Categories Of Fiction Research Articles

의미 네트워크(Semantic Network)를 활용한 중국 독자의 한국 여성 서사 수용 연구: 최은영 『밝은 밤』의 정동(Affect)적 접근

This study analyzes Chinese readers' rating reviews of Eunyoung Choi's Bright Night using a semantic network to explore Chinese readers' acceptance of Korean female narratives in terms of affect. Eunyoung Choi's Bright Night was ranked second overall and first in the foreign fiction category in the 2023 annual book rankings on Douban, China's largest book rating site. The novel centers on the stories of four women: a great-grandmother, a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter. The relationship between the great-grandmother, aunt, and neighboring women who lived through the Japanese occupation and the Korean War, as well as the conflict and reconciliation between grandmother, mother, and me, are important narrative devices in the novel. Affect refers to the continuous transformation of potential states inherent in the body into reality through ‘encounter’. The bodies that are encountered are not only human bodies, but also literary works such as Bright Night. The idea transformed by the encounter between bodies is affect, and the actual state is objectified in language. The analysis showed that Chinese readers were most affected by the matriarchal narratives of the four women, and the women's painful lives and internal conflicts, and the friendship and solidarity of other women to help them overcome them. Cluster analysis of the reviewed texts to identify specific emotional patterns revealed four patterns: ‘empathizing with women's suffering and pain’, ‘emotions of healing and hope for female characters’ ‘friendship and reconciliation’, ‘literary emotions of female solidarity’, and ‘heart-to-heart encounters’. This study confirms that Korean women's narratives can reach readers with different national systems and social structures and cause emotional changes, which can be extended to East Asian women's narratives.

The theme of maturation in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Nelle Harper Lee

The article is devoted to the study of narrative and genre features of the famous work of Nelle Harper Lee ‟To Kill a Mockingbird”. It considers such categories of poetics as composition, chronotope and a system of characters. The study analyses the theme of maturation and the traits of ‟southern noir”, traditional and innovative characteristics of the initiation novel. Due to these peculiarities the American writer is not only able to focus on the inner life of the main heroine, but also to present the historical and cultural background of the narrative, as well as to create expressive psychological portraits of the characters. The conclusion is made about the transfer of ideas from human personality formation and maturation to the ethno-racial context, the formation of a specific model of initiation in the American literature. The process of migration of adult literature in children’s literature is noted both at the level of individual storylines and entire narratives. The novel by Harper Lee contains the traits of the initiation novel, as the main semantic dominant theme is maturation through overcoming challenges (social injustice, cruelty, ambivalence of the categories of good and evil). The concept of becoming a person in the work of the writer refers to the origins of the national consciousness: the interaction of nature and civilization, natural and artificial, as well as aesthetic categories of fiction and reality.

Digital Literary Landmarks of Aotearoa New Zealand

Digital literary forms in and of Aotearoa New Zealand have yet to be adequately historicised, and such works – and their authors – risk being lost to New Zealand’s literary history. Addressing the added challenge of doing history in the digital age, I offer an analytical survey of early digital literary works in or of NZ based around the categories of fiction, poetry, performance, and videogames. Cultivating a digital literary history serves us well not only in situating individual works of creative media in our collective cultural heritage but also in situating New Zealand amid broader networked culture.

Motif in Fiction: A New Research Methodology

The article focuses on the understanding of the motif as one of the central categories of fiction and the key conceptof text analysis. The article focuses on various approaches to the pragmatic content of the motif. A review of scientific publications revealed an ambiguity in its definition: motif can be interpreted as a scenario act or an ideologeme. The author believes that the objective basis for determining the content and function of a particular motif is a detailed analysis of its verbalization in the text. The article introduces the fundamental difference between literary and linguo-stylistic approaches to the motif analysis. The author proposes a definition based on the linguo-stylistic status of the motif and a set of reference parameters, which is exemplified by a linguo-stylistic analysis of the motifs of beauty of nature and time of day in N. V. Gogol's May Night, or the Drowned Woman.

