Young children are surrounded by fictional media, including books, videos, and games. Often they are expected to learn new information from these explicitly fictional sources, while simultaneously avoiding confusion about what is true in the real world versus what is true only in fictional worlds. How do children navigate this ‘‘reader’s dilemma”? The current review addresses this question by f...

In the ongoing efforts to theorize the interactive experience proposed by video games, it is common to make a distinction between fictional elements and the gameplay in itself. E. Adams distinguished between tactical, strategic and fictional immersions. In Half-Real, J. Juul has notoriously declared that video games encompass two things: fictional worlds and real rules. Many approaches stress t...

The cultural profile of the literary haut lieu that is Edinburgh marked by a strong interest in violent history city, specifically, its legacy crime. This preserved variety material and immaterial archives, including substantial body fictional non-fictional literature, inscribed cityscape. It also commodified so as to attract international tourist trade. Using prime example Ian Rankin’s 2001 Re...

plants in ancient fictional texts describe the  relation between low world and super worlds and appear in forms including ritual resurrection, human reincarnation in plant and vice versa, identification of human and plant , and etc which  relate human's spirit to supernatural. contemporary persian poets are taking advantage of a new language that is full of mythical concepts for expression...

1980'lerde başlayan bağımsızlık mücadelesinde, Azerbaycan aydınları, şairleri ve yazarları halkla birlikte bu mücadelede ön saflardaydı. Bağımsızlık Dönemi’nde edebiyatının ana konusu hâline gelen olaylar, modern şiire, gazeteciliğe, sanata düzyazı eserlerine yeterince yansımıştır. Bu konuyu elen alan yazarlar kurgusal belgesel örneklerinde real kahramanların imajlarını gerçekliğe dayanarak yar...