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Genre Transgression in Contemporary Romanian Crime Fiction [PDF]

open access: yesActa Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica, 2019
Abstract Crime fiction is currently evolving towards a literary genre which encompasses the intertwining of several textual practices, rhetorical modes, cultural identities, and topoi. Multiculturalism and the relation to alterity are gradually conquering the realm of detective fiction, thus rendering the crime enigma or suspense only ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how societal norms sought to confine women to passive roles within the alpine landscape. As Elizabeth Le Blond declared, ‘there is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering’, encapsulating the pervasive attitudes of the era.
William Bainbridge
wiley   +1 more source

Die Gattungshybridität und Metaisierung im Roman Hoppe (2012) von Felicitas Hoppe

open access: yesBrünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2013
The novel Hoppe (2012) written by a contemporary German writer Felicitas HOPPE asks about its genre already with its cover. The authors of this article are in search of the answer to this question by detailed narratological analysis of this novel ...
Martina Trombiková, Vojtěch Trombik
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Recreational reading as a leisure activity: Perspectives from Georgian and Finnish hearing and deaf students

open access: yesJournal of Research in Special Educational Needs, EarlyView.
Abstract The benefits of recreational reading for academic success are clear. However, the full potential of recreational reading for socialisation and well‐being remains untapped by young readers. Studies of young readers' recreational reading intentions and perceived barriers to translating intentions into reading are scarce. Deaf and hard‐of‐hearing
Zhuzhuna Gviniashvili
wiley   +1 more source

‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
wiley   +1 more source

A Structured Review of Research‐Informed Instructional Strategies to Support CPA Enabling Competencies in Future Accountants*

open access: yesAccounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 189-249, March 2025.
ABSTRACT CPA enabling competencies underpin the human skills and professional values that all future accountants should possess. Nevertheless, to date, the discourse is limited within the scholarship of teaching and learning on how to best inculcate these competencies in future accountants.
Sanobar Siddiqui
wiley   +1 more source

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