The Call of the Wild: John Buchan’s Heroes and the Decline of British Aristocracy
Interlitteraria, 2019 The article will look at how John Buchan (1875–1940) has traced the decline of British aristocracy in his novels that cover the time period when the power radically shifted from the landowning to the middle class, with concomitant feelings of confusion ...
Pilvi Rajamäe
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Measuring the cultural and civilizational implications of arrogance in society and history from the perspective of the Holy Quran [PDF]
قرآن فرهنگ و تمدن, 2022 The problem of the present research is the answer to the question that the social damage of arrogance, according to its Quranic concept and dimensions, what consequences has it had and has in the field of culture and civilization of human societies ...
Mohammad mostafa Asadi +2 more
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Elizabeth Bowen’s Suburbia: Life After the Big House
ABEI Journal, 2005 This essay focuses on Bowen’s short story “The Disinherited”. It is an appropriate title because it deals with a world of disempowered aristocrats who inhabit the new world of housing estates and suburbia, ghostly remnants of an older order.
Derek Hand
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The historical roots of post-apartheid intra-working-class racism
The Thinker, 2021 Both European colonialism and apartheid shaped the economic history of South Africa, at the heart of which was the super exploitation of Black labour for the benefits of capital, the state, and white labour.
Tlhabane Mokhine ‘Dan’ Motaung
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The Aristocratic Culture of Great Britain in the Globalization Era
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2012 In the focus of the article are the culture and the language of the British aristocracy in the period of globalization covering the last four decades.
T. A. Ivushkina
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Transnational Labour Solidarity in (the) Crisis
Global Labour Journal, 2014 The global financial crisis as part of globalisation has put labour movements under pressure around the world. This poses yet again the question of transnational solidarity. As a result of uneven and combined development, individual labour movements find
Andreas Bieler
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Class Concerns in a Heritage Setting: Viewers’ responses to Downton Abbey on IMDb
Series. International journal of tv serial narratives, 2018 This article examines the TV series Downton Abbey (2010-15) from both a class and a reception perspective. Downton Abbey belongs to the heritage film genre with its claims to detailed historical accuracy, and is thereby separated from conventional ...
Helge Ridderstrom
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The Social Question in “The Proposal” by Anton Chékhov [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2019 The article focuses on social and economic connotations of Chekhov’s The Proposal placing them against the context of the post-reform 19th century Russia.
Frédéric-Gaël Theuriau
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Re-establishing Class Privilege: The Ideological Uses of Middle and Working-Class Female Characters in Downton Abbey [PDF]
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2017 This paper argues that the British period drama Downton Abbey, which aired between 2010 and 2015 and encountered worldwide success, uses working class and middle-class female characters to promote the aristocracy and conservative ideas, while hiding ...
Laetitia Kevers
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Transformasi Etno-Musik Tradisional Sasak: Evolusi Budaya dan Pertentangan Kelas
ASANKA, 2021 This article tries to explain the phenomenon of the transformation of Sasak Ethno-music, namely Gendang Beleq as a high culture , dealing with Kecimol as a pop culture in sasak community.
Ahmad Hadi Ramdhani
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