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Dog diaries : secret writings of the WOOF Society
At the first annual meeting of WOOF--Words of Our Friends--assorted dogs preserve their heritage by sharing tales of canines throughout history, including Abu, who ruled all of Egypt except for one pesky cat, and Zippy, who simply must find the squeaky toy.
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Editorial: On Social Fiction and the 2025 Special Issue of The Qualitative Report
In this editorial Patricia Leavy situates her work in the context of writing as inquiry. She discusses coining the term “social fiction and her fictional story-worlds. The piece ends with an invitation to the story.
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Whatever gets you through the night
\"I fear each passing night that I will not receive my maintenance dose of suspense, and then I will cease to exist.\"--Whatever Gets You through the Night
Whatever Gets You through the Nightis an irreverent and deeply funny retelling of the Arabian Nights and a wildly inspired exploration of the timeless art of storytelling. Award-winning writer Andrei Codrescu reimagines how Sheherezade saved Baghdad's virgins and her own life through a heroic feat of storytelling--one that kept the Persian king Sharyar hanging in agonizing narrative and erotic suspense for 1001 nights. For Sheherezade, the end of either suspense or curiosity means death, but Codrescu keeps both alive in this entertaining tale of how she learned to hold a king in thrall, setting with her endless invention an unsurpassable example for all storytellers across the ages. Liberated and mischievous, Codrescu's Sheherezade is as charming as she is shrewd--and so is the story Codrescu tells.
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Paul Auster: Poet of Solitude
This chapter contains sections titled:
Poetry: “An Art of Loneliness”
Early Fiction: Language and Identity
Films: Community and Baseball
Late Fiction: Storytelling as Sanctuary
References and Further Reading
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Three by the sea
Three friends relax after their picnic lunch by each telling his or her best story.
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Free to roam: Foot notes on sovereignty in Indigenous film and fiction
All great speeches are said to stand the test of time. But while some of Australia's greatest speeches \"mattered... from the moment they were delivered,\" there are others that only \"in hindsight reveal their cultural importance,\" that only later become \"significant markers of Australian history\" (Warhaft xii). If the Australian nation-state ever officially recognises Indigenous sovereignty, then a speech delivered by the Indigenous legal scholar Irene Watson in Adelaide in 2003 May well become a significant marker in the political journey towards that achievement. At the inaugurating conference of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, Watson delivered a grand lament, framed mostly as a series of questions, on the state of Indigenous affairs in Australia and the struggle for Indigenous sovereignty, as she saw it, at the start of the new millennium. The title of her address was \"Settled and Unsettled Spaces: Are We Free to Roam?\"
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Starry River of the Sky
An innkeeper's chore boy discovers that a visitor's stories hold the key to returning the moon to the Starry River of the Sky.
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The Morality of Fiction-Making in Our Mutual Friend
\"The Spirit of Fiction,\" an anonymous article published in All the Year Round on 27 July 1867, focuses on the natural propensity of human beings to attach a certain moral value to everything one experiences, hears or reads. According to the article, this disposition significantly affects the way we perceive reality, making the line between \"fact\" and \"fiction\" indistinct. Taking this argument into account, the present paper aims to elucidate the intricate relationship between these two concepts in Our Mutual Friend. In the novel, Dickens also foregrounds their ambiguous borderline, emphasizing that a blind adherence to an individual interpretation of reality can result in moral paralysis. Through the course of Boffin's pious fraud, Bella Wilfer's flexible perception of the world proves to be an essential virtue, which ultimately overcomes the self-destructive egoism represented by Podsnap.
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