Subjective construction as discursive effect in Jeanette Winterson’s fiction. by Ng, Jean Kurniati.

“…Second, a re-signification or re-working of meaning through the imaginative language of literary fiction must take place. In this paper I argue that Judith Butler does the first – dismantling the systems of signification in gender constitution – while the fictions of Jeanette Winterson do the second. …”
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Success in books: predicting book sales before publication by Xindi Wang, Burcu Yucesoy, Onur Varol, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Albert-László Barabási

“…We also uncover differences between genres: for thrillers and mystery, the publishing history of an author (as measured by previous book sales) is highly important, while in literary fiction and religion, the author’s visibility plays a more central role. …”
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« Parler ce n'est pas voir. » L’écriture polyphonique dans Les clandestins et C’est beau, la guerre de Youssouf Amine Elalamy by Annelies Schulte Nordholt

“…Through it, the two novels question current accounts of the drama of emigration in the mass media, such as newspaper reportage and photography; these media prefer the immediacy of sight to the mediation of literary fiction.…”
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Dwa żywioły? O strategii badań i związkach muzyki z literaturą by Monika Golec

“…Music is often an element of literary fiction and includes the interpenetration of motifs, content elements that shape mutual dependencies. …”
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THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (1861–1865) IN THE WORKS OF A. BIERCE: HISTORICAL REALITIES AND FICTION by Prilutsky V.V., Yanenko E.M.

“…But such sources of information about the war, as the artistic works of contemporaries, are of a specific nature, since they reflect not only the truth, but also literary fiction. Of particular importance is the work of a direct witness to the events of wartime, a participant in the Civil War, the writer-northerner A. …”
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Discourses of transnational feminism in Marie du Toit’s Vrou en feminist (1921) by Malgorzata Drwal

“…Due to the numerous quotations from scientific papers and literary fiction, mostly English but also Dutch, her book can be described as a heteroglot text. …”
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Die Redlichkeit des Betrugs – Literarische Erinnerung und Totalitarismus bei Herta Müller und Vladimir Vertlib by Dieter Neidlinger, Silke Pasewalck

“…Both authors’ concepts of memory re-pose the question of remembrance as related to historical facts and literary fiction as they try to overcome both the congealed memory and the primacy of experience, understood as a one-to-one translation into memory and literary speech. …”
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Science fiction: źródła i kontynuacje by Pawel Frelik, Lisa Swanstrom, Paul Kincaid, Sherryl Vint, Krzysztof M. Maj, Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk, Mateusz Tokarski

“…What does it take to make a believable illusion of the scientific out of literary fiction? What are the most contemporary views on the genre and its multiple iterations? …”
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The modern Malay : A comparative study of Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957) and Mahathir Mohamad’s The Malay Dilemma (1970) by Mohamad Rashidi Mohd Pakri, Grace, V.S. Chin, Afzal, Malik Haroon

“…Although it is uncommon to compare literary fiction and non-fiction writing, we contend that such an unconventional approach to literary analysis will yield important insights to the narration of Malaysian history, both in the colonial past and postcolonial present, and the place of the modern Malay in it.…”
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John Leech and "Punch" - Tattooing the Story of an Age in a 'Newspaperized World' by Simona Catrinel Avarvarei

“…It is not only the social, cultural and political milieu that interests us, but also the extratextual implications of a visual appearance and narrative that pervaded the literary scene, as nineteenth-century journalism shared its boundaries with the realm of literary fiction. …”
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Idioms in Translation: A Comparative Analysis of Three Persian Translations of The Yard and the Dogs of My Father by Serveh Menbari, Shahin Heidari

“…The Yard and the Dogs of My Father, a Kurdish novelette written by Sherzad Hasan, the well-known Kurdish novelist, is a rich example of using idioms in narrating a literary fiction. It has been translated into Persian three times so far. …”
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Melville and the Vortex Theory of Matter by Paweł Stachura

“…For a time, the vortex atom was recognized as a very promising idea on the cutting edge of science. In literary fiction, the vortex atom translated into curious imagery of a claustrophobic universal plenum, matter and soul combined, organized by intermeshing vortices, and leaving no possible room for a hovering freedom in empty space. …”
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How is Fear Constructed? A Narrative Approach to Social Dread in Literature by Kairi Jets

“…Adjusting Leffler’s list of techniques for tales of dread instead of horror helps analysing the nature and amount of dread present in a range of different narratives from light reading and literary fiction to non-fiction. A narrative approach helps to reveal how non-fiction texts use similar techniques, and sometimes more extensively than fictional texts. …”
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Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics by Charlotte O. Brand, Alberto Acerbi, Alex Mesoudi

“…One major trend in popular music, as well as other cultural products such as literary fiction, is an increase over time in negatively valenced emotional content, and a decrease in positively valenced emotional content. …”
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ON MEMORY OF PLATES AND DISHES. IDENTITY NARRATIVES DERIVED FROM THE CROATIAN CUISINE by Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

“…His circum-culinary narratives are a combination of encyclopaedic knowledge, references to historical and literary sources, personal memories and literary fiction. They can be easily inscribed in the Croatian (collective and individual) identity discourse since they are able to strengthen the collective (either national and supranational, or geo-regional) identity, and to construct the cultural memory. …”
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The birth of American anxiety: fiction and psychiatry, 1937-1987 by Fine, Z

“…</p> <br> <p>This thesis challenges the conventional narratives of the Cold War “age of anxiety,” arguing that a new concept of anxiety was forged in the late 1930s and early 1940s, through literary fiction and the rhetoric of fictionality, to support the growth of a fledgling medical discipline in America: psychiatry. …”

ISTORIJSKO U ROMANU DOBRICE ĆOSIĆA „DALEKO JE SUNCE“ by Nemanja Dević

“…In that sense, the novel The Sun is Far Away should not be viewed only as a literary fiction, but as a part of engaged literature which had far-reaching consequences in the formation of the historical consciousness of post-war generations.…”
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AUTHORIAL SELF-FASHIONING IN THE GERMAN METAFICTION OF THE 21st CENTURY by Ю. О. Помогайбо

“…It is emphasized that the authors, turning to various forms of self- fashioning, appeal, first of all, to the readers who are attracted by any sort of authenticity and try to find the biographical trace in literary fiction. The analysis of the novels proved that the author’s self-fashioning in his own work is a medium used to imitate authenticity and criticize average tastes of the readers who turn into consumers of popular fiction. …”
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Il desiderio di essere una cosa by Andrea Rondini

“…The representation of characters voted to an extreme loneliness and to abolition of emotionalism frequently finds space in contemporary literary fiction. Particularly the article intends to analyze novels in which the desire to move away from the world assumes the traits of a substantial mutation of the subject, who becomes progressively a hermit, a ghost, a ‘thing’. …”
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Arlington Park: Variations on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway by Monica LATHAM

“…Secondly, her work belongs to the current “literary fiction” genre: it is an elitist, lyrical, “writerly” type of fiction born with modernist aesthetics.…”
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