Reading about Winter

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. S12-S13
Author(s):  
Judith Harries
Keyword(s):  
Non Fiction ◽  
Good Book ◽  
Selection Of

One of my favourite activities in Winter is to curl up with a good book on the sofa, whatever the weather outside. Take a look at this selection of books about winter, both stories and non-fiction, to share with the children in your setting and use the activities to help them discover more about the changes of the seasons.

Typographical and Editorial Solutions as a Source of Hybridization in Polish Non-Fiction Literature

Tekstualia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (66) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Frukacz
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Experimental Works ◽  
Printing Paper ◽  
Cover Design ◽  
Physical Components ◽  
Selection Of

The article focuses on the selected examples of the blurring of a book’s genre status by means of specifi c editorial solutions, such as the use of a spatial layout of the text, the differentiation of fonts, the selection of printing paper, the cover design etc. This mechanism is discussed on the example of six experimental works of contemporary Polish non-fi ction literature. Books by Filip Springer and Jarosław Mikołajewski, bordering upon literary reportage, show how the use of typography enhances the formal hybridity or even amorphousness of the text. In turn, Mariusz Szczygieł and Wojciech Tochman, their documentary narratives, emphasize the mutual synergy between the physical components of the book, which undermines the standard genre classifi cation.

scholarly journals Symptoms of information-psychological war in the works by L.E. Ulitskaya

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Ada Alexandrovna Bernatskaya
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Careful Selection ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Field Methods ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Right ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Selection Of

Translated into dozens of foreign languages, the works by L.E. Ulitskaya are very popular and have become the object of literary studies. This article aims at the linguo-ideological research of the writer’s works. As the source of the material, three collections were selected including fiction and non-fiction works of the writer. The direct object of the study is represented by the concepts of social significance in their textual axiological modality. Their combination shows the writer's vision of life in Soviet and contemporary Russia. The research methodology includes conceptual analysis with the technology of discursive-interpretational analysis, the traditional analytical-descriptive method, the method of metaphorical modeling, the elements of component and content analysis, field methods. The analysis revealed a totally negative assessment vector related to the Soviet, contemporary, and also future existence of the country and the state. The types of negativity are reflected by the category of subjective modality. The results of the study give the right to assert the presence in the writer’s works the signs / symptoms of information-psychological war, which means the need for careful selection of her texts when recommending them for inclusion into the educational programme.

‘Written in the Interest of the People’: Representing the Law in Cyprian Ekwensi and Market Literature

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-129
Author(s):  
Katherine Isobel Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Urban Life ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The People ◽  
Emotional Relationships ◽  
The Law ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

Chapter Five examines how the law is represented and deployed in Cyprian Ekwensi’s Jagua Nana and People of the City and in a selection of Nigerian market fiction. The law and its transgression permeated a range of publications in the years immediately preceding and after independence. Fiction and non-fiction alike repeatedly engaged with questions of crime and punishment, and even invoked legal paradigms to explore sexual and emotional relationships. This chapter demonstrates how market literature sought to generate through its own imagined communities discussion about and regulation of the apparent lawlessness of modern urban life. In attending to the larger presence of the law in both high- and lowbrow literature of the period, this chapter shows how the law was shaped in the popular imagination at independence.

scholarly journals Cine colaborativo, entre los discursos, la experimentación y el control: metodologías participativas en ficción y no-ficción

Obra digital ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 13-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoni Roig Telo
Keyword(s):  
Community Programs ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Selection Of

Las formas basadas en la colaboración y la participación de colectivos amplios y diversos, no necesariamente especializados, en los procesos creativos, como es el caso del cine colaborativo, se han erigido en uno de los principales fuentes de experimentación formal, temática y metodológica en la producción cultural contemporánea. En este artículo, me propongo explorar algunas de las principales características del cine colaborativo, partiendo de una discusión sobre la noción de participación basada en los estudios sobre democracia. A través de dos casos ejemplo me propongo identificar algunas discrepancias entre los discursos y la implementación de procesos reales de participación, así como diferencias y continuidades entre las metodologías de creación colaborativa cinematográfica en el campo de la ficción y la no-ficción.Collaborative cinema, between discourses, experimentation and control:participatory methodologies in fiction and non-fictionAbstractFactual narratives are based on an assumed referential veracity in regard to their stories. Within this vast field of reality, we describe three specific forms of expression: audiovisual, interactive andtransmedia. Over recent years, each of these forms of expression has developed its own strategies and mechanisms to encourage collaboration, participation and involvement of audiences. Whetherthrough advertising, community programs, participative projects or platforms that empower users, the possibilities of these factual projects seem to go on and on, being reinvented in each new formof expression. In this paper, we analyze how these three forms have influenced the field of non-fiction, on the basis of a selection of key genres and formats such as documentaries, journalism, museums and essays.Keywords: Factual narrative, participation, collaboration, documentary, journalism, museum, essaypp. 13-25

scholarly journals Pautas y restricciones en el cine de no ficción contemporáneo

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubén Marín Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Basic Element ◽  
The Real ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Documentary Video ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Selection Of

