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Colonizing the fantastic: Reading Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn as all-in-one text

open access: yesLiteracy Trek, 2020
As the life on the planet gets more and more complicated due to the rapid changes in the socio-cultural paradigms, the task of boundary drawing, categorization or classification appears as a hazardous task.
Baysar Tanıyan
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Reinterpreting the Diaspora and the Political Violence of the Trujillo Regime : The Fantastic as a Tool for Cultural Mediation in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

open access: yesBelphégor, 2014
Junot Díaz’ first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) is a complex text, at the core of which is an historical narrative about the Trujillo regime and its after-effects.
Diana Pifano
doaj   +1 more source

‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

On some specifics of Sarić's Mitar's Amerika: The share of fantasy in the character building of Mitar Glušica [PDF]

open access: yesBaština, 2018
The novel Mitar's America of Petar Sarić is his latest (we believe not the last novel) from 2012, by which he introduced novelties in his well-known poetics up to then either on physical plan (by displacing of myth-poetic space of Banjan, characteristic ...
Jeftimijević-Mihajlović Marija S.
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On Unusual Librarians, Good Readers, and a Confusion of Literary Characters Who Finally Find Their Stories

open access: yesKeria: Studia Latina et Graeca, 2017
This paper introduces a selection of children’s literature which features the library as a literary setting and as an important repository of knowledge in human history. Libraries are directly related to books, which are directly related to writing: the
Dragica Haramija
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Flexible working and professional relationships in schools: An ecological approach

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In English schools, the policy environment has recently moved considerably in favour of teachers taking planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time away from the school site as one approach to flexible working in support of teacher retention.
Victoria Cook   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fantasticism in the Novel‘Feathers’ by (Salim Barakat)

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
The narrative works of the Syrian Kurdish writer (Salim Barakat) are characterized by their fantastical nature in every aspect of their narrative, as they are fantastical in their narration, description, events, characters, and dialogue, and even in ...
Ali Abdulrahman Fattah
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Cyclones and Vortices: Alejo Carpentier's Reasons of State as Cartesian Discourse

open access: yesStudies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1978
Alejo Carpentier's Reasons of State is a reconstruction of Cartesian discourse that is paradoxically both fantastic and baroque in its implications. Building upon the assumption that Cartesianism is typically baroque and therefore a dynamism, rather ...
Joseph F. O'Neill
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Biographies, ontological security and the socio‐spatial politics shaping teachers' mobility in remote Australia

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The global teacher shortage continues to intensify, with disparate impacts across geographic and socio‐economic communities. In Queensland, Australia, where this study originates, post‐COVID teacher shortages have intensified workforce pressures, leaving several regional, rural and remote schools as some of the ‘hardest‐to‐staff’ in the ...
Matthew Readette   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

De la zarzuela a la ciencia ficción: El anacronópete, de Enrique Gaspar. Expansión de los límites de lo fantástico en la coyuntura del nacionalismo

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2018
This article addresses Enrique Gaspar’s novel El anacronópete (1887) by means of the articulation of the fantastic genre and nationalism.
Maximiliano Brina
doaj   +3 more sources

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