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Počátky paranormálního modu v americké fantastické literatuře: Charles Brockden Brown

Bohemica Litteraria, 2019
The paper argues that the beginning of the paranormal mode in English and American literature should be traced back to Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic novel Wieland (1798). The concept of the paranormal mode is based on Nancy H.
Michal Peprník
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Trauma and the fantastic in twentieth century war fiction [PDF]

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on June 14, 2010).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the ...
Horton, Michael Anthony
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‘These reforms have teeth’: The affective dimensions of teacher education policy enactment

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The affective dimensions of education policy enactment have often received less attention in the research literature, especially regarding teacher education policy. This article reports on a study of the affective responses of university‐based teacher educators in England to the significant initial teacher education reforms of 2019–2022: the ...
Ian Cushing, Viv Ellis
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On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and Its Relation With Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N 
S. Weiss, D. Steger, Y. Kaur, A. Hildebrandt, U. Schroeders, O. Wilhelm, Christian Kandler   +6 more
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›Betwixt and between‹: Räume der inneren Überwindung in Stephen Kings It

Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung, 2019
This article discusses Stephen King's classic and currently still best-selling horror novel, It, by connecting it to theories and approaches stemming mainly from the fields of cultural anthropology, developmental psychology, and psychoanalysis ...
Michael Steinmetz
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‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton, Barbara Adewumi, Laura R. Bailey, Jacob W. Moore, Lauren‐Marie Aba Amoah   +4 more
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's Concept of the Romance Novel: An Analysis of 'The House of the Seven Gables' [PDF]

, 2017
American Romanticism is considered one of the most important periods in American literature. This movement focused on nationalism, imagination and individualism, and thus many writers created fictional stories with fantastic and imaginary elements ...
Cabrera Alberola, Daniel
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Determinants of Customer Eco‐Friendly Goods Consumption in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the key attributes of eco‐friendly products in the hospitality and tourism industries and examines the impact on consumer behavior through a three‐study approach. Study I utilized principal component analysis and identified five key factors: price relevance, external charm, visual attention, product symbolism, and ...
Jiyoung Lee, Pipatpong Fakfare, Heesup Han, Jin‐Soo Lee   +3 more
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Fantastic techniques in 'The fall of the house of Usher' by E. A. Poe [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2013
This paper deals with the fantastic techniques recorded in the short story 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by E. A. Poe. Tzvetan Todorov is considered to be a founder of fantastic genre.
Jašović Dražen G.
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The Birth of the Category of “Fantastic” in Russian Aesthetic Thought [PDF]

Литературный факт
The article attempts to identify the time when the category “fantastic” appeared in the aesthetic thought of the Pushkin era. Common and fixed in the poetics of this time was another, close in meaning, term “chudesnoe” (“miraculous”).
Anna A. Lebedeva
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