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Where is “that American Joy”?: Ibi Zoboi's American Street (2017) as a Twenty‐First‐Century Political Novel about the Limits of the Haitian/American Dream

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 589-601, December 2025.
Abstract A product of American exceptionalism, the myth of the American Dream has always defended that the United States is the nation of upward mobility par excellence. Nonetheless, in the last two decades, many scholars, economists, and even politicians have acknowledged the fact that economic inequality is a reality in the country, especially vis‐à ...
Laura Roldán‐Sevillano
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An Autobiography of Childhood: Anatoly Kuznetsov’s Babi Yar as Bildungsroman

Eastern European Holocaust Studies, 2023
This article represents an attempt to read Anatoly Kuznetsov’s Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel in its complete and uncensored version (published 1970) as a novel of education.
Balina Marina
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Gender‐Inclusive Language Instruction in the German Classroom

Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 228-239, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT With the ever‐changing social and linguistic landscape, it is the responsibility of educators to create a learning environment that is respectful of all identities and relevant to the ongoing changes. It is important to recognize the challenges faced by transgender and gender‐expansive learners, who often endure harassment leading to ...
Alex M. Paul
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Nietzsche as Optimistic Nutritionist: Reading Ecce Homo as a Practical Guide to a Spinozistic Ethics of Self‐Preservation

Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT In his From Bondage to Freedom, Michael LeBuffe argues that Spinoza's theory of ethics hinges on a figure that he calls the optimistic nutritionist. LeBuffe sets up the optimistic nutritionist as a thought experiment useful for illustrating how Spinoza's ethical theory can be put into practice.
Johan Dahlbeck
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Formação feminista e formação proletária: O Bildungsroman no Brasil

Pandaemonium Germanicum: Revista de Estudos Germanísticos, 1999
Der vorliegende Artikel zeigt, wie die Gattung Bildungsroman von der literarischen Tradition Brasiliens assimiliert wird. Anhand des Buches O 'Bildungsroman' feminino von Cristina Ferreira Pinto und des Aufsatzes Jorge Amado e o 'Bildungsroman ...
Wilma Patrícia Marzari Dinardo Maas
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Espejismos

Latin American Literary Review, 2019
“Espejismos” forma parte de una colección de cuentos que narran episodios de la vida de Juana, una joven española que, perdida la esperanza de encontrar trabajo en su país, emigra a Estados Unidos donde, pasados veinte años, reflexiona sobre su historia.
Ana Hontanilla
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Literary Festivals as Makers of the Global Novel

Literature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT This article argues that literary festivals are crucial agents in the contemporary global literary landscape, actively shaping the ‘global novel’ and the ‘global writer’. It contends that traditional literary criticism has understudied the role of cultural market agents like festivals, emphasizing instead the globalization of the novelistic ...
Ana Gallego Cuiñas
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‘How differently it came upon her’: The Ageing Young Stepmother in Charlotte Yonge’s The Young Step-Mother and Dinah Craik’s Christian’s Mistake

19, 2021
This article looks at two domestic novels of the 1860s, The Young Step-Mother by Charlotte Yonge and Christian’s Mistake by Dinah Craik, alongside Victorian vital statistics and family structure in order to argue that fictional stepmothers of the period —
Hannah Rosefield
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Nietzsche on art as the good will to appearance

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 1071-1082, May 2025.
Abstract Nietzsche makes a number of remarks that suggest that he thinks that art and truth are antithetical – indeed that he thinks that the value of art lies in its falsification of aspects of the world that would otherwise prove unbearable. ‘Truth is ugly,’ he says: ‘We possess art lest we perish of the truth.’ But the argument of the present paper ...
Aaron Ridley
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ABOUT THE TRADITION OF BILDUNGSROMAN AND ITS REFLECTIONS ON THE PRESENT DAY

Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2012
In this study, “Bildungsroman” (the novel of formation), which is an essential novel tradition and the oldest novel type, will be emphasized; and its subject areas,connections with modern-day and the problems it deals will be mentioned by discussing the ...
Hikmet ASUTAY
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