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Host, Kaare B. "Truth as Strange as Fiction." Science News 155, no. 17 (1999): 259. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4011356.

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Segal, E. "Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction." Poetics Today 33, no. 3-4 (2012): 495–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03335372-1812189.

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Watson, Ash. "The familiar strange of sociological fiction." Sociological Review 70, no. 4 (2022): 723–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261221109031.

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Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude makes the magical and strange feel familiar, and short stories from Fiction @ The Sociological Review inversely make the familiar feel strange. I consider this ability to make the familiar strange as a key part of having a sociological sense of the world: as an ability to disturb what seems fixed and settled in society, and unmake any given set of social relations as the only and natural way of life. I conceptualise the crafting of this sense in fiction as a process of distillation. When writing sociological fiction, we distil our discipli

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Hills, Matt. "Counterfictions in the Work of Kim Newman: Rewriting Gothic SF as “Alternate-Story Stories”." Science Fiction Studies 30, Part 3 (2003): 436–55. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.30.3.0436.

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This essay considers how possible worlds theory has been applied to science fiction, arguing that such an approach has tended to obscure issues of intertextuality within science fiction’s diegetic world-building. Rather than addressing sf’s alternative histories as “counterfactuals,” it is suggested that “counterfictionality” may also be significant. This is defined as the process through which new texts borrow from, combine, and rework the narrative worlds of existent fictions in order to pay homage to, but also comment on, originating classics in the genre’s cultural history. Taking the work

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Dwivedi, Vaibhav. "Strange Encounters: The Liberating Capacity of Death in Stranger Than Fiction." Journal Global Values 14, no. 2 (2023): 274–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.31995/jgv.2023.v14i01.032.

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Ababina, N. V. "STRANGE ATTRACTOR DISCOURSE IN SCIENCE FICTION." "Scientific notes of V. I. Vernadsky Taurida National University", Series: "Philology. Journalism" 2, no. 1 (2025): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.32782/2710-4656/2025.1.2/01.

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Collen, Lindsey. "The rape of fiction." Index on Censorship 23, no. 4-5 (1994): 210–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064229408535767.

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On 7 December 1993, four days after The Rape of Sita was published in Mauritius, it was plunged into a strange limbo: driven from circulation by Hindu fundamentalists, banned by the government, and temporarily withdrawn by me and my publishers

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Całek, Anita. "Fantastyczne biblioteki widmowe. Od fikcyjnych książek do pozatekstowych artefaktów." Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo, no. 8(11) cz.2 (June 30, 2019): 139–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.32798/pflit.73.

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The article tackles the problem of fictional (constructed) literature termed by Paweł Dunin-Wąsowicz ‘spectral’. Reading through Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s The Club Dumas, Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell, and J.K. Rowling’s three works alluding to the Harry Potter cycle, the author proceeds with describing a tendency observed in postmodern fiction, namely, (1) creating fictional artefacts transgressing the borders of fictional world, and (2) constructing libraries within this very world which collect fictional texts imitating the factual ones.

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Cesereanu, Ruxandra. "The Atlas of Globalizing Fiction." Caietele Echinox 38 (June 30, 2020): 131–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2020.38.10.

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David Mitchell has written a famous novel about how to make a (geographically fragmented) novel out of fragments: the six life stories included in Cloud Atlas are implicit fictional networks, simultaneously concealed and laid bare. The novel offers ample room for six nested histories and their divergent styles; the result is a strange and rather ostentatious book, shaped like a ziggurat, and providing an almost didactic initiation into matters of style. In fact, David Mitchell offers an atlas of the globalization of fiction. The spaces and times of Cloud Atlas engender not only polytopy and po

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Thomas, Sue. "‘Strange Growths’?: Jean Rhys’s Second World War Material." Modernist Cultures 18, no. 1 (2023): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2023.0384.

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Jean Rhys’s stories ‘Temps Perdi’ (1967), ‘I Spy the Stranger’ (1966), ‘A Solid House,’ (1963), and ‘The Insect World’ (1973) do not figure in current scholarship on Second World War fiction. Versions of the first three were offered for publication in 1946. Rhys began writing ‘The Insect World’ in the mid-1940s. Rhys’s perspective in the fiction is that of an expatriate white Creole from Dominica, an island with formative Indigenous and French and British imperial histories. Focusing on ‘The Insect World’, ‘I Spy a Stranger’, and ‘Temps Perdi’, I analyse Rhys’s representations of temporalities

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Archibald, Samuel. "Vraie fiction et faux documents." Protée 39, no. 1 (2011): 77–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1006729ar.

