Terraforming of a planetary body (planet or moon) or planetary ecosynthesis is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere composition, temperature, topography, or ecology to be similar to those of Earth to make it habitable for Terran organism, including humans. Terraforming is a common concept in science fiction. In fact, Jack Williamson, a science fiction writer, coined...

Award-winning fiction writer Kirsty Gunn reflects on the current climate of short-story publishing in United Kingdom, and considers way rhetoric sickness health has become attached to discussions form.

shahrnushparsipur and marguerite duras are two contemporary iranian and french writers who share some similarities in their works due to the facts such as being a woman, a writer, an intellectual, living in a twenty century world and having experienced different feminist approaches and living in the east. the question is then what are these similarities? the research hypothesis based on the que...

THE STUDY AND ENJOYMENT of the fiction of s. Y. Agnon has occupied and inspired Hebrew and non-Hebrew readers for a greater part of this century. Agnon 's penchant for depicting his East-European Jewish cultural and spiritual heritage, compounded by his literary genius, has rendered his fiction a veritable treasure-trove of detail portraying traditional Jewish life. Agnon 's work is an expressi...

There are propositions constituting the content of fictions—sometimes of the utmost importance to understand them—which are not explicitly presented, but must somehow be inferred. This essay deals with what these inferences tell us about the nature of fiction. I will criticize three well-known proposals in the literature: those by David Lewis, Gregory Currie, and Kendall Walton.1 I advocate a p...

The study focuses on the manifestation of main literary trends – postmodernism and post-postmodernism in novels contemporary American writer J. Franzen, which has determined purpose paper to identify, characterize analyze leading features new tendencies that have obtained original interpretation writer’s creative activity. article gives a brief overview philosophical, cultural criticism studies...

The dynamics of silence and remembrance in Australian writer Lily Brett’s autobiographic fiction Things Could Be Worse reflects the crisis of memory and understanding experienced by both first and second-generation Holocaust survivors within the diasporic space of contemporary Australia. It leads to issues of handling traumatic and transgenerational memory, the latter also known as postmemory (...

Recently, philosophers have discovered that they have a lot to learn from, or at least to ponder about, fiction. Many metaphysicians are attracted to fiction as a model for our talk about purported objects and properties, such as numbers, morality, and possible worlds, without embracing a robust Platonist ontology. In addition, a growing group of philosophers of mind are interested in the impli...

A growing field at the intersection of literary and trauma studies makes persuasive case for creative writing as a means to represent process across range genres from traditional memoir hybrid fictionalized approaches. Yet, despite this, how specific qualities short fiction can expand on existing modes remains theoretically underexplored. This article offers an intervention into aforementioned ...