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Examples of fiction


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With the music supplying the soundtrack, these daydreams are often historical fictions.
The contradictions and overdeterminations of their construction as stereotypes in the newspapers, cartoons, fictions, and polemics of the period are obvious.
Such stories (or reports, confessions, films, series of photos/sketches, etc.) could be fully documentary or fictions closely following true events.
The forest becomes a space for the continual creation and unmaking of fictions.
Collective fictions are, by implication, unstable and subject to the pressures of history.
The question of narrator and audience is central to family studies and the fictions they inspired.
People know or assume that public fictions (novels, movies, cartoons, etc.) were created by specific people who had particular intentions for doing so.
Generally, it can provide an analytical framework for understanding a legal context which is relatively free from and/or highlights legal fictions.
The concepts of a language, dialect, and even idiolect are fictions, ordered abstractions from the unsuppressible flux of change that alone is real.
When the new financial villains become aware of their self-deceit, their moral dilemma plays out larger problems of the magicality of paper fictions.
When they sail away from the island to distant lands, they disperse misunderstanding and create fictions about the past.
The argument asks that the desire for unified or emancipated futures be exposed as based in fictions of the past.
All these fictions are necessary to our thought and practice.
To be sure, we still know little about the affordability of non-scholarly works - songbooks, tracts, short fictions, medical manuals, household encyclopedias, and so forth.
His travel writings and fictions should no longer be foreign to scholars of the imperial eye.
However, as we demonstrate below, this does not mean that (constrained) planning problems for monetary economies are meaningless fictions.
We would argue, however, that it is not at all easy to come up with credible fictions in the domain of adult-child discourse.
Late artists are assimilated to fictions of influence and emulation.
Her evidence is drawn from a huge variety of plays, letters, prose fictions, biographies, autobiographies, and journalism.
When development plans fail, new fictions are constructed to justify new interventions.
Without such fictions there can be no linguistics, nor any science.
With their fictions they utterly ruined philosophy and hindered its further perfection.
In many ways, their speculating protagonists are revealing transitional figures in the making of financial fictions.
They imagined that the truth would be offensive to that audience, and found confirmation of their fictions precisely in their offensiveness.
They are not imaginative fictions.
Other, more successful humanistic works share the goal of transcending material existences through unabashedly creating fictions, and the focus on the pronoun is invaluable in these endeavors.
Such postulates gave rise to nationalist sentiment in which each nation affirmed its ethnic, linguistic and mythic specificity, created as a set of fictions which imagined national destiny.
In this book she introduces a new category to medieval studies by coining the term ' imaginative theology ' to indicate literary and artistic fictions that engaged with religious subjects.
We live in our cushy middle-class world with our cushy middle-class values and fictions and often remain purposely blind to the suffering of the poor, the weak, and the powerless.
In this sense, planning problems are fictions created by researchers to facilitate understanding of the importance of the various constraints and frictions in the decentralized economy.
The task facing the analyst of ideology is to conceptualize the mechanisms which secure the imaginary essence of the community, without falling back on naturalistic fictions.
My own heart sank at the contents page, with chapters on sick beds and therapy, the home, women and the land, social welfare, and ' ' fictions for the village.
I do not mind all fictions if they are simply what may be called euphemisms.
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We must rid ourselves of these fictions and phantasies.
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The convention, or understanding, rests on one or more fictions.
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We should be very careful at all times about legal fictions.
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Few journalists can withstand the tyranny of the deadline and the tyranny of the rival papers; and so rumours, fictions and inventions multiply.
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We think that fictions are great things because lawyers have made a lot of money over the centuries from fictions.
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The law is full enough of fictions, but they do not lie well in the criminal law.
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They should not import legal fictions into legislation.
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I believe both of these to be further fictions.
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There are legal fictions, always for a good reason.
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In almost every case, the fictions were gone through.
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In my view, it would have helped to clear up the myth and the fictions that abound in the area at the moment.
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In future the court will be able to look at the actual facts of the case instead of fictions.
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We will not object to that being done, but we will object to the printing of legal fictions.