The present research address contemporary non-fiction films based on rules, restrictions or very specific devices. Radical video pieces in the form and its approach to “the real” that challenge the conventions of documentary film and are linked to other contemporary art practices. Our research focuses on those non-fiction works made in the last twenty years, a minor cinema with a minimalist vocation, linked to the avant-garde documentary, video art and video amateur, based on very precise patterns, not as a anecdotal fact, but as a basic element that determines the construction of them. The selection of the films will be made analysing the qualities they have to allow us to establish typologies of study and to define the basis of theoretical models of analysis. According to the technique or mechanism used, the qualities of the films we analyse can be constructed based on the seriality of their elements, the restriction of space-time, the technical-mechanical device used or the use of techniques or self-imposed patterns that serve to organise and give sense to the images of these films far from the narrative resources of conventional documentary. However, our purpose is not so much to carry out a classification exercise as to analyse and understand these innovative formulas that open up new ways in the film of the real.

scholarly journals Margaret Atwood, World-Famous but Yet to Be Discovered by Many Slovene Readers

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Tomaž Onič ◽  
Michelle Gadpaille ◽  
Jason Blake ◽  
Tjaša Mohar
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
80Th Birthday ◽  
The Novel ◽  
University Library ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
Shadow Side ◽  
Selection Of

Margaret Atwood is the only Canadian author whose 80th birthday in 2019 was celebrated by the global academic community. This is not surprising, as she is the most famous Canadian writer, popular also outside literary circles. On this occasion, Slovene Canadianists organized a literary event at the Maribor University Library, which presented an outline of Atwood’s oeuvre and a selection of translated poems and excerpts of prose texts; some of these were translated especially for the event. Of Atwood’s rich and varied oeuvre, only eight novels, a few short fiction pieces and some thirty poems have been translated into Slovene. This article thus aims at presenting those aspects of Atwood’s work which are less know to Slovene readers. It is no secret that Atwood is often labelled a feminist writer, mostly on account of The Handmaid’s Tale and the TV series based on the novel. However, many Slovene readers may not know that she also writes poetry, short fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature, that she is a committed environmentalist, and that she discussed the problem of “Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth” in a prestigious lecture series. There are not many authors who master as many genres as Atwood and who are so well-received by readers and critics alike. The latter is true of Atwood also in Slovenia, and we can only hope that Slovene publishers will make more of Atwood’s work available to Slovene readers. All the more so since Atwood has no plans to end her career: just before her 80th birthday she was on a tour in Europe promoting her latest novel, The Testaments, and she would have continued touring in 2020 were it not for the COVID pandemic.

Introduction: Egyptian Blogs between Fiction and Autobiography

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Teresa Pepe
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Interpretative Framework

This chapter presents the main topic of the study and the theoretical and methodological framework used in the book. First, it argues that, so far, the debate concerning blogs has tended to consider them as forms of diary, i.e. non-fiction while few scholars have looked at blogs as a new literary genre. In the Arab world, blogs have mainly been studied as tools for political activism, while some attention has been given to blogs turned into books. Therefore, the theory of ‘autofiction’ is introduced as a possible interpretative framework to understand the literary features of some blogs. Focusing on Arabic literature, the chapter shows that that although the term ‘autofiction’ was coined in France in 1970s, the practice of fictionalizing the self has a long tradition in Arabic literature. Finally, since Internet literature is a relatively new field of research, the chapter briefly illustrates the methodology and challenges adopted in this study, and in particular: the selection of primary sources; the benefits of combining close reading with interviews, and the researcher’s ethical stances concerning Internet material and interviews in time of a popular revolution and military censorship.

scholarly journals Dictionary of the author’s language as a basis for compiling a general language explanatory dictionary

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-109
Author(s):  
Iryna Samoilova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Word Formation ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Book Format ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Illustrative Material ◽  
Selection Of

