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Rabelais’s Tiers Livre raises only indirectly the problem of dissidence, by means of Panurge’s defiance. Yet, as far as it illustrates the problem of an expression which comes up against the public opinion, it echoes the contemporary debates on the ...
Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou
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Once the dystopian genre gained its actual shape in literature, during the first decades of the twentieth century several concepts appeared constantly in most of this kind of novels.
Angel Galdón Rodríguez
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The Politics of Location and Sexuality in Leila Ahmed’s and Nawal El Saadawi’s Life Narratives [PDF]
This article explores Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, and Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, A Daughter of Isis, and Walking Through Fire. It contrasts their works and argues that location and genderawareness play an important role in
Aouadi, Leila
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The article considers the main stages of the historiography of the ideological and political life of Russia in 1971 – 1991, the authors distinguish two stages of the historiography problems: 1971 – late 1980s - the beginning of 1990s; end ...
M. V. Kazmina, V. N. Kazmin
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Bubble, Critical Zone and the Crash of Royal Ahold [PDF]
Our analysis of financial data, in terms of super-exponential growth, suggests that the seed of the 2002/03 crisis of the Dutch supermarket giant AHOLD was planted in 1996.
Broekstra, G. +2 more
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The problem of the appearance of the Soviet dissident movement in 1965 is investigated. Particular attention is paid to the “Glasnost rally” on December 5, 1965, which, according to the recollections of the dissidents themselves, became the “assembly ...
A. A. Gross
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“Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in post-9/11 America,” [PDF]
American Muslims increasingly negotiate their relation to a government that is suspicious of Islam, yet which is legally obligated to recognize them as rights-bearing citizens.
Gould, Rebecca
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Écriture et dissidence dans les fictions spéculatives de Pascal Quignard : sur l´exemple de Boutès [PDF]
In Boutès (2008) Pascal Quignard rescues the figure of this pre-Homeric neglected hero, hidden in one of the best known mythological legends, that of Ja-son and Argona, to which Apollonius of Rhodes only dedicates but a few lines. Contrary to Ulysses and
Patricia Martínez García
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The article highlights Rabelais’s reception as a dissident author: in the 17th century, not only has he been misjudged as many critics have emphasized it (Lazare Sainéan, Jacques Boulenger), but also felt to be warlike.
Dorothée Lintner
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A magnificent gift: Jan Patocka and Vaclav Havel on dissident sacrifice [PDF]
The paper compares and contrasts Jan Patočka and Vaclav Havel's respective thoughts on dissent. Using Aristotle's thoughts on the magnanimous man as a sounding board, the paper argues with Patočka that dissent is best undertaken as a gift to a community ...
Brennan, Daniel
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