Masculinity In Spark’s The Best Me And Yanagihara’s A Little Life : A Study Of Comparative Literature

This study aims to explain the differences and similarities of masculinity depicted in the 17th American novel The Best of Me (2011) by Nicholas Sparks which is ranked 2 of the top 10 lists in weekly publishers, with romance and fiction genres, with Novel A Little Life (2015) the work of the United States novelist Hanya Yanagihara who won both the 2015 Man Booker Prize, the Goodreads choice awards for the best fiction category and the national book award for fiction. Using the fiction genre, this research is comparative literature. It uses gender theory with masculine concepts from John Beynon (2002) which is written in his book entitled Masculinities and Culture. This study uses a context-oriented approach,Data Collection Techniques using literature study by reading, taking notes, and documenting data. After the data is collected, data reduction is carried out. The data that has been selected will be classified to take action to analyze the differences and similarities of masculinity in the male main character Dawson Cole in the Novel The Best of Me with Jude in the Novel A Little Life. The author finds some differences in reading aspects of masculinity according to John Beynon in the two characters. The difference lies in aspects: Age & Physical, Education, Sexual Orientation, Class & Occupation, Status & Lifestyle. The author finds similarities in reading aspects of masculinity according to John Beynon in Dawson and Jude in the Historical Location aspect. Both of them have pasts that they dont not want to open up.

Identitätssuche von deutsch-polnisch-schlesischen Lyriker:innen. Zeitgenössische Einblicke

This article attempts to address the specificities of the Silesia on the example of selected poems by contemporary female and male authors who feel connected to this corner in the center of Europe and searching for their own identity. The research methodology revolves around biographical threads related to the turbulent history of Silesia, which has shaped the destiny of these writers. The national aspects of Silesia’s historical past are reflected in the subject matter of the lyrical works presented. At the same time, the regional perspective is broken by themes and threads relating to poetic reflections on human existence. It should be emphasized that the poems presented hardly belong to the highest category of fiction. These works show how a particular region with its volatile and often tragic history inspires artistically sensitive individual and enables them to experience the aesthetics captured in poetic images.

G.D. Grebenstchikoff's Late Autofiction: Narrative Strategies in the Story "Egorkina zhizn"

As far as the genre of the last major work of G.D. Grebenstchikoff "Egorkina zhizn" is concerned, being an autobiographical material, it is a compromise of different trends – the aspiration to capture the world of the past as tangibly as possible, in all its details, and the need to establish literary communication with the reader. This challenged the author to use a number of narrative strategies – establishing an epic distance between the time and place of the events in the story, recurrent addressing the reader, and above all – various forms of socialization (generalization) of the personal, which is presented as an element of the self-contained and beautiful (seen from apart) harsh world of Siberian village, and – at the same time – as a way to shape a creative individual (the idea of vocation). The latter is manifested, in particular, in the abundance of literary parallels and comparisons, which form a conceptually significant overlap between literature and personal experience. On the one hand, Grebenstchikoff's experience in autobiographical genre contributes to the wealth of autobiographical prose of the XIX century, on the other hand, it is natural for such genre of modern literature as autofiction, the extreme popularity of which is associated both with the desire to abandon dated narrative strategies, and the ambition to re-examine the category of fiction.

Strategi Diversifikasi Produk Buku Fiksi Sebagai Pengembangan Karya Tugas Akhir Penerbitan

This research departs from the lack of development in the work of the Final Project students of the Publishing Study Program, especially in books with the fiction genre. This limitation causes the work produced in terms of content and medium is still monotonous and has not developed in the desired direction. This research uses the concept of product development strategy which is commonly used in business and industry, especially the publishing industry. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method to analyze, describe, and explain the diversification that may be used for students of Publishing. The object of the research is the student's final thesis product Publishing from 2015 to 2020. This research also aims to find a new formulation for writing a publishing final project product, especially in the fiction category. The results of this study show that in the 2015 to 2020 period, there are only 4 types of fiction that keep repeating itself, and there is only 1 work in the form of a flashlight book as part of manual product development. This research resulted in a further mapping of the stages of diversification that students could choose and their product forms.

