, Leavy not only teaches readers how to go about writing social fiction but also explains why this is a worthwhile thing to do. This book review creatively puts into practice what I have learnt through reading Re/Invention. Through a fictional recounting of a book club

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Rhee, Jooyeon. "Making Sense of Fiction: Social and Political Functions of Serialized Fiction in the Daily News (Maeil sinbo) in 1910s Korea." Journal of Korean Studies 22, no. 1 (2017): 227–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/21581665-4153385.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract Modern Korean newspapers played a decisive role in transforming the Korean fiction genre in the early twentieth century―a transformation that was carried out in two distinctively different cultural and political environments. In the 1900s, reform-minded Korean intellectuals translated and authored fictional works in newspapers primarily as a way to instigate Koreans to participate in the nation-building process during the Patriotic Enlightenment movement (Aeguk kyemong undong) period. When Japan annexed Korea in 1910, the Daily News (Maeil sinbo) continually used fiction as a vehicle

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Turiel, Elliot. "Social Science as Fiction." Human Development 54, no. 6 (2011): 408–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000334397.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Odilova, Hamida. "FICTION AND SOCIAL SITUATION." GOLDEN BRAIN 1, no. 13 (2023): 30–32. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7939686.

Full text

Abstract:

<em>Socialist Labor was even a means of protecting the social position of people and the achievements of the revolution, strengthening the economic foundation of the young Soviet republic, organizing a socialist competition. In particular, “who will beat whom?"the basis of the slogan was socialist labor . During the Great Patriotic War, labor and patriotism became an integral concept.</em>

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Turner, Rose, and Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau. "Fiction effects on social cognition." Scientific Study of Literature 10, no. 1 (2020): 94–127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.19008.tur.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract Social cognition, the skillset involved in interpreting the cognitive and affective states of others, is essential for navigating the social world. Research has indicated that reading about fictional social content may support social cognitive abilities; however, the processes underpinning these effects remain unidentified. This study aimed to examine the effect of narrative engagement on social cognition. A text pretest (N = 11), a manipulation pilot (N = 29) and full experiment (N = 93) were conducted. In the full experiment, the manipulation failed to vary levels of narrative engag

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

Aldrich O’Rourke, Sean. "Reality Deterioration and Academic Precarity through the Lens of J. S. Le Fanu’s Wylder’s Hand and ‘The Haunted Baronet’." Irish University Review 53, no. 1 (2023): 68–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0590.

Full text

Abstract:

The immersive, fictional space that Irish gothicist Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu calls his reader to occupy has been underexplored in existing critical literature. This article draws on comments made by China Miéville to demonstrate the power of Le Fanu’s efforts to pull readers into his fictional world in the critically neglected Wylder’s Hand and ‘The Haunted Baronet’. This immersion can allow readers to feel the social critiques embedded in this fiction more powerfully because, while imaginatively occupying this world, they are made to witness – and are implicated in the construction of realitie

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Vertesi, Janet. "“All these worlds are yours except …”: Science Fiction and Folk Fictions at NASA." Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 5 (June 12, 2019): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.17351/ests2019.315.

Full text

Abstract:

Although they command real spacecraft exploring the solar system, NASA scientists refer frequently to science fiction in the course of their daily work. Fluency with the Star Trek series and other touchstone works demonstrates membership in broader geek culture. But references to Star Trek, movies like 2001 and 2010, and Dr. Strangelove also do the work of demarcating project team affiliation and position, theorizing social and political dynamics, and motivating individuals in a chosen course of action. As such, science fiction classics serve as local folk fictions that enable embedded comment

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Mr., Vitthal Gangaram Shinde. "Reflection of Social Norms in Ruth Rendell's Mystery Fiction." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research S6, no. 36 (2025): 67–73. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15544197.

Full text

Abstract:

<em>The present paper is an attempt to focus on the social norms which are reflected in the mystery   with specific reference in fictional work of the acclaimed British Woman Novelist. Ruth Rendell is known as the second queen of mystery fiction. Rendell uses her mystery literature to illustrate a number of issues. She employs enigma, suspense, crime, and murder in her novels. Even though she was a female novelist, she was just as adept at expressing today's societal themes as male novelists. She often made the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her best-selling books include standalone p

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Knight, Deborah. "Metafiction, Pararealism and the "Canon" of Canadian Cinema." Articles divers 3, no. 1 (2011): 125–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1001184ar.

