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“A very orderly retreat”: Democratic transition in East Germany, 1989-90 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
East Germany's 1989-90 democratisation is among the best known of East European transitions, but does not lend itself to comparative analysis, due to the singular way in which political reform and democratic consolidation were subsumed by Germany's ...
Batt Judy   +82 more
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Comparative literature

open access: yes, 2022
The academic discipline of Comparative Literature originated in the 19th century alongside other new fields such as Comparative Law or Comparative Philology. The aim of those disciplines was to find what was common to different legal systems, different languages or, in the case of Comparative Literature, different literatures.
openaire   +1 more source

Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Examining gay journalism as gay liberation literature, this essay forwards a cultural history of sexuality informed by comparative urban and queer studies. My main argument is that gay liberation literature under apartheid lags behind important shifts in
Kanika Batra
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Identity, language socialization, and family language policies in dialect contact: the case of Argentinean immigrants in Malaga, Spain

open access: yesJournal of World Languages, 2023
This paper explores from a qualitative and quantitative approach, the complex interactions between second dialect accommodation or acquisition, language socialization, ideologies, family language policies, and identity, among Argentinean immigrants ...
von Essen María Clara
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Functional outcome following direct repair or intervertebral fusion for adolescent spondylolysis : a systematic review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A systematic review of the literature was performed to establish whether direct repair of the pars defect or intervertebral fusion achieves better Oswestry Disability Index scores in adolescent spondylolysis or low-grade spondylolisthesis.
Cooke, Stephen J., Westacott, Daniel J.
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Nose-gaping: The Smells of Mason & Dixon

open access: yesOrbit, 2019
This article examines Pynchon’s evocations of smell in Mason & Dixon as a vehicle for critiquing notions of the rational subject and the bounded text.
Mike Phillips
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“Etwas Fehlt”: Marxian Utopias in Bloch and Adorno

open access: yesPraktyka Teoretyczna, 2020
During a radio debate in 1964, Bloch and Adorno clashed over the status of Utopia in Marx’s thinking. In particular, the disagreement concerned the possibilities (or, rather, limitations) of picturing – with Marx and beyond Marx – a condition in which ...
Sebastian Truskolaski
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A State of the Art of Governance Literature on adaptation to climate change. Towards a research agenda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This report provides a state-of-the-art overview of governance literature on adaptation strategies. What has recent research taught us on adaptation from the perspective of governance and to what research agenda does this lead?
Driessen, P.P.J.   +3 more
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Making Words—The Unconscious in Translation: Philosophical, Psychoanalytical, and Philological Approaches

open access: yesHumanities, 2023
The topic of the article is the status of translation and homophony in philosophy, psychoanalysis and philology. The article focuses on the question of how translation is carried out using the basic principle of equivalence of meaning by homophony and ...
Judith Kasper
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Memories of Literature in Croatia

open access: yesJournal of Open Humanities Data
The data represents the outcome of 1,005 interviews with as many interviewees in Croatia, conducted between 2021 and 2023. They were collected with a twofold purpose: to inquire what kind of literary texts non-professional readers remember, and to ...
Lovro Škopljanac   +2 more
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