Flying Machines and Time Experiment in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy”

ABSTRACT The three novels of Kazuo Ishiguro’s mid-career illustrate their author’s quest for narrative forms that can express the temporal dimension of the human condition in Modernity. The need to discover the causes of trauma and work through its effects organises the narrative along intersecting trajectories, juxtaposing anticipation and retrospection with the linear logic of the evolution from childhood to adulthood, from ignorance to experience, and from sheltered inaction to agency and responsibility. Ishiguro draws on genres such as the Bildungsroman and detective fiction, which turn the passage of time into intelligible narratives, while problematising the moral reconciliation of individual subject and society. His fascination with emotion’s involvement in the durational perception of time places his novels in the category of fiction that contributes to our understanding of time, memory and accountability, and thus instantiates the cognitive dominant of modernist fiction rather than the postmodern ontological code described by Brian McHale.

A case study of a popular titles collection circulation at a regional campus undergraduate library

This study analyses fifteen months of circulation data from a popular titles collection at a regional campus undergraduate library. To better understand how popular titles collections in academic libraries are used, this data analysis shows a breakdown of use amongst the entire campus population (students, faculty, and staff). Faculty are the most frequent borrowers of items from this collection, followed by students and staff. Further analysis shows that fiction is more popular than nonfiction. Amongst circulated titles and in the broad fiction category, general literature and English literature are ranked highest. Young Adult literature is another category in which items frequently circulated. Finally, this article touches on the benefits of using a rental plan for leasing titles in a browsing collection, including a better ability to meet specific needs on campus or among student groups than with traditional acquisitions processes.

LANGUAGE MEANS OF EXPRESSION OF FICTION ELEMENTS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

In this article we consider the category of fiction in political discourse - its language expression and the reasons for its appearance. In the process of research, we found out that one of the most important language means of expressing fiction in political discourse is metaphor and all its manifestations in the text. Metaphors convey a special, fantastic perception of the world. But, besides metaphors, the use of metonymy, hyperbole, litotes, comparisons, epithets, etc. also helps to form the category of the fantastic. We will consider the use of elements of the fantastic in political discourse on the example of the famous book “Maxims and Thoughts of Saint Helena Prisoner” in which Count de Las Cases, who voluntarily followed Napoleon Bonaparte in his exile, captured the emperor's statements, his aphorisms, fragments of political speeches, etc. Napoleon Bonaparte created authorial myths about himself, his rule and his army (the Great Army, Grande Armee), captured in his political speeches, letters, maxims and appeals to soldiers and contemporaries. From a literary and linguistic point of view, the very form chosen by Napoleon to express his political and philosophical judgments - maxims, aphorisms - is of interest. The result of our research is that the category of the fantastic in the political discourse of the Napoleonic era is the place to be and includes the use of metaphors, epithets, hyperbole, grotesques, personification, special comparisons and repetitions, as well as allusions, reminiscences, explicit and hidden quoting.

READING INTERESTS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

This article presents the results of a study that examined the interest and influence of gender of students studying in International schools in Sri Lanka on reading. The objectives of this study was to find the nature of reading interest of the primary school children and to examine whether it differ by gender. The sample was selected from three International schools in Colombo district. Data was collected through a questionnaire and analyzed with Chi-square test. Findings indicated that, boys preferred comic books and the girls opted to picture books. Reading Newspapers and web pages are not popular among students, despite computer was much preferred in the past. This could indicate that children prefer to read a book. Where genres are concerned, Mystery & Adventure and Fantasy are the selection of the majority. Both these fall into the fiction category which was confirmed by previous researches. Since a vast majority of the sample showed preference for series books as well as comic books, it can be concluded that books from the Wimpy Kid and the Geronimo Stilton series can be used in order to encourage and motivate young readers by making reading an enjoyable activity.

