the line between history and literature, fact and fiction. Jablonka wrote the book in response to the pressures and tensions the humanities and social sciences were experiencing. However, while he advocated a literary approach to writing history, he
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Selfies and Self-Fictions
Calibrating Co-presence in and of ‘the Field’
Liana Chua
would marry when I returned. Our putative engagement was a fiction that—partly on the advice of Sarawakian friends—I had devised to protect myself from amorous advances during fieldwork. Given that we had been together nearly five years, it did not
Reconstruction--Fiction--Transfer
Imparting Ethno-aesthetic Knowledge in John Hawkesworth’s Report on Cook’s First Voyage to the South Pacific (1768–1771)
Sebastian Kaufmann
Hawkesworth’s, the concentration on the latter’s manipulation of ethno-aesthetic knowledge as generated on Cook’s first South Pacific voyage offers specific insights on the nexus of reconstruction, fiction, and knowledge transfer. The analysis will incorporate
Stacie Friend
the definition. So we have a strong interest in developing experiments that are more likely to shed light on philosophical issues. I want to illustrate this point by considering work on fiction and emotion. Philosophical discussions of fiction and
Brian Boyd
The invitation to celebrate 30 years since the publication of Narration in the Fiction Film posed me two problems. The first was crossing half a world—but I immediately concluded that I must rejig the middle of my year around something as
Technological Animism
The Uncanny Personhood of Humanoid Machines
Kathleen Richardson
, where myth, fiction, and scientific exploration are brought to bear on the question of what it means to be human. I propose the term ‘technological animism’ to describe the conceptual model of personhood that emerges in the interaction between fiction
Film, Art, and the Third Culture
A Response
Murray Smith
the sections and a through-line of argument concerning the distinctiveness of “fiction film emotions” and the character of naturalistic methodology. Transparency, Embodied Simulation, and the “Skin-Screen” In his commentary, Vittorio Gallese sets out
What Is It Like to Grow Old?
Ageing in Some Recent Women's Fiction
John Mepham
‘“Oh, Nathan, aging”, she cried, as we embraced each other, “aging, aging– it is so very strange.”’ It is difficult for younger people to imagine what it is like to be an ageing person, particularly because, as Hagar Shipley, the protagonist and narrator of Margaret Laurence’s novel The Stone Angel, says, ‘Things never look the same from the outside as they do from the inside.’ Fiction, which specialises in presenting how things look from the inside, can help us to imagine the many subjective experiences of ageing. Fictions are like thought experiments or hypotheses. They represent the particularised individual person in his or her oddity and complexity. But in doing this, they are, of course, representing imagined and verbally constructed characters, not describing real people. Fictional characters reflect the desires, anxieties and obsessions of their authors as well as representational conventions, which in the novels I discuss here are those of psychological realism. Novels are not social science, of course, so they have no statistical weight and no automatic claims to validity.
Stephanie Russo
perhaps unlikely group of readers—young women and teenage girls. Anne Boleyn has not only become the subject of an enthusiastic online fandom, but her story is now frequently retold in Young Adult (YA) historical fictions. Young Adult Fiction and Anne
The International Circulation and Impact of Invasion Fiction
Case Study of William Le Queux's The Invasion of 1910 – ‘Not an ordinary “pot-boiler”’
Ailise Bulfin
successful spy fiction that he wrote, Le Queux can be considered the quintessential invasion and spy scare author of the immediate pre-World War I (WWI) period. Of this body of work, The Invasion of 1910 , which imagined (in great detail) the ‘efficient