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 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 ...

This longitudinal study on recommended children's books translated into English and published in the United States between 1990-2003 allowed researchers to identify trends translations based language, genre subject. The most frequent language of translation was German, followed by French Swedish. Animal Personification popular genre, Realistic Fiction Information books. A majority were picture ...

Genre is a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content (according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary [2] – among two other, less relevant definitions). It can be debated whether a genre can be defined by style (and form) alone, or must content (topic) also be taken into account. For example, can science fiction be distinguished ...

Meredith L. McGill, ‘‘What Is a Ballad? Reading for Genre, Format, and Medium’’ (pp. 156–175) In this essay I show how definitions of the ballad shift as critics take into account not only the place of ballads within the genre system but also the mediation of nineteenthcentury ballads across the full range of popular and elite print formats. Arguing that the ballad is a genre that flourishes wi...

Skull can be interpreted as an investigation by PD James into the way a classical detective character, stereotypes, crime and setting would be affected by the introduction of modern-world issues and values. Essentially she has placed the manor-house setting within contemporary Britain, and migrated its inhabitants to Courcy Castle as a controlled experiment in sociology. In this way, James succ...

We describe the results of large scale perception experiments showing improvements in synthesising two distinct kinds of prominence: standard pitch-accent and strong emphatic accents. Previously prominence assignment has been mainly evaluated by computing accuracy on a prominence-labelled test set. By contrast we integrated an automatic pitch-accent classifier into the unit selection target cos...

Violence, magic and realism – the three terms offer various possible enquiries and I might begin by suggesting two kinds of violence – the depiction of violence in story or narrative, a shooting, knifing, murder of whatever kind – and on the other hand, a violence in the text of fiction itself. The first one is easy to comprehend. In modern Scottish fiction, the novel No Mean City (1935) evokes...

Literary journalism, a hybrid writing style that borrows techniques from journalism and prose fiction, is being scrutinized as literature since its conception in early twentieth century. This kind of genre when read, arouse in readers the feelings of empathy and rejoining with their own experiences and sensations. Taking some fitting examples of this genre from American literature, the purpose ...