We describe the N2 (Narrative Networks) Corpus, a new language resource. The corpus is unique in three important ways. First, every text in the corpus is a story, which is in contrast to other language resources that may contain stories or story-like texts, but are not specifically curated to contain only stories. Second, the unifying theme of the corpus is material relevant to Islamist Extremi...

22 English Journal 99.4 (2010): 22–29 by a variety of new terms such as literary nonfiction, creative nonfiction, and documentary narrative. What distinguished these writings from conventional factual and informational texts was that they were not only well-researched accounts of real events or experiences but also artful narratives. They employed literary techniques borrowed from modern and po...

This study examined the number of writing samples needed to obtain a reliable estimate of young struggling writers’ capabilities. It further assessed if performance in one genre was reflective of performance in other genres for these children. Secondand third-grade students (81 boys, 56 girls), who were identified as struggling writers in need of special assistance by their teacher and scored a...

Crime is a popular genre of fiction, widely read but sometimes seen as 'throwaway'. Disregarding this type of fiction because it is seen as low quality does not take into account its value to readers. Reading has been established as a means of improving mental health and well-being-often known as bibliotherapy. This often focuses on fiction considered to have literary merit rather than genre fi...

Hollywood has produced various blockbusters on the subject of disasters. Entering the 2000s, disaster films began to be produced in the East Asian region as well, and as most of them were successful, disaster films have settled as a popular genre in the region. East Asian disaster films utilize a plot structure similar to Hollywood films but, at the same time, represent East Asian people’s uniq...

We examine dialectical tensions between “dialogue” and “narrative” as these discourses supplant one another the fundamental discourse of intelligibility, through juxtaposing two interpretations Genesis 38 rooted in changing interpretative paradigms. Is dialogue properly understood a narrative genre, or is content about which people are dialogue? divine–human relationship drama it god human bein...

The relevance of the research is due both to lack that would comprehend a graphic novel as an independent phenomenon and subject art history, youth genre, its relative non-proliferation in Ukrainian literary space. vast majority Russian publications touch on analysis specific novels context modern studies, which focuses narrative ideological components individual works without taking into accou...