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Fables of the Law. Fairy Tales in a Legal Context

, 2016
The latest development concerning the metaphorical use of the fairy tale is the legal perspective. The law had and has recourse to fairy tales in order to speak of the nomos and its subversion, of the politically correct and of the various means that ...
Carpi, Daniela, Leiboff, Marett
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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Magical Bird Maidens: Reconsidering Romantic Fairy Tales in Japanese Popular Culture

, 2017
Fairy-tales and romantic ballet have a prominent relationship with the material culture concerning girls' lives. Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake (1877), with its alleged influences from fairy-tales and folklores such as Russian The White Duck, is an ...
Monden, M
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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Political Fictionality: Vladislav Surkov and the Rise of the Authorial State

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article introduces the concept of political fictionality as a theoretical framework for analyzing the convergence of literary authorship and political power in Russia during the Putin era, using Vladislav Surkov—a longtime presidential advisor and ideologue as well as fiction writer under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitskii—as its principal ...
Ekaterina Vassilieva
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“The taste of the world”: a re-evaluation of the publication history and reception context of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Book series, 1889-1910 [PDF]

, 2013
This thesis examines Andrew Lang’s Fairy Book series (1889-1910) as a material and cultural commodity, thereby re-evaluating neglected or overlooked aspects of its significance as a printed collection of fairy tales.
Hines, Sara M.
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Mapping Fairy Tales [PDF]

, 2017
Fairy tales are considered to be universal texts, with different versions of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and many more present in languages and cultures all over the world.
Reese, Ashley
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Poetic Sociology

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can sociologists feel? Sociological writing can be beautiful, making us think differently about people, processes, and structures. Yet traditional academic writing that does this is rare. For example, most articles adhere to a jargon‐filled format and structure that mimics a detached and disciplined writer.
Victoria Reyes
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Pär Lagerkvist and His Evil Fairy Tales

, 2019
In this chapter Onda sagor is put into the context of the Scandinavian tradition of literary fairy tales (folk collections, Andersen, Topelius, Lagerlöf, Strind¬berg).
Sundmark, Björn,
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