The article analyses the linguistic portrait of a Pole in Henryk Sienkiewicz’ novel “With Fire and Sword”. usage rycerz, żołnierze, kniaź, as well substantive word combinations rycerski honor i sumienie, wielka sława rycerska, honoru wszystkich cnót rycerskich are determined, which expand fiction-image paradigm simulated portrait. It was found that productive means creating characters include n...

The features of the composition of small prose by L. Ulitskaya (on the example of the stories "Bronka", "Happy", "Poor Relatives") are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the features of picturing time in stories, to the past which is sometimes more important for understanding the motives and characters of L. Ulitskaya’s heroes than the present and even...

In this paper, we discuss a part of participatory culture that so far has not received much attention in the academic world; it is the writing and reading of game fan fiction. The focus in this paper is on fan fiction, based on three different games that represent three different game genres: Tetris, StarCraft and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. The aim is to advance our understanding of how pl...

The mathematical distinction between prose and verse may be detected in writings that are not apparently lineated, for example in T. S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton, and Jim Crace’s Quarantine. In this paper we offer comments on appropriate statistical methods for such work, and also on the nature of formal innovation in these two texts. Additional remarks are made on the roots of lineation as a metric...

This paper is meant to be an introduction both to the short story Nebulous Mechanisms as well as the concept of science fiction prototypes. In the tradition of the legendary Isaac Asimov, we jump into the long and symbiotic history of science fact and science fiction. Briskly we move through current work in the field and delve into the particulars of the craft of combining current scientific re...

hrough the study of two models, the video games Metroid Prime 3 and Bioshock, the present article explores the relations between the game-play experience related to interactive fiction and the kind of narrative construction typical of two of the key science fiction genres: intergalactic conflict and the distopic city. By means of identifying two complementary dimensions that shape gaming experi...

The science fiction of Ursula Le Guin deftly uses prose to conjure alternative worlds, societies and cultures nature amidst times profound upheaval. Equally, her writing is suffused with quiet hope: the sense that we already possess tools required craft better futures, if only paid attention here now. Across work, poses political ethical questions about value of, our relationship to, wider envi...

The article provides an overview of early Russian translations and publication modern Chinese fiction (1919-1949). approaches to the study works prominent representatives literature are examined reasons why Soviet society is interested in their heritage identified. Since 1920s, well-known renowned writers have been frequently translated into mainly by young sinologists. Most them had China deve...

In this article, we challenge the hegemony of western science fiction, arguing that western science fiction is particular even as it claims universality. Its view remains based on ideas of the future as forward time. In contrast, in non-western science fiction the future is seen outside linear terms: as cyclical or spiral, or in terms of ancestors. In addition, western science fiction has focus...

Making a theoretical case linking genre trajectory with artistic legitimation struggles, this paper seeks to explain the development of the American science fiction magazine. Across the fifty-plus years analyzed, science fiction emerged from its lowbrow pulp fiction origins into a highly successful, critically acclaimed genre across multiple mediums. This empirical trend is then modeled using p...