thetypeofbookorstorythat is written aboutimaginarycharactersandeventsand does notdescriberealpeopleordealwithfacts, or afalsereportorstatementthat youpretendistrue:
[U]Shewrotedetectivefiction and made a goodlivingat it.
[Cusually sing]It was a fiction, thoughwidelybelieved, that he hadoncebeenrich.
With the music supplying the soundtrack, these daydreams are often historical fictions.
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The contradictions and overdeterminations of their construction as stereotypes in the newspapers, cartoons, fictions, and polemics of the period are obvious.
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Such stories (or reports, confessions, films, series of photos/sketches, etc.) could be fully documentary or fictions closely following true events.
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The forest becomes a space for the continual creation and unmaking of fictions.
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Collective fictions are, by implication, unstable and subject to the pressures of history.
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The question of narrator and audience is central to family studies and the fictions they inspired.
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People know or assume that public fictions (novels, movies, cartoons, etc.) were created by specific people who had particular intentions for doing so.
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Generally, it can provide an analytical framework for understanding a legal context which is relatively free from and/or highlights legal fictions.
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The concepts of a language, dialect, and even idiolect are fictions, ordered abstractions from the unsuppressible flux of change that alone is real.
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When the new financial villains become aware of their self-deceit, their moral dilemma plays out larger problems of the magicality of paper fictions.
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When they sail away from the island to distant lands, they disperse misunderstanding and create fictions about the past.
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The argument asks that the desire for unified or emancipated futures be exposed as based in fictions of the past.
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All these fictions are necessary to our thought and practice.
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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.
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His travel writings and fictions should no longer be foreign to scholars of the imperial eye.
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adult fiction
Another thing is that they are now asked to buy books for various categories: adult non-fiction, reference books, adult fiction, children's books and foreign books.
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contemporary fiction
Innumerable periodical and official reports and evencontemporaryfictionsuggest that antagonism and conflict were at the centre of the relationship between both groups.
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crime fiction
His main interest was horror film, although his work included short story and truecrimefiction.
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