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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"fictional worlds"”.
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Fake the dawn : digital game mechanics and the construction of gender in fictional worlds
… mechanical level to mitigate violence in game worlds and the reinforcement of negative real world stereotypes.
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The Shandean world : an examination of the effects of narrative technique on the fictional world of Tristram Shandy
The usefulness of a detailed examination of the fictional world of a novel is demonstrated in a study of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.Analysis of the fictional world of Tristram Shandy, reveals a binary world which is created by the novel's narrative …
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Narrative tactics for making other worlds possible
… a world-building imagination creating their own worlds, and theorizing what they were doing. From the 1960s onwards, fictional worlds were studied from a philosophical point of view, using "possible worlds" theory and modal logic, which consider the ontological status of fictional worlds, the …
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A study of the major science fiction works of Gene Wolfe
… to knowledge and fulfilment in his created fictional worlds, in the characters of his protagonists, and in the complicated narrative structures that distinguish all three texts. By converting the stable and reassuring world of conventional Science Fiction into a realm of uncertainty, …
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Carrollian language arts & rhetoric: Dodgson's quest for order & meaning, with a purpose
… has verifiably altered our lexicon and created fictional worlds that serve as commentary on our ability to effectively create meaning within our existing communicative systems. This ability to create language and illustrations of everyday language issues can be traced back to his personal quest …
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REEXAMINING AND REEVALUATING OTAKU CONSUMPTION: A POSTSTRUCTURALIST APPROACH TO SLICE-OF-LIFE ANIME
… narratives that are responsible for imbuing the fictional worlds of anime with a sense of reality. Far from being individuals who cannot discern between fiction and reality, the otaku embrace these fictional realities in order to compensate for a failure to adhere to traditional notions of …
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The story of a video game: reading the Assassin's Creed universe
<p>In the digital age, fictional narratives worthy of serious analysis are no longer confined to print. In recent years, video games have come under the eye of scholars from many fields. What can video games offer? How do they change the hature of fictional narrative? And how can we study them with …
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Entertainment Station Design for 2.00b (Toy Product Design) PLAYsentation
… from multiple historical time periods and fictional worlds, and walk through the space while appreciating student toys designed from various interpretations of the theme. This thess documents the final outcome and the design process including: ideation, CAD and visualization, prototyping …
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Perverted in Neon
… genres, often incorporating elements of non-fictional pop culture into fictional worlds, and vice-versa. The stories throughout aim to interrogate some notion of emotional maturity, or lack thereof—characters who think they understand the world, but quickly realize that they understand only …
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Mapping the Underthing: Literary Geography and Geographic Education in The Slow Regard of Silent Things
… Through textual analysis, it investigates how fictional spaces can be mapped, the significance of toponyms (i.e., place-names), and the broader implications for literary and geographic studies. Of the fifty-two (52) toponyms analyzed, thirty-eight (38) were meaningfully identified using the …
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Swords in early modern English plays
… reached a turning point both in the real and fictional worlds. The rapier, a thin and light bladed sword in the latest Continental fashion, displaced the traditional English broad sword. The elegant Continental style of fencing with rapiers strongly appealed to Londoners, especially …
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On Hing Travel Agency Fictional Archive of Disappearing Hong Kong
… (OHTA), demolished buildings "travel" into fictional worlds, becoming vessels of memory and imagination. Rooted in Hong Kong’s literary tradition—where fiction resists erasure and archives aspirations—the project employs fiction as both a tool of preservation and a site for belonging. …
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Überweiss: Moving fictional brands into the real world
Brands are everywhere. Even in the fictional worlds we escape to for fantasy, comfort and entertainment. Real brands placed in fiction for marketing purposes is generally called product placement or brand placement. Recently, scholars have been wading into a related field called reverse product …
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Creating a Place for Monstrosity: The Forced Liminality and Limited Mobility of Codified Monstrosity in Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars
… in fantasy elements like supernatural powers and fictional worlds. Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars (2019) is one narrative where this underlying mental health narrative underpins the overarching plot of a character, Nikolai Lantsov, attempting to overcome his transformation into a monster. Applying …
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Ludic Dysnarrativa: How Can Fictional Inconsistency In Games Be Reduced?
The experience of fictional inconsistencies in games is surprisingly common. The goal was to determine if solutions exist for this problem and if there are inherent limitations to games as a medium that make storytelling uncommonly difficult. Termed ‘ludic dysnarrativa’, this phenomenon can cause a …
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Stories "lodged in goods": Reading the thing-culture of the Thousand and One Nights
… how the saturation of the text's historical and fictional worlds with objects, both worldly and otherworldly, reveals more than simply the artefacts of bygone eras. By recognising the agency of things, the thesis proposes, it is possible that we come closer to a method of reading that treats the …
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Intercambio de recursos en la ficción de Percy Wyndham Lewis
… of Lewis' main characters in these four creative worlds. In this regard, our analysis follows the results of various hypotheses proposed by Foa, which were tested in laboratory experiments and field studies. In order to describe their impact on the attitude and social encounters of Lewis' main …
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"The Subordination of the Privileged: Patriarchal Constructions of Femininity in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz"
… provide unique insight into the patriarchal worlds they lived in through autobiographical accounts of their lives. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the diaries of Gilman and her first husband, Charles Walter Stetson, serve as Gilman’s autobiographical texts of the period before, …
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Visible Histories: Print Culture and the Reproducible Past in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… viewers of printed pages, into spectators of fictional worlds by obliging them to agree that narrated histories can be seen. Moments when prior epochs appear before the eyes of fictional characters offer insight into values placed on memory, visual representation, and reproduction. Intimations …
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INNOCENCE, SUFFERING, AND SENSIBILITY: THE NARRATIVE FUNCTION OF THE PATHETIC IN CHAUCER'S TALES OF THE CLERK, PRIORESS, AND PHYSICIAN (ENGLAND)
… in the reader's apprehension of these tales' fictional worlds. The Clerk's Tale juxtaposes the narrator's insistence on the unreasonable cruelty of Walter's tests to his absolute approval of Griselda's response. In addition, the narrator, by invoking the human responses of his audience, …
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