Full text

Abstract:

Critical thinking about the English-Canadian and Quebec cinemas has focused lo a large degree on the realist tendencies of our fiction filmmaking-tendencies, it is argued, which fiction filmaking has, historically inherited from Canadian documentary film practices. But in recent fiction filmmaking, Canadian filmmakers have moved beyond social realism. Indeed, the emergence in English-Canada and Quebec of filmmaking that is metafictional and pararealist — in films like Léa Pool's La Femme de l'hôtel, Bruce McDonald's Roadkill and Patricia Rozema's White Room — gives us occasion not only to reth

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Salma, Dr, and Khizra. "Social Analytics in Gulzar Danish's fictional collection "Guman Se Bayan Tak"." Noor e Tahqeeq 8, no. 04 (2024): 22–31. https://doi.org/10.54692/nooretahqeeq.2024.08042285.

Full text

Abstract:

Gulzar Danish, whose real name is Muhammad Gulzar, is an Urdu fiction writer hailing from Halowal, a village in Narowal District, Punjab. His debut fictional collection, Guman Se Bian Tak, published in 2024, consists of twenty-five stories spanning 148 pages. A sociological analysis of Guman Se Bian Tak reveals that each story delves into unique and unexplored themes. These themes range from superstition (Guman Se Bian Tak) to the struggles of Afghan girls escaping from home, the portrayal of a house of prostitution, the illicit relationships of married men, and reflections on a society influe

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Berninger, Anja. "Empathy – Real-Life and Fiction-Based." Journal of Literary Theory 12, no. 2 (2018): 224–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2018-0013.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract In response to the so-called paradox of fiction, Kendall Walton famously argued that our affective reactions to fictions differ structurally from real-life emotions. Many authors now reject the idea that there really is a paradox of fiction. But, even if this is true, Walton may have been right in that there really are far reaching differences between the way we respond to fictions and our real-life emotional reactions. That is, even if we do not believe the paradox of fiction is a paradox, it can still lead us to doubt the homogeneity of our emotional responses and to reflect on the

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Chakraborty, Chandrima. "Bollywood motifs: Cricket fiction and fictional cricket." International Journal of the History of Sport 21, no. 3-4 (2004): 549–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523360409510555.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Chakraborty, Chandrima. "Bollywood Motifs: Cricket Fiction and Fictional Cricket." International Journal of the History of Sport 21, no. 1 (2004): 549–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0952336042000223234.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Leś, Mariusz M. "„Skrajny kwadrant gwiazdozbioru” – astronomia w fantastyce naukowej." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 52, no. 3 (2021): 45–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.622.

Full text

Abstract:

As the author of the article claims, there exist close and lasting links between astronomy and science fiction genre. First and foremost, both of these phenomena developed in parallel since antiquity, and both have fiction at their centre as a socially established type of imagination. Scientific hypotheses use justified fabrication, and science fiction offers images of fictional cosmologies. Many writers of proto-science fiction brought astronomical concepts into social play. Among them were astronomers and philosophers who extensively used plot devices based on mythology or allegorical transf

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Maltz, Hernán. "Literatura policial y policía: reflexiones a partir de dos intervenciones críticas (José Pablo Feinmann y Carlos Gamerro)." Catedral Tomada. Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 9, no. 17 (2022): 197–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ct/2021.465.

Full text

Abstract:

I propose a close reading on two critical interventions about crime fiction in Argentina: “Estado policial y novela negra argentina” (1991) by José Pablo Feinmann and “Para una reformulación del género policial argentino” (2006) by Carlos Gamerro. Beyond the time difference between the two, I observe aspects in common. Both texts elaborate a corpus of writers and fictions; propose an interpretative guide between the literary and the political-social series; maintain a specific interest in the relationship between crime fiction and police; and elaborate figures of enunciators who serve both as

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Dupuis-Déri, Francis. "La fiction du contrat social." Articles 28, no. 2 (2009): 3–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/038029ar.

