Breaking and entering, or a feeling of heterotopia in tourism situations by Hécate Vergopoulos

“…And yet, in both cases we experienced something of this fantasy of tourism authenticity: entering totally uncharted territory, without mediator or staging, with a view to understanding what life there was really like and discovering this “behind-the-scenes” that is supposed to systematically guarantee “enchantment” with tourists. …”
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« A unique aura of ancient, elemental evil » : les migrations du feu dans The Great God Pan (1894) d’Arthur Machen by Anne-Sophie Leluan-Pinker

“…Fire and its derived metaphors are omnipresent components of the Great God Pan, Arthur Machen’s decadent fin-de-siècle fantasy. Machen’s nightmarish novella relates the aftermath of a failed scientific experiment on a young female patient by a neurologist strongly influenced by alchemical writings. …”
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Using the Debate Method for Teaching Argumentation to 10-12 Year-Old Children by Y. V. Rybka

“…According to the author’s hypothesis, regular integration of discussions into the training course of rhetoric should promote learners’ argumentation, changing it from a mere fantasy through egocentric attitudes to the objective position expressed in a conclusive argumentative way. …”
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Alienation, Adoption or Adaptation? Aestheticist Paintings by Women by Pamela Gerrish Nunn

“…In scrutinising Aestheticism, feminist scholarship has found the usual characteristics: a band of male actors, achievers and heroes, an extensive use of female imagery, and an investment in the idea or fantasy of Woman in the absence (designed or accidental) of actual women. …”
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The Problem of Hybridity by Speculative Space

“…However, a problematic dichotomy remains: whilst a neutral, transparent and universal truth may be a fantasy construct, the disturbance of such a construct through individual embodiments is no simple alternative. …”
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La ruine angkorienne et le fromager : une mise en cloche d’un paysage fantasmé synonyme d’inaction ? by Sébastien Preuil

“…Although most of these representations correspond to reality, some are more of the realm of fantasy or come from another era, as in the case of the representation of the ancient city reclaimed by the jungle. …”
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La Sacralisation littéraire et picturale de la montagne au XIXe siècle : (re)naissances et épiphanies by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…In the works of these authors, mountains—whether real or merely imaginary, whether the results of experience or pure fantasy—are nevertheless the locus of intense epiphanies leading to the advent of the self as true individual and artist…”
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Parallel Universes? Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) and Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (1991-1996) by Hélène Tison

“…Cartoonists Alison Bechdel and Diane DiMassa, writing in a socially and culturally heteronormative context, give life to a fantasy: worlds that, instead of excluding dykes from public space, are entirely organized around lesbian characters. …”
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Taking Place and Finding One’s Place: Unhomely Events in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Exit West (2017) by Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot

“…Hamid's subtle mingling of realism and fantasy offers an aesthetic vantage point from which the event can be addressed and identities can be negotiated.…”
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Using Digital Games in Technology Oriented STEM Education: The Examination of the Students’ Game Designs by Ismail Donmez, Murat Tekce, Serihan Kirmit

“…Students used human figures, animals, objects and fantasy characters as the protagonists in their games. …”
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Who will protect the night's Watch? Legislative reform and a state apparatus for the comprehensive shielding of South African whistleblowers by Radulović Ugljesa

“…Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire high fantasy novels. Utilizing a qualitative approach encompassing two research methods, this paper establishes that whistleblowers protected South Africa alone like a fire burning against the cold, being subjected to various forms of retaliation. …”
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David Lynch’s Los Angeles: Control and Liberation through the Cinematic Image by Jakob Jurisch

“…Lynch’s cinematic outings, such as the neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), the acclaimed Hollywood fantasy Mulholland Drive (2001), and the experimental nightmare Inland Empire (2006), are all set in the heart of the film industry, in Los Angeles, and reveal his most ambitious vision yet: to examine the hierarchies of images in American pop-culture, providing a space in which dreams and nightmares routinely, yet subtly, intersect. …”
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Translating culture: the rise and resonance of Chinese contemporary literature in the Portuguese-speaking world by Xin Huang, Xiang Zhang

“…Additionally, the study reveals that the exploration of fantasy as a universal passion underscores shared experiences that transcends cultural boundaries, connecting readers in China to those in the Portuguese-speaking world. …”
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Poétisation et déréalisation de la ville au XIXème siècle : les tropes d’une littérature hantée by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Yet, because of the way they were represented, cities were paradoxically derealized—even in supposedly realistic texts—and turned into dreamlike or fantasy entities with Gothic or mythical qualities.The fact the city was so omnipresent and disturbing while at the same time so familiar or even commonplace probably accounts for the writers’ keeping it at a distance, through derealizing techniques whose stylistic modalities shall here be examined, namely the use in prose works of literary devices that belong to poetic writing—such as metaphors, hypallages and metonymies—in Thomas De Quincey’s The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) and Poe’s "The Man of the Crowd" (1840). …”
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Toward Endless Life: Population, Machinery, and Monumental Time by Thomas Allen

“…Thus, “deep time” becomes the fantasy of a world other than that made by human beings.…”
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Measurement of Prosocial Reasoning among Chinese Adolescents by Frank H. Y. Lai, Andrew M. H. Siu, Chewtyn C. H. Chan, Daniel T. L. Shek

“…In the first stage of the study (𝑛=50), the PROM scores had high positive correlations with empathy and negative correlations with personal distress and fantasy. These results were consistent with theoretical expectations, although this is also a concern that empathy had a close-to-unity correlation with PROM score in the small sample study of stage 1. …”
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Écran magique et prégnance du hors champ : l’art du cadrage dans « Mrs Bathurst » de Kipling by Élodie Raimbault

“…The projection on a screen of images taken from reality paradoxically opens up onto the realm of fantasy and unreality.The frame, that is to say the delimitation of a point of view, is certainly what creates this magical effect and it is interesting to see that in « Mrs Bathurst » Kipling uses techniques which have a similar effect, such as elliptical statements, understatements, and unspoken comments. …”
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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

“…For Reynolds and Rymer, therefore, the hoax did not constitute a departure or escapist fantasy, but a potentially more persuasive affirmation of the ideological commitments that they shared. …”
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Combined Case of Blood-Injury-Injection Phobia and Social Phobia: Behavior Therapy Management and Effectiveness through Tilt Test by Fotini Ferenidou, Theodoros Chalimourdas, Velissarios Antonakis, Nikolaos Vaidakis, Georgios Papadimitriou

“…The specific contribution of social skills techniques, fantasy, and real-life situations exposure was examined in a single case design. …”
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Misères et splendeurs d’un mendicant dans 'Le Seigneur vous le rendra' de Mahi Binebine by Mohamed Semlali

“…If the marvellous is not completely evacuated, if the narrator claims a part of fantasy in his story, the novel is there to remind us that a literary work is also a reflection on the human condition of those left behind and on the alienation of the individual who must redouble his ingenuity to assert himself as a singular and independent being. …”
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