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We do not necessarily suggest that it should disappear, hut it is time to dispel some of the fictions about the scheme.
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I do not like fictions at the best of times.
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There were many issues to unravel, many connections between provisions to untangle and a number of fictions and hypotheses to sort out.
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We are therefore dealing with fictions.
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They will always set up those fictions.
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What has been the cost to us in years past owing to the fact that our rating value system has been based to a large extent on legal fictions?
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They introduced the strangest legal fictions.
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If this is so, then it will be necessary to transcend the fiction of discrete dialect varieties with apparently bounded meanings.
Thus, the distinction between fiction and reality becomes moot.
The ideal case-scenario is an enriching exchange between fiction and reality.
Influenced by minimalism and anti-novel, her fictions are written in first person and present tense by misfit and quasi-paranoid female protagonists.
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Over time, the resulting legal fictions became increasingly strained.
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With much good detective fiction, of course, it is not necessary to understand the plot completely to enjoy the writing, characterization and narrative.
From this perspective, there is neither a truth to be attained nor a fiction or lie to take us off track.
The mass media accounted for 33% of the threats, whereas fiction and fantasy covered only 4%.
The idea of routinely studying undergraduates rather than experts would have been seen as science fiction, and not very good science fiction at that.
They both involve invention, imagined continuity and fiction to some degree.
Short fiction provided her with a medium in which to explore the intersections between form and content.
Shopping at the labour market : a real tale of fiction.
The category of fiction is equally represented in all periods, however.
A few subscription libraries having few fictions were called public libraries.
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Bayesian decision theory operates under the fiction that in any decisionmaking situation the agent is simply given the options from which he is to choose.
He frequently refuses to conform to generic expectations for how a novel ought to end, leaving many of his fictions quite open-ended.
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Their existence is therefore, by definition, science fiction at this time.
A fanciful suggestion perhaps, but it is only a short time since a manned journey to the moon was considered to be mere science fiction.
However, science fiction's depictions of technologically enhanced humans or other posthuman beings frequently come with a cautionary twist.
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His massive erudition is as evident in these fictions as in any non-fictional essay in his body of works.
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The previous conflict between historians and romancers was thus finally resolved: fictions and true histories became two distinct fields that the modern nations needed.
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Moreover, as a genre of mass culture, sensation fiction is overdetermined.
Hossain has also filmed 15 fictions and 30 documentary films.
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Aesthetic philosophers generally reject claims that suspension of disbelief accurately characterizes the relationship between people and fictions.
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Arborescent fictions branch into mutually exclusive story lines, and networked fictions have multiple starting points and do not always have a set ending.
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He has adapted a number of his works of short fictions to be plays or films.
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The quality of "depth" is a particularly interesting illusion created by the representational aspects of fiction.
Questions of definition seem even less clear in recent work on women's popular fiction.
The serious scholarship on ghosts in fiction and film is, however, surprisingly sparse.
I suspect that most of my readers, like myself, have never communicated with ghosts; we know them through movies and fiction.
Most previous readings of romance have focussed on the male protagonists or on the narrating clerk as the fictions' central figures.
They began to use their fictions, either wholly or partly, not only to explore social issues but to be specific instruments of influence.
They become equal because fictions of selfhood are transvalued.
Again the notions of legal fictions and of rituals whose meaning may alter despite continuity of formal behaviour are useful.
She is also working towards her own death scene, a fictional masterpiece of another kind, out-classing the normal fictions of tragedy by also being real.
In the final analysis both nations and literary traditions are fictions which have to be read - and re-read.
Indeed, even the claim to continuity with earlier versions of ourselves is sustained by narrative fictions and inventions.
The utopian fictions arose as the social order began to corrode.
The automatic growth of fictions is also evident in simple make-believe.
If we are to understand the exercise of authority, we must return such fictions to the narrative of political history.
In part, at least, people are the products of their own fictions.
In census debates, for example, nobody ever argues that populations are inherently nonquantitative, or that demographic numbers are mere fictions.
She understands the world through trivial fictions, and is trapped within a child's view of history and society.
Many readers doubtless accepted courtly fictions at face value when they heard or read them.
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