Border Poetics: Gender, Essayism and Border Crossing in Sinéad Gleeson’s Constellations: Reflections from Life by Melania Terrazas Gallego

“…As Julie Bates claims, “the most exciting new writing in Ireland is happening in the field of nonfiction” (2020: 228-229) and, more particularly, in the form of the essay. …”
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Is reading fiction associated with a higher mind-reading ability? Two conceptual replication studies in Japan by Yuka Takahashi, Toshiyuki Himichi, Ayumi Masuchi, Daisuke Nakanishi, Yohsuke Ohtsubo

“…Participants read an excerpt either from literary fiction or from nonfiction, or engaged in a calculation task, before completing the RMET. …”
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One World, Many Cultures / by Hirschberg, Stuart, 1942-, compiler 632933, Hirschberg, Terry, compiler 463852

“…Featuring compelling and provocative writings by authors from the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, the text’s 52 nonfiction selections--including essays and autobiographies, one short story, and the questions that follow each selection--encourage readers to perceive the relationship between a wide range of experiences in different cultures and the corresponding experiences of writers within the United States. …”

On the centenary of A. D. Sakharov: Sakharov’s discourse as science publicistics (identifying the speaker as the genre marker) E. R. Lassan by Lassan, Eleonora

“…Such a choice of the subject of the research is accounted for by the fact that, according to the author of the article, the representation of the author in nonfiction discourse is predetermined by the genre. …”
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Nikolay Grech’s Rhetorical Teaching as a Tool of Text Analysis by L. E. Makarova

“…By the time philology had become a unified knowledge system in 1820s, Russian rhetoric stopped being a part of the trivium of verbal sciences, which also included grammar and logic, and evolved into a theory of language arts [slovesnost] that included both fiction and nonfiction literature. Its focus shifted from statement building to development and classification of the existing types and genres of literature. …”
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Projecting Creative Processes: Art Films and Art Education in Post-war Britain by Katerina Loukopoulou

“…This paper describes and discusses one instance in the long and multifaceted history of this relationship: the educational uses of nonfiction films about art and artists in post-Second World War Britain, known then invariably either as ‘films on art’ or ‘art films.’ …”
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Adolescent leisure reading and its longitudinal association with prosocial behavior and social adjustment by Jan Lenhart, Tobias Richter, Markus Appel, Raymond A. Mar

“…We also explored the unique contributions of cumulative reading experience in different literary genres (classic literature, popular literature, nonfiction, comic books). Cumulative reading in general did not predict future prosocial behavior and social adjustment. …”
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Den levandegjorda statyn by Anette Almgren White

“…On the other hand, statue-ekphrasis that brings forth the Verfremdungseffekt illustrates and raises awareness of the complex relation between fiction and nonfiction, life and death. …”
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Bears and Scents of Place in Sid Marty’s The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek by Pamela Banting

“…In his acclaimed literary nonfiction book The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek (2008) Sid Marty represents the spaces and places of two bears, a black bear and a grizzly bear. …”
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Readability Analysis of Local Wisdom Non-Fiction Texts in Android-Based Interactive Multimedia for Elementary School Students With Fry Graph Formulas by Ravinda Mahendri, Endang Sri Mujiwati, Kukuh Andri Aka

“…The results showed that the readability level of ten non-fiction texts containing Kediri Raya local wisdom in Android-based interactive multimedia had the feasibility and suitability of the readability level for 4th grade elementary school students, because the readability levels of these ten nonfiction texts were in areas 2, 3, 4 and 6 which means the non-fiction text of Kediri Raya's local wisdom in interactive multimedia based on Android is suitable and appropriate for grades 2, 3, 4 and 6 of elementary school.…”
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“Social Media Makes It Inevitable to Feel Bad about Your Body”: Examining Self-Presentation and Body Image of Young Collegiate Females by Georgia Young, Matt Smith, John Batten

