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HUMAN RIGHTS IN A GLOBAL WORLD: RACIALISATION AND RELIGION IN RATHLEF'S DIE MOHRINN ZU HAMBURG AND ZIEGLER'S DIE MOHRINN1

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 49-75, January 2025.
Abstract In Rathlef's and Ziegler's plays the need for human rights becomes tangible through the seemingly Other, disrupting the quotidian order of the (bourgeois) realm. The plays explore racial premises placed in close relationship with intertextual correlates, in particular bourgeois tragedies where the female protagonists embody complex moral ...
Claudia Nitschke
wiley   +1 more source

On Pushkin’s Synopsis of the Russian Version of Snow White [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Litterarum, 2018
The essay compares Pushkin’s synopsis of a folk tale about the dead princess with a newly found early 18 th century manuscript “The Tale about A Tsar and His Daughter” using a similar plot. The analysis reveals the specificity of the early version of the
Lyubov A. Kurysheva
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Analysis of The Black Fairy by Fenton Johnson [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This essay examines a rare early twentieth-century children’s story about and geared towards African Americans: “The Black Fairy” by Fenton Johnson. “The Black Fairy” was published in The Upward Path (1920), an anthology designed as a “Reader for Colored
Tolbert, Crystal
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Return from exile: Mythology and heritage in American Born Chinese and its Disney adaptation

open access: yesPopular Culture Review, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 228-237, Fall 2024.
Abstract Though American Born Chinese has received a significant degree of scholarly study, the prevalence of cultural exile in the text has not received sufficient attention. Said's theorization on exile provides a guide to examining the mindset of Jin, who willfully accepts exile from his Chinese‐American heritage because of how he feels neither ...
Joshua Fagan
wiley   +1 more source

The lexicalisation of magic: the self-conscious fairytale The lexicalisation of magic: the self-conscious fairytale

open access: yesIlha do Desterro, 2008
In this paper we show how, on the one hand, the Grimm brothers used their material to promote and uphold a particular ideology and how Hans Christian Andersen, on the other hand, used his stories to undermine one ideology and promote another.
Murray Knowles, Kirsten Malmkjaer
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The Grimm Brothers Tales: A Psychoanalytic Reading

open access: yesTransfer, 2022
The extraordinary richness, both in content and style, that we find inJacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s fairy tales has given way to the recovery of agood number of old stories, all endearing and fascinating, which have hadan enormous literary repercussion in the Western cultural tradition.
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“Reason” En Masse

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 222-236, December 2024.
ABSTRACT We can use “reason,” with its normative sense, as both a count noun (“there is a reason for her to Φ”) and a mass noun (“there is plenty of reason for her to Φ”). How are the count and mass senses of “reason” related? Daniel Fogal argues that the mass sense is fundamental: Just as lights are merely those things that give light and anxieties ...
Eliot Watkins
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Experts – Part I: What They Are and How to Identify Them

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 19, Issue 9-10, October 2024.
Abstract This paper investigates the topic of expertise in cognitive domains from a socio‐epistemological perspective. In particular, two central questions in the epistemology of expertise are discussed: what an expert is according to extant theories on the market; and how ordinary people can identify an expert in domains in which they have no ...
Michel Croce, Maria Baghramian
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Gender in children's literature and kindergartener's responses to gender in interactive read‐alouds

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 59, Issue 2, June 2024.
Abstract The underrepresentation of women and the perpetuation of gender stereotypes in children's literature has long been a concern. This study examined the portrayal of women in children's picture books and the potential of interactive read‐alouds to promote gender equity in early childhood education, with the aim of shedding light on gender ...
Vahide Yigit‐Gencten   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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