In my thesis, I examine the discursive space of the detective fiction genre following Kasai Kiyoshi’s periodization in his two-volume seminal work Tantei shōsetsuron (The Theory of Detective Fiction, 1998). I investigate how Japanese detective fiction has developed in relation to Japan’s modernization, industrialization, nationalism, and globalization, specifically in the 1920s-30s, the 1950s-6...

[1] The title of the collection of essays edited by George Aichele and Tina Pippin Violence, Utopia, and the Kingdom of God alerts the reader to one theme common to most of them, while its subtitle Fantasy and Ideology in the Bible tells its theoretical foundations. In a delightfully postmodern way, the essays themselves are playful forays into the realm of fantasy, making my reading experience...

Fiction, more than expository text, nurtures intimate connections between text and the reader’s life experiences. This dimension of reader response is underexplored in relation to children. Adapting methods from Empirical Literary Studies educational research objectives, authors employed concept ‘remindings’, i.e. reminiscing prompted by studying children’s life-resonant responses self-selected...

Bibliography Non-fiction: Journal Articles/Newspaper/Magazine Articles/Websites Austin, K., ‘The wall of lost plots’, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 16 2003, accessed 26/5/07, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/15/1060936055120.html. Baxter, C., ‘Sonya’s last speech or double voicing: An essay in 16 sections’, Colorado Review, Fall/Winter 2006. Bell, A.C., ‘The rise and fall of the detec...

Despite being prominently associated with its supernatural qualities, nature also features in fantasy fiction, an aspect of the genre that is often overlooked. Fantasy fiction developed as a dialectical opposition to Enlightenment and realist novel, based on binary oppositions reason/supernatural realism/supernatural. It possible add next same side these since reason/nature or culture/nature an...

O romance de fantasia permite às pessoas o acesso ao(s) mundo(s) do imaginário e, nesse sentido, somos levados a indagar se esse subgênero em prosa não será um meio potencial para incentivar leitura entre os jovens. Guiados por tal inquietação, propusemos uma prática formação leitores partir livro A terra dos meninos pelados, Graciliano Ramos (2010). atividade, fundamentada preceitos multiletra...