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Sallehuddin, Muhammad Afnan Bin Mohd, Su-Cheng Haw, and Kok-Why Ng. "Write-Deck: An Enriched Social Reading Fan Fiction Site With Recommendation System." Applied and Computational Engineering 2, no. 1 (2023): 685–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2755-2721/2/20220647.

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The Covid-19 pandemics have pushed individuals away from having any personal contact with each other, in a long period of isolation. Spending time on relaxing activities such as writing fan fiction help alleviate the negative effects of long isolation. Writer-Deck is a system to read fan and original fiction online which is enriched with a recommender system. Writer-Deck aims to provide users with simple ways to find the most likely fiction for leisure reading, simple navigation to access information on their favourite fiction, the ability to save to the library to read later and notification

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ABDERRAZAG, Sara, and Dr Lynda KAZI-TANI. "Social Isolation as a Cause of Incest in Latin American Fiction." Journal of English Language and Literature 11, no. 1 (2019): 1087–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.17722/jell.v11i1.407.

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In his One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez depicts the Buendia family, whose members seem to have a great difficulty marrying and developing sexual relationships with characters outside this family. Marquez portrays these characters as such in order to represent incest and connect it with the social behavior of individuals. The present paper, then, is an attempt to prove that through depicting male as well as female characters as unable to establish healthy relationships with people outside the family, Marquez seems to show that social isolati

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ABDERRAZAG, Sara, and Dr Lynda KAZI-TANI. "Social Isolation as a Cause of Incest in Latin American Fiction." Journal of English Language and Literature 11, no. 1 (2019): 1087. http://dx.doi.org/10.17722/jell.v11i1.450.

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Marín Velásquez, Tomás Darío. "The recovery of nature through social isolation by Covid-19 ¿Reality or fiction?" Journal of the Selva Andina Research Society 11, no. 2 (2020): 60–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.36610/j.jsars.2020.110200060x.

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Senekal, B. A. "Alienation in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting." Literator 31, no. 1 (2010): 19–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v31i1.35.

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This article examines how Melvin Seeman’s theory of alienation (1959) and modern alienation research manifest in Irvine Welsh’s “Trainspotting”. This is an important novel, not only because of its commercial success, but also because it depicts a specific marginalised subculture. Postmodernism and systems theory approaches, as well as changes in the social and political spheres have motivated researchers such as Geyer (1996), Kalekin-Fishman (1998) and Neal and Collas (2000) to reinterpret Seeman’s theory. This article attempts to incorporate this new theory of alienation in the analysis of co

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Schäfer, Katharina, and Tuomas Eerola. "How listening to music and engagement with other media provide a sense of belonging: An exploratory study of social surrogacy." Psychology of Music 48, no. 2 (2018): 232–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0305735618795036.

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The social surrogacy hypothesis holds that people resort to temporary substitutes, so-called social surrogates, if direct social interaction is not possible. In this exploratory study, we investigate social motives for listening to music in comparison to watching TV and reading fiction. Thirty statements about possible social reasons for the engagement with media were compiled. After 374 participants had rated their agreement with those statements, they were reduced to seven categories: Company, Shared experiences, Understanding others, Reminiscence, Isolation, Group identity, and Culture. The

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Kulikovskaya, Irina, Raisa Chumicheva, and Ivan Panov. "Robotics: development factor or social isolation of the child." SHS Web of Conferences 72 (2019): 03008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20197203008.

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In this article, dealing with robotics is defined as a factor driving the development of preschool children. What was created by science fiction writers has become a natural space for the child. Children do not know a world where there are no drones, smart phones, and computers. Robotics is becoming one of the leading activities for children, which determines the development of creativity, initiative, and independence. Joint design acts as a team work environment where children learn to agree on a project topic, discuss problems in its implementation, look for information from different source

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Medina Cordova, Luis A. "Microcuentos." Journal of World Literature 7, no. 1 (2022): 39–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00701005.

