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  1. 121

    We Are Already Ghosts: Reflections on Composition by Kit Dobson

    Published 2025-01-01
    “…He analyzes the novel along at least three axes: first, as a novel that can be classified as a character-driven “summer read”; second, as a work of experimental fiction; and, third, as a text that analyzes and interrogates the spaces that make up the Canadian province of Alberta. …”
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  2. 122

    Moradores de cortiço, capitães da areia e cobradores urbanos: personagens excluídos da construção da ordem nacional by Eliana Kuster

    Published 2013-01-01
    “…We looked support in the Brazilian literature, used in dialogue with scholars who are dealing with the question under historical and social focuses, through works such as O cortiço, by Aluízio Azevedo (1890), Capitães da areia, by Jorge Amado (1937), and the shot story “O cobrador”, by Rubem Fonseca (1979). These fiction works allow us, in specific historical moments, to verify how the matter of social exclusion in the country was handled, and as we had, gradually, an increase of those considered undesirable in the share of the construction of an urban order and of the idea of a nation.…”
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  3. 123

    Zofia Szczupaczyńska wobec wyzwań swoich czasów. Uwagi na marginesie lektury cyklu „krakowskich kryminałów” Maryli Szymiczkowej [właśc. Jacek Dehnel i Piotr Tarczyński] by Adam Mazurkiewicz

    Published 2025-02-01
    “…Among them, there were also considerations that situated the tetralogy against the backdrop of contemporary transformations of the ‘crime and punishment’ story (whether the cycle itself can be considered as representative to crime fiction is a separate issue). Most often, however, the stories about the adventures of the protagonist of the series, Zofia Szczupaczyńska, are situated in the context of nostalgic literature and games taken up by Szymiczkowa. …”
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  4. 124

    Herkules Poirot i marny kryminał. Na marginesie powieści Agathy Christie „Morderstwo w Orient Expressie” (1934) by Anna Gemra

    Published 2025-02-01
    “…In the late 1920s, detective fiction was entering its golden age and already had a huge readership. …”
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  5. 125

    Substitute locations of urban spaces in films shot in Spain: motivations, representations and consequences by Víctor Aertsen, Carlos Manuel Valdés, Antonio Martínez Puche

    Published 2022-12-01
    “… The objective of the present article is to reflect upon the phenomenon of substitute locations in fiction films, with special focus on Spanish cities. …”
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  6. 126

    The Routledge handbook of stylistics /

    Published 2014
    Table of Contents: “…Freeman -- Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics / Olivia Fialho and Sonia Zyngier -- Feminist stylistics / Rocío Montoro -- Literary pragmatics and stylistics / Chantelle Warner -- Corpus stylistics / Michaela Mahlberg -- Stylistics and translation / Jean Boase-Beier -- Critical stylistics / Lesley Jeffries -- Creative writing and stylistics / Jeremy Scott -- Stylistics and real readers / David Peplow and Ronald Carter -- Stylistics and film / Michael Toolan -- Multimodality and stylistics / Nina Nørgaard -- Stylistics and comics / Charles Forceville, Elisabeth El Refaie, and Gert Meesters -- Stylistics and hypertext fiction / Paola Trimarco -- Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience / Patrick Colm Hogan.…”
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  7. 127

    Perception of the filmed urban space: an analysis of the imaginaries of Madrid constructed through series and social networks by Diego Antonio Barrado-Timon, Carmen Hidalgo-Giralt, Antonio Palacios-García, Héctor Ochoa-Ortiz, Miguel Sevilla-Callejo

    Published 2022-12-01
    “…The main results indicate the impacts that fiction series have had on recognition of the city (or certain of its elements) as well as relationships established between the narrative and geographical spaces when the latter are referenced via on-site activities. …”
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  8. 128

    A Review of Isaac Oluwole Delano’s Pioneering Works on Yoruba Grammar, Orthography, Lexicography and Cultural Education. by Toyin Falola, Michael Oladejo Afolayan

    Published 2021-12-01
    “…Tis segment looks at four major non-fiction works of Chief Isaac O. Delano. For the most part, the segment deals with his efforts on Yoruba language, but to some extent, too, it looks at some additional non-language related writings often embedded in his works on language. …”
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  9. 129

    Analysis of the Impact of Using a Gamified App for Spanish Spelling Practice in Primary Education by Esteban Vázquez-Cano, Javier Fombona, María Belén Morales-Cevallos, Eloy López-Meneses

    Published 2025-01-01
    “…The app featured levels of arcade, research, and interactive fiction gameplay, scaling cognitive challenges to enhance learning. …”
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  10. 130