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L’objectif de cet article est d’opérer une lecture au-dedans et au-dehors de la fiction mise en place par le cinéaste Brian Flemming dans son documentaire Nothing So Strange (GMD Studios, 2002), ainsi que dans les documents d’archive et les artéfacts web produits en son sillage. L’univers Nothing So Strange s’attache à décrire l’un des événements historiques les plus importants à n’avoir pas eu lieu au xxe siècle : l’assassinat du président de Microsoft Bill Gates. Nous tenterons de voir comment une grande oeuvre participative (au sens de Jenkins) s’est développée à partir du film de Flemming,

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Langkjær, Birger. "Sounds for a strange funeral." Short Film Studies 3, no. 2 (2013): 135–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/sfs.3.2.135_1.

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Cat’s Cradle metaphorically stages the image schema ‘death as a path’. It is argued that the strangeness of the fiction, its ritualistic surrealism, is enhanced by its soundtrack, which downplays the natural link between human action and environment. Instead, the sound seems to emphasize more abstract and thematic aspects.

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Clyde, William C. "Strange Old World - Late Paleocene—Early Eocene Climatic and Biotic Events in the Marine and Terrestrial Record. Edited by Marie-Pierre Aubry, Spencer Lucas, and William Berggren Columbia University Press, New York. 1998. 513 pages." Paleobiology 25, no. 3 (1999): 417–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0094837300021370.

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In his 1932 book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley laid out a satirical blueprint of a future so strange to people of the time that it became a symbol of the frightening and unyielding momentum of scientific progress. Literature and popular culture have since been littered with images of a future earth so transformed by human progress (or extraterrestrial intervention) that we can hardly recognize it. Earth historians and paleontologists, however, have taken a different path into the bizarre. This group of time travelers has used the kind of technology that Huxley foreshadowed to recreate past wo

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Quint, David. "The Strange and the Familiar in the Thousand and One Nights." Comparative Literature 73, no. 1 (2021): 110–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-8738906.

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Abstract This analysis of the structure and meaning of The Tale of the Hunchback, the most novelistic of the tales of the Thousand and One Nights, shows how the Nights stages the relationship of reader to fiction (the fictitious lives of others) as a power relationship and in terms of distance and familiarity. Through its juxtaposition of stories, the tale anatomizes fortunate and unfortunate human lives; it dramatizes the latter through the practical joke. The tale and its storyteller, Shahrazad, try to teach brotherhood and compassion for human weakness to a reader figured as an all-powerful

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Healey, Cara. "Gender and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction." Prism 21, no. 2 (2024): 368–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-11825615.

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Abstract Chinese science fiction's growing popularity and integration into an increasingly diverse global science fiction field have sparked discussion of the genre's approach to gendered subjectivity. This article explores the intersections of gender and genre in Chinese science fiction on both textual and extratextual levels. The author argues that Hao Jingfang's 郝景芳 “Beijing zhedie” 北京折疊 (Folding Beijing) and Xia Jia's 夏笳 “Baigui yexing jie” 百鬼夜行街 (One Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight) combine, subvert, and reinterpret tropes of premodern Chinese literary genres like caizi jiaren 才子佳人 (scholar

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Franzén, Nils. "A Sensibilist Explanation of Imaginative Resistance." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 51, no. 3 (2021): 159–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/can.2021.10.

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AbstractThis article discusses why it is the case that we refuse to accept strange evaluative claims as being true in fictions, even though we are happy to go along with other types of absurdities in such contexts. For instance, we would refuse to accept the following statement as true, even in the context of a fiction: (i) In killing her baby, Giselda did the right thing; after all, it was a girl.This article offers a sensibilist diagnosis of this puzzle, inspired by an observation first made by David Hume. According to sensibilism, the way we feel about things settles their evaluative proper

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Caracciolo, Marco. "Strange birds and uncertain futures in Anthropocene fiction." Green Letters 24, no. 2 (2020): 125–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2020.1771608.

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Sharp, Sabine Ruth. "Salt Fish Girl and “Hopeful Monsters”: Using Monstrous Reproduction to Disrupt Science Fiction’s Colonial Fantasies." Contemporary Women's Writing 13, no. 2 (2019): 222–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpz022.

