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The Effect of Creative Drama and Creative Writing Activities on Creative Writing Achievement

open access: yesEducation and Science, 2015
Since all sense organs are effectively used in the creative drama method, children's communication skills such as attention, perception, listening, speaking and using body language develop. This method gives children the opportunity to express themselves, their problems and imaginary world. Individuals are not passive during the activities, but active.
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Grant Allen’s Folk Horror Mediation of the Science and Spiritualist Debate

open access: yesHumanities
This essay reads Grant Allen’s “Pallinghurst Barrow” as folk horror about the late-Victorian spiritualist debates. We read Allen’s story as not only sympathetic to spiritualism, but also as critical of the gendered and genred politics of fin-de-siècle ...
Ian M. Clark, Brooke Cameron
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Adaptation, Parody, and Disabled Masculinity in Motherless Brooklyn

open access: yesHumanities, 2023
In the 2019 adaptation Motherless Brooklyn, the story is transposed from the 90s to the America of the 50s. These changes were made because of star and director Edward Norton’s desire to have a less ‘ironic’ rendering of the characters present in the ...
Christina Wilkins
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Book Review: Celia Hunt. Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing: Exploring the Self in the Learning Process. London: Routledge, 2013. 197 pp. ISBN 9798- [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
People change, often in profound ways, when they engage in creative practices, but understanding the nature of these changes and the reasons why they take place continues to challenge adult educators.
Jarvis, Christine
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Usual and Individual Authorial Functioning of Lexemes “Dream” and “Reverie” in Igor-Severyanin’s Poetry

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2019
The article contains the analysis of the mental sphere lexis in Igor-Severianin’s poetry. The lexemes “dream”, “reverie” belong to mental field and represent leitmotifs, sense-making components of the ego-futurist’s literature. The frequency of their use
Galina I. Shliakhova
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“This Girl Changed the Story of the World”: Queer Complications of Authority in KindaTV’s Carmilla

open access: yesHumanities, 2023
This article investigates the intersection of adaptations of narrative content and form as exemplified in the KindaTV YouTube series Carmilla (2014–2016), a contemporary revisioning of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 vampire novella of the same name.
Drumlin N. M. Crape
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Teaching Creative Writing

open access: yesChanging English, 2008
This article investigates the teaching of Creative Writing in Universities against the backdrop of their increasing popularity around the country. It asks the question, ‘Are Creative Writing courses a worthwhile activity to be involved in, both for teachers and for students?’ The writer describes his own journey from teaching English in London ...
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Documentary Effect in Cinema [PDF]

open access: yesХудожественная культура
The article explores the phenomenon of the ‘documentary effect’ in cinema and its impact on the viewer’s perception. It considers various philosophical approaches to understanding documentary films, including the theories by G. Currie, N. Carroll, and C.
Zhukov Dmitry K.
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Out of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White

open access: yesHumanities, 2023
Responding to ableist and regimented notions of time, disabled activists and disability studies scholars alike have embraced “crip time” as a modality that better accounts for the ways disability transforms chronology.
Drumlin N. M. Crape
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The Philosophy of Creative Writing

open access: yesNew Writing, 2015
Philosophy concerns asking fundamental questions about practices: their meaning, how they function, what they presuppose and what makes them distinctive. Within CW, we often ask about the effectiveness of the workshop, classroom activities or we inquire about out subject's past and present distinctiveness.
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