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Beyond aspect: will be -ing and shall be -ing [PDF]
, 2010 This article discusses the synchronic status and diachronic development of will be -ing and shall be -ing (as in I’ll be leaving at noon).2 Although available since at least Middle English, the constructions did not establish a significant foothold in ...
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Where's the beef? The feminisation of weight‐loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Representations of the slim body have traditionally been at the centre of scholarly interest in dieting culture, whereas food often remains a shadowy presence compared with more persistent themes of body discipline, slenderness and anti‐fat messages.
Emma Hilborn
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Revue LISA, 2014 With specific reference to Moo Pak, the article examines the poetics of Gabriel Josipovici’s fiction and argues that his opus centres on questions of art and creativity in a world where oracles no longer speak to us. Many of the protagonists of his short
Vesna Main
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Fear appeal construction in the Daily Mail Online:a critical discourse analysis of ‘Prime Minister Corbyn and the 1000 days that destroyed Britain’ [PDF]
, 2017 The rhetorical fear appeal is a technique of political communication that seeks to elicit an emotional response in receivers with the intention of provoking them to political action desired by the rhetor.
Panay, Andrew
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017 Percy Lubbock, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot are among those critical voices whose works are valuable and still constitute a viable presence in contemporary literary theory and criticism.
Petru GOLBAN
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‘“But will I write disgustingly?” The Shock of Transmission in Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest’
Études Britanniques ContemporainesThis article explores the way British writer Martin Amis approaches the issue of the transmission of the trauma of the Holocaust in his novel The Zone of Interest (2014).
Solène Camus
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'I Have Every Reason to Love England': Black (neo)Victorianism and Transatlantic Fluidity in Neo-Victorian Fiction [PDF]
, 2016 Within neo-Victorianism, or contemporary fiction which rewrites the Victorian age, Marie-Lousie Kohlhe has pointed out a critical “reluctance to engage head-on in cross-cultural comparisons, which seem essential in order to get fully to ...
Martín-González, Juan-José
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
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Structures of authority : postwar masculinity and the British police [PDF]
, 2015 The British police procedural novel of the 1950s has attracted little critical attention, perhaps because the decade is seen as a ‘golden age’ of police legitimacy (Loader and Mulcahy, 2003).
Plain, Gill
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