During 2020, sales of books increased as readers found more time to engage with fiction and return that provided comfort a sense escapism. The Covid-19 pandemic also the space for new genre, “covid fiction”, emerge. This article examines sub-genre poetry” by integrating text reader response data analysis examine representation experience in Michele Witthaus’ poem “The shape fear”. Analysis reve...

This paper examines the international nature of science fiction. The focus of this research is to determine whether science fiction is primarily English speaking and Western or global; being created and consumed by people in non-Western, non-English speaking countries? Science fiction's international presence was found in three ways, by network analysis, by examining a online retailer and with ...

Within literary criticism, the second-person narrative is frequently read within conventions of modern realistic novel, tackling narratee/protagonist as a narratological problem. Such an approach, however, overlooks core component what fiction aims to do: that is, draw reader into and experience world text firsthand. Seeking instead theorize ways in which narratives involve invite act perspecti...

Trend of Pakistani English Fiction Since Partition to 1970; is a multidimensional effort to not only to highlight the prevalent themes and trends of the fiction , but also to bring into limelight those legends of Pakistani English Fiction, who can be considered the founders of English fiction in Pakistan. The phenomenon includes a lot of names, which are now completely forgotten or are taken fo...

This article examines The Tale of the Mammoth and Glacier Man, an unfinished novel by P. L. Dravert. text is analysed from point view prehistoric fiction science fiction, as well reflection constants basic for “Siberian text” Russian literature. was first put forward V. I. Tyupa. In culture, Siberia connected with several ideas. It a place exiles, death resurrection, utopian paradise, territory...

Immersion in reading, described as a feeling of 'getting lost in a book', is a ubiquitous phenomenon widely appreciated by readers. However, it has been largely ignored in cognitive neuroscience. According to the fiction feeling hypothesis, narratives with emotional contents invite readers more to be empathic with the protagonists and thus engage the affective empathy network of the brain, the ...

this essay examines the practice of free indirect discourse (fid), as a narrative-stylistic device, in hossein sanapour’s lips on a blade (2010). after a brief overview of the novel ’s narrative structure, the four modes of representing characters’ discourses in narrative fiction are introduced and exemplified. among these modes, fid is the most important since it is the only one which leads to...

morrison’s song of solomon could be viewed as a paragon of trauma fiction. since no narrative of trauma can be told in a linear way, morrison tries to depict the overwhelming power of trauma through a non-linear narrative, episodic delivery, and flashbacks. accordingly, the readers are compelled to concoct the disjointed and fragmented memories in order to solve the riddle of the text, in which...

In this paper I investigate the contribution Text World Theory (Werth 1999, Gavins 2007) can make to an understanding of how viewpoint effects are brought about in prose fiction. Text World Theory is concerned with how language, as well as the context in which it is produced/received, leads the participants in the discourse to build mental representations for the situations being described, des...