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Cognitive and Semiotic Aspects of Endings in Self‑Narrations: The Example of Germaine de Staël
Signata, 2014 The aim of this essay is to illustrate and discuss the relations between life and narratives on the basis of some insights made in semiotics and developmental psychology, notably by M.M. Bakhtin, Jerome Bruner and Katherine Nelson. The scope of the essay
Anna Cabak Rédei
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History, EarlyView.Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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Diarios y memorias de Ernestina de Champourcin: algunos fragmentos inéditos [PDF]
, 2008 Entre 1972 y 1999, tras su regreso definitivo a España, Ernestina de Champourcin escribió seis poemarios, así como una serie de “anotaciones de diario” y de “fragmentos de autobiografía” que nunca llegaron a publicarse.
Antón-Remírez, M.E. (María Elena)
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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Muriel Spark as auto-biographer in Curriculum Vitae [PDF]
, 2007 Examining Muriel Spark's main aims as an auto-biographer in her work Curriculum Vitae brings important resources in the exploration of the genre of autobiographical writing.
Kirkwood, A.
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Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955
History, EarlyView.Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
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A self-conscious Kurt Vonnegut: an analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions [PDF]
, 2014 The works of Kurt Vonnegut stand as seminal in the American literary canon. Looking at three of his most influential novels, namely Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, this study aims to better understand the mechanisms which ...
Langdon, Gareth
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Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
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Autobiographical narratives of a black woman: race and gender social identities
Travessias, 2019 This text focuses on the theme of racial and gender identities constituted in the daily life of a student/teacher, during the doctorate course in education, from the contact with vast academic materials related to ethnic-racial issues.
Andreia Teixeira Ramos
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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