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Abstract The revival of the Frankenstein origin myth has left science fiction’s relationship to colonialism undertheorized. More recent creative interventions have, however, challenged the genre’s colonialist legacy: two works that achieve this are Larissa Lai’s novel Salt Fish Girl (2002) and Hiromi Goto’s short story “Hopeful Monsters” (2004). Using different forms of unruly reproduction—strange births, recurring histories, and eclectic intertextuality—these texts unravel the tangled histories of science fiction and colonialism. Using tropes of repetition and mutation, Lai and Goto trace not

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Jolivet, Jean-Christophe. "From Socrates to Briseis: Homeric Problems and Epistolary Fiction in Heroides 3." Illinois Classical Studies 46, no. 1-2 (2021): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.07.

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Abstract This paper aims to investigate the epistolary fiction in Heroides 3 in the light of ancient Homeric scholarship.1 The study of the Iliadic intertext should allow us to propose a hypothesis to identify the character who inspired Briseis's letter. By focusing on both Ulysses's strange attitude in Iliad 9 and Briseis's strange ignorance in Heroides 3, it tends to propose a new interpretation of the epistolary mode.

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Kline, David G. "Silas Weir Mitchell and “The Strange Case of George Dedlow”." Neurosurgical Focus 41, no. 1 (2016): E5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/2016.4.focus1573.

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It has been said of Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) that as a young man he was first among the physiologists of his day, in middle age first among physicians, and as an older man, one of the most noted novelists of his country. Mitchell's novels were written in his later life as a means to avoid boredom during lengthy summer vacations that were the norm for that time among the affluent members of Philadelphia society. These novels were criticized by some because of poor plots, which in some instances failed to move along, or for text that offered a stereotyped depiction of genteel society and

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Hollington, Michael. "“Why do you write what isn’t true?”: Dostoevsky and the Fantastic Paradox." Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, no. 3 (May 1, 2011): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/syn.16918.

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In this paper, my starting point will be Philip Roth’s famous essay “Writing American Fiction,” in which he complains about the difficulty of writing novels in a country “where the actuality is constantly outdoing our talents.” I shall contend that this perception is not a new one, nor does it apply to American reality alone, and trace it back through a series of writers commenting on the difficulty of writing novels in the face of contemporary reality to its origins in Byron’s Don Juan: “For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.” I shall argue that the aesthetics of “romantic realis

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Masson, Sophie. "No Traveller Returns: The Liminal World as Ordeal and Quest in Contemporary Young Adult Afterlife Fiction." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 26, no. 1 (2018): 60–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2018vol26no1art1090.

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In recent years, fiction specifically set in or about the afterlife has become a popular, critically acclaimed subgenre within contemporary fiction for young adults. One of the distinguishing aspects of young adult afterlife fiction is its detailed portrayal of an alien afterworld in which characters find themselves. Whilst reminiscent of the world-building of high or quest fantasy, afterworlds in young adult afterlife fiction have a distinctively different quality, and that is an emphasis on liminality. Afterlife landscapes exhibit many strange, treacherous qualities. They are never quite wha

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Aldeguer Pardo, Laura. "European Migrants as "Strange" Figures in Ali Smith's Atumn." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 68 (December 19, 2023): 185–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237443.

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This article examines the representation of the European protagonist in Autumn by Ali Smith from a gender, intersectional and cultural studies perspective. The novel is a pioneering work in Brexlit, an emergent literary movement which aims to reflect the current political and social landscape of the United Kingdom after the 2016 European Union referendum. Firstly, this article offers an overview of the political, social and literary phenomenon of Brexlit, followed by an outline of Sara Ahmed’s theorisation of the sociological concept of the stranger. Secondly, the article further contextualise

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Shaw, Debra Benita. "Strange zones: Science fiction, fantasy and the posthuman city." City 17, no. 6 (2013): 778–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2013.849132.

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Wagar, W. Warren. "Truth and Fiction, Equally Strange: Writing About the Bomb." American Literary History 1, no. 2 (1989): 448–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/1.2.448.

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Rajadurai, R., A. Arul, and J. Vignesious Stanley. "Rage: Stephen King’s Strange Fiction becomes a Grim Reality." Shanlax International Journal of English 12, no. 2 (2024): 39–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v12i2.7188.

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In this study, a critical analysis of one of Stephen King’s most well-known novels, Rage, is taken into consideration. A psychological thriller is what you will find in Rage. There is a school shooting depicted in the novel that is based on actual incidents that took place in secondary schools throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. The psychology of school children and the conditions in which they find themselves are also discussed in this essay. The plot revolves around a troubled high school student who struggles with issues of authority and who commits murder against one of his teachers

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Powell, Gareth L. "Restarting Civilisation." Engineer 302, no. 7945 (2023): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/s0013-7758(23)90965-7.

