GREG HEFFLEY’S ROLE CONFUSION IN THE DIARY OF A WIMPY KID (2007): A PSYCHOSOCIAL ANALYSIS by Heri Dwi Santoso, Dwi Ario Fajar

“… Literary psychological scholars see psychological problems faced by a fictional character in a literary work as a reflection of the author’s awareness of similar phenomena that happen to a real person in real life. …”
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Function of Simile in Symphony “The Dead” by Alireza Asadi, Sara Hosseini

“…Take a look at contemporary Persian literature and reviews, the role of similarity in the Persian novels show that in the Persian novels, unlike poems, the impact of such unit of similarity goes beyond and if the overall form and its relation to all the figurines novels reviewed, concepts derived from the fictional works of critics could identify the genre and style of the author. …”
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The Galungan Holiday in Postmodern Historical Studies by I Nyoman Wijaya

“…The research results show that the reference to Galungan as the day of victory of dharma over adharma is the result of demythologization, a fictional story that is reconstructed and considered as truth. …”
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A Politics of Working-Class Culture and the Culture of Working-Class Politics: The Aesthetics and Activism of Amber Film and Photography Collective and the Berwick Street Film Coll... by Jessica Williams Boyall

“…By engaging in a comparative reading, I highlight the breadth of Amber’s oeuvre, tracing the development of their filmmaking strategies—which included agitprop, the fusion of factual and fictional formal elements and transnational collaboration with the German Democratic Republic’s film production company, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA)—to demonstrate that, contrary to criticisms levelled by contemporary theorists clustered around Screen magazine and the British Film Institute, Amber transcended the constraints of Documentary Realism by incorporating radical avant-garde aesthetics into their oppositional practice. …”
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Interwencja bogini/Szatana? "Wenus w futrze" (2013) – lektura palimpsestowa filmu Romana Polańskiego by Iwona Kolasińska-Pasterczyk

“…Venus in Fur has been defined as a kind of palimpsest, i.e. a film story based on the fictional skeleton of other works. Referring to the concept developed by Gérard Genette, who categorized the ways in which different texts interact with each other, the article investigates the film’s hypertextuality, i.e. the “grafting” of Venus in Fur (as a hypertext) upon earlier works (hypotexts). …”
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The Fractured Self: Exploring Selfhood in the Neuronovel The Echo Maker and the Neuromemoir Brain on Fire by Bonnie Cross

“…This paper will focus on two works: the neuronovel The Echo Maker (2006) by Richard Powers, a fictional account of Mark Schluter who suffers from Capgras Syndrome, that is, a rare neurological condition that results in the patient’s belief that their loved ones have been replaced with exact copies; and the neuromemoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (2012) by Susannah Cahalan, which describes Cahalan’s experiences as she is diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a rare auto-immune disease. …”
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Reprises textuelles dans The Dew Breaker d’Edwidge Danticat by Corinne Duboin

“…In the wake of francophone Haitian writers (namely Jacques Roumain, the author of Masters of the Dew, or Jacques Stephen Alexis who wrote General Sun, My Brother), Edwidge Danticat fictionalizes the traumatic history of a people confronted with violence and terror and engages in a complex intertextual play. …”
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Dorothy Richardson’s Correspondence during the Second World War and the Development of Feminine Consciousness in Pilgrimage by Ivana TRAJANOSKA

“…As an unjustifiably marginalized forerunner of English modernism, Dorothy Richardson left behind her, apart from her 13-volume novel Pilgrimage, a few short stories and poems, a considerable amount of non-fictional writings including essays and over two thousand letters. …”
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Adivasi Marginality and the Vicissitudes of Violence in Rejina Marandi’s Becoming Me by Sayan Chatterjee

“…In this context, Rejina Marandi’s Becoming Me becomes a significant literary endeavor. As the inaugural fictional work in English by an Adivasi from the Northeast, the novel attempts to ventriloquize the collective Adivasi concerns and experiences specifically in Assam, and Northeast in general. …”
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Aspiration numérique et mise à distance du corps by Renaud Hétier