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Abstract This article brings attention to a form of narrative fiction that has engaged with the Covid-19 outbreak by embracing social media. Microcuentos, a form of very brief short stories usually referred to as flash fiction in English, have widely circulated across Latin America through digital platforms in pandemic times. But more than simply thriving in a context of globally spread fear, death, and isolation, I argue that – in the 2020s – microcuentos are uniquely suited for pandemic times. By combining narrative intensity condensed in a structurally limited wordcount with social media’s

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Jones, Douglas FitzHenry. "Reading “New” Religious Movements Historically." Nova Religio 16, no. 2 (2012): 29–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2012.16.2.29.

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This article surveys the relationship of the Heaven's Gate movement to the cultural context of science fiction while also engaging broader issues in the retrospective account of violence in new religious movements. Against theories that see violence as the consequence of social isolation and the escalating confusion of representation and reality, I argue that members of Heaven's Gate were not only “tapped in” to the reality outside the group but were markedly self-conscious about their engagement with that reality through the medium of science fiction. Using Heaven's Gate as an example, I prop

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Dai, Yan, and Benjamin Arnberg. "“We Have to Survive, First”: Speculative Ethnographies of Chinese Student Experience During COVID-19." Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 22, no. 1 (2021): 53–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15327086211050041.

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Our speculative ethnography of Chinese student experience in the United States during COVID-19 weds the tradition of speculative fiction (exemplified by the likes of Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler) and digital autoethnography. The study is two-pronged: First, we articulate/map the methodological merits of speculative and digital autoethnography as particularly conducive to the crisis context of COVID-19 and its accompanying social isolation; second, we deploy said methodology within a population of nine Chinese students “trapped” in the United States during the COVID-19 period.

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Kendal, Evie. "Horny for COVID." Extrapolation: Volume 63, Issue 1 63, no. 1 (2022): 55–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2022.6.

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The COVID-19 global pandemic has significantly disrupted people’s social lives and dating habits. Research has shown a substantial increase in the consumption of erotic and pornographic material during periods of isolation, including narratives focused on quarantine, illness, and even the personification of the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself as a potential sexual partner. This article considers the latter manifestation of coronavirus-related erotica, focusing on the four-part e-book series, Kissing the Coronavirus, by M. J. Edwards. This article will demonstrate that as a speculative fiction subgenre

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Chawla, Prof (Dr ). Pooja A. "LIVING WITH THE GHOST: CAN WE EVER ESCAPE COVID-19’S SHADOW?" INDIAN DRUGS 61, no. 01 (2024): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.53879/id.61.01.p0005.

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Dear Reader, A strange virus flipped our world upside down, two and a half years ago, making us feel like we were living in a science-fiction film. Lockdowns, masks, and social isolation were all terms we had to learn. Uncertainty reigned supreme and terror became our constant companion. In 2024, a separate worry persists: Will we ever completely move on from COVID-19? We overcame COVID, but the next variant is JN.1. We don’t know about long-term immunity or “Long JN.1 effects,” but we must learn to live with it. More research, mental health assistance, healthcare reform and international coll

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Maha Hamed Issa. "Masculinity and Gender Roles in Selected Stories by Haruki Murakami." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 62, no. 3 (2015): 350–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v62i3.2167.

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Haruki Murakami (1949) is a Japanese novelist who uses fiction to portray modern man's condition. Sexual identity, loneliness, and nostalgia are common themes in his works. Men without Women (2014) is a collection of short stories in which Murakami reverses gender roles to show men's desperate seek for companionship in their lives. According to Hans Robert Jauss (1921-1997), a German literary theorist, there is no identical interpretation of any literary text. Yet, a dialogic correspondence between the text and the reader allows the reader's voice to breathe different life into the text. There

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Zainab, Noreen. "Repression, Isolation, and Paranoia: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Study of ‘The Nightmare’ by Rukhsana Ahmad." University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature 1, no. 1 (2018): 83–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.33195/uochjll/1/1/05/2017.

