Nabokov’s Cold War Novels and the Containment of American Sexuality
This paper focuses on Nabokov's American fiction as novels of the so-called “Long 1950s” and tries to divert traditional debate of Nabokov’s work from its canon of post-modern reception, as centering on language play and upended narrative codes.
Andrea Carosso
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New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English - an acoustic analysis of early pop music recordings from Ghana [PDF]
I will present first results of an acoustic analysis of Ghanaian “Highlife” songs from the 1950s to 1960s. My results show that vowel subsystems in the 1950s and 1960s show a different kind of variation than in present-day Ghanaian English.
Schmidt, Sebastian
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Football and Film: Comrade President – Center-Forward
The paper is the first in the planned series of texts on football in films and TV programmes in Yugoslavia (Serbia and Croatia). The film Comrade President – Center-Forward (1960, directed by Žorž Skrigin), labelled as the genre of “film humoresque ...
Ivan Kovačević
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Kültürpark'ta İktisadi Diplomasi: Dışa Açılma ve Eklemlenme Sürecinde İzmir Enternasyonal Fuarı
Günümüzde popülerliğini belli ölçülerde koruyan İzmir Enternasyonal Fuarı Cumhuriyet idaresinin dışarıya açılan bir kapısı olarak kabul edilebilir. İzmir kentinin imparatorluk geçmişinden sıyrılmaya başladığı 1930’lu yıllarda nüfus yapısında yaşadığı ...
Resul Babaoğlu
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Psát okem na zeď cely… Črta k vězeňské lyrice Václava Renče | Writing with an Eye on the Jail Cell Wall… An Essay on the Prison Poems of Václav Renč [PDF]
This article presents an analysis of Václav Renč’s lyrical poetry from the period of his imprisonment by the Communist regime in 1951–1962. From Renč’s extensive collection of prison poems (including such lyrical-epic compositions as Cinderella of ...
Jan Wiendl
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Draft Genome Sequence of the Salt Water Bacterium Oceanospirillum linum ATCC 11336T [PDF]
Oceanospirillum linum ATCC 11336T is an aerobic, bipolar-tufted gammaproteobacterium first isolated in the Long Island Sound in the 1950s. This announcement offers a genome sequence for O. linum ATCC 11336T, which has a predicted genome size of 3,782,189
Carney, Joshua G. +6 more
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Once Upon a Time Posta Caddesi [PDF]
This research explores the newly created Posta Caddesi formed by changing or joining the routes of roads such as Kızılbey Caddesi and Uzun Çarşı and Semerciler Caddesi in the aftermath of the 1929 Tahtakale Fire.
Savaş Sönmez
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Studentská odbojová skupina Anna v kontextu třetího odboje [PDF]
This study describes the story of the Anna student resistance group, which was active in Brno between 1949 and 1951. Jan Strejcius, Zdeněk Janík, Milan Obrovský and Jiří Linhart formed the core of the group, which focused on the production of anti ...
Václav Podlešák
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Fifty years of spellchecking [PDF]
A short history of spellchecking from the late 1950s to the present day, describing its development through dictionary lookup, affix stripping, correction, confusion sets, and edit distance to the use of gigantic ...
Blair CR +27 more
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3D UK? 3D History and the Absent British Pioneers
The recent television ‘rediscovery’ of a small cohort of 1950s British 3D films (and the producers who made them) has offered a new route into considering how the historical stories told about 3D film have focused almost exclusively on the American ...
Keith Mark Johnston
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