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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Saltikov-Schedrin as a mirror of Russian post-modernism
Филологический класс, 2011 In the article on the materials of “History of a town” by Saltikov-Schedrin and “Oprichnic’s day” by V.G. Sorokin the author considers the problem of foreseeing by the classic of Russian realism some peculiarities of post-modern poetry, parody, and ...
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Roberts, Jonathan.
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A study of eroticism in English non-dramatic poetry 1580-1680.
, 1975 PhDFor a hundred years, between Marlowe's. translation of Ovid's Amores in the 1580s and Rochester's death in 1680, a current of erotic feeling flows through English amatory verse which has as its source the Ovidian Art of Love.
Guinness, G.N.A.
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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THE CONCEPTION OF THE I INDIGENOUS POETICS LITERARY PARTY BY AN ANTHROPOLOGIST-WRITER
Espaço Ameríndio, 2009 Adopting the interpretative anthropology approach, the text narrates the experience of an anthropologist-writer in contact with the universe of Brazilian indigenous literature and poetry, which inspired her to conception of the I Recital of the ...
Deborah Goldemberg
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Wakefield and Other Poems / Sense and Inaudibility
This thesis argues that writing an extended critical commentary of one’s own poems contradicts the nature of poems themselves: as necessitating the participation of a reader in order to be meaningful, in order to exist. However, it is still necessary and
Underwood, Jack
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A study on Associative meaning in Classic American Poetry by Emily Dickinson
, 2002 Semantics is a branch of linguistics, which deals with the study of meanings of words, sentences, phrases, etc. Every meaning is not only based on the dictionary, however it can be interpreted in other aspects.
Fanani, Akhmad
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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