The article discusses the five novels of contemporary Polish writer Marcin Szczygielski about a young witch – Maia. figure witch, which has become an emblem feminist movements, also appears in works fantasy literature, they function as emanations power femininity. heroine Szczygielski’s novel functions on such level. Building strong female characters for girls is new trend this type literature ...

a historical novel is a form of story-like narrative which is a combination of story and history. accordingly, we cannot easily comment whether, within this framework, it is the history that isbeing focused on by the author—as all the story’s elements are employed in the service of the historian—or history simplyplays an incidental role at the back stage of the story. the best exampleof the mix...

To date, document clustering by genres or authors has been performed mostly by means of stylometric and content features. With the premise that novels are societies in miniature, we build social networks from novels as a strategy to quantify their plot and structure. From each social network, we extract a vector of features which characterizes the novel. We perform clustering over the vectors o...

This article analyzes the reemergence of the eighteenth century gothic tradition in the graphic novels of the twentieth century and asserts that the Gothic appears at times of great social changes. Hence, early or later examples of this fiction can be seen as metaphors reflecting the emergence of capitalism and the paradigmatic evolution in man’s epistemological consciousness. The target of cri...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a famous dystopia, frequently called upon in public discussions about new biotechnology. It is less well known that 30 years later Huxley also wrote a utopian novel, called Island. This paper will discuss both novels focussing especially on the role of psychopharmacological substances. If we see fiction as a way of imagining what the world could look like, the...

people usually associate power with military force, multinational corporations, as well as ele-vated political positions. however, marriage and family are not exempted from power strug-gles too; couples often encounter power issues. present article discusses power in families with focussing on power between married partners or conjugal power.the paper also high-lights some of the questions like...

this article draws attention to the ways in which anita amirrezvani’s the blood of flowers (2007), a historical novel set in 17th-century iran, can be placed within the neo-orientalist discourse which informs many of the post-9/11 memoirs and novels set in contemporary iran by women of the iranian diaspora in the united states. besides being a novel on islam and islamic rule—which makes it much...