The study authors concluded that "engagement with fictional narratives provides one with information about the social world," exposing children to worlds outside their own.
At the time, many subscribed to what the scholar Gilbert Phelps called a "defiant little Englandism," the belief that "the English fictional tradition provided all the nourishment that was needed to rejuvenate the novel".
The rich fictional universe provided a lot of opportunities for discussion and demonstration of knowledge in front of their peers.
It is a sad state of affairs when, for many of us, our only chance of home ownership is in the fictional realms provided to us by video games.
A fictional creation, he provides what co-director Nick Murphy describes as the necessary "romp of the story, the entertaining gallop".
The geography of his fictional inferno (he provides a map), and his strikingly precise description of its dynamics, prefigure the current fire in amazing detail.
The author provides a fictional past and a fictional last book for Freud in this wonderfully ingenious novel that evokes Freud's ambition as well as his self-deception.
The author provides a fictional past and a fictional last book for Freud in this wonderfully contrived novel that evokes Freud's ambition as well as his self-deception.
Starting with the question of who betrayed the Frank family's hiding place to the Nazis (the identity of the informer is still unknown, despite various theories), Lourie provides a fictional answer by placing this heavy load of guilt on an old man, Joop, who has lived with his terrible secret since his early teens.
Despite its fictional embellishments, her book provides a realistic account of the bishop's efforts to replace the lawless and profligate Spanish priests of the territory, his visits to a beloved Navajo chief, his friendship with the Old West explorer Kit Carson and his dream of building a cathedral in Santa Fe.
