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Autobiography as Criticism, Criticism as Autobiography
The Iowa Review, 2009 "Okay, okay, okay, we get it: you stutter and so, irredeemably self conscious, you're devoted to yourself as a subject, also as a symbolic subject, even as some sort of featured player in a collage movie. Don't you finally want to get outside yourself?
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Fritz Scheffer Under National Socialism: Assessing His Political Involvement
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims This article examines the role of soil scientist Fritz Scheffer (1899–1979) under National Socialism and offers a critical assessment of his scientific, institutional, and political positioning between 1933 and 1945. It asks how Scheffer shaped his career within the tension between disciplinary specialization, political expectations, and ...
Jan Arend
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Hans J. Massaquoi’s Destined to Witness as an Autobiographical Act of Identity Formation
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2012 In his autobiography, Hans J. Massaquoi describes the discrimination he encountered in Nazi Germany and Liberia because of his mixed racial background. Throughout his life Massaquoi had to cope with identity crises. Through the self-therapeutic discourse
Alexandra E. Lindhout
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European Journal of Life Writing, 2020 Developing consciousness of epoch as a category of autobiographical time, the article approaches the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Konrad Adenauer as acts of political communication in historico-biographical transition periods.
Volker Depkat
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Psychologica Belgica, 1996 The text was prepared at the request of the National Fund for Scientific Research on the occasion of the 1995 Quinquennial Prizes award ceremony. After a reference to the author’s formation years in Brussels and Cambridge, the main leading themes of the work carried out in the last 40 years at the Brussels Experimental Psychology Laboratory and some ...
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Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.Abstract Adverse and benevolent childhood experiences (ACEs and BCEs, respectively) are uniquely associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD); however, there is no systematic review on the mechanisms of these associations.
Sarah Louise Guthrie +4 more
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Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.Abstract Two interventions that tax visuospatial working memory (WM) may reduce intrusive memories despite differing procedurally: playing Tetris with or without memory recall. Accordingly, this study examined how engagement with negative memories influences intrusion frequency (Experiment 1) and WM load (Experiment 2).
Kevin van Schie +2 more
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“Autobiographies” from Angola: some considerations about a genre
Revista Maracanan, 2017 This essay discusses textuality as category of anthropological discourse and the treatment of autobiography in the social sciences. The idea of text as a tissue of words – from the most ritualised to the less formal − is contrasted to the text as an ...
Madalina Elena Florescu
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Manufacturing Nostalgia in the Digital Age: A Foreverism Perspective
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many scholars argue that we are experiencing the era of “retro”—nostalgia‐driven marketing and consumption phenomena reinforced by digital technologies. However, existing research lacks a critical analysis of nostalgia in contemporary markets and of how digital content, tools, and environments transform retro consumption experiences and alter ...
Dinara Davlembayeva +4 more
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Reply to “‘Oh This Division of Allegiance!’ Being Both Irish and British?”
ABEI Journal, 2013 The author responds to Elizabeth Malcolm ‘s critique to the book The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001. Harte reflects upon the process of making an anthology and points out the challenging aspects of his research ...
Liam Harte
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