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It\u27s oil and water : Race, Gender, Power, and Trauma in Vu Tran\u27s Dragonfish [PDF]

, 2017
: This article analyzes in-depth the interplay between race, gender, power, and trauma in Vu Tran’s debut novel, Dragonfish. We argue that Dragonfish focuses on the relationships, desires, and conflicts among its three protagonists—Robert, Suzy, and ...
Greenfield, Chase, Ha, Quan-Manh
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The Story of Miss C.’s Seduction of Young Women. A Methodological Quest into Female Same‐Sex Relations at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 267-281, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores a series of newspaper articles from 1908, describing Miss C. – a Copenhagen woman who, apparently, hosted carnal orgies in which she ‘converted’ young women into sapphism. While most historical sources only hint at female same‐sex relationships or describe women's romantic (platonic) feelings for one another, these ...
Rikke Andreassen
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Reservoir dogs and the noir male : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Media Studies at Massey University [PDF]

, 1999
This thesis presents a study of the noir male - the protagonist from the body of films known as film noir The purpose of the study is to show that a composite of the noir male character can be found constructed in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 directorial ...
Perkins, Murray Bruce
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Femme Fatale in French Film Noir [PDF]

, 2021
Gegen Gegen
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Immunological Poetics and Postcolonial Echoes: Traversing the Medical Narratives From T.S. Eliot to J.M. Coetzee

Literature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the intersection of immunological discourse and literary narrative through the works of T.S. Eliot and J.M. Coetzee. The paper examines the early twentieth‐century shift from holistic disease models to germ theory, paralleling this scientific evolution with Eliot's use of chemical metaphors in “Tradition and the ...
Huiming Liu
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THE SEDUCTIVE FEMININE BEAUTY IN DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI’S SONNET “LILITH” AND PAINTING LADY LILITH

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2021
The Pre-Raphaelite movement was established in 1848 not only as a rebellion against the principles in art of the Royal Academy but also as a reaction to the values of the VictorianAge.
Arzu Çevirgen
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.
This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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WAMPIRYCZNA KOBIECOŚĆ W LITERATURZE POLSKIEGO MODERNIZMU I DWUDZIESTOLECIA MIĘDZYWOJENNEGO

Lìteraturnij Proces: Metodologìâ, Ìmena, Tendencìï
Artykuł omawia motyw kobiecej wampiryczności w literaturze polskiego modernizmu i dwudziestolecia międzywojennego, koncentrując się na twórczości Stefana Grabińskiego i Władysława Reymonta.
Rafał Paliński
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Chimpanzee Violence: Femmes Fatales [PDF]

Current Biology, 2007
New observations of coalitionary infanticide by female chimpanzees in Uganda shed light on the nature of female competition.
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Whodunit to Irene Adler? From “the Woman” to “the Dominatrix” – on the Transformation of the Heroine in the Adapting Process and Her Representation in the Sherlock Miniseries [PDF]

, 2014
One of the peculiar characteristics of the Sherlock Holmes fandom is that it has always had a tendency to blow innuendos in Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories out of proportion.
Popłońska, Magdalena
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