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From 'ambiguously gay duos' to homosexual superheroes: the implications for media fandom practices
, 2008 Despite traversing the fine line between homosocial and homosexual (Brooker, 2000) in his controversial text Seduction of the Innocent, Fredric Wertham's (1954) description of Batman and Robin as a 'wish dream of two homosexuals living together' (Lendrum,
Corin, Gemma
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Boletim de Pesquisa NELIC, 2015 This article aims to find a way of viewing comic books by borrowing the lenses and the views of Maurice Marleau-Ponty. The object of study is the work of Marcello Quintanilha, more specifically the album Talco de Vidro (Glass Powder - free translation ...
Lielson Zeni
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Investigating proxies for retail investor attention in financial markets
Accounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 521-550, March 2025.Abstract Investor attention influences financial markets but “depends on where you search” (Ben‐Rephael et al., The Review of Financial Studies, 2017, 30, 3009). We explore various retail investor attention proxies and their correlations with company characteristics and market reactions.
Daniel Cahill +2 more
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Słowo - obraz - pamięć w labiryntach komiksu
Biblioteka, 2008 The comic book is a product of mass culture. It got deeply rooted in American and Western European popular culture in the 1970s. In France, this type of sequential art told in pictorial stories was presented in daily papers ( bande dessinee) and ...
Grażyna Gajewska
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Are comic books an effective way to engage nonmajors in learning and appreciating science? [PDF]
CBE Life Sci Educ, 2011 Hosler J, Boomer KB.
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Economic Freedom and Audit Fees: Evidence From the USA
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the association between US state‐level economic freedom and audit fees. We argue that economic freedom lowers clients' perceived business risk, thereby requiring reduced audit effort and exposing auditors to a lower probability of litigation risk, which enables auditors to charge lower audit fees to clients headquartered in states ...
Mahmud Hossain +3 more
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.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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The pow factor : integrating comic books in the classroom
, 2014 The purpose of this capstone project was to explore the benefits and barriers to integrating comic books in classrooms to improve student motivation and engagement.
Parker, Ashleigh
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