UN GIALLO ITALIANO ALL’ORIGINE DELLA RIPRESA DEL CULTO DANTESCO by Anna Maria Cotugno

“…In the essay, the author conducts an intertextual inquiry that highlights the terms of the ‘dialogue’ between ancient and modern, in which Dante’s Comedy invariably returns a source the source, always alive and current, to which Giulio Leoni draws copiously for the writing of the novel I crimes of the Medusa, first effort of ‘his’ Dante cycle, and important ‘apripista’ for the revival of the reuse of Dante in contemporary genre fiction.…”
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Medium Aevum in fabula: The novel and the Middle Ages fascination by Gabriele Sorrentino

“…As Wu Ming said, the narrative feeds on folklore and epic which, for genre fiction, are the main emotional engine of the story. …”
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Reconciling Religious Orientation with the Demands of Fiction in Andrew M. Greeley’s Selected Novels by Mark Anthony G. Moyano

“…As a sociologist-priest, he has written fictions that are considered or labeled as popular or those that belong to genre fiction. Using Russian formalist literary theories in reading Greeley’s selected novels, the researcher was able to elucidate that Greeley’s craftmanship is present, though it heavily relies on his background as a priest and sociologist.…”
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When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction by Federica Balducci

“…This article examines how Bertola fosters the dialogue among old texts, new ones and their readership through comedy, parody and intertextuality, creating multiple levels of engagement and offering a vibrant and innovative approach to genre fiction.…”
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Human “ish”: Voices from Beyond the Grave in Contemporary Narratives by Heather Duncan

“…Using these narratives to explore nearfuture death rituals, transhumanist consciousness preservation, and the role of genre fiction in exposing the instability of narratives and the distributed nature of agency in digital environments, I argue that coping with the unprecedented complexity of life in the digital age requires a reevaluation of what constitutes the self, the human, and the extent to which the narratives that inform these boundaries are permeable and capable of acting with their own agency. …”
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Michael Chabon in a Queer Time and Place by Kalisch, M

“…Pursuing the congruency between his preoccupation with portrayals of modulating sexuality on one hand, and hybridising of literary and genre fiction on the other, this article elucidates a speculative point of contact between Michael Chabon’s work and contemporary queer thought on temporality. …”

“Making Kin in Broken Places”. Post-apocalyptic Adolescence and Care in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne by Grzegorz Czemiel

“…The aim of this is also to bring into focus the role of genre fiction in diagnosing the uncanny underside of its times. …”
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Genre, Author, Text, Reader: Teaching Nora Roberts’s Spellbound by Beth Driscoll

“…This article offers a reflection on the author’s experience of teaching a novella by Nora Roberts, Spellbound, to an undergraduate English subject Genre Fiction/Popular Fiction at the University of Melbourne. …”
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The Reinterpretation of Slavic Paganism by Polish Women Writers of Fantasy by Alessandro Amenta

“…The analysis of their works shows how women authors rewrite national history to incorporate new visions of femininity into commercial and genre fiction.…”
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Decolonising the Mind of the Antipodean Author: Gothic Tropes and Postcolonial Discourse in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake by Tosi, Valerie

“… This article analyses Peter Carey’s novel My Life as a Fake (2003) through the lens of genre fiction, focusing on how the Gothic mode combines with key concepts in postcolonial studies. …”
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Exploring/Inventing East-European Noir. An Attempt to Modelling Historical Transformation by Caius Dobrescu

“…The common Communist heritage of genre fiction, cinema, and television is synthesised in three main categories: Cold War “noir” and Socialist “grey”, alternative noir, and popular noir. …”
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Transparency and Truth: Prefatory Material in Fictional and Non-Fictional Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing by Ruth Menzies, Sandhya Patel

“…Greater interconnections between genre (fiction or non-fiction), stylistics and veracity or, to borrow Homi Bhabha’s terms, the focus on discursive transparency, also appear to gain ground. …”
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Changing Norms in Translated Finnish Fiction: A Study of Non-standard Varieties by Liisa Tiittula, Pirkko Nuolijärvi

“…The study is based on a corpus consisting of 200 literary works (the original and its translations are counted as one work), representing various genres: literary fiction, young-adult fiction, as well as genre fiction (romance and crime). During this 100-year period, the use of colloquial variants in translations has strongly increased, influenced by the changing literary and linguistic norms of original Finnish literature. …”
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Beyond Science Fiction: Magical Realism as an Approach to Literature in International Relations by Karla Resende da Costa, Luisa Davi Oliveira de Mesquita

“…In this article, we argue that it is equally important to give attention to works of magical realism in IR, especially because magical realism blurs the boundaries between literary and genre fiction, posing a constructive challenge to the different ways literature is either considered art or mere entertainment. …”
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“I Stand Out Like a Raven”: Depicting the Female Detective and Tudor History in Nancy Bilyeau’s The Crown by Beyer Charlotte

“…This article examines Bilyeau’s representation of the Tudor period in The Crown through the depiction of English society and culture from a contemporary perspective, employing genre fiction in order to highlight issues of criminality. …”
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From Barbusse to Lemaitre: The Evolution of Experience by Nancy Sloan Goldberg

“…Crime fiction novels set during the Great War, by virtue of their non-canonical status as genre fiction, were not restrained by acknowledged and often depreciatory imperatives of form and content. …”
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Thieving Facts and Reconstructing Katherine Mansfield’s Life in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Thieves by Monica Latham

“…Besides seamlessly fusing reality and fiction, historical and imaginative truths, these hybrid products bring together the characteristics of literary and genre fiction. The article also focuses on the generic aspect of Thieves, which “sells” a scholarly literary background by using a commercial format that borrows features from popular genres such as love stories, thrillers, mystery and detective novels. …”
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Sixty years of gender representation in children's books: Conditions associated with overrepresentation of male versus female protagonists. by Kennedy Casey, Kylee Novick, Stella F Lourenco

“…Importantly, we also find persistent effects related to author gender, age of the target audience, character type (human vs. non-human), and book genre (fiction vs. non-fiction) on the male-to-female ratio of protagonists. …”
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Nothing Like a Good Fiasco! Exploring the Potential of Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TRPGs) As Literacy Experiences by Harrison Campbell, Andrea Madsen

“…Fiasco is a TRPG that utilizes prompts inspired by genre fiction to collaboratively generate, establish, and resolve scenes between a varied cast of characters in several rounds improvisational roleplay. …”
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Image(s) of the World’s End from Archtexts to Popular Culture (Example-Based Exposition) by Martin Boszorád

“…Winters or other iconic genre fiction (for example, Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel The Road).…”
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