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Imagining home: literary fantasy in contemporary Chinese diasporic women’s literature by Tang, Fang

“…The idea of home relates to complicated struggles to gain a sense of belonging, as experienced by marginalized subjects constructing their diasporic identities — which can best be understood as unstable, shifting, and shaped by historical conditions and power relations. Fantasy is seen as a literary mode in the corpus of this study, as described in Rosemary Jackson’s Fantasy: the Literature of Subversion (1981). …”
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Legitimating telefantasy: exploring the value of telefantasy through television history by Dervish Ali, Erdem

“…These chapters analyse journalistic discourses about the programmes from the perspective of the legitimating criteria presented in Chapter 1, relating the changes in perception and construction of legitimacy to the relevant historical period. The thesis overall details the ways in which the legitimating criteria changed over time and reveals the impact that the genres within telefantasy, like science fiction, horror, and fantasy, have in shaping perceptions of value, a unique and unexplored way of understanding the cultural value of the medium.…”
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A detournement: 100 encounters representing a historical city of the future by Churchill, Lynn

“…Living now as we do among physical and conceptual remnants of the twentieth century and its antecedents, how mindful are we of our position in relation to the past, its truths and fantasies? As we herald the Perth Foreshore Redevelopment, or insert a new State Theatre or construct a bell tower, what is the collective vision of the future self that we project? …”
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Transformation of fiction from the Late Tang to Northern Song Dynasties by Ng, Yen Leng

“…These works include literary sketches and fictions in classical language and set on fantasy and romantic backgrounds, and short stories based on oral narratives in the “modern” language. …”
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Stylisation in rethinking history through chronotope and polyphony in selected postmodern Indian thriller novels in english by Pathinathan, Santini

“…Fiction writers have always been fascinated with history, especially historical fiction writers or writers who are inspired by history. …”
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Dubbing Star Wars: a journey to bridge the uncanny valley by Esteban, Anthony

“…This doctoral thesis examines the phenomenon of the uncanny valley, its relationship to genres of Imaginary Fiction (such as science-fiction, high fantasy…), the specificities of language in those genres, and ultimately its impact on the dubbing of films belonging to this genres. …”
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Narrative biography: meaning making through painting / Syamrul Nizam Abdul Malek by Abdul Malek, Syamrul Nizam

“…Other than that this research is also done to understand the nature of how different artist have use the narrative concept in portraying their work as a storytelling subject whether in dealing with personal experience, popular culture, fantasying, fiction and world (historical) event. Finally, this research is conducted to understand how all of this information can be used to better comprehend the researcher’s own work, which cover an understanding of pictorial, and image structure and concerning with its meaning making. …”
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