Fictions du réel : le journalisme narratif by Nicolas Pélissier et Alexandre Eyriès

“…In this article, we chose initially to start from a paradoxical command (i.e. the need to use techniques of literary fiction to give a better representation of the real world and to account for it) to anchor our study in a particular journalistic practice, knows as “narrative journalism”, that we define as a way of writing that deliberately relies on fictional resources to review and comment upon the facts and then, in a second time, make them available to the general public. …”
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Voglio essere presente come vita : Liana Millu et sa voix singulière de Birkenau by Joanna Teklik

“…Millu resorts to literary fiction to outline life stories of Birkenau women, their typical problems, ways of dealing with tham, as well as the survival strategies thay employed. …”
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The image of dragon in literature. Pedagogical perspectiveon the basis of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s Hobbit by Anna Hyla

“…The dra-gon, as the antagonist, is a recurring motif in literary fiction, especially in fantasy, and together with the hero represents the struggle between good and evil. …”
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Five studies evaluating the impact on mental health and mood of recalling, reading, and discussing fiction. by James Carney, Cole Robertson

“…These included the effects of recalling reading fiction, of being prescribed fiction, of discussing fiction relative to non-fiction, and of discussing literary fiction relative to best-seller fiction. The first three studies directly recruited participants; the final two relied on scraped social media data from Reddit and Twitter. …”
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H.D.’s Palimpsest and a weaving practice by Jordana Infeld

“…Weaving has a distinctive relationship with time, and therefore provides fertile ground for thinking through the way time is depicted in literary fiction. Time operates in weaving at various scales and rhythms, and Palimpsest furthers this understanding of time through its own rhythms and invocations of the image of the palimpsest. …”
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Building the Collective Imagination in the Bestsellers of the Western World by Milena Gammaitoni

“…Some advance the hypothesis that, in the face of economic crises and slowdowns in the global economy, there has been an increase in the need for literary fiction, for escape and identification with problems, such as the loss of employment, the impoverishment of families and emotional instability, common to the so-called fluid society.…”
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Working-Class Visibility in Rachel Seiffert's The Walk Home by Andrew Monnickendam

“…He analyses a wide range of literary fiction and film in order to highlight that ‘class’ often means middle class. …”
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“Harry, You Must Stop Living in the Past:” Names as Acts of Recall in John Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom by Peter Backhaus

“… This paper studies the function of names as a stylistic device in literary fiction. The data are taken from John Updike’s Rabbit series, which depicts the life of US American Everyman Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom from the late 1950s to the 1980s. …”
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Ordinary Referring Names in Fictional Contexts by Zoltán Vecsey

“…Some say that ordinary proper names retain their real world referents in literary fiction. Others argue for the view that ordinary proper names are related there to surrogate referents. …”
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THE DREAMER AND THE INTERPRETER by Vera Lúcia Follain de Figueiredo

“…This essay is a reflection on the image and representation of mysteries in both the contemporary cinematographic and literary fiction, in which the character of the detective is often mixed with a paranoiac character, whose persecutory logic is prone to invent explanations for everything. …”
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The Place of Imaginative Literature in the Christian Life by Karen Swallow Prior

“…Yet, fiction—and here I will be talking primarily of literary fiction—has much to offer the Christian.…”
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The boxer sleeps. Un générique particulier : le générique intitulatif by Viviane Arigne

“…This article analyses the generic interpretation of a singular definite noun phrase containing a discrete noun within the sentence The boxer sleeps, which is to be found in a piece of literary fiction by Tennessee Williams. This sentence is construed as a painting title in which the simple present form of the verb and the subject noun phrase both express some kind of generic meaning. …”
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La Philosophía antigua poética de Alonso López Pinciano, un nuevo estatus para la prosa de ficción by Marina Mestre Zaragozá

“…A new perception, then, of literary fiction and its virtuality is created that could have significantly influenced the brilliant literary fecundity of Spanish sixteenth century.…”
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Remarks on Architectural Copy in Classical Age by Francesca Salatin

“…This paper aims to investigate a partial but representative example of architectonical replica in Greek and Roman antiquity, considering both cases from archeology and literary fiction and trying to underline the different meanings that copy acquires in the field of architecture. …”
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Zum Thema Cyber-Mobbing in der zeitgenössischen deutschen Jugendliteratur by Ewa Hendryk

“…The aim of the paper is to identify and investigate, on the basis of an analysis of selected young-adult novels, the main aspects of this phenomenon, i. e. motives for and the effects of cyber-bullying, psychological characteristics of the victims and perpetrators as well as the impact of virtual reality on literary fiction and the structure of literary works.…”
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OSMODRAMA – Theatre for the Nose by Wolfgang Georgsdorf

“…Chemosensory communication as a form of time-based performing art has occurred in form of ideas in literary fiction and in occasional concepts of art or entertainment in the past. …”
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Representações do homem de ciência nas Viagens extraordinárias by Paulo Lavoura

“…Starting from this modeling conception and from the principle that literary fiction as a mode of intelligibility of human societies can constitute a platform of great epistemological relevance, this paper, taking as an angle of approach the work of Jules Verne (1828-1905), this great box of resonance of the anticipations and the glorious conquests but also of the dangers and contradictions underlying the scientific progress of the second half of the nineteenth century, it is proposed to reflect on the different types that make up the polyhedral figure of the man of science of the nineteenth century.…”
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Mr, what’s-his-name, have the goodness to — what-do-ye-call- ‘em, — the, — the thingumbob . Some Remarks on the Sailors Language Terminology and Related Issues in British and Ameri... by Marek Błaszak

“…The article also surveys problem s connected w ith the use of such a language in works of literary fiction addressed to readers ‘ashore’ who are not familiar with specialized maritime dictionary. …”
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Simplifying Complex Problems by Dan Ophir

“…Dilemmas give both color and depth to characters in good literary works. But beyond literary fiction, dilemmas occupy society in every day issues such as in introducing legislation or solving current political problems. …”
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Writers, Manuscripts, Collectors: Modern Authorship and the Fin-de-Siècle Origins of the Literary Archive by Tim Sommer

“…This article looks at literary fiction as a contemporary medium in which this moment of transition was mirrored. …”
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