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Supposing
A child imagines many silly, impossible, and even naughty things and their possible consequences, from learning unusual languages to building a tiny boat and sailing around the world.
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Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination
This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A comprehensive and intelligent study of the Peter Pan phenomenon, this study discusses the book's complicated textual history, exploring its origins in the Harlequinade theatrical tradition and British pantomime in the nineteenth century. Stirling investigates potential textual and extra-textual sources for Peter Pan, the critical tendency to seek sources in Barrie's own biography, and the proliferation of prequels and sequels aiming to explain, contextualize, or close off, Barrie's exploration of the imagination. The sources considered include Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Starcatchers trilogy, Régis Loisel's six-part Peter Pan graphic novel in French (1990-2004), Andrew Birkin's The Lost Boys series, the films Hook (1991), Peter Pan (2003) and Finding Neverland (2004), and Geraldine McCaughrean's \"official sequel\" Peter Pan in Scarlet (2006), among others.
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A few blocks
When Ferdie decides that he doesn't want to go to school, his big sister Viola uses imaginative ways to get him going.
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Spanish-Portuguese Serial Fiction as a Politainment Tool: Representations of Politics on Iberian Television
This article deals with recent Spanish and Portuguese political television series. Within this sub-genre, it is pertinent to consider the symbolic construction of politics, as well as the differences caused by each series’ geographical adscription. Six Spanish productions have been selected—Isabel (Isabella the Catholic), Carlos Rey Emperador (Charles the Emperor King), La Embajada (The Embassy), Crematorio (Crematorium), Vamos Juan/Venga Juan (Come on, Juan/Let’s go Juan), and El Partido (The Party)—along with three Portuguese productions—A Rainha e a Bastarda (The Queen and the Bastard), Teorias da Conspiração (Conspiracy Theories), and Os Boys (The Boys). The narrative of these audio-visual stories has been examined utilising qualitative content analysis, looking at the plotlines and characters involved. The type of characterisation of politics has been identified by means of the deconstruction of the main characters. The conclusion is that the evaluation is eminently negative, although differential frameworks are present, depending, in particular, on the fiction’s genre, either historical drama, drama-thriller, or comedy.
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Something extraordinary
\"A little boy wants his wishes to come true\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Caminante, No Hay Camino, Se Hace Camino al Andar: On a Creative Research Project in Urban Planning
This article looks back at a creative research project conducted in Geneva, Switzerland, which, by experimenting between art and science, sought to understand how citizen narratives can participate in the making of an urban plan. The approach presented here brought together geographers, architects, and novelists. Citizen narratives produced at writing workshops imagined the city of the future in ways that significantly contrasted with visions gathered from events organised by public authorities. These narratives were taken up by the novelists, who helped produce a piece of fiction containing the power to reveal the qualities of the present. This piece has since become a novel. By discovering what their future city could be, participants in this project were led to identify the places that should be preserved. Their narratives thus helped identify an ordinary heritage that could be included in an urban planning document. This reflective look at a project that gradually took shape could be useful to anyone wishing to conduct creative research in urban planning, particularly from the perspective of a more inclusive city.
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Mix it up!
Using no special effects other than the reader's imagination, simple directions lead the reader to experiment with mixing and changing colors on the printed page.
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Gespräche über Nachhaltigkeit – nachhaltige Gespräche? Die kommunikative Konstruktion der sozialen Fiktion Nachhaltigkeit
In diesem Artikel machen wir das Sprechen über Nachhaltigkeit zum Untersuchungsgegenstand, indem wir nachvollziehen, wie Nachhaltigkeit kommunikativ konstruiert und dabei als dynamische, aber relativ stabile soziale Fiktion erkennbar wird. Wir leisten gleichzeitig einen Beitrag zur methodischen und methodologischen Reflexion der handlungspraktischen Relevanz des (sozialen) Imaginären. Dabei stützen wir uns auf eine empirische Studie, innerhalb derer wir sozialwissenschaftlich induzierte Gespräche mit und zwischen Personen, die über die Nachhaltigkeit ihres Alltags sprachen, untersucht haben. Die Teilnehmenden dieser Gespräche sahen sich mit dem bekannten Dilemma konfrontiert, dass vollständig nachhaltiges Handeln aufgrund des universellen Geltungsanspruchs der Nachhaltigkeit unmöglich zu sein scheint. Mithilfe der dokumentarischen Methode arbeiten wir die Art und Weise des kommunikativen Umgangs mit der Unmöglichkeit, allen Nachhaltigkeitsanforderungen gerecht zu werden, an empirischem Material heraus. Im Fokus stehen dabei insbesondere Rechtfertigungsmuster, normativ-imaginäre Gedankenspiele und die rhetorische Distanzierung von tagtäglichen Handlungszwängen durch grammatikalische Konstruktionen im Konjunktiv, die auf wünschenswerten oder unerwünschten, dys- oder utopischen Alternativszenarien fußen.Theoretisch beziehen wir uns auf den kommunikativen Konstruktivismus und die Übertragung des literaturanthropologischen Konzepts des Fingierens nach ISER (1991) auf die wissenssoziologische Forschung. Nachhaltigkeit dient uns als Beispiel, anhand dessen die kommunikative Konstruktion sozialer Fiktionen mit universalem Geltungsanspruch herausgearbeitet wird.
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