Abstract Ian Serraillier is best remembered for his children’s book, The Silver Sword , first published in 1956. However, along with wife Anne, he was also instrumental creating New Windmill Series, an imprint of Heinemann Educational Books, and one the collections teenage fiction aimed education market. This article discusses way which Serraillier’s ideological beliefs, rooted Quaker faith, ca...

This paper describes a fictional questionnaire intended to be completed by applicants to an intentional community devoted to gamifying all aspects of its members’ lives. This format was chosen as a plausible alternative to science fiction tropes that include the population of entire worlds or counties. It was also chosen because the historical motivations for creating intentional communities cl...

More than a century ago, Henry James authored The Golden Bowl, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Wings of the Dove—said to be the finest American prose fiction ever written (Bloom 2002:748). These novels are enthusiastically read and appreciated to this day, reflecting not only James’s innate artistry but also his development as a writer in response to critiques of his work. He once commented abo...

this paper is an attempt to shed light on how michael ondaatje has tried to rewrite western history in his booker prize-winning novel the english patient (1992). in the light of colonial and postcolonial theories and hayden white’s theory of narrativity of history, which regards historical accounts as metaphorical statements, the researchers try to show how ondaatje challenges the authenticity ...

Some scientists write literary fiction books in their spare time. If these books contain scientific knowledge, literary fiction becomes a mechanism of knowledge transfer. In this case, we could conceptualize literary fiction as non-formal knowledge transfer. We model knowledge transfer via literary fiction as a function of the type of scientist (academic or non-academic) and his/her scientific ...

nathaniel hawthorne's art of writing marks a specific point in the history of american literature. the revolution brought with it libertine outcomes from adherence to strict puritanical creeds of life. a little later, romanticism intensified this break even further by glorifying the individuality of the author and his role in creating a novel american voice. writing within such context, on...