Word: fictions
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...FICTION...
...still has the idealized remoteness of myth. From the turn toward the viewer's eye would be born the modern idea of portraiture as the making of a "speaking likeness"--speaking, that is, to a viewer, rather than holding itself aloof. But absolute truth to nature? That remains a fiction now, as it was then...
...SEASON OF THE WITCHEL: PW dumps on "Me Times Three" by Alex Witchel (Knopf; February 1). "NYT Style reporter Witchel makes her initial foray into fiction with a darkly humorous take on a young woman's growing pains...a disappointing offering from a writer whose privileged perspective on the culture, manner and style of NY in its 20th-century heyday might have yielded something less predictable, or at least more titillatingly revealing...
...Harry Potter series took the U.S. by storm, and those who loved Harry’s magic will flock to the theaters to see another tale of wizards and sorcerers. And of course, The Lord of the Rings, the work that single-handedly created the genre of fantasy fiction, has a huge cult following...
...Schor’s influential 1987 book Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction “she explored feminism and psychoanalysis in the 19th-century realist novel. She focused on how male authors portray femininity and feminine difference,” said Maurice A. Samuels, who was a graduate student of Schor?...