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Literacy, Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT A case study was carried out within a primary school to investigate how it taught inference. A whole class, explicit teaching approach, was used. It was felt that this did not give students the opportunity to bring their personal response to a text or recognise the fact that many texts are open to different interpretations.
Susan Rook
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Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2017 Translation studies in English and Chinese has long been of great interest to academics. Yet, Chinese scholars who have translation training and linguistic expertise are often found to “give excessive attention to listing facts and probing linguistic ...
Wing Bo Anna TSO
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Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 2, Page 256-268, June 2026.Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) wrote 11 novels and two children's books, one of which—The Magic Pudding first published in 1918—remains a national classic. This article argues that readers and critics have long misunderstood Lindsay's intention in writing this lengthy cartoon‐story about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum in ...
John Uhr
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“I don’t know what the world is coming to. Bloody perverts…”: Masculinity and Displacement in Pre-Ceasefire Derry Girls (2018–19) [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2022 Although widely applauded for its female centrality, Derry Girls (2018-19) also problematises the displacement of masculine subjectivities in a period when the peace process and the effects of globalisation permeated the renegotiation of the discursive ...
Rubén Jarazo Álvarez
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The Tree of Chivalry and the Black Lady: Juana of Castile's 1496 Joyous Entry into Brussels☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 444-468, June 2026.Abstract Kupferstichkabinett MS 78D5 (Staatliche Museen Berlin) presents an iconographic account of the Joyous Entry of Juana of Castile into Brussels on 9 December 1496. In this article, we newly identify a rare visual record of a civic contribution to a tournament within the manuscript.
Nadia T. van Pelt +2 more
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Grotesque Realism and the Carnivalesque in Tom Six’s The Human Centipede (First Sequence) and The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) [PDF]
Monstrum, 2019 Argues that Tom Six's controversial, excessive first two Human Centipede films offer a critical grotesque realism that can be traced to the Bakhtinian carnivalesque.
Ellen N. Freeman
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WIREs Climate Change, Volume 17, Issue 3, May/June 2026.The familiar face of edible protein. Livestock account for a substantial share of global greenhouse gas emissions, making the question of whether the next generation might look elsewhere, including to edible insects, a pertinent one. ABSTRACT Meat production is a significant contributor to climate change.
Katharine Lee, Nathalia Gjersoe
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Święci i psy. Wątki karnawałowe w grach typu sandbox
Teksty Drugie, 2017 Majkowski draws on Bakhtin’s notion of the carnivalesque to examine a selection of video games, exploring the interaction between carnivalesque elements and the conceptual framework on the plot level.
Tomasz Z. Majkowski
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Dark fragments: Contrasting corporealities in Pasolini's La ricotta
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2014 The short film La ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1963) tells the story of Stracci, an extra working on a film of the life of Christ, which is presented in part via tableaux vivants of Mannerist paintings.
Jill Murphy
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American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 159-170, May 2026.Abstract In recent years, Berlin has emerged as an epicenter of climate activism in Germany. There, a range of groups have mobilized in opposition to the role of the German state and the EU in accelerating the climate crisis. Many activists now see conventional political responses as exhausted and have turned to increasingly radical forms of civil ...
Max Jack
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