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Être là ou ne pas être là – esquisse de typologie du spectral dans quelques œuvres littéraires occidentales contemporaines

Between, 2017
Abrstact (english) Contemporary realistic fiction sometimes includes features which echo ancient ghost tales. Some characters come back after their death, other experience great difficulties inhabiting the present, as if they were haunted.
Catherine Grall
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Tecnología digital y cine español contemporáneo (2000-2010). En busca de la modernidad perdida [PDF]

, 2017
La tecnología digital ha permitido el desarrollo de un cine contemporáneo que se ha liberado de los condicionamientos del cine analógico. Esta nueva realidad técnica posibilita la recuperación de algunas de las inquietudes artísticas de la modernidad ...
Monterrubio, Lourdes
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Mujeres Públicas and women in public: Scrutinising the history of prostitution in eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Mexico

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
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Proximity of Women Representations: Male Writers' Panorama in Selected Prose Fiction

Journal of Language and Literature
This study explores how male writers portray women in prose fiction and how these portrayals reflect or differ from real-life gendered experiences across historical periods.
Johniel Acala Seño, Matilda H Dimaano
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Luis Goytisolo’s \u3cem\u3eLa paradoja del ave migratoria\u3c/em\u3e as Postmodern Allegory: A Critique of Absolutism [PDF]

, 2000
Luis Goytisolo’s short work of fiction, La paradoja del ave migratoria, was published in 1987 in a Post-Franco Spain and a Postmodern world. I will investigate this unusual novel as a postmodern allegory, relying on Brian McHale’s assertion that ...
Carney, Terri
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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Fictio Juris and the legal construction of wine: Natural vs. artificial in Spanish law (1860–1932)

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This paper explores the development of Spanish wine legislation between 1860 and 1932, focusing on the concept of fictio juris, a legal fiction that defines wine as a product derived solely from grape fermentation while permitting additives that alter ...
Pablo Alonso González
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Riding the Centaur Metaphor from Past to Present: Myth, Constellation and Non-gendered Hybrid

IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 2019
Tracking the ancient centaur as myth and metaphor through cultural history to the twenty-first century reveals how humans have begun to reconceive animal-human relations.
Jeri Kroll
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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