Full text

Abstract:

Résumé La notion de contrat social occupe une place centrale dans la tradition de la philosophie politique libérale. En proposant un dialogue critique entre le libéralisme et l’anarchisme, il est possible d’identifier des noeuds de tension dans la thèse libérale du contrat social, qui évoque une uchronie, et la philosophie politique anarchiste qui discute elle aussi d’un contrat social, mais dans une perspective utopiste. Ce débat contradictoire entre deux philosophies politiques qui comptent des points de convergence et de divergence permet à la fois d’analyser dans une perspective critique l

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Vandrick, Stephanie. "Feminist fiction for social change." Peace Review 5, no. 4 (1993): 507–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10402659308425763.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Korsnack, Kylie, and Daniel Emmett Hart. "Climate Fiction and Social Change." Contingencies 3, no. 1 (2025): 1. https://doi.org/10.33682/r369-017m.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

26

Gunders, Lisa. "Social issues in television fiction." Critical Discourse Studies 8, no. 2 (2011): 147–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2011.558694.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

27

Oatley, Keith. "Fiction: Simulation of Social Worlds." Trends in Cognitive Sciences 20, no. 8 (2016): 618–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2016.06.002.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

28

Rodogno, Raffaele. "Social robots, fiction, and sentimentality." Ethics and Information Technology 18, no. 4 (2015): 257–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-015-9371-z.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

29

Harrison, Mary-Catherine. "Fiction, Feeling and Social Change." Journal of Victorian Culture 17, no. 2 (2012): 250–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2012.685593.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

30

Moylan, Tom, Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, Carl Freedman, and Bill Bogard. "Symposium on Social Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 30, Part 2 (2003): 174–79. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.30.2.0174.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

31

Carroll, Joseph. "Minds and Meaning in Fictional Narratives: An Evolutionary Perspective." Review of General Psychology 22, no. 2 (2018): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000104.

Full text

Abstract:

This article presents a theoretical framework for an evolutionary understanding of minds and meaning in fictional narratives. The article aims to demonstrate that meaning in fiction can be incorporated in an explanatory network that includes the whole scope of human behavior. In both reality and fiction, meaning consists of experiences in individual minds: sensations, emotions, perceptions, and thoughts. Writing and reading fiction involve 3 sets of minds, those of authors, readers, and characters. Meaning in the minds of authors and readers emerges in relation to the experiences of fictional

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

32

Mar, Raymond A., Keith Oatley, Jacob Hirsh, Jennifer dela Paz, and Jordan B. Peterson. "Bookworms versus nerds: Exposure to fiction versus non-fiction, divergent associations with social ability, and the simulation of fictional social worlds." Journal of Research in Personality 40, no. 5 (2006): 694–712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2005.08.002.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

33

Davidson, Meghan M., and Susan Ellis Weismer. "A preliminary investigation of parent-reported fiction versus non-fiction book preferences of school-age children with autism spectrum disorder." Autism & Developmental Language Impairments 3 (January 2018): 239694151880610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396941518806109.

Full text

Abstract:

Background & aims Anecdotal evidence suggests that individuals with autism spectrum disorder prefer non-fiction books over fiction books. The current study was the first to investigate parent-reports of children with autism spectrum disorder’s fiction and non-fiction book preferences and whether these relate to individual differences in social communication, oral language, and/or reading abilities. Method Children (ages 8–14 years, M = 10.89, SD = 1.17) with autism spectrum disorder diagnoses ( n = 19) and typically developing peers ( n = 21) participated. Children completed standardized m

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

34

Wimmer, Lena, Gregory Currie, Stacie Friend, and Heather Jane Ferguson. "Testing Correlates of Lifetime Exposure to Print Fiction Following a Multi-Method Approach: Evidence From Young and Older Readers." Imagination, Cognition and Personality 41, no. 1 (2021): 54–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0276236621996244.

Full text

Abstract:

Two pre-registered studies investigated associations of lifetime exposure to fiction, applying a battery of self-report, explicit and implicit indicators. Study 1 ( N = 150 university students) tested the relationships between exposure to fiction and social and moral cognitive abilities in a lab setting, using a correlational design. Results failed to reveal evidence for enhanced social or moral cognition with increasing lifetime exposure to narrative fiction. Study 2 followed a cross-sectional design and compared 50–80 year-old fiction experts ( N = 66), non-fiction experts ( N = 53), and inf

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

35

Dr. Vishnu Kumar. "Social Resistance in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable." Creative Launcher 7, no. 4 (2022): 96–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2022.7.4.13.

Full text

Abstract:

Mulk Raj Anand was a revolutionary writer of the twentieth century India who changed the mode of writing and thinking in the field of Indian fiction writing. The novelists before him, who had written fiction, wrote the fictional side of life which were ideal and romantic in nature. There were a smaller number of issues of the society. Mulk Raj Anand’s writing brought revolutionary change in the field of fiction writing. He wrote the novels for the sake of untouchables and the poor. He raised the issues of casteism, capitalism, feudalism, colonialism and imperialism through his novels. In Untou

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

36

Heriyati, Nungki. "Real Person Fiction in Social Media." Proceeding of International Conference on Business, Economics, Social Sciences, and Humanities 3 (March 10, 2023): 791–801. http://dx.doi.org/10.34010/icobest.v1i.244.