The article discusses the possibility of using author’s dictionaries as sources for replenishing the general language explanatory dictionary of the Ukrainian language. By the beginning of the 20th century, Ukrainian author’s lexicography acquired clear features of a separate vocabulary direction. Index words, concordances, complete and differential dictionaries, monolingual and bilingual have been published. In addition to dictionaries in a book format, electronic dictionaries, online dictionaries are now being created. Оne of the tasks of the writer’s dictionary is to describe the individual characteristics of the author’s language, in a broader sense, to popularize the linguistic personality. On the other hand, the material from the author’s dictionary serves as a factual basis for updating the register, semantic, stylistic characteristics, illustrative material of general language explanatory dictionaries. A number of researchers emphasize the need for a close relationship between explanatory lexicography and the author’s one for the successful development of national vocabulary work. “Dictionary of the language in Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s works” in 3 volumes occupies a special place among the author’s dictionaries for such characteristics as structure, volume. It includes all words, phraseology contained in a six-volume edition of the writer’s works, in other publications, in archival works. Kvitka-Osnovianenko is the founder of the prose genre in Ukrainian literature. As evidenced by the materials of the “Dictionary of the Ukrainian language” in 11 vol., its compilers turned to Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s works to fill in the vocabulary zones. Nevertheless, the materials of the “Dictionary of the language in Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s works” contain language units that may be of interest to compilers of large explanatory dictionaries. These are deminitives that are characteristic of the language of many genres of Ukrainian literature, as well as phraseological units. An example of the author’s non-fiction lexicography is the dictionary of the language of the publicist I.M. Dziuba, which is currently being developed. In Soviet times, the works of a well-known literary critic and publicist were not used as literary sources for the selection of words or illustrative material in explanatory lexicography. The materials of the language dictionary of I.M. Dziuba represent a significant resource for replenishing the vocabulary of the explanatory dictionary, for filling in the structural zones of the dictionary entry. The presented specific examples of word usage by the two authors correspond to lexical, word-formation norms. Further scientific and lexicological study of such linguistic facts will show the possibility of their involvement in explanatory lexicography. Keywords: author’s lexicography, general language explanatory dictionary, vocabulary register, H.F. Kvitka-Osnovianenko, language of works by I.M. Dziuba.

scholarly journals EXISTENTIAL MOTIFS IN SLOVAK LITERATURE WITH THE ISSUE OF THE SHOAH

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
World War ◽  
Lost Generation ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Post War ◽  
Selection Of

The study deals with existential motifs in selected fiction and memoir works of Slovak literature, which thematically focus on World War II. and the Holocaust of the Slovak Jewish minority. As we considered the fact that many works of Slovak provenance with this issue were published (especially after 1989), we focused only on a selection of those works, which contains fiction and non-fiction literature and memoir works written by surviving Jews, in which they gave valuable testimony about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism of the war-torn Slovak state and post-war society. Based on the interpretation and analysis of Shoah-themed works, we detect recurring existential motifs: degradation of human dignity, feelings of guilt for one's own survival, Auschwitz traumas, and the motif of The Lost Generation.

The Library World Volume 41 Issue 5

1938 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 105-128
Keyword(s):  
Good Story ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Good Book ◽  
World Volume ◽  
The World ◽  
Interesting Discussion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
High Literature

THE regular search for the good book for the child will continue so long as there are children's libraries. A recent report on an enquiry has reached us from Bethnal Green and follows the familiar lines of getting the children to vote on what they like; with the result that the “William” books, which should be making all concerned in their production a fortune, head the list, and the simple “small”‐child books, the Milly‐Molly, Mandy series, come next. The field surveyed was small, for “William” polled only 34 votes; only 800 of the 6,000 children registered as borrowers participated. It is questionable if such enquiries, however much they interest us as librarians, can effectively help to improve child reading, unless some method of finding and providing high literature in the type the youngsters prefer can be devised. Mr. George F. Vale prefaces his brief list of books chosen with a really interesting discussion on the subject, but a quotation from it indicates part of the problem. He writes, speaking of Tom Sawyer, Alice and The Wafer Babies, “What elements go to make a permanent children's book is one of the mysteries of literature, but evidently these books possess some quality which overrides all the chances and changes of time. It is not merely the appeal of a good story; there are many better stories than The Water Babies. The secret seems to be some mysterious rapport between the author's mind and that of the readers, an ability to see and to think upon the level of the child mind.” All this is true, but it is more than that, we think; it is the power of recording what is, has been or may be, within the child's own range of experience; that is, it is true in that it realises the conditions of the world of childhood. It is curious, and possibly significant, that a book for children in these enquiries means a story. An enquiry is overdue into the type and quality of non‐fiction read by them, the sort of child who reads and in what circumstances: Real information here might reveal gaps and surpluses in book provision that are not now widely recognized!

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