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With the recent popularity of shows such as The Walking Dead and The Last of Us, our resident science fiction author, Gareth L. Powell, asks what roles there will be for engineers in such a strange and dangerous new world.

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Berthelier, Benoît. "Encountering the Alien: Alterity and Innovation in North Korean Science Fiction since 1945." Journal of Korean Studies 23, no. 2 (2018): 369–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/21581665-6973369.

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Abstract From the translations of Soviet sci-fi and biographies of foreign scientists published in popular science magazines after liberation, to the exotic settings and strange technologies of contemporary novels, the history of science fiction in North Korea is marked by an engagement with the strange, the foreign, and the novel. Retracing the history of the genre from 1945 to the present time, this essay attempts to understand how North Korean science fiction has managed its constitutive alterity. In so doing, it explores tales of space travel fused with socialist realist production novels,

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Morris, Tim. "Strange Nationalisms in Kate Seredy’s Hungarian Novels." Lion and the Unicorn 48, no. 1 (2024): 62–76. https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2024.a957950.

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Abstract: Kate Seredy’s novels from the 1930s and 1940s— The Good Master , The White Stag , The Singing Tree , and The Chestry Oak —are now obscure but remain in print thanks to Newbery honors garnered when they were published. Seredy’s fiction also offers a curious brew of ideologies, including nationalisms both American and Hungarian, monarchism, aristocratic values, and uneasily framed multiculturalism. This article reassesses Seredy’s work in the context of both its internal tensions and its continuing relevance in the twenty-first century, as Hungary remains an iconic reference point for

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de Paor-Evans, Adam. "The Futurism of Hip Hop: Space, Electro and Science Fiction in Rap." Open Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (2018): 122–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0012.

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Abstract In the early 1980s, an important facet of hip hop culture developed a style of music known as electro-rap, much of which carries narratives linked to science fiction, fantasy and references to arcade games and comic books. The aim of this article is to build a critical inquiry into the cultural and sociopolitical presence of these ideas as drivers for the productions of electro-rap, and subsequently through artists from Newcleus to Strange U seeks to interrogate the value of science fiction from the 1980s to the 2000s, evaluating the validity of science fiction’s place in the future o

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Disney, Dan. "‘She would probably envy herself, from outside’: Auto-fictional narrations in Alice Munro’s ‘Fiction’." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 13, no. 1 (2023): 67–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00074_1.

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In one of Alice Munro’s longer stories, the metafictional ‘Fiction’, readers encounter a series of contingent narratives in which characters exert explicit, self-constructing expressive labours. The text is split into two sections: in the first, the protagonist Joyce is betrayed by her husband, Jon and her life momentarily falls to pieces. In the second section, decades later, Joyce is remarried, surrounded by friends and family, her life replenished and thriving. A gamut of fictions suffuses this text, as if Munro’s scenes are case studies delivering heuristic knowledge and Joyce’s self-narra

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Klepuszewski, Wojciech. "“Addiction is a strange bastard”: Alcohol(ism) in Irish Fiction." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica 61, no. 2 (2021): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.61.02.

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Although it is hard to challenge the claim that alcohol can be considered inherent in Irish culture, the common perception of the fact often feeds on clichés. What helps understand this question is Irish literature. On the one hand, it portrays jubilant festivity to be found in many literary works; on the other, it renders the drama behind alcohol dependency, shifting the focus from joviality towards the more murky aspects of drink consumption, mostly thematised in contemporary literature. This article takes a closer look at how Irish literature renders alcohol use and abuse, and how the liter

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Martínez, Edgardo Rivera, John Verbick, and Grady C. Wray. "A Strange & Marvelous Land: Peruvian Crossroads in My Fiction." World Literature Today 80, no. 1 (2006): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40159023.

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Spill, Frédérique. "Something Rich and Strange (2014): Ron Rash’s short fiction poetics." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 7, no. 1 (2017): 23–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict.7.1.23_1.

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Gormley, Paul. "TRASHING WHITENESS: Pulp fiction, se7en, strange days, and articulating affect." Angelaki 6, no. 1 (2001): 155–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09697250120056837.

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Nguyen, Tien Thi Kim. "The type of structure based on music in Milan Kundera’s Immortality novel." Science and Technology Development Journal 17, no. 3 (2014): 63–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v17i3.1443.