Tommaso Landolfi: alla ricerca del tipo di genere più libero

This article focuses on genre characteristics of Tommaso Landolfi’s works which the author himself called diaries: “La biere du pecheur,” “Rien va” and “Des mois.” Although formally these three texts are not related and moreover, considerably differ from each other in structure and in content, they are united by a common narrative strategy, due to their genre features. Preserving main characteristics inherent in autobiographical prose, these diaries are at the same time aesthetically organized texts that have an artistic structure and contain artistic imagery as well as, most importantly, elements of fiction. Since the category of fiction is openly present in the diaries and declared as the author’s intention, Landolfi’s autobiographical prose can be defined as a hybrid genre containing elements of many other genres, especially the elements of the novel. The essay introduces the term autofiction to describe the phenomenon in question, namely genre diffusion between the autobiographical writing and the novel.

Legitimate and Illegitimate Reading

The legitimacy of speculative fiction - a broad fiction category that includes science fiction and fantasy - varies according to the choice of texts. This article analyses what is at stake when reading literary genres with ambiguous legitimacy, by describing how this supposed illegitimate reading can be transformed into a social and cultural resource. After discussing the prejudices that science fiction and fantasy readers face, it shows how the genre’s internal legitimacy hierarchy allows for strategies of distinction amongst, not only individuals with a strong cultural capital, but others as well, through their choice of books and adopted reading methods.

"Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" and Creative States of Consciousness

"Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" and Creative States of Consciousness John Rosegrant (bio) Freud's paper contains two insights into creativity that I find especially important. One proposes an answer to the question of how artists create the content and form of their works, a question that Freud announces in his first sentence as his main concern: We laymen have always been intensely curious to know […] from what sources that strange being, the creative writer, draws his material, and how he manages to make such an impression on us with it and to arouse in us emotions of which, perhaps, we had not even thought ourselves capable. (1908, p. 143) Freud's answer comes near the end: writers access material in their daydreams that they then disguise to hide repellent, overt drive satisfaction, and they put their fantasies into esthetically pleasing form that gives the reader forepleasure, which serves as a gateway to deeper pleasures (p. 153). This formulation is the ancestor to Ernst Kris's concept of regression in the service of the ego and is a well-known psychoanalytic theory of creativity. But despite the focus on fantasizing, it tells us little about the felt experience, the state of consciousness involved in creativity and esthetic appreciation, except with the broad stroke of saying that it produces pleasure—fantasies are considered mainly as a source that the writer mines for material. The other insight I want to highlight from this paper does point to the state of consciousness involved during creativity. This occurs near the beginning, when Freud is discussing childhood play: [End Page 645] The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real. In spite of all the emotion with which he cathects his world of play, the child distinguishes it quite well from reality […] The creative writer does the same as the child at play. He creates a world of phantasy which he takes very seriously—that is, which he invests with large amounts of emotion—while separating it sharply from reality. (1908, p. 144) With these thoughts, Freud has opened the door to the idea that creative writing takes place in a particular psychic state. But Freud did not go through this door to see where it would lead. To explore what lies on the other side of that door, I am going to turn to the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien. As a lead-in, I want to commend Freud for his inability in "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" (1908) to maintain a sharp distinction between popular fiction and "those writers most esteemed by the critics" (p. 149). Freud briefly discriminates these classes of literature because he thinks the former type of writing is closer to undisguised daydreaming and thus makes his thesis clearer. However, only two pages later he points out that there is an uninterrupted series of transitional cases. Tolkien's major work, The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955/2004), has often been excoriated by the literary establishment as dwelling in the depths of the popular fiction category; however, more recently, there has been increasing recognition that even though it is a fantasy with an exciting plot, it addresses serious issues seriously. What is important for my present purposes is that in looking at Tolkien, we move from the generalities of Freud's paper to consideration of a specific prominent creative writer who thought deeply about creative processes, considered his fictional works to be in part an exploration of creativity, and in addition wrote two academic essays that touch on the nature of creativity. The first of these, "Beowulf, the Monsters and the Critics" (Tolkien, 1936), revolutionized the study of Beowulf by making the claim that it should be understood as a literary masterpiece rather than only excavated for historical understanding of the Anglo-Saxons. Tolkien introduced this claim with the following extended allegory: [End Page 646] A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually lived, not far from the old house of his fathers. Of the rest he took...

