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The Characteristic Features of the Academic Fiction Genre [PDF]
The introduction of the English-American Academic Fiction Genre in the 20th and 21st centuries was a striking event in the world of literature. The genre was born in 1952 by two pieces of work published simultaneously – “The Groves of Academe” by Mary McCartney and “Lucky Jim” by K. Amis.
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ABSTRACT Universal basic income and collective working‐time reductions are familiar features of a ‘post‐work’ politics that seeks to reduce the unfreedom associated with the workplace. Proponents appeal to an image of freedom where citizens are liberated from the compulsive aspects of wage‐labor and free to engage in self‐determined projects and ...
Thijs Keulen
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Gender, Feeling and the Making of Korean Christian Knowledge in Sengoku Japan*
This essay explores the production of Korean Christian knowledge in Sengoku Japan by analysing narratives about a vision said to have been experienced by an evangelised Korean woman, which circulated within Jesuit correspondence from Japan and in subsequent publications.
Susan Broomhall
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This paper examines Geraldine Brooks’ latest novel People of the Book (2008) in light of postmodern critiques of history and the desire to explore and signify the past through processes of deconstructing male-centered dominance and (re)constructing ...
Ksenija Kondali
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This article expands upon a central aspect of Holiness evangelist Phoebe Palmer's (1807–1874) theology, which has been only tangentially mentioned by scholars: her gendered identity of motherhood. It first considers how Palmer narrated the deaths of her first two sons in her spiritual narrative The Way of Holiness as divine punishment for her ...
Layla Koch
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Intimacy and the Aesthetic of “Litter” Writing:
First-person genres of life writing such as autobiography and diary at the point of their completion evoke anxiety about the ‘death of the author.’ The letter does not do so: it forms part of a correspondence and facilitates continued writing.
Krishna Kumar S
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Abstract Background Intrinsic reading motivation has often been investigated regarding its relations to reading‐related variables (e.g. reading achievement). Research has paid little attention to the relations between intrinsic reading motivation and variables related to the overarching language domain.
A. Katrin Arens, Jens Möller
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Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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L’hybridité dans La Steppe rouge de J. Kessel : limite ou complémentarité ?
The Red Steppe of Joseph Kessel is a valuable work, insofar as it is mainly characterized by its generic hybridity. The six novellas oscillate between the biographical and autobiographical, between history and fiction, between the individual and the ...
Rached Chaabene
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FICTIONAL AUTHORSHIP AND EPISTOLARY GENRE IN "UMA VISITA DE ALCIBÍADES"
Tiago Seminatti
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