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Radical Homemaking in Contemporary American Environmental Fiction
Ursula K. Heise in ‘Ecocriticism and the Transnational Turn in American Studies’ critiques ‘the portrayal of multicultural and sometimes transnational nuclear families as the narrative solution to environmental and political problems’ (Heise, 2008: 383).
Kristin J. Jacobson
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Landscape, culture, and education in Defoe's Robinson crusoe [PDF]
In their article "Landscape, Culture, and Education in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe" Geert Vandermeersche and Ronald Soetaert discuss Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a narrative that translates nature and our dealings with it into a literary text ...
Soetaert, Ronald, Vandermeersche, Geert
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La fiction d’affaires, une source pour l’histoire du temps présent
Largement diffusé, le best-seller participe à la diffusion des stéréotypes sociaux et constitue à ce titre une source pour l’historien. En France, les années 1980 se caractérisent par la dérégulation du système bancaire et par la valorisation de l’argent.
Tania Régin
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Structures of authority : postwar masculinity and the British police [PDF]
The British police procedural novel of the 1950s has attracted little critical attention, perhaps because the decade is seen as a ‘golden age’ of police legitimacy (Loader and Mulcahy, 2003).
Plain, Gill
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International Law in Domestic Courts: A Conflict of Laws Approach [PDF]
The relationship between international law and domestic law is rarely understood as a conflict of laws. Understanding it in this way opens up a parallel with the field of conflict of laws: the field for which the relationship between legal systems ...
Michaels, Ralf +2 more
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From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture and the Conflict of Laws Style [PDF]
The German chancellor, the French president and the British prime minister have each grabbed world headlines with pronouncements that their state’s policy of multiculturalism has failed.
Knop, Karen +2 more
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Review of Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques by Maggie Tonkin [PDF]
Review of Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques by Maggie ...
Osborn, Jennifer
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Epilepsy‐Associated Variants of a Single SCN1A Codon Exhibit Divergent Functional Properties
ABSTRACT Objective Pathogenic variants in SCN1A, which encodes the voltage‐gated sodium channel NaV1.1, are associated with multiple epilepsy syndromes exhibiting a range of clinical severity. SCN1A variants are reported in different syndromes, including Dravet syndrome, which is associated with loss‐of‐function, whereas neonatal/infantile‐onset ...
Lanie N. Liebovitz +3 more
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Reading Speculative Futures in a Post-Truth World [PDF]
Faced with the threat of a “post-truth” world and a widening chasm of exchange between climate change deniers and environmentalists, I argue that future-orientated literary and media speculative fictions—which I term “speculative futures”—offer a means ...
Jekanowski, Rachel Webb
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Les « fictions critiques » de Pascal Quignard [PDF]
Les récits de Pascal Quignard font dialogue du critique et du fictif. Ce trait de l’écriture contemporaine ne relève pas simplement d’une investigation des limites génériques de l’écriture mais d’une articulation inédite de l’invention fictive et de la pensée critique qui n’est plus un rapport d’illustration ou de servitude mais de confrontation et de ...
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