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Generally, literature written by Pakistani women writers in English depicts women as victims of patriarchy, social and cultural oppression. Meanwhile, in recent times the short fiction is exploring new paradigms related to the psychological oppression of married women in Pakistan. The following paper selects the short story, ‘The Nightmare’ by Pakistani writer, Rukhsana Ahmad, where a housewife suffers from paranoia because of disconsolate marriage. Therefore, this research aims to study the causes of psychological disorders specifically paranoia among apparently happy housewives. Moreover, th

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Gonsalves, Kavita, Marcus Foth, and Glenda Amayo Caldwell. "Radical Placemaking: Utilizing Low-Tech AR/VR to engage in Communal Placemaking during a Pandemic." Interaction Design and Architecture(s), no. 48 (June 10, 2021): 143–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-048-007.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has made the struggles of the excluded louder and has also left them socially isolated. The article documents the implementation of one instance of Radical Placemaking, an “intangible”, community-driven and participatory placemaking process, in Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV), Brisbane, Australia to tackle social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. KGUV community members were engaged in storytelling and interactive fiction online workshops to create experiential, place-based and mobile low-tech AR digital artefacts. The article expands on the methodology which invol

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Dhobi, Saleem. "Repercussions of Stereotyping and Cultural Bigotry in John Updike’s 9/11 Fiction." SCHOLARS: Journal of Arts & Humanities 3, no. 1 (2021): 64–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sjah.v3i1.35375.

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This article analyzes Updike’s 9/11 novel, Terrorist to explore the implications of stereotyping and cultural bigotry in US society in the aftermath. The novelist demonstrates the problematic in the cultural integration of minorities particularly Muslims and Jews as represented by Ahmad and Jack Levy. The primary motto of the article is to analyze the novel from the perspective of the protagonists Ahmad and Jack who suffer the cultural and social exclusion in American society. Ahmad is the victim of cultural bigotry and Jack Levy faces discriminatory practices at school. The isolation and marg

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Parui, Avishek, and Merin Simi Raj. "The COVID-19 crisis chronotope: The pandemic as matter, metaphor and memory." Memory Studies 14, no. 6 (2021): 1431–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17506980211054346.

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This article draws on the concept of the chronotope – spatiotemporal entanglements theorized in literary and anthropological studies – and extends the same to an engagement with and an understanding of the experiential and ontological defamiliarization, deceleration and suspension of space, time and security generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This article, thus, offers a study of COVID-19 as a connective metaphor and a crisis chronotope – denoting the un-certain space–time marked and defamiliarized by changed orders and vocabularies of presence, distance, trust, tactility and memory – charact

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Flores Quesada, María Magdalena. "Eleanor Oliphant Is not that Fine: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Vulnerability in Gail Honeyman’s Debut (2017)." Oceánide 16 (February 10, 2024): 46–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v16i.122.

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This article explores the notion of vulnerability as a condition of potential and openness towards personal transformation and connection with others. The current approach to the notion of vulnerability focuses on challenging and re-orienting its restrictively negative connotation, as the works by Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega (2017) or Erinn Gilson (2016), among many others, have shown. The notion has also proved useful in connection with political or social action (Butler 2020), as well as in the framework of ethical philosophy (Maillard 2011, Le Blanc 2011). However, analysing vulner

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Bowers, Randolph. "Shieldwolf and the Shadow: Entering the Place of Transformation." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 34 (2005): 79–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1326011100003999.

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AbstractThis paper speaks from a poetic voice and briefly discusses the untamed nature of metaphor and narrative. Then the story is shared. The tale relates to how healing of identity, after eons of racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of social isolation and internalised sorrow, requires deep abiding patience. Situated in transpersonal or spiritual space, the story suggests how Indigenous narrative crosses thresholds between reality and fiction. These are united in an “ontopoetics” of soul, a uniquely postmodern Indigenous sensibility that is also nothing terribly new. The story of Shie

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Bickford III, John H., and Katherine A. Silva. "Trade Books’ Historical Representation of Anne Sullivan Macy, The Miracle Worker." Social Studies Research and Practice 11, no. 1 (2016): 56–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-01-2016-b0004.

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State and national initiatives provide teachers opportunities for interdisciplinary units with increased significance of non-fiction in English Language Arts and decreased reliance on the textbook in history and social studies. In these three disciplines, beginning in elementary school, students are expected to scrutinize multiple trade books of the same event, era, or person to construct understandings. Trade books are a logical curricular link between these three curricula. The initiatives, however, do not prescribe specific curricular materials; teachers rely on their own discretion when se

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Leane, Elizabeth, Charne Lavery, and Meredith Nash. "“The Only Almost Germ-Free Continent Left”." Environmental Humanities 15, no. 1 (2023): 109–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10216184.

