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The taming of the youth : discourse, politics, and fictional representation in the early PRC = 規訓與狂歡的敘事 : 五〇年代大陸文學中的青春論述、政治及小說再現

, 2009
This essay is a study of the cultural manifestation of youth in the early years of the People\u27s Republic of China (PRC). It does not aim to examine the focus on youth merely as a social phenomenon, but instead considers youth as a symbolic figure that
SONG, Mingwei
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The Eighteenth‐Century Mentor Book

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 127-143, June 2024.
Abstract The modern definition and associations of the word ‘mentor’ — a guide or adviser to a less experienced person — can be traced back to François Fénelon's didactic novel, Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse (1699). The novel was one of the most widely read works of the eighteenth century, but its influence on British didactic literature ...
Laura Blunsden
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Public Care for Children in (Post)Socialist European Films: On the Side of Sons and Stepdaughters of the Nation?

Sociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 87-104, March 2024.
Abstract This article explores the multifaceted role of films that disseminate critical views on public care for children in terms of their epistemic sensitivity towards the main challenges of constructing discursive practices around children and their subjectivity.
Victoria Shmidt
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H. T. Tsiang: A Critical Overview of His Work in Literary and Social Context [PDF]

, 2010
A Chinese exile in the United States, H. T. Tsiang (1899-1971) wrote several books in English that represent pioneer works in the canon of Asian American literature.
Cheung, Floyd
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The Literary Image of Man in the Process of Becoming: Variations of the Bildungsroman Genre in English and American Literature

American and British Studies Annual, 2011
This article briefly outlines a history of Bildungsroman and provides an overview of theories of the genre and a critical assessment of them. It argues that the genre, notwithstanding some critical opinions to the contrary, is still a very potent ...
Šárka Bubíková
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The Sense of Guilt as the Factor Shaping the Form of Waterland and Out of This World [PDF]

, 2002
Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej ...
Witek, Katarzyna
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Formação feminista e formação proletária: o "Bildungsroman" no Brasil [PDF]

, 2012
This article shows how the genre Bildungsroman (self-development novel) has been assimilated to the Brazilian literary tradition. Through the examples of Cristina Ferreira Pinto's "O 'Bildungsroman' feminino" ("The female novel of development") and ...
Marzari Dinardo Maas, Wilma Patricia
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The Postures of Failure in the Novel Spune-mi Gioni! by Aureliu Busuioc [PDF]

Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
The novel Spune-mi Gioni! by Aureliu Busuioc presents the scenarios of a young man’s failure in communism. The stylistic characteristics of the writer are irony, the caricature exaggeration of particular aspects of the loser and the construction of ...
Alina Cojocari
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Mahler within Mahler: allusion as quotation, self-reference, and metareference

, 2010
The music of Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) is ideal as a focus for discussion of the role of self-quotation within musical works. Although self-quotation is not in a technical sense the same thing as a narrow usage of self-reference, these two terms converge
Samuels, Robert
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Historical Poetics : Chronotopes in "Leucippe and Clitophon" and "Tom Jones" [PDF]

, 2010
This paper forms part of a larger, ongoing project, to investigate how certain narrative possibilities that seem to have crystallized for the first time in the ancient Greek novel have proved persistent and productive over time, undergoing subtle ...
Beaton, Roderick
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