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Milan Kundera's Immortality is linked to a type of art and music – a completely extraordinary and strange structure in terms of fiction art, which makes the works more poetic, delicate and lithesome in conveying an art message of great significance. It's “modern disillusion” which man finally find from deep down in himself .

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Mishra, Sunil Kumar, Parul Mishra, and J. K. Sharma. "Elements of Horror, Grotesque Bodies, and the Fragmentation of Identity in Mark Shelley’s Frankenstein." International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 3, no. 2 (2023): 10–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijllc.3.2.3.

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Gothic books emphasise the occult and the strange. Old buildings (especially castles or apartments with secret passageways), dungeons, or towers serve as the backdrop for the enigmatic events in Gothic literature. Obviously, ghost stories are a well-known form of Gothic fiction. In addition, distant locales that appear strange to the reader serve as part of the setting of a Gothic tale. Even the idea of resurrecting the dead is horrifying. Mark Shelley makes full use of this literary trick to heighten the eerie sentiments generated by Frankenstein in the reader. The idea of resurrecting the de

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Wang, Shengyu. "Anatomy of the Superstitious Mind: Subjectivity and Interiority in Two Early Twentieth-Century Rebuttals to Liaozhai's Records of the Strange." Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 24, no. 1 (2024): 57–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11056759.

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Abstract Focusing on the issue of psychological portrayal, this essay examines two early twentieth-century rebuttals of Liaozhai's Records of the Strange published in newly founded Chinese fiction magazines. Although the two rebuttals lend themselves easily to a didactic interpretation, the essay argues that their demystification of the supernatural is equally in service of literary representation of individualized subjectivity endowed with interiority. Besides aligning itself with the ongoing efforts to recover alternative forms of modernity repressed by the May Fourth discourse, this essay e

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Robinson, Michelle. "The Indispensable (and Strangely Disposable) Corpse in Early Parodies of Detective Fiction." Genre 55, no. 3 (2022): 179–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00166928-10146738.

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This essay argues that by studying parodies of detective fiction from the turn of the twentieth century, one can envision a more complete history of the detective genre's development and the alternate paths it might have pursued. Mark Twain's A Double-Barrelled Detective Story (1902), Melville Davisson Post's The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason (1896), and Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne's The Wrong Box (1889) instruct the reader to regard detective fiction as a genre about the production of the corpse and the transnational economic systems that generated it, rather than the ratioc

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Maggi, Simona. "The Strange Case of Teaching English Through the Gothic Novel." Grove - Working Papers on English Studies 26 (October 24, 2019): 103–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.17561/grove.v26.a6.

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In this article I endeavour to encourage teachers of Secondary Education to use English literature in their English language lessons. Indeed, literature provides a huge amount of authentic reading materials, making the students practise extensive as well as intensive reading, which is crucial for the foreign language acquisition. Moreover, it is an enormous source of motivation, allowing students to give free rein to their imagination and enjoy their English lessons. The election of gothic fiction is linked to this latter purpose: the 19th gothic genre is generally well accepted by adolescents

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Chen, Ting-fu. "Illuminating Obscurity: The Youming Lu and the Optical Dynamic in Early Medieval Chinese Gothic." Gothic Studies 26, no. 1 (2024): 18–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2024.0183.

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This article reads the Youming lu ( Records of the Hidden and Visible Realms) as an epitome of the central tension in the tradition of ‘anomaly accounts’ ( zhiguai) between a desire for order and an openness to uncertainties. By conceptualizing the zhiguai as ‘early medieval Chinese Gothic’, this article attempts to disclose the contemporary significance of a premodern non-Anglo-European genre, as well as unbind the Gothic from cultural or socio-historical determinism. It attends to an ambivalent solicitude for the obscure embedded in the Youming lu’s iconic dynamic of light and darkness to th

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Al-Araj, Anna. "Mystical Experiences in the Fiction of Edward Stachura." Ruch Literacki 57, no. 5 (2016): 565–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ruch-2017-0084.

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Summary This article examines some aspects of the fiction of Edward Stachura, especially those that lend to it an aura of mystery and unreality. It cannot be denied that some kind of mystical experience (usually wrapped up in borderline situations of death or extreme suffering) lies at heart of his novels and short stories, and remains the object of his unflagging explorations. His fascination with the strange and elusive realms of human experiences can be traced back to his debut novel, All the Brilliance (Ca a jaskrawość). It grew more intense each year to reach its climax in 1977–1979, the

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Bijelic, Marijana, and Lucija Mandaric. "SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN SVETOSLAV MINKOV'S SHORT STORIES." Ezikov Svyat volume 21 issue 2, ezs.swu.v21i2 (May 26, 2023): 144–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.bg.v21i2.18.