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Abstract This article examines the role of pandemics and viruses in cultural perceptions of Antarctica over the past century. In the popular imagination, Antarctica has often been framed as a place of purity, refuge, and isolation. In a series of fiction and screen texts from the nineteenth century to the present, viruses feature prominently. The texts fall into two categories: narratives in which Antarctica is the sole source of safety in a pandemic-ravaged world and those in which a virus (or another form of contagion) is discovered within the continent itself and needs to be contained. Viru

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Rogers, Richard. "Do you want to go for a ride on the chunnel? The British public understandings of the Channel Tunnel meet the Eurotunnel Exhibition Centre." Public Understanding of Science 4, no. 4 (1995): 363–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0963-6625/4/4/003.

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As readers of British newspapers know very well, the Channel Tunnel has a long history and a potent mythology. The mere mention of the Tunnel summons associations extending from the technological and ecological to the patriotic and erotic. This paper takes up the historical and contemporary meanings of the Channel Tunnel and situates them in the context of its perceived `social threat'. Drawing on a variety of materials, including newspaper articles, cartoons, plays, fiction and museum displays, the paper deals with four types of ominous fears of the Tunnel: fear of (subterranean) invasion; fe

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Sass, Cara, Claire Surr, and Lorena Lozano-Sufrategui. "Expressions of masculine identity through sports-based reminiscence: An ethnographic study with community-dwelling men with dementia." Dementia 20, no. 6 (2021): 2170–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1471301220987386.

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Background Despite increasing numbers of men living in isolation with dementia in the community, uptake of supportive interventions remains low. This may be because of limited availability of activities suited to men’s interests. One organisation reporting higher attendance from men is Sporting Memories, offering inclusive sports-based reminiscence and physical activities for men living with dementia. This study aimed to explore the impact of the Sporting Memories intervention on men living with dementia. Method This study was an ethnography employing techniques of participant observation, inf

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Muhlestein, Daniel. "Marilynne Robinson, Wallace Stevens, and Louis Althusser in the Post/Secular Wilderness: Generosity, Jérémiade, and the Aesthetic Effect." Humanities 9, no. 2 (2020): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9020030.

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In Restless Secularism (2017), Matthew Mutter points out that Wallace Stevens described three related techniques that could be used to attempt to purge secular life of its religious residue: adaptation, substitution, and elimination. Marilynne Robinson pushes back against such secularizing strategies by employing three related techniques of her own: negotiation, grafting, and invitation. She does so to attempt to bridge the gap between religious and humanistic perspectives and—in the process—mounts a spirited defense of religious faith and practice. Robinson uses a fourth technique as well: jé

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Üstün Kaya, Senem, and Ümmühan Bilgin Topçu. "The Abstraction of Reality in Cengiz Da?ci’s Benim Gibi Biri (Someone Like Me)." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 4, no. 1 (2022): 208–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v4i1.822.

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Cengiz Da?c? has been circling around certain facts since his first novels in the 50's and in his many historically unique novels, he attempted to embrace his readers with human adventures, social and individual fractures based on the alienation and isolation of minorities from their own lands and perceivable periods in the shed of clashes and wars. This study aimed at interpreting the aspects of his style in his Benim Gibi Biri (Someone like Me) and presenting the differentiation of the work from its predecessors. The main purpose was to detect the concentration in the narration of Da?c?. The

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Norets, Maxim V., and Olga B. Elkan. "Artistic means of representation of sociocultural issues in the works of Thomas Bernhard." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education 1, no. 6 (2021): 121–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.6-21.121.

