Search Results - "popular fiction"
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God’s gift : narratives of disability in Malay popular fiction
Published 2022“…It is therefore no stretch to assert that popular fiction, particularly popular fiction that has garnered sufficient traction to be adapted into a popular telenovela with a sizable following, is reflective of the general public's perceptions on any given issue. …”
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Visible signs of ageing : representing older women in Australian popular fiction
Published 2009“…It was when I was in my mid-fifties and searching for intelligent popular fiction featuring women of my own age as the central characters, that I drew a blank. …”
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Diachronic transformations in Troubles fiction: a study in models and methods
Published 2008Subjects: “…popular fiction…”
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Reading girls reading pleasure : reading, adolescence and femininity
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Getting Noticed: Images of Older Women in Australian Popular Culture
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Embodiment of twenty-first century zeitgeist in Chick Lit
Published 2017“…As McCracken points out, the study of popular fiction needs to be done in a more holistic fashion instead of in isolation. …”
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Watch your step!: a frustrated total internal reflection approach to forensic footwear imaging
Published 2016“…However, despite recent advances in machine vision technology and image processing techniques (and contrary to the claims of popular fiction) forensic image retrieval is still widely being performed using outdated practices involving inkpads and paper. …”
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Holographic prism projection: extinction rebellion & energy futures on sci-fi television
Published 2023“…The hologram’s disassociated focus on a single object proved useful in drawing audience attention and for assembling non-fiction elements in sequences referencing popular fiction. It is also useful for showing radically different visual scales in sequence, and for simultaneously juxtaposing audio and visual scales.…”
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The 'British' Carmen Sylva: recuperating a German-Romanian writer
Published 2014“…In reassessing Sylva, this study will address broader notions surrounding the short story, popular fiction, and women’s writing, in order to question both current and contemporary attitudes to literature.…”
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Adultness in children's literature: toward the awareness of adults' presence in children's literature
Published 2013“…This study concentrates on literary books, mostly published after 1960, since the issues discussed are more directly relevant to literary works than to popular fiction or classic children’s literature. Brief surveys of historical development of children’s literature and changes in the social perceptions about the relationships between adults and children are undertaken in order to understand the backgrounds of adults’ assumptions about children’s literature. …”
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Spaces of hope: third space identity in selected Muslim chick lit
Published 2023“…In the process, it establishes the voices and presence of minority Muslim women within Western popular fiction genre. Keywords: minority identity; Muslim chick lit; Muslim women; spaces of hope; third space…”
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Contagion and the subject in contemporary American speculative fiction
Published 2017“…Over the past decade, the success of texts centred on such figures as the vampire, the werewolf and the zombie has triggered a return of contagion to the forefront of the American popular fictional imagination. Though this renewed fascination coincides with the emergence of new global biological threats, it also draws part of its power from a broader cultural anxiety regarding the structures of subjectivity, the relation between subject and State as well as the subject’s role within the collective deployed by our contemporary discourse of health. …”
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New Body, new me?: fat women characters in North American fiction, 1976-2013
Published 2019“…By examining novels that range from bestselling popular fictions, to niche fictions that are becoming popular with the fat-acceptance community, the thesis reassesses the familiar topics of consumption and weight loss in fat depictions through the lens of genre and narrative journeys. …”
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