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This paper analyses the role of the motifs associated with the development of science and new technologies in Svetoslav Minkov’s short stories. The author developed a rather unusual hybrid genre which consists of fantastical, science-fictional, satirical and absurdist elements. In the first phase all the elements (even those typical of science fiction) are merely in the function of representing an estranged, mystical, diabolical world; whereas in the second one, evil is no longer mystified in the form of a strange diabolical presence – now it becomes clear that the main source of the absurd is

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Attebery, Brian. "Frankenstein and the Science of Dreaming." Science Fiction Studies 51, no. 1 (2024): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2024.a920230.

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ABSTRACT: Science fiction claims Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a progenitor on the basis of its extrapolation from speculations by Erasmus Darwin and others about the nature and origins of life. An equally strong narrative thread in the novel about extraordinary states of mind is usually taken as evidence of its grounding in supernatural and gothic fiction. The novel applies the same materialist assumptions and reasoned approach to dreaming, however, that it uses to explore biological science. Reading it in the context, first, of David Hartley's eighteenth-century Observations on Man and, sec

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Carabine, Keith, Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, Peter Edgerly Firchow, and Linda Dryden. "The Strange Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad: Writing, Culture, and Subjectivity." Yearbook of English Studies 32 (2002): 310. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3509102.

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Caine, P. "Marvellous Bodies? Strange Sex(es)? - Fantastic Genre in Recent French Fiction." Forum for Modern Language Studies 44, no. 4 (2008): 427–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqn059.

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HAMILTON, CYNTHIA S. "Strange Birds: Rewriting The Maltese Falcon." Journal of American Studies 47, no. 3 (2013): 699–718. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875812001752.

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Hammett's formative role in establishing the conventions of the hard-boiled detective formula is widely acknowledged, but the formative influence of his masterpiece, The Maltese Falcon, on specific texts by subsequent innovators has remained largely unexplored territory. Both Sara Paretsky and Chester Himes have paid tribute to Hammett's influence, with particular reference to The Maltese Falcon. An examination of Indemnity Only and For the Love of Imabelle in relation to The Maltese Falcon offers a unique perspective on Paretsky's and Himes's stylistic choices and the social perspectives thes

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Langlois, Christopher. "The Voices Unwording the Words in Beckett’s All Strange Away and Fizzles." Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui 30, no. 2 (2018): 266–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757405-03002002.

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Abstract In The Step Not Beyond, Maurice Blanchot suspects that “behind discourse the refusal to discourse speaks, as behind philosophy the refusal to philosophize would speak: speech not speaking, violent, concealing itself, saying nothing and suddenly crying out” (116). One of Blanchot’s concerns in this text is with reaching out to the voices that have been exiled to spaces of invisibility and silence. These voices speak from the outside of language where they are excluded from history and lost to a space beyond words. In view of Blanchot’s insinuation that literature and thought are respon

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Scullion, Val, and Marion Treby. "The Romantic Context of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Fairy Tales, The Golden Pot, The Strange Child and The Nutcracker and the Mouse King." English Language and Literature Studies 10, no. 2 (2020): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v10n2p40.

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As diaries, letters and the intensive intertextuality of his prose fiction show, the German Romantic writer and composer, E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), was an obsessive bibliophile and polymath. The aim of this article is to explore how far three of his literary fairy tales, The Golden Pot: A Modern Fairy Tale (1814), The Strange Child (1816) and The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), use the generic conventions of the fairy tale, and how far they are influenced by his voracious reading, his encyclopaedic knowledge of literature, and his engagement with contemporary debates. We conclude wi

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Butt, Amy. "‘Endless forms, vistas and hues’: why architects should read science fiction." Architectural Research Quarterly 22, no. 2 (2018): 151–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135518000374.

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Most of an architect's life is concerned with that which has not yet taken place, both foreseeing the near future and expressing an intention of how this future world should be remade. However small the intervention, all design proposals are utopian works. With this in mind, this article is a celebration of the utopian potential of reading science fiction (SF); to make the familiar strange, to reveal fears about the future, to confront us with ourselves, and to shape the world we inhabit. It is an unabashed call from an architect and avid SF reader, for architects to raid the bookshelves for t

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