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Reconstructing the fictional character of Fourteenth Daughter Xin (Xin Shisi Niang) in the English Translation of Liaozhai Zhiyi by Yi, Shuihan, Ng, Chwee Fang, Abdul Halim, Hazlina

“…This research aspires to serve as a reference for the English translation of literary fictional characters, facilitating the international dissemination of ancient Chinese literature.…”
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Reading, narrating, scripting: psycho-poetic strategies in Dostoevskii's Idiot by Young, Sarah J.

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Watak abnormal dari aspek psikologi dalam novel remaja by Ramli, Halimatun Adawiah

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Information as superheroes / Nadia Nur Amalina Zulkanain and Norhidayah Abdul Aziz by Zulkanain, Nadia Nur Amalina, Abdul Aziz, Norhidayah

“…Superhero is a fictional character that has amazing powers and ability to help people. …”
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Phrases in literary contexts: patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens’s novels by Mahlberg, Michaela, Smith, Catherine, Preston, Simon

“…The suspended quotation refers to an interruption of a fictional character’s speech by the narrator with a sequence of at least five words. …”
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Inner alienation: diasporic consciousness in Kamila Shamsie's Salt and Saffron by Riaz, Humaira, Babaee, Ruzbeh

“…The purpose of this study is to investigate the ‘diasporic consciousness ‘of the fictional characters, incorporated in selected work of Pakistani expatriate writer Kamila Shamsie through the portrayal of cross-cultural differences. …”
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The voice of the silenced in Salman Rushdie’s Shame, Caryl Phillips’s Foreigners: Three English Lives, and Colum McCann’s by Talif, Rosli, Mani, Manimangai, Bahar, Ida Baizura, Wagaa, Intisar Mohammed

“…The methodological analysis of the study will concentrate on the way by which the authors present the peculiarities of their fictional characters and discourses.…”
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Epilepsy, literature and linguistics: spotlighting subjective symptoms by Sanchez-Davies, Jennifer

“…In particular, the well-established discipline, cognitive stylistics, provides ample theory for analysing the different facets of literature, from narratological and storyworld level, to the intricacies of characterisation revealing the structure behind the presentation of fictional characters’ experiences, attitudes and personalities. …”
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Understanding characters: a cognitive stylistics of the communication of experience by Sanchez-Davies, Jennifer

“…This thesis sets to fill this hiatus by developing an adaptable, strategic method of analysis to comprehensively represent characters. Beneath fictional characters’ familiar and recognisable exteriors, is an interconnected network of linguistic strategies that encode their identities and situate them in the storyworld. …”
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An analysis of youth perception on women in a Malay romance film by Yvonne Jayasainan, Sheila, Hassim, Nurzihan, Khalid, Nur Leila

“…This exploratory analysis examined the perception of Malaysian youth on the lead female role represented in a Malay movie and its impact on the respondents’ attitudes and beliefs.The researchers employed in-depth interviewing as well as focus group study with 33 individuals from rural and urban areas to capture their views.The findings indicated significant display of parasocial relationships that enhanced the engagement of audience members with fictional characters from the film.…”
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Diverse Construction of Identities in Contemporary Malaysian Literature: Challenges in Deconstructing and Teaching Literature by Collin, Jerome, Ting, Su Hie

“…Contemporary Malaysian literature functions as a site of diverse constructions of identity where local writers construct various identities of their fictional characters and their own identities in the process. …”
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Diverse Construction of Identities in Contemporary Malaysian Literature: Challenges in Deconstructing and Teaching Literature by Jerome, Collin, Ting, Su Hie

“…Contemporary Malaysian literature functions as a site of diverse constructions of identity where local writers construct various identities of their fictional characters and their own identities in the process. …”
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Andaman Island and the historicity of colonial violence: an ecocritical study of Uzma Aslam Khan’s the miraculous true history of Nomi Ali by Rabani, Ghulam, Mishra, Binod

“…By employing the concept of ‘environmental violence’, this study critiques the violence sabotaged by British and Japanese colonisers to determine the changes in the lives of the fictional characters in Khan’s novel. The findings reveal that Uzma Aslam Khan’s The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali (2019) might be better considered the historical colonial violence and the rights of the Indigenous people on Andaman Island are the critical components of the activist campaign for the return of their culture, history, and lands. …”
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Cultural violence and gender identities : a feminist post-structural discourse analysis of This House of Clay and Water by Raza, Amber, Rashid, Shaista, Malik, Sadia

“…The significance of this study lies in the fact that it applies FPDA to study fictional characters who are a reflection of humans and social practices in general, and how they are forced to suffer and ultimately resist gender-based violence to co-construct their ever-shifting identities through discourse.…”
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Mind-modelling with corpus stylistics in David Copperfield by Stockwell, Peter, Mahlberg, Michaela

“…The model also aims to deal with the modelling of the author’s mind in line with the modelling of the minds of fictional characters. Crucially, our approach to mind-modelling is text-driven. …”
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Public art and fictional works: simultaneously commemorating fiction and reality by Holloway, Johan

“…The unofficial examples, however, intentionally appropriate public spaces to specifically commemorate fictional characters that are relevant to those spaces. Such unofficial examples subsequently endure if the official owner of the appropriated site allows the inadvertent commemoration of their site to persist. …”
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Interaction between gender and translation (1995-2022): A systematic literature review by Li, Zhu, Lay, Hoon Ang, Mansor, Nor Shahila

“…The synthesis identifies five main topics of the impact gender has on translation: (a) gender affiliation of translators/interpreters; (b) LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) identities; (c) sexuality of characters; (d) feminist and patriarchal ideologies; and (e) cultural gender conventions, as well as four topics of the impact of translation on gender: (a) gender (stereotypical) portrayals of fictional characters; (b) gendered language and meanings; (c) LGBTQI identities; and (d) LGBTQI ideologies. …”
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Negotiating Irvin Yalom’s existential concerns through the grotesque in selected works of Oscar Wilde and Yukio Mishima by Seach, Jin Beng

“…The present study concentrates on the grotesque as a mode of representation and a literary tool for fictional characters to react to existential concerns. The grotesque will be analysed alongside four ultimate existential concerns of life, as pointed out by Irvin Yalom: death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness. …”
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Idyllic pastoral: environmental scenic remedial sublimes for Apocalyptic ecophobia in Margaret Atwood's the year of the flood by Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur, Akram Yahya, Amani, Haw Ching, Florence Toh, Bahar, Ida Baizura

“…Accordingly, the study attempts to demonstrate how the fictional characters' resort to these scenic sublimes to seek peace and solace of mind by living satisfactorily in their natural milieus. …”
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Attachment trauma and role of secure base in selected literary works of black women writers by Dodhy, Shamaila

“…Some researchers have examined victimization of black women in light of Trauma Studies with reference to slavery, racism, colonialism and the concept of beauty but my research will strive to focus on those fictional characters who suffered from attachment trauma. …”
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