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The article is devoted to sociocultural issues in the works of Thomas Bernhard, the Austrian writer and the playwright of the twentieth century. Born in 1931, the eyewitnesses of nazi transformations, Thomas was too young to resist them. The period of his personal formation was marked by the drams of a more personal, family character, which, nevertheless, later, the writer will always feel as closely associated with the historical destinies of the country and the world. His own childhood and adolescence, dramatic and traumatic, become for the writer permanent source of dramatic literary plots,

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Isaev, I., S. Zenin, and V. Rumyantseva. "‘Power’ and Technological Machines: Dreams Are Replaced by Goal-Setting." BRICS Law Journal 10, no. 1 (2023): 171–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.21684/2412-2343-2023-10-1-171-185.

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Modern technologies are rapidly changing the customary forms of being and reshaping the activities of social institutions. This transformation is accompanied by a belief in a long period of sustainable progress brought about through the media, the Internet, mobile telecommunication, robotics and artificial intelligence. Previously, science fiction as a literary genre served as an impetus for science and technology, today, the exact opposite is happening, i.e., scientific and technological breakthroughs inspire a variety of fantastic plots. The problem of gaining a scientific understanding of t

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Kryvorouchko, Svitlana, Larysa Rychkova, and Olena Karpenko. "TRENDS LITERATURE OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY: «WORKING NOVEL», MINIMALISM, «NEW WAVE»." Fìlologìčnì traktati 13, no. 1 (2021): 32–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/ftrk.2021.13(1)-4.

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In Ukrainian literary studies, the idea was formed that «Western» literaturethe second half of the 20th century inherent aesthetics of postmodernism. However, the question arises: is this process homogeneous? Branching aesthetics of literary works 2 half of the 20th century is a scientific problem that needs to be understood. This is important because it requires a theoretical basis for the study of individual personalities / writers whose individual style have common points of intersection with general world artistic landmarks. The purpose of the article is to try to form a «system» of direct

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Vereshchinskaya, Yu V., and E. S. Syschikova. "Punctuation as a tool of the communicative and semantic organization of the text: norm and usus (on the material of the Spanish language)." Linguistics & Polyglot Studies 9, no. 4 (2023): 8–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2023-4-37-8-25.

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The article is devoted to the study of Spanish punctuation from the point of view of its role in the communicative and semantic organization of the text. The setting of certain punctuation marks or their absence always raises questions among students of the Spanish language, and therefore requires in-depth scientific research and clarification. The article studies the punctuation rules established by the Royal Spanish Academy, and deviations from them, which may be associated with the prosodic tradition of the language, the presence of secondary members, genre originality, the influence of the

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Alonso, Mariângela. "Do alto ao baixo: o Rio de Janeiro em A estrela sobe, de Marques Rebelo / From the Upper to the Lower City: Rio de Janeiro in A estrela sobe, by Marques Rebelo." O Eixo e a Roda: Revista de Literatura Brasileira 28, no. 3 (2019): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2358-9787.28.3.163-182.

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Resumo: O presente artigo tem por objetivo discutir a importância do espaço no romance A estrela sobe (1939), de Marques Rebelo. A trama dedica-se a um curioso painel dos últimos anos da década de trinta, ao mesmo tempo em que elabora o singular embate entre a cidade do Rio de Janeiro e a personagem Leniza Máier, jovem aspirante à carreira de cantora de rádio. Na trajetória de Leniza, a cidade evidencia-se como espaço de descontinuidade e cisão, observação e discurso. A narrativa de A estrela sobe lança mão de múltiplas significações que vão além da simples esfera descritiva, pois mapeia sensi

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Latu, Maxim. "Mass Self-Isolation and the Imaginary World of the Future: Visions and Time Spans Reflected in Memes." Balkanistic Forum 30, no. 2 (2021): 212–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v30i2.13.

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The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic as well as the restrictions and measures that were taken to fight it had a great effect on the society. Thus, a lot of memes were created the authors of which frequently related their visions and ideas about mass self-isolation to a particular time span within and after this period. This paper focuses on such polycode texts and considers the ideas and visions that are expressed in them. As the results of the research demonstrate, the image of the world during and after the mass self-isolation period depicted in memes is often opposed to the familiar rea

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Ehriander, Helene, and Michael Godhe. "Youth solving pandemics: hopeful futures in Maths Claesson’s novel Pandemic." Neohelicon 48, no. 2 (2021): 465–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11059-021-00608-8.

