Results 121 to 130 of about 5,845 (285)
‘Impossible Tales’: Language and Monstrosity in the Literary Fantastic
, 2018 This dissertation analyzes the ways in which monstrosity is articulated in fantastic literature, a genre or mode that is inherently devoted to the challenge of representing the unrepresentable. Through the readings of a number of nineteenth-century texts
Bulla, Irene
core +1 more source
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
wiley +1 more source
Choose, Compose, Contemplate: Semantic Theorizing in Management Research
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract By analysing life stories through a reflexive semantic theorizing process, this article introduces an alternative to many conventional coding‐based qualitative analysis techniques. Rather than relying on coding techniques that often strip narrative data of its context and nuance, following the proposed approach helps preserve the richness and ...
Lakshmi Balachandran Nair, Fabien Moreau
wiley +1 more source
Los pliegues de Moscú: la dilatación de la ciudad en El maestro y Margarita de Bulgákov
Revista de Filología Románica, 2011 When the devil arrives at Moscow after the First World War, the city expands in two levels, one realistic, with a satiric and critic description of the places, and other fantastic, where the history becomes more poetic.
Rocío Badía Fumaz
doaj
Setting free the dragons : feminist fantastic fiction as protest literature
, 2007 Fantastic fiction as a popular literary genre has a wide audience, and has become popular especially since the 1970s as a vehicle for feminist social criticism. Fantastic fiction is often viewed as escapist literature because it deviates from the reality
Bysveen, Annika
core
Queering the fantastic : dissident sexuality and gender in the works of Jeanette Winterson
, 2008 The thesis examines how the fantastic as a literary mode may offer imaginative possibilities for expressing dissident sexualities and gender, via an author study of Jeanette Winterson.
Jenzen, Olu
core
The Concept of Fantastic in Contemporary Quebec Novel
, 2020 The bachelor thesis focuses mainly on the subject of fantastic in contemporary Quebec literature. With the example of Le Ciel de Bay City, a novel by Catherine Mavrikakis, it studies the relation between reality and imagination.
Djabliková, Helena
core
International Tourism in the Global South: Revealing an Extractive Development Process
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Hosting international tourism remains a key development strategy for many Global South countries to generate economic growth, government revenue and employment. However, this conventional wisdom can be contested: tourism may instead be seen as an extractive process that disrupts livelihoods, ecosystems and host economies.
Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton
wiley +1 more source
What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
wiley +1 more source
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Using Herzberg's two‐factor theory, this paper examines the hygiene and motivation factors that drive (re)development in accounting higher education programmes. Interviews with accounting educators and discipline leaders demonstrate a range of factors at play in the (re)development of accounting programmes in pursuit of embedding relevant ...
Esin Ozdil +3 more
wiley +1 more source