    Advanced methodologies and technologies in government and society /

    Published 2019
    Table of Contents: “…Zykov -- Information science and technology in crisis response and management / Randy Basham -- The foundation of (business) ethics' evolution / Ben Tran -- Integrating sustainability and CSR in the value chain of the information technology sector / Patricia Martínez García de Leaniz, María Elena García Ruiz -- The morality of reporting safety concerns in aviation / Kawtar Tani -- Science, ethics, and weapons research / John Forge -- Computing technologies and science fiction cinema / Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco -- Gender differences in advertising engagement using the case of Facebooks ads / Eva Lahuerta-Otero, Rebeca Cordero-Gutiérrez -- The gender dimension in urban air quality / Theodora Slini, Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou -- How exclusive work climates create barriers for women in IS&T / Katelyn R. …”
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    Advanced methodologies and technologies in government and society /

    Published 2019
    Table of Contents: “…Zykov -- Information science and technology in crisis response and management / Randy Basham -- The foundation of (business) ethics' evolution / Ben Tran -- Integrating sustainability and CSR in the value chain of the information technology sector / Patricia Martínez García de Leaniz, María Elena García Ruiz -- The morality of reporting safety concerns in aviation / Kawtar Tani -- Science, ethics, and weapons research / John Forge -- Computing technologies and science fiction cinema / Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco -- Gender differences in advertising engagement using the case of Facebooks ads / Eva Lahuerta-Otero, Rebeca Cordero-Gutiérrez -- The gender dimension in urban air quality / Theodora Slini, Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou -- How exclusive work climates create barriers for women in IS&T / Katelyn R. …”
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  12. 132

    Constructing Identities: Amos Tutuola and the Ibadan Literary Elite in the wake of Nigerian Independence by Mackenzie Finley

    Published 2021-12-01
    “…Given the chance to speak directly with an Italian audience at Palermo, Tutuola elaborated on the elements of Yoruba culture that saturated his fiction. His lectures reflected the same sense of purpose that drove his writing. …”
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    A Systemic Approach to Inceptive Constructions in Lithuanian by Rolandas Mikulskas

    Published 2023-12-01
    “…The samples for the quantitative analysis were mainly compiled from the fiction register of the Corpus that is in many respects reminiscent of the spoken language. …”
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    Espaços ficcionalizados em Desterro,de Luis S. Krausz: um ensaio em geografia literária by Georg Wink

    Published 2015-01-01
    “…The majority of fictional texts can be localized geographically in terms of scenarioand plot. …”
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    Traumas e travessias: a alteridade ameríndia e as fronteiras simbólicas da nação by Rita Olivieri-Godet

    Published 2012-01-01
    “…Examination of issues related to the processes of extinguishment and retrieval of memory, through fictional texts dealing with both identity negotiations and cross- ings of cultural frontiers, focusing on Amerindians as instances of alterity.…”
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    O narrador e a paisagem: Milton Hatoum, Bernardo Carvalho e o fim do projeto de uma literatura nacional by Pedro Dolabela Chagas, Dárley Suany Leite dos Santos

    Published 2015-01-01
    “…To characterize such conditions, we review Echevarría’s proposition that the 19th - century La tin American novel adopted the local landscape as an identity symbol under the interpretive and authoritative mediation of non -fictional discourse. Then, we analyze Süssekind’s characterizations of fictional narrators that consolidated that function in Bra zil until the 20th century. …”
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    THE PERFORMATIVE FUNCTION/POWER OF LITERARY DEVICES IN JUDITH: A SPEECH ACT CONTRIBUTION by R.S. Hobyane

    Published 2021-06-01
    “… The compositional brilliance of the book Judith has, in research on it, been overshadowed by debates on its fictional nature, historical inconsistencies, canonical debate, gender and moral/ethical issues. …”
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    Poéticas do dilaceramento e da desolação: Bernardo Carvalho e Sergio Chejfec by Paulo César Thomaz

    Published 2010-01-01
    “…This work consists of an analysis of how the Brazilian and Argentine contemporary narrative, specifically the romances Teatro (1998) by the Brazilian writer, Bernardo Carvalho, and Los incompletos (2004) of the Argentine Sergio Chejfec, fictionalize different poetics of the contemporary experience, with emphasis mainly on impossibility and impediments to transform the lived moment in narrative material.…”
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    O a(u)tor e suas "interversões" em Retrato desnatural, de Evando Nascimento by Fabíola Padilha

    Published 2012-01-01
    “…This paper aims at proposing a reading of the supposedly fictional book Retrato desnatural (diários - 2004 a 2007), by Evando Nascimento, published in 2008, by observing the way through which the author, in consonance with the notion of “writable text” by Roland Barthes, entertains a dialogue with diverse artistic lan- guages (plastic arts, music, theater, cinema, literature) as well as with the western philosophy. …”
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    “Welcome to the White Man’s World”: An English Translation of Isaac Oluwole Delano’s Historical Novel Aiyé D’Aiyé Òyìnbó by Michael Oladejo Afolayan

    Published 2021-12-01
    “…The story is purely fictional but based on our various experiences in the Yoruba society.  …”
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