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AbstractAre representations of pandemics in fiction always bleak dystopian tales understood as nature’s revenge on the modern Faustian man, or could they also express hope and expand our imagination in a time of environmental crisis? In this article, we analyse the young adult novel Pandemic (Swedish title: Pandemi, 2018) by Swedish author Maths Claesson. Pandemic is the third novel in a trilogy (2013–2018) with 15-year-old astronaut-trainee Linux as the main protagonist. During his astronaut program on a space station, a pandemic breaks out on Earth. While scientists on Earth struggle to isol

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Van Vleet, Bryce, Emily Kinkade, Heather Fuller, and Andrea Huseth-Zosel. "LACKING FAMILY TIES DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC: OLDER ADULTS CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (2022): 829. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2977.

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Abstract Social support from family provided benefits for coping during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, not all older adults had access to family. The present study investigates how older adults without access to traditional family ties conceptualized their social relationships throughout the first two years of the pandemic. A subsample of eight older adults without direct access to traditional family ties were identified from a larger 5-wave interview study conducted between April 2020 and June 2022. Transcripts were holistically coded and three overarching themes emerged: constraints of plac

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Kucała, Bożena. "On Edge: Liminality and the COVID Pandemic in Sarah Moss’s The Fell." Studia Litteraria 18, no. 2 (2023): 103–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843933st.23.012.18182.

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Sarah Moss’s novel The Fell (2021) is a fictional reflection upon the second UK lockdown in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to its topicality, the novel is likely to be read as a “time capsule,” preserving the unprecedented experience of social isolation, anxiety and domestic incarceration. Starting with the assumption that living in a time of pestilence may be characterised as a borderline experience, this article argues that The Fell revolves around the paradigm of liminality. For the characters portrayed in the book the threshold is social, psychological and existential. Nevertheless

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Brincker, Maria. "Disoriented and Alone in the “Experience Machine” – On Netflix, Shared World Deceptions and the Consequences of Deepening Algorithmic Personalization." SATS 22, no. 1 (2021): 75–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sats-2021-0005.

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Abstract Most online platforms are becoming increasingly algorithmically personalized. The question is if these practices are simply satisfying users preferences or if something is lost in this process. This article focuses on how to reconcile the personalization with the importance of being able to share cultural objects – including fiction – with others. In analyzing two concrete personalization examples from the streaming giant Netflix, several tendencies are observed. One is to isolate users and sometimes entirely eliminate shared world aspects. Another tendency is to blur the boundary bet

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Jesson, Claire. "‘We shall really have to do something about your equipment’: The Projectionist's Negotiation of Obsolescence in The Smallest Show on Earth and Coming Up Roses." Journal of British Cinema and Television 15, no. 1 (2018): 115–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0405.

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This article analyses two British film comedies, The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) and the Welsh-language film Coming Up Roses (Rhosyn a Rhith) (1986), both of which feature projectionists as significant characters. It focuses on the implications of the projectionist as a hero within the narratives, on his portrayal and on the dramatisation of his labour. I examine the paradox of his inhabiting a central narrative role when his professional one requires his isolation and invisibility, when his own attention is funnelled towards the on-screen diegesis he is concerned to project and, moreover, w

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Gusarova, K. O. "Fantasies of being somebody: Auto / biographic potential of posing conventions." Shagi / Steps 9, no. 4 (2023): 268–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-4-268-285.

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The article examines the tension between the individual and the collective in current mainstream photographic practice, which is considered within the long-term historical context of commercial portraiture. The individualizing tendencies of this representational tradition as well as its status as (auto)biographical fiction were astutely analyzed by the Russian avant-garde thinkers Alexander Rodchenko and Osip Brik. Criticizing the persistence of “painterly” clichés in studio photography of their time, they saw these conventional elements as something that obscures and distorts reality, substit

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Rice, Alan J. "Jazzing It Up A Storm: The Execution and Meaning of Toni Morrison's Jazzy Prose Style." Journal of American Studies 28, no. 3 (1994): 423–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875800027663.

