"Fiction River: Fantastic Detectives is a great choice for anyone who loves it when genres are swirled together. It's nominally more heavily influenced by mystery conventions and tropes, but the science fiction and fantasy elements in it are almost as strong." –Long and Short Reviews on Fict...
who are lovable and good-hearted, while the figures of ‘normality’ within the show are often presented as small-minded or mean-spirited. Indeed, if ‘normality’ is a problem, and the monster is sympathetic, the show can be seen as a response to the discourses of conformity within the ...
young adult, adult; epic, sword & sorcery, urban, paranormal, light… For this post I’m going to concentrate on young adult fantasy, because that is a genre close to my heart, but collecting a bunch of sub-genres.
However, the anime has also been criticized for its pro-military themes and fascist iconography and whether these can be detached from the anime’s own world. Either way,Attack on Titanwill likely give you much to ponder, and that is undoubtedly its strength, which is why it's deserving of...
This challenge increases for sub‐genres and other categories of text data that are less distinct from the whole. This project pilots machine learning methods and word feature analysis for identifying Black Fantastic genre texts within the HathiTrust Digital Library. These texts are sometimes referred ...
fiction-writing persona, “Richard Dehan”. She transgressed contemporary gender norms by dressing in male attire, wearing her hair short, and smoking in public. This border crossing can be seen also in her work, which encompasses a wide variety of forms and modes. And while she wrote ...
During the final quarter of the twentieth century both the nature and the supposed dominance of realism in Victorian fiction were interrogated by critics concerned to explore the non-realist or anti-realist aspects of canonical Victorian novels, and/or to redirect literary historical attention to the...