“Blame it on the Black Star”: Black Holes in Culture by Mario Rodriguez

“…“Black holes” continue to compel the human imagination, as demonstrated by the public reception of the first images of a black hole produced by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2019 or the success of Hollywood science fiction movies like Christopher Nolan’s 2014 film Interstellar that depicts what it might be like to fall into one. …”
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R.K. Narayan’s Attitude Towards the ENGLISH Language: by M. Maniruzraman, M. Mamunur Rahman

“…However, he is seen to have used the English language through his fiction to scrutinize colonialism and depict the Indian society continually under change due to the colonial rule. …”
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The Gospel According to Disney+’s “The Mandalorian” by Ruben van Wingerden

“…<i>The Mandalorian</i> is a very popular science-fiction show (two seasons, 2019–2020) set in the famous Star Wars Universe. …”
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Embodiment and Memories: Literary Articulations of Coastal Women and Manifestations Of Indian Ocean Cultures by Ayan Salaad

“…This article brings into conversation two pieces of Indian Ocean fiction about women, a Banaadiri wedding song, called ‘Waa Guuriheeynnaa,’ and Cristina Ali Farah’s published work A Dhow is Crossing the Sea. …”
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Sabuj Dwiper Raja: A Fight for the Rights of Jarawa Identity and Culture by Sandip Kumar Mishra

“…The present paper is an attempt to study Sunil Gangopadhyay’s prose narrative Sabuj Dwiper Raja (The King of the Green Island) which may be treated as a short fiction to fight against the violation of human rights of the Jarawa tribe. …”
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Reifying “Japanese postmodernity” : an exploration of the liminal in Haruki Murakami’s "A Wild Sheep Chase" and other works. by Wulandari, Lydia

“…For the purpose of this paper, focus will be given to how the liminal manifests itself in "A Wild Sheep Chase" – the first in a series of his books that has been translated into English, along with "Dance Dance Dance," which is its sequel and "1Q84," Murakami’s latest work of fiction. Today, Haruki Murakami is a household name and remains proliferate among the Japanese public, while his works continue to receive positive reviews from overseas at the same time. …”
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The ethics of aesthetics in Kawabata Yasunari. by Siti Rohana Binte Mohamed Akhbar.

“…It is through this concern that Kawabata proves he is not the mere sensualist he tends to be dismissed as, and that his works of fiction, "far from being mere fumes ofprettiness, are continuously surprising, often intensely unsettling" and at their best, "unequaled in portraying the psyhic cost of aesthetic pleasure" (Philips n.pg.), that is, the fine-tuning ofcertain senses at the cost of others.While this essay focuses on Snow Country, Thousand Cranes and House ofthe Sleeping Beauties, where relevant, it has also made reference to other major Kawabata fiction, notably "The Dancing Girl of Izu," a short story and Kawabata's first piece ofpublished prose to achieve critical acclaim, and The Sound ofthe Mountain.…”
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Competition in the history of economic thought by Dennis, K, Dennis, Kenneth

“…However, the substance of classical doctrine is retained in neoclassical theory, as is shown by the instrumental role played by "perfect" competition, as an heuristic fiction used in the building of the neoclassical calculus. …”

Genealogy and Analyses of "The Little Black Fish Symbols" by Ali Asghari, Mohammad Amir Abidinia, Abdollah Tolooei Azar

“…The well-known tradition of fiction in the form of "Animal Story" has long been known as a "heritage of human thought" among literary genres. …”
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THE ESTABLISHMENT THE UNIQUE POSITION OF INTELLECTUALS IN MA VAN KHANG’S NOVELS by Ho Thi Phuong Mai

“…However, interpreting Ma Van Khang's artistic choices and the depth of his perspective on the issues he addresses continue to provoke discussions. By situating Ma Van Khang's novels within the broader context of the fluctuating currents of modern Vietnamese fiction that focus on intellectuals and by examining the author's consciousness of the dynamic relationship between literature and life, this article contributes to explaining why the issues raised in the writer's works and the way he presents them have garnered positive responses from readers.…”
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Hybridity in Bapsi Sidhwa’s an American Brat by Gul, Hina, Noor, Rohimmi, Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur

“…As immigrant fiction continues to emerge from the South Asian diaspora across the globe, theories of gender and identity that mostly treat such novels as bildungsromans are often used to bring to light the plight of literary characters caught between two different cultures. …”
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Hvorfor Hundorp? Nytt lys på gudbrandsættens maktsenter by Ingar M. Gundersen, Arne A. Stamnes, Henriette Aasen, Krzysztof Kiersnowski, Anna McLoughlin, Rebecca Cannell, Stian Stø Dørum

“…However, our knowledge of the site is blurred by a mix of fact, fiction, and folklore, and little is known regarding its development and role in the overall power dynamics of the time. …”
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Dream Vision in Chaucer's Poetry by QASSIM SALMAN SARHAN, Manaar Sa'eed

“…Sometimes , the dreamer becomes the protagonist of the dream fiction , and other times , he is only an observer as in Chaucer 's Book of the Duchess .3 …”
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A Psychoanalytic Approach to Orhan Pamuk’s Yeni Hayat / Orhan Pamuk’un Yeni Hayat Romanına Psikanalitik Bir Yaklaşım by Seda İzmirli Karamanlı

“…In Orhan Pamuk’s Yeni Hayat, it is mentioned about a life which can be considered as meaningful by being converted to a fiction by the protagonist, Osman. The cycle of journey occurs in the dark depths of Osman’s subconscious. …”
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Girlhood in Verses by Yan Du

“… Few creative protagonists in girls’ coming-of-age fiction, especially those authored by women, have escaped the lure of poetry writing. …”
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Symbols of Orthodox Calendar in A. Varlamov’s Works by I. B. Avanesyan

“…The relevance of the study is determined by the appeal to the problems of the moral principle in modern fiction and the possibility of reading it from the position of the spiritual potential typical to all Russian classics. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: KAOUTHER ADIMI, "NOS RICHESSES", PARIS, SEUIL, 2017, 215 P. by Daiana-Larisa VĂRĂREAN

“…Les couches de réel et de fiction se superposent dans une sorte d’exofiction vouée à retracer l’histoire d’un homme d’exception, le libraire et l’éditeur Edmond Charlot. …”
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L’invention du roman en zaoum ? Sur Quatre romans phonétiques d’Alexeï Kroutchenykh by Eléna Galtsova

“…In those novels written at times of LEF (Left Front of the Arts) Kruchenykh continues creative quest which Russian futurists had started before the October Revolution. …”
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Noticiari de Barcelona (1977-1980): The Institutionalisation of Protest in the Cinema of Spain’s Transition to Democracy by Jorge Nieto-Ferrando

“…The films produced during the political transition to democracy in Spain continue to capture the interest of film analysts and historians. …”
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Picturing Midlife: Aging and the Limits of Narrative in Carol Shields’s Larry’s Party by Sara Jamieson

“…Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s influential theorization of midlife and midlife fiction celebrates the sequential and teleological aspects of narrative as enabling a kind of life storytelling that characterizes the entry into middle age as progress toward an improved self. …”
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