When Shakespeare met Raimi: David Mence’s Macbeth re-arisen by Ruben Benatti, Angela Tiziana Tarantini

“…According to award-winning author David Mence, the borders between pulp science fiction, fantasy and horror and literary fiction are more permeable than we think (Mence, 2014). …”
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Literature and the Nugget of Knowledge. An Interview with Derek Attridge and Peter Lamarque by Leen Verheyen

“… The idea of an interview with Peter Lamarque and Derek Attridge on the cognitive value of literary fiction arose in the wake of an aesthetics course on the relation between literature and truth at the University of Antwerp. …”
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Literature and the Nugget of Knowledge. An Interview with Derek Attridge and Peter Lamarque. by Leen Verheyen, Arthur Cools

“…The idea of an interview with Peter Lamarque and Derek Attridge on the cognitive value of literary fiction arose in the wake of an aesthetics course on the relation between literature and truth at the University of Antwerp. …”
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Szerepjáték, álnévhasználat és irodalmi fikció by KRISZTIÁN BENYOVSZKY

“…Role-playing games, the use of pseudonyms and literary fiction The paper contains the onomastic analysis of the comedy crime novel Zločin Hercula Poirona (The Crime of Hercule Poiron) by Eva Bešťáková, which was published in 2016. …”
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Strategie testuali, paratestuali e discorsive in Manuscrito cuervo di Max Aub by Luisa Selvaggini

“…The result is an anthropological pseudo-reflection written by an unlikely chronicler, whose external point of view gives the real events – personally experienced by Aub, who is the true witness – the status of literary fiction. In this way, Aub speaks about his own experience but not from an autobiographical perspective, and transmits a personal memory that is both individual and collective.…”
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Estudio de un corpus de narraciones orales que explican el origen de seudogentilicios by César Pascual Romero Casanova

“…The following article presents, based on the study of fourteen narrations that explain the origin of pseudo-gentilic from the province of Alicante, the main narrative features of these oral texts, a specific type inside the oral literary fiction because of her peculiar purpose. In addition, the article emphasizes the peculiarity that defines the communicational process where these tales are developed, and studies their publication in the main catalogues of oral fiction. …”
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The role of science fiction within the fluidity of slipstream literature by Janez Steble

“…The paper explores the complex and contradictory role of science fiction in slipstream, the type of postmodern non-realistic literature situated between the fantastic genres and the mainstream literary fiction. Because of its unstable status of occupying an interstitial position between multiple literary conventions, the article first deals with an expansive terminology affiliated with slipstream and elucidates upon using a unified term for it. …”
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El inconsciente y la ficción literaria by Daniel Zimmerman

“…Abstract Freud recognized in literary fiction an invaluable instrument in the search for clinical truth. …”
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Introduction by Magdalena Ciechowska, Maria Szymańska

“…This issue is often addressed from theoretical, cognitive, practical, and research angles, which is reflected in scholarly and popular-science pub- lications as well as literary fiction. It is not bound to any particular time or place and it is relevant at all stages of a person’s life, from conception to death. …”
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THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE ARSACIDS’ DESCENT FROM THE ACHAEMENIDS: MYTH OR REALITY? by Arthur Melikyan

“…In this case, it becomes obvious that the “Arrianian” legend about the genealogical connection between the Arsacids and the Achaemenids is not just a literary fiction, but has a real historical basis.…”
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Haunting across the Class Divide: Sarah Waters’s Affinity and The Little Stranger by Barbara Klonowska

“…Haunting in literary fiction is often interpreted psychologically as a sign of suppressed psychic content or as nostalgia or mourning for the loss. …”
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The TRANSCOMP Dataset of Literary Translations from 120 Languages and a Parallel Collection of English-language Originals by Matt Erlin, Andrew Piper, Douglas Knox, Stephen Pentecost, Allie Blank

“…The TRANSCOMP Dataset of Literary Translations is a collection of document-level word frequencies sampled from 10,631 translations into English of global literary fiction published since 1950, together with a historically matched parallel corpus of 10,682 fictional works originally published in English. …”
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Doing good, feeling bad: humanitarian emotion in crisis by Devika Sharma

“…Looking at the interpretation of humanitarianism undertaken by cultural artifacts such as film, theater, contemporary art, literary fiction, and humanitarian communication, we realize that such cultural phenomena regularly reflect not only upon various humanitarian crises, but also upon a crisis within the humanitarian imaginary itself. …”
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Literary Lessons in Law: Legal Culture in a Changing Welfare State by Helle Blomquist

“… Can literary fiction provide a specifically advantageous framework for discussions about law and legal culture in an increasingly diverse society? …”
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In Pursuit of the “Real” Nigeria/n through the Archives of Heinemann’s African Writers Series by Sue Walsh

“…This, combined with the fact that the series was published by an educational company looking for a way to market its product in an environment that did not yet have a place for African writers when it was first launched, might also be regarded as having fostered a tendency within the publishing house to treat the works submitted to it more as socio-historical documents than as works of literary fiction and to lead to their framing in anthropological terms. …”
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Kublai Kan, i mondi possibili e le menzogne del racconto by Marina Polacco

“…In Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino questions the status of literary fiction, between truth, falsehood and possible worlds. …”
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Poetyka polskiego przekładu Genji monogatari, czyli Opowieści o księciu Genjim Murasaki Shikibu by Iwona Kordzińska-Nawrocka

“…978-1025 or 1031) is considered a forerunner of modern literary fiction with a profound humanistic approach. The work itself has been translated into modern Japanese and many European languages. …”
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El inconsciente y la ficción literaria by Daniel Zimmerman

“…Abstract Freud recognized in literary fiction an invaluable instrument in the search for clinical truth. …”
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Captain Rodrigo Cambará crosses the portal - between literature and history by DÓRIS HELENA Soares da Silva Giacomolli

“…Literature can present fiction narratives as if they were real, bringing real characters for literary fiction. There are similarities between the historical narrative and fictional story since the two speeches are structured the same way and equally they are given meaning. …”
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«The Flowering Of The Strange Orchid»: From Plant Science To Victorian Horror From a Multidisciplinary Approach by Francisco Javier Sánchez-Verdejo Pérez, Jorge Poveda Arias

“…In conclusion, Wells' story makes an important critique of the way man relates to nature using literary fiction and the cutting-edge plant science knowledge of his time.  …”
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