Unravelling bibliophiles' preference on the basis of bestseller lists in India

This study investigates different genres in Indian book market to establish a clear understanding of dominating genres in the market. The focus of the study is in tandem with two groups: fiction and non‐fiction books on the basis of 52 weeks' bestsellers list. The model employs a point system constructed by mapping performance score of different genres. By using these performance scores, Kruskal‐Wallis H test and Mann–Whitney U test are performed. The results show that there is a significant difference between each genre but one particular genre stands out the most in both the categories. Romance in Fiction category and Self‐help in non‐fiction category dominates the Indian book market as shown by the study. This evidence has a far‐reaching implication toward the understanding of the dynamics of genre preferences in India.

“Nothing that is So is So”: Fiction and Detachment in Philippe Lançon’s Le Lambeau

In tracking his slow recovery from the facial injuries that he sustained in the Charlie Hebdo attacks, Philippe Lançon develops two distinct and conflicting senses of the word “fiction:” on the one hand, fiction as the imagination, construction, and organization of a possible world; on the other, fiction as the irruption of the unimaginable and the unreal in the midst of everyday life. In writing Le Lambeau (2018)—indisputably a work of nonfiction—Lançon aims to restore meaning to a life that feels fictional, through a narration that itself inevitably fictionalizes the experiences it recounts. Lançon’s nonfiction narrative thus incessantly explores the category of fiction. It also engages deeply with works of fiction, as Lançon finds in reading Kafka, Thomas Mann, Henry James, and especially Proust, the possibility of a displaced, meditative, and distanced relation to his own present. Whereas writers of nonfiction often claim to capture an immediacy inaccessible to fiction, Lançon seeks instead a form of reparative detachment that finds an essential resource in fictional immersion.

On human and non-human people: an interview with Jane Rawson

Australian fiction writer Jane Rawson writes about strange but familiar worlds. Her books and stories are relentlessly inventive, disruptive but tender and funny, and thoroughly thought-provoking. Her debut novel, A wrong turn at the Office of Unmade Lists (Transit Lounge, 2013), was shortlisted in the science fiction category for the 2013 Aurealis Awards and won the Small Press Network’s ‘Most Underrated Book Award’. This was followed by two books in 2015, a novella, Formaldehyde (2015, winner of the Seizure Viva la Novella competition), and the nonfiction work The Handbook: Surviving and Living with Climate Change (Transit Lounge, co-written with James Whitmore). Her novel From the Wreck, the main topic of this interview, was published by Transit Lounge (Melbourne) in 2017 and by Picador (UK) in 2019. It won the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and shortlisted for the Barbara Jeffries Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. This interview took place before a live audience at Imprints Booksellers in Hindley Street, Adelaide, in 2018, and was updated via email exchange between the interviewer and Jane Rawson.

Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England. Katherine Eggert. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. xi+351.

<i>Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England</i>. Katherine Eggert. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. xi+351.

Fiction, history and pedagogy: a double-edged sword

There are many areas of overlap between history and fiction. Teachers of history have long recognized this connection and used a range of fictional accounts in their teaching. In this article, we argue that fiction is a double-edged sword that must be handled carefully. On the one hand, it presents compelling characters and accounts that provide powerful connections with the past often missing from school history. On the other hand, the narrative force that draws the reader in and connects him or her to the experience of the characters also mitigates against alternative readings of the situation, undercutting the reader’s ability to understand the past in complex and critical terms. We contend that in the hands of effective teachers, the double-edged sword of fiction can be a valuable and effective tool in the teaching of history. We begin by exploring three scholarly conversations around the nature of history, history education and learning theory. We then discuss the general relationship between history and fiction, move on to describe two broad categories of fiction and their particular connections to history and history teaching and consider some of the tensions between history and fiction. Finally, we investigate pedagogical implications for effective use of fiction in the teaching of history.