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The publication of Toni Morrison's new novel Jazz with its insistent jazzy themes and rhythms will have concentrated the minds of critics on the relationship of her work to America's most important indigenous artistic form, jazz music. However, in their headlong rush to foreground the impact of jazz on Toni Morrison's latest novel critics should be wary of isolating this novel as her only jazz-influenced work. All of her novels have been informed by the rhythms and cadences of a black musical tradition and in this article I want to stress the centrality of jazz music stylistically to her whole

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Samoshchuk, Oksana. "FRANZ KAFKA: PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE WRITER'S OEUVRE." PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL 6, no. 10 (2020): 119–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.31108/1.2020.6.10.12.

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The article presents the results of research on Franz Kafka's personality and oeuvre. The influence of cultural and historical factors on the development of the writer's personality was examined. The period and place of Kafka's residence had signs of social instability and conflict, including such events as the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, the analysis based on autobiographical facts showed that the writer had seemingly a low level of interest in global historical events, and, therefore, the latter had insignificant influence on Kafka’s writing. The

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Fokaidis, Athena. "Voice-over and sharing bodies in Alice Diop’s Vers la tendresse (2016)." Contemporary French Civilization: Volume 47, Issue 1 47, no. 1 (2022): 109–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2022.6.

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Films in French have long been global in scope, and debates around the nomenclature used to describe these cinematic works have emerged as a means to acknowledge the power imbalance invoked by categorizations such as French and francophone. Cinéma-monde serves as an organizing principle to articulate the relationships between films and the French-speaking world without reinforcing spatial and linguistic boundaries by way of a center/periphery paradigm. This article addresses the implications of the cinéma-monde framework within the Hexagon to illustrate the representational modes of diffusing

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Iannarone, Antonio. "When Not Communicating. The Critical Potential of the Literary Text and the Limits of Interpretation." Journal of Literary Theory 14, no. 1 (2020): 55–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2020-0004.

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AbstractToday, as announced by this special issue, the contest of interpretation against aesthetic experience appears urgent and timely. For surely a critical profession should clarify its sense of how to proceed before actually engaging to do so. But how are we to have any such sense in advance of an encounter with the literary text, ostensible object of the discipline? I argue that it is only within the limits of critique, as met with in the objectivity of the artwork, that we might be confident of our interpretations.To paraphrase Hegel, literary interpretation misses an advantage enjoyed b

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Carney, Gemma M., Jane Lugea, Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla, and Paula Devine. "‘Sometimers, Alzheimer’s? I love that! That’s definitely me’: Readers’ responses to fictional dementia narratives." Gerontologist, May 12, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad055.

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Abstract This article presents findings from an interdisciplinary project which invited readers to experience the impact of dementia via fictional characters’ narratives. Combining methods from critical gerontology and literary linguistics - a field that examines the language of literature - we undertook an empirical reader response study of dementia fiction. We constructed a large corpus of dementia fiction; selecting twelve extracts, each containing first-hand, focalized accounts of fictional characters’ experiences of living with dementia. Readers (31) were purposively sampled for four sepa

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Tuna Ultav, Zeynep, and Müge Sever. "Interdisciplinary Nature of Architectural Discourse within the Triangle of Architecture, Sociology and Literary Fiction." Space and Culture, March 14, 2020, 120633122090526. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331220905260.

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With the supposition that architectural discourse has an interdisciplinary nature, this study aims to display the way literary fiction borrows several themes from architectural discourse in order to form its “literary spaces” as well as the way architectural discourse borrows several themes from other social sciences, especially from sociology. Thus, new wave science fiction writer J.G. Ballard’s literature provides a fruitful resource for the construction of this study. It will be demonstrated that spatial data within the five selected works of Ballard exist in a similar way within architectu

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Wagner, Tamara S. "Becoming Foreign in the Victorian Novel: International Migration in Little Dorrit and Villette." Journal of Victorian Culture, October 27, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcaa034.