Full text

Abstract:

The study attempts to examine fiction derived from real person in social media which focuses on Instagram. The study requires textual analysis across the boundaries of fact, fiction, and affective features. Drawing on cognitive narrative and cultural theory especially fan studies the article attempts to examine fan practices in real person fiction especially in social media. The development of social media that exposes the daily life of celebrity enables fans to access their idols' private life. Fans also like to write a fiction about their idol as a way to fill in the gap of the story they do

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

37

Carter, Lief. "“Supreme Fictions”: L. H. LaRue's Constitutional Law as Fiction." Law & Social Inquiry 21, no. 04 (1996): 1061–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.1996.tb00109.x.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

38

Carter, Lief. ""Supreme Fictions": L. H. LaRue's Constitutional Law as Fiction." Law & Social Inquiry 21, no. 4 (1996): 1061. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/492575.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

39

Barnes, Jennifer L. "Imaginary Engagement, Real-World Effects: Fiction, Emotion, and Social Cognition." Review of General Psychology 22, no. 2 (2018): 125–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000124.

Full text

Abstract:

Prior research has shown that cumulative written fiction exposure is correlated with ( Mar, Oatley, Hirsch, de la Paz, & Peterson, 2006 ; Mar, Oatley, & Peterson, 2009 ) and 1-time exposure to literary fiction increases (e.g., Black & Barnes, 2015a ; Kidd & Castano, 2013 ) performance on an emotion-reading task. However, Panero and colleagues (2016) found that although lifetime fiction exposure is a reliable predictor of performance, the causal effects previously observed may be more fragile (see also Samur, Tops, & Koole, 2017 ). The current article is an exploration of th

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

40

Abdulla, Bayeshanov. "ARTISTIC LITERATURE - EDUCATOR OF A PERFECT GENERATION." Frontline Social Sciences and History Journal 03, no. 05 (2023): 125–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/social-fsshj-03-05-17.

Full text

Abstract:

The article highlights the importance of fiction in educating the future of our country, the young generation, its role in the education of the nation, as well as the issues of strengthening the faith of the intellectual generation of our country, instilling national identity through fiction.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

41

Jets, Kairi. "How is Fear Constructed? A Narrative Approach to Social Dread in Literature." Interlitteraria 23, no. 2 (2019): 427–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2018.23.2.16.

Full text

Abstract:

Fear-inducing narratives can be divided into two subtypes of horror and dread. While horror stories concentrate on a concrete visible object such as a monster, in dread narratives the object of fear is abstract or absent altogether. Pure forms of either are rare and most narratives mix both types, usually with dominant in one or the other. An interesting subtype of dread narratives is the narrative of social dread, where the fear is social in nature. One of the few narratologists to study construction of fear in arts, Yvonne Leffler suggests a variety of narrative techniques often used i

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

42

Dymet, Marcin. "Letters from the Future." Digital Culture & Society 4, no. 2 (2018): 203–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2018-0211.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract Sociologists have long used the biographical approach as a research method. Diaries, memorials and personal correspondence are treated as existing source material, which can help enrich social knowledge about the life of social groups. This can embrace different genres, for instance autobiographical novels. These, although fictional, are still grounded in the reality of an author and can be utilized as material for social analysis. The same rules apply to science fiction literature. Worlds presented in it are versions of the future or alternative realities, anchored frequently in the

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

43

Grenouilleau-Loescher, Rebecca, and Kathryn A. Haklin. "Introduction: Characters in/as Connection." L'Esprit Créateur 63, no. 3 (2023): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esp.2023.a906705.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract: This introduction to the special issue "Connecting Characters in Modern and Contemporary French-language Fiction" offers a critical context for studying character networks and interdependency. Through the lens of Glissant's concept of "Relation" and in dialogue with Jagoda's notion of "network aesthetics," the issue examines what connects characters in fictional works, how these links shape narrative meaning within and across texts, and how character interdependency reflects diverse social, political, and historical contexts. From the nineteenth-century novel to the multi-perspectiva

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

44

Seichter, Sabine. "Über die pädagogische Relevanz von Fiktionalität aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive." Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Pädagogik 98, no. 2 (2022): 232–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/25890581-09703044.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract On the Pedagogical Relevance of Fiction from a Cultural Studies Perspective The article analyzes the pedagogical importance of fiction from a cultural studies perspective. Regarding the fictional is as an ›alternative reality‹ and recognizing the limits of both scientific research and secure knowledge (especially in terms of ethics), the fictional (in the extension to the factual) opens up a (cognitive and aesthetic) level of presentation of the possible and thus becomes part of social construction(s). The aim is to show the (anthropological and educational-theoretical) significance o

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

45

Y. Gashi, Agron. "Fact and Fiction in Autoconfession: A Theoretical Confrontation." Journal of Educational and Social Research 11, no. 6 (2021): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2021-0132.

