Exposing social constructions in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle through metareligion by Babaei, Abdolrazagh, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam

“…By exposing the fundamental structures of narrative fiction, Vonnegut’s novel gives readers an opportunity to think about the possible fictionality of the world structures outside the literary fictional text. The novel tries to reorder the world perception of readers through rearranging the values and conventions of the fiction he produced. …”
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ASPECTS OF EMPIRICAL UNDERSTANDING OF APHORISM by Eugeney E. Ivanov

“…It was established that there are only nine of the most significant empirical understandings of aphorism (scientific-philosophical, literary-philosophical, religious-literary, literary-fictional, literary-publicistic, literary-legal, folk-poetic, poetic-rhetorical, colloquial-linguistic understandings). …”
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[SPA] EL LIBERALISMO ECONÓMICO DE STRUZZI EN SU DIÁLOGO SOBRE EL COMERCIO (1624) // STRUZZI’S ECONOMIC LIBERALISM: HIS DIÁLOGO SOBRE EL COMERCIO [DIALOGUE ON TRADE, 1624] by Jesús Gómez

“…</p><p> </p><p>__</p><p> </p><p>The <em>Diálogo sobre el comercio, </em>by Alberto Struzzi, stands out for its innovative approach when considered in relation to the work of XVI and XVII century Spain 'project-makers' and reformers --even if at the time other writers offered (in treatises, memorials and books of projects, as well as via literary fictions) a positive image of trade as an alternative to the values of nobility. …”
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Drawing Apocalypse: Architectural Representation in the Nuclear Age and the Imagination of the End by Keller, Eliyahu

“…Throughout the Cold War, and primarily in the United States, images of the unprecedented devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were coupled with visual and literary fictions projecting the aftermath of a world-ending atomic war. …”
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Implications of grotesque features of scientific creations in Margaret Atwood’s selected speculative fiction by Ong, Li Yuan

“…Speculative fiction is a type of literary fictions, which consists of future speculations of the socio-political issues and set in a believable alternate setting. …”
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REALIDAD, FICCIÓN Y JUEGO EN EL QUIJOTE: LOCURA-CORDURA 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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A cultural training for the improvement of cognitive and affective Theory of Mind in people with Multiple Sclerosis: a pilot randomized controlled study by Alessia d’Arma, Alessia d’Arma, Annalisa Valle, Davide Massaro, Gisella Baglio, Sara Isernia, Sonia Di Tella, Sonia Di Tella, Marco Rovaris, Francesca Baglio, Antonella Marchetti

“…To make the training as much ecological as possible, we have devised a protocol enhancing ToM through stimuli depicting real-world conditions (video-clips taken from cinema movies, literary fictions, and audio voices). We test training’s effect on both cognitive and affective components of ToM in a sample of 13 subjects, randomly assigned to the ToM training Group and to the Control Group. …”
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Meaning and Theme in Indian Style by Mojahed Gholami

“…Aside from the alleged issue, there is an apathetic attitude toward the differences between the comprehension of those concepts in European references and literary fictions comparing with Iranian literary customs and Persian poetry, which causes the use of these terms rather than the other, or even it’s better to say, these terms bear the meanings and definitions which is common among European theorists and is the result of their researches on their literature. …”
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Ibn Khaldūn e il pensiero marocchino contemporaneo by Francesca Forte

“…Himmich has written both an academic work as well as a literary/fictional biography of the Maghrebi figure in focus. …”
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