“…This twofold mediation (game + virtualization) makes it easy to mix game and violence, the last being avoided by a deliberate distance and by fictionalization. As the borderline is not experienced (by destruction, by experiencing vulnerability), the necessity of an agreement virtualizing violence may not be felt. …”
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ISTORINIS PASAKOJIMAS KAIP NARATOLOGINĖS ANALIZĖS OBJEKTAS by Vytautas Žemgulis

“…Keywords: historical narrative, fictional narrative, narratology, narratological analysis. …”
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How to understand the parables of Jesus. A paradigm shift in parable exegesis by R. Zimmermann

“…Instead, the discussion of a comprehensive genre of “parable” utilises the genre consciousness of the early Christian authors; a genre that can be precisely defined by means of a literary-critical description in terms of the criteria of narrativity, fictionality, relation to reality, metaphor, appeal structure and co-/contextuality. …”
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ISTORINIS PASAKOJIMAS KAIP NARATOLOGINĖS ANALIZĖS OBJEKTAS by Vytautas Žemgulis

“…Keywords: historical narrative, fictional narrative, narratology, narratological analysis. …”
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Papa’s Baby, Mama’s Maybe: Reading the Black Paternal Palimpsest and White Maternal Present Absence in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand by Yolanda M. Manora

“…Given her socially and psychically untenable subject position as the “too dark to pass” child in a white family and the sense of isolation and, ultimately, abandonment, that attended it, it’s little wonder that Larsen’s autobiographically-informed fictional narratives can be read as sites of relational failure. …”
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The Roman catastrophe of 1527 in the Italian Wars, or Sacco di Roma: analysis of the historical interpretation of the event by several contemporaries by Pavlov Kirill Vladimirovich

“…As an appendix to the study, there is a translation from Italian into Russian of Vettori’s dialog fragment by the same name “Sacco di Roma”, in which the diplomat expresses his ideas about the papacy through the mask of a fictional character – the Florentine Antonio.…”
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From the Road Movie to Wilderness Travel: The Quest for Adventure on the Road and the Myth of the Heroic Traveller by Pascale Argod

“…The conceptions of ‘wild’, as addressed in fictional travel diary films, question our relationship with space and the form of travel that gives rise to self-transcendence through a confrontation with the environment. …”
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Response-efficacy messages produce stronger passwords than self-efficacy messages … for now: A longitudinal experimental study of the efficacy of coping message types on password c... by Joelle Simon, Steven J. Watson, Iris van Sintemaartensdijk

“…Participants (N = 221) were instructed to create passwords for three fictional online accounts after receiving password creation instructions that incorporated one of the aforementioned coping message types. …”
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A Gothic heterotopia: four Anglophone responses to Venice by John Thieme

“…Starting from the view of the cultural geographer, Doreen Massey, that it is necessary to ‘move beyond a view of place as bounded, as in various ways a site of authenticity, as singular, fixed and unproblematic in its identity’, this article argues that places change in time, because the physical environment changes, especially in the Age of the Anthropocene, and because they are the product of imaginatively conceived collective fictions. It takes the view that outsiders invariably construct heterotopian visions of places, often drawing on past imaginaries and that Venice has habitually been cognitively perceived through Gothic lenses, in which past, present and future intermingle. …”
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Analysis of the Narrative and Its Connection with the Theme in Cheraghha Ra Man Khamoosh Mekonam by Timoor Malmir, Hosein Asadijozani

“…Our main purpose is to explain the author's level of innovation in using fictional elements and to explain the relationship between narrative and theme of the novel. …”
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Revisiting Enhanced Protection: Implications from a Practical Case Study by Emma Cunliffe

“…The training audience, Eurocorps, was presented with a complex non-international armed conflict in which tensions escalated over a (fictional) site under enhanced protection. Multiple stakeholders, including the national owners and armed non-state groups, provoked conflicting legal and policy obligations. …”
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