Full text

Abstract:

The formulation of the topic fact and fiction in auto-confession is a result of earlier research in which the greatest theoretical confrontation takes place in the area of autobiographical prose. This paper investigates and explores issues with which contemporary poetics is faced regarding the concepts in question, especially when they coexist within a work concerned either with genre codification or with undefined status (i.e. hybrid genre). Such discussions are often accompanied by great dilemmas on whether auto-confessional texts such as autobiography or autobiographical prose should be con

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

46

Jackson, Gregory S. "“What Would Jesus Do?”: Practical Christianity, Social Gospel Realism, and the Homiletic Novel." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 121, no. 3 (2006): 641–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081206x142805.

Full text

Abstract:

This essay makes the historical case for an unrecognized genre of fiction–the homiletic novel. Drawing on traditional Protestant interpretive practices, Social Gospel authors fused forms of spiritual identification rooted in Protestant homiletic exercises (catechisms, interactive allegories, conversion dramas) with practical Christianity's emerging ethic of social intervention, attaching older modes of readerly identification to new sites of literary culture. Homiletic novels democratized pastoral guidance and legitimized fiction as a repository of ethical experience. Through interactive ficti

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

47

Owens, Alison, and Donna Lee Brien. "Australian women writers’ popular non-fiction prose in the pre-war period: Exploring their motivations." Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 11, no. 1 (2022): 63–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00051_1.

Full text

Abstract:

Since the 1970s, feminist scholars have undertaken important critical work on Australian women’s writing of earlier eras, profiling and promoting their fiction. Less attention has been afforded to the popular non-fiction produced by Australian women writers and, in particular, to that produced before the Second World War. Yet this writing is important for several reasons. First, the non-fiction writing of Australian women was voluminous and popular with readers. Second, this popular work critically engaged with a tumultuous political, social and moral landscape in which, as women’s rights were

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

48

Zizek, Slavoj. "Capital, fictions, and ecology." Bajo Palabra, no. 32 (June 6, 2023): 19–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/bp2023.32.001.

Full text

Abstract:

Marx's critique of political economy describes the expanded reproduction of the capital as the basic reality of our societies, and it may seem that Marx ignores two main externalities of the social reproduction of the capital, the domain of symbolic fictions and nature, the presupposed habitat of every social activity. This impression is wrong. marx's capital discovers fiction in the very heart of the circulation of capital: what he calls "commodity fetishism" is a symbolic fiction which is not just an ideology . it structures the very social reality of the capitalist process. Plus ecology was

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

49

Raine, Sophie. "“Founded on Fact”: Paratextual Politics in Penny Fiction." Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 4, no. 2 (2023): 18–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/cxkv6018.

Full text

Abstract:

In the preface of James Malcolm Rymer’s The Night Adventurer (1846), the writer claims that, contrary to popular opinion, the “masses” were attracted to stories on “account of their truthfulness” rather than “wild, romantic literature” (1846: Preface). Indeed, the ‘factual’ basis for penny serials was so marketable that numerous prefaces, author notes and newspaper advertisements emphasised how these serials were “founded on fact.” While there were sensationalist purposes for using factual biographies of criminals, the use of non-fictional sources has, I argue, a far more philanthropic social

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

50

Milner, Andrew. "Resources for a Journey of Hope: Raymond Williams on Utopia and Science Fiction." Cultural Sociology 10, no. 4 (2016): 415–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975516631584.

Full text

Abstract:

Raymond Williams had an enduring interest in science fiction, an interest attested to: first, by two articles specifically addressed to the genre, both of which were eventually published in the journal Science Fiction Studies; second, by a wide range of reference in more familiar texts, such as Culture and Society, The Long Revolution, George Orwell and The Country and the City; and third, by his two ‘future novels’, The Volunteers and The Fight for Manod, the first clearly science-fictional in character, the latter less so. This article will summarise this work, and will also explore how some

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!