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Abstract This article analyses the representation of migrant workers in Victorian fiction. While exploring the seldom-discussed experience of such migrants, I argue that in the fiction of the time, migration for work outside of the empire expresses the experience of individual isolation as the result of increasing urban anonymity as well as of global exchanges. The figure of the migrant thereby literalizes modern isolation in an emergent society of strangers. In depicting migratory characters as embodiments of loneliness, while establishing it as a shared experience through parallel plots, nin

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"Repression, Isolation, and Paranoia: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Study of ‘The Nightmare’ by Rukhsana Ahmad." University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.33195/jll.v1ii.26.

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Generally, literature written by Pakistani women writers in English depicts women as victims of patriarchy, social and cultural oppression. Meanwhile, in recent times the short fiction is exploring new paradigms related to the psychological oppression of married women in Pakistan. The following paper selects the short story, ‘The Nightmare’ by Pakistani writer, Rukhsana Ahmad, where a housewife suffers from paranoia because of disconsolate marriage. Therefore, this research aims to study the causes of psychological disorders specifically paranoia among apparently happy housewives. Moreover, th

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"Repression, Isolation, and Paranoia: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Study of ‘The Nightmare’ by Rukhsana Ahmad." University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.33195/jll.v1ii.26.

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Generally, literature written by Pakistani women writers in English depicts women as victims of patriarchy, social and cultural oppression. Meanwhile, in recent times the short fiction is exploring new paradigms related to the psychological oppression of married women in Pakistan. The following paper selects the short story, ‘The Nightmare’ by Pakistani writer, Rukhsana Ahmad, where a housewife suffers from paranoia because of disconsolate marriage. Therefore, this research aims to study the causes of psychological disorders specifically paranoia among apparently happy housewives. Moreover, th

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Vallis, CJ. "Heaven on Earth." PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 17, no. 1-2 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/pjmis.v17i1-2.7411.

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‘Heaven on earth’ is a creative non-fiction piece which juxtaposes life under lockdown in Sydney 2020 with my experience of curfew in Kashmir in the 1990s. The COVID-19 crisis is explored from the resonances and dissonances across place and time. In this hybrid personal essay, I reflect on how a sense of space is constructed from wealth and community, and how a white, middle-class status benefits from lockdown, juxtaposed against the ongoing political and social isolation of Kashmir.

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"Repression, Isolation and Paranoia: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Study of ‘The Nightmare’ by Rukhsana Ahmad." University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, November 30, 2018, 47–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.33195/jll.v1ii.149.

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Generally, literature written by Pakistani women writers in English depicts women as victims of patriarchy, social and cultural oppression. Meanwhile, in recent times the short fiction is exploring new paradigms related to the psychological oppression of married women in Pakistan. The following paper selects the short story, ‘The Nightmare’ by Pakistani writer, Rukhsana Ahmad, where a housewife suffers from paranoia because of disconsolate marriage. Therefore, this research aims to study the causes of psychological disorders specifically paranoia among apparently happy housewives. Moreover, th

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Fürst, Henrik. "Arrival to a fictional total institution." Sociologisk Forskning 59, no. 3 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.37062/sf.59.23571.

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Arrivals have an unexplored significance as a phenomenon in sociology. This article studies depictions of arrivals to art education courses at Swedish folk high schools in fiction. These arrivals are liminal transitions between two states, warranting personal change, either being the solution to a previous problem or creating a problem (to be solved). Many spaces in society have lost their status as total institutions physically and symbolically detached from the rest of society. The rarity of and desire for totalizing milieus create possibilities for self-exploration and self-development in c

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KIRYAMAN, Erkin. "DORIS LESSING’İN THE FIFTH CHILD VE BEN, IN THE WORLD ADLI ESERLERİNDE İTAATSİZ BEDEN VE DÜZEN MEKANİZMALARI." Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute, February 26, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.1336327.

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Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child (1988) and Ben, in the World (2000) narrate the tragic story of Ben Lovatt who is identified as the anomalous fifth child in the Lovatt family. Set in London in the 1960s, with its focalisation on Ben’s early childhood, from his mother’s pregnancy to his confinement into his cot after his birth, The Fifth Child navigates through the ideological construction of Ben’s self through power and isolation. Ben, in the World, on the other hand, maintains Ben’s story from his eighteenth year and presents his strife for survival in a social world in which he is forced to

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