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The Assimilated Asian American as American Action Hero: Anna May Wong, Keye Luke, and James Shigeta in the Classical Hollywood Detective Film [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Plusieurs recherches ont été consacrées au cas de Charlie Chan, ce personnage de détective asiatique souvent interprété par un comédien blanc (Yellowface) dans de nombreuses adaptations cinématographiques.
Gates, Philippa
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ATMOSFEAR: Horror of nature and the nature of horror in Algernon Blackwood

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 553-577, December 2025.
Abstract The impact that the stories of Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) have had on the literature of the uncanny can hardly be overestimated. However, there is almost no research on Blackwood's life and work. Against the background of a presentation of themes and motifs of Blackwood's narrative œuvre, this article develops a characteristic of his ...
Dominic Angeloch
wiley   +1 more source

EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH DETECTIVE GENRE

open access: yes, 2023
This article is devoted to the study of detective literature, which is one of its own genres. it discusses and analyzes information and materials about the detective genre and its history, that is, how it appeared, the years of its ...
openaire   +1 more source

Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract This themed intervention emerges from a Chair's Plenary during the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2023 on the theme of ‘Climate Changed Geographies’ and addresses geographers and allied social scientists. Drawing on Amitav Ghosh's provocation, it asks if our work on climate change is facing a crisis of imagination ...
Ankit Kumar   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Women in the cut of danger : female subjectivity, unregimented masculinity and the pleasure/danger symbiosis from the gothic romance to the erotic thriller [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Through a comparison between Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca and Susanna Moore's 1995 novel In the Cut, this article considers the extent to which Franco Moretti's theory of the inevitable dissolution of literary genres is true, with specific ...
Yiannitsaros, Christopher
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The Climate ‘Unspeakable’: Representing Eco‐Horror in Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Contemporary ecocriticism and the American Gothic tradition share an investment in the psychic repression of terrors lurking just beyond the articulable. Amitav Ghosh's assertion that the history of fossil fuels is ‘a matter of embarrassment verging on the unspeakable’ and Timothy Morton's conception of ecocatastrophe as ‘an uncanny entity ...
Megan Cole
wiley   +1 more source

French Philological Detective as a New Subgenre of Criminal Literature (by the Example of F. Vargas Novels)

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2020
The novelty of this study is in the fact that for the first time the characteristic features of the new detective subgenre, the philological detective, are described. The material for the study was the cycle of novels by the French author F. Vargas.
A. S. Bubnova
doaj   +1 more source

Дискурсний аналіз оповідань А. К. Дойла "Пригоди Шерлока Холмса" мовою оригіналу (Discourse analysis of the stories The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A. C. Doyle in the original) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
У тезах досліджується специфіка детективного дискурсу, а також засоби когезії та континууму, притаманні цьому жанру, на прикладі чотирьох оповідань А. К. Дойла із циклу «Пригоди Шерлока Холмса».
Покорна, Н. (N. Pokorna)
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Structures of authority : postwar masculinity and the British police [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The British police procedural novel of the 1950s has attracted little critical attention, perhaps because the decade is seen as a ‘golden age’ of police legitimacy (Loader and Mulcahy, 2003).
Plain, Gill
core   +1 more source

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