Dialogism and the Baroque in Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century by João Carlos de Carvalho

“…From Mikhail Bakhtin's studies and discussions about the origins and development of prose and novel in the West, the purpose of this paper is to reflect on the peculiarities of the novel in great literary fictional productions in Latin America during the twentieth century. …”
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The architectural drawings of Victor Hugo: between reality and reverie by Jorge Llopis Verdú

“…Hugo explores through drawing the spatial universe in which his literary fictions are placed: Architecture as a metaphor for the man who feels small by the vastness, almost metaphysics of the Nature and the Cosmos.…”
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Utopia, determinismo tecnologico, ingegneria sociale: la dianetica tra scienza e fantascienza by Argenio, Giulio

“…Through an examination of this text and its context, I propose to investigate the relationship between engineering culture and literary fictions, trying to understand how the mind-computer analogy shaped the vision of a regenerated society. …”
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Slovene migrant literature in Australia by Igor Maver

“…However, the genresfeatured here include the explicitly literary, the semi-literary fictionalized biography, the memoir and documentary fiction, and the literary journalistic text - all those fields and genres that nowadays straddle the division line between 'high' literature and so-called 'creative fiction'.   …”
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The Childhood and Children’s Characters in Samokovlija’s Short Stories by Edina Murtić

“…The children's characters, according to the considerations included, are contextualized between real and literary–fictional aspects of the Sephardic heritage. Based on the selected examples of Samokovlija's stories about childhood and children, we perceive the author's most important narrative strategies. …”
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Between being and becoming a Buendía : the dilemma in one hundred years of solitude. by Lye, Kit Ying.

“…The claim is not difficult to digest as one often comes across fictions illustrating philosophical concerns of death, morality, ethics and being, as well as philosophy very much informed by extraordinary events documented in religious texts and literary fictions.…”
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Déliaisons expérimentales : autour de quelques expériences fictives de désocialisation au XVIIIe siècle by Christophe Martin

“…If the idea of isolating new beings, meticulously removed from the usual processes of education and socialization, is not an invention of the Age of Enlightenment, such fictitious experiences (whether they are thought experiments, experimental projects, or literary fictions of infantile isolation) multiplied in the 18th century. …”
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Gawęda (autobiograficzna) by EWA TIERLING-ŚLEDŹ

“…She underlines the genre-specific communicative situation in which neither the reader nor the author of an autobiographical gaweda, if fully aware of the agreed upon rules of the genre, will not find themselves lost in the peculiar juxtaposition of the literary (“fictional”) and the non-literary (“factual”) reality one gaweda inevitably forces upon both of them. …”
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Deconstructing and Reconstructing Cinderella: Theoretical Defense of Critical Literacy for Young Children by Debbie Harwood

“…Like many other classic literary fictional characters (e.g., Pippi Longstocking, Paddington Bear, Winnie the Pooh, and Babar), Cinderella is no longer confined to the pages of a book. …”
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. by Ángel Rodríguez González

“…However, the boundary lines between fantasy and reality have no precise definition, and this is because Cervantes himself wished it so The literary fictions in the Quijote (fiction out of reality-reality out of fiction- fiction out of fiction) is a game played by the author to introduce an apparent lunatic who will not dicriminate between the limits of his reality (reality out of fiction) and the fictional in this own reading (fiction out of fiction). …”
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LITERARY BILINGUALISM: PRO AND CONTRA by I I Valuitseva, G T Khukhuni

“…The paper deals with some aspects related to the problem of literary / fictional bilingualism, i.e. literary creativity performed in more than one language. …”
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Bodies of Evidence: The Depiction of Violence Against Female Characters in Late Imperial Russian Crime Fiction by Claire Whitehead, Grace Docherty

“…The article reads both the acts of violence and their literary-fictional portrayal as a reflection of the gender relations operating in patriarchal society at the time and, more specifically, the disenfranchised position of women within the institution of the family. …”
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Fiction’s strategies of evidence and their cultural significance: The scientist as writer by Susanne Frank

“…It asks how scientific discourse on the one hand, and literary, fictional discourse on the other interact in this text that tells the story of the discovery of an Arctic island, which a Russian merchant had asserted to have seen, but the existence of which never could be affirmed. …”
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Ljubav, grad i rat. Analiza mikrrostrukture (close reading) na primjeru ratnih romana Drage Jančara by Scherber, Peter

“…This strategy includes, at first glance, some banal issues, such as the relationship between historically documented events and their literary (fictional) presentations, spatial data (in this case Maribor and its topography), and temporal data (linear or recursive). …”
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Figure dell’ascesi e dell’ascesa: l’esplorazione polare da Verne ad Amundsen by Lucia Claudia Fiorella

“…What we know of polar expeditions coincides with a number of fictional and non fictional representations using different registers: the iconic-technical-scientific, the auto/biographical, the literary/fictional. This paper draws a comparison between texts featuring contrasting views on the character and purposes of polar expeditions, their supposed usefulness and political consequences, and the certification procedures of scientific knowledge, reflecting broader concerns about the idea of progress, the man/environment relation, and international relations. …”
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Deepening the Analysis of Literary Texts among University Students Using Close Reading and Writing: A Pilot Study by António M. Duarte, Cecilia Beecher Martins, Maria C. Marques, Filipe C. Mesquita

“…This study set out to evaluate the effects training in close reading and close writing, applied to literary fictional texts, had on the structural complexity of narrative analysis (SCNA) of participating students. …”
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El hombre, ser de palabra by Mario A. Presas

“…<br>ABSTRACT: Paul Ricoeur distinguishes between sameness of character (idem identity) on the one side, and selfhood (ipse identity) -the being that keeps his or her promise, the maintien de soi, which finds its most accurate expression among the imaginary variations of literary fictions- on the other. This article analyzes some pieces of work that have not been considered by Ricoeur, such as Peter Handke's Kaspar, in order to exemplify the loss of selfhood when it does not have a dialectic relation with a character. …”
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Was ist und wozu dient Faktualitätskompetenz? Faktuale Erzähltexte als Gegenstand medialer Bildung by Matías Martínez

“…Factual narrative texts in media-based education Children, adolescents, and adults are confronted with factual narratives far more frequently and with greater consequences than with literary-fictional texts. However, grasping the forms and truth claims of factual narrative texts is a demanding cognitive task that not only requires knowledge of specific narratological devices, text types, and communicative intentions, but also has to compensate for various developmental and cognitive-psychological distortion mechanisms. …”
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GENRE NATURE OF NARRATIVE STRATEGIES

“…There is a precedent world image, which is the basis of the heroic epic narrative strategy and the literary fictional epic. The narrative can be based on the initial assumption that life is not a cyclic repetition, but it is rather a supreme world order, that follows the justice of heaven. …”
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Mothers of Africa by Boehmer, E, Boehmer, Elleke Deirdre

“…In this way new plots are written into history; nationalist romances give way to literary fictions.</p> <p>An investigation of the status of nationalism as symbolic language of gender, this thesis concentrates first on the inscription of nationalist icons in post-colonial African literature and on the gendered tropic patterns which govern that inscription. …”