“…Framed around these themes, creative nonfiction techniques were employed to present the results as an ethnodrama. …”
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E-Book Reading Genre Preferences of Teachers Teaching in Foreign Languages in Private Schools (Case Study / Iraq) by Unal Ulker, Venera Ulker, Bunyamin Celik, Yunus Yildiz, Recep Bilgin

“…This study explored what types of fiction and nonfiction genres teachers prefer to read digitally when digital reading is popular worldwide. …”
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Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore (Column 3) by Quayum, Mohammad Abdul

“…In fact, English is so widely used in the country and has become such an integral part of the society, that the concern there, unlike in Malaysia, is, as Thumboo explains, “how to prevent other mother tongues from weakening.”Notwithstanding this fear, which is a valid and legitimate one, especially since language is associated with identity, writers in English have taken full advantage of the situation and have made significant advance in all the genres – poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama. In the early years of independence, some scepticism was expressed towards literature (poetry in particular) as it was seen as a “luxury” (Lee Kuan Yew's phrase) that Singapore could ill afford. …”
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‘According to the Rhythms of the Arid Lands’: Mary Austin’s 'The Land of Journeys’ Ending' by Isabel M. Fernandes Alves

“…This article aims to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between nonfiction women’s writing and nature within the North American literary tradition. …”
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The Genres of Natural Writing “Personal Diary”, “Personal Letter”, “Personal Note”: Invariant and Variant by Tatyana Gennadyevna Rabenko

“…Those genre implementations that arise as a result of the modification of certain genre properties lean toward the periphery: the addressee (online diary; letter to the editor; a letter in fiction and nonfiction), reference correlation, and a functional-target parameter (genre variants realized in fiction), substrate (online diary, email letter, SMS). …”
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Lugar común la muerte, de Tomás Eloy Martínez: una invención a manera de la realidad Tomás Eloy Martínez's Lugar común la muerte: Invention as Reality by Marcelo Coddou

“…<br>The following essay will present an analysis of creative nonfiction from the chronicles gathered in Lugar común la muerte written by Argentinean writer Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934 - 2010). …”
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“THE REAL LIFE OF... BORIS RYZHY”: ON THE BOOK “BORIS RYZHY. INTRODUCTION TO MYTHOLOGY” BY ALEXEY MELNIKOV

“…The article presents the idea of the two possible ways of reading Melnikov’s book: as a nonfiction, therefore provoking a number of critical remarks, and as a pseudo-nonfictional narrative, organized by Melnikov’s subjectivity as a narrator, obeying the deep level of the story creation. …”
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MERCHANTRY VS NOBILITY: KHARKIV ELITE IN THE SECOND HALF OF XIX – THE EARLY XX CENTURY by Anastasiya Bozhenko

“…The image of the illiterate, selfish, greedy merchant still lived in nonfiction and humorous press. However, there was an attempt by merchants to enter the cultural space of the nobility, following the norms of its everyday culture. …”
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Marilynne Robinson, Wallace Stevens, and Louis Althusser in the Post/Secular Wilderness: Generosity, <i>Jérémiade</i>, and the Aesthetic Effect by Daniel Muhlestein

“…Taking into account the presence—or absence—of the aesthetic effect in Robinson’s work helps explain the sometimes startling differences between Robinson’s fiction and nonfiction and helps provides a new perspective from which to rethink two of the most influential postsecular readings of Robinson’s work to date: Amy Hungerford’s <i>Postmodern Belief</i> (2010) and Christopher Douglas’s <i>If God Meant to Interfere</i> (2016).…”
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The Devil’s Highway: The U.S. - Mexico Border Crossing, Global Influences and Politics / The Devil’s Highway: Meksika-Amerika Sınırını Geçiş, Global Etkiler ve Politikalar... by Ezgi İlimen

“…A Pulitzer Prize finalist for the nonfiction category in 2005, Luis A. Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway (2004) gives voice to marginalized Mexican border crossers in his personal-political border writing. …”
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