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An Introduction to Fantasy

, 2023
Providing an engaging and accessible introduction to the Fantasy genre in literature, media and culture, this incisive volume explores why Fantasy matters in the context of its unique affordances, its disparate pasts and its extraordinary current ...
Sangster, Matthew
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Interview – Siri Pettersen – Subverting Reality through Fantasy [PDF]

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023
Siri PETTERSEN (born 1971) is an acclaimed Norwegian fantasy writer who has managed to challenge the Norwegian Publishing Houses’ perception about this genre.
Cristina VIȘOVAN
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
wiley   +1 more source

Fantasy jeunesse : présentation du carnet

, 2022
Ce carnet de recherche prend pour sujet la fantasy jeunesse et, plus largement, les littératures et cultures de l’imaginaire destinées à un jeune public – enfant, adolescent ou jeune adulte.
Florie Maurin
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Tęsknota za imperium w najnowszej fantastyce rosyjskiej

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2019
The article describes a group of texts that make up the so-called imperial fantasy genre. The author points out the sources of fascination with the imperial idea as well as discusses the scenarios created by the fantasists to regain the status of the ...
Andrzej Polak
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Demand Estimation with Text and Image Data

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We propose a demand estimation approach that leverages unstructured data to infer substitution patterns. Using pre‐trained deep learning models, we extract embeddings from product images and textual descriptions and incorporate them into a mixed logit demand model.
Giovanni Compiani, Ilya Morozov, Stephan Seiler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE THEMATIC MATERIAL AND TEXTURE IN THE FANTASY FOR TWO PIANOS BRYUL LUI AMIHALACHIOAIE (AMIHALACHIOAIE’S GIRDLE) BY VLAD BURLEA [PDF]

Studiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică, 2016
The article analyzes the fantasy „Bryul lui M. Amihalachioaie” (Amihalachioaie’s Girdle) for two pianos composed by Vlad Burlea as the only example of this genre in his creative activity.
MAMALÂGA MARINA
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source