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Anglophone Literature in Bangladesh and Malaysia: Challenges and Prospects
Future Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 1, May 2025.ABSTRACT This article focuses on the historical trajectory and development of Anglophone literature in Bangladesh and Malaysia—two predominantly Muslim countries and previously British colonies categorised as “Outer Circle” countries in Braj Kachru's model of English‐speaking communities.
Mohammad A. Quayum
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Audio description for all? The benefits and concerns of extending access provision to sighted people
Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 387-403, April 2025.Abstract Audio description (AD) is an established part of museums' access programs for blind and partially blind (BPB) people. This paper explores the merits and caveats regarding “AD for all”, rolling out the provision for sighted people as well.
Ellen Adams
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Disruptive diversity: Exploring racial commodification in the Norwegian cultural field
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 407-422, March 2025.Abstract Scholars have suggested that the heightened focus on diversity in Western cultural fields may drive forms of racial commodification, impacting cultural representations of ‘race’. However, few studies apply Bourdieu's theory of cultural production to understand how racial commodification may also disrupt field dynamics.
Sabina Tica
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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
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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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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 26-49, February 2025.This article takes Bede's account of the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria as a case study in the mechanics and function of narrative. It is now recognized that Bede's sources for his Ecclesiastical History were very limited and that in composing it he relied upon his own deductions as a historian and upon his narrative skill to provide ...
Catherine Cubitt
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Nation Building Through Translation: Kleist's “Earthquake” in Meiji Japan
The German Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 1, Page 24-40, Winter 2025.Abstract In this essay, I consider Mori Ogai's translation of Heinrich von Kleist's “Das Erdbeben in Chili” as a contribution to the linguistic reform debates in Meiji Japan, which centered on the unification of the spoken and written language. I analyze the syntax of Ogai's translation and argue that his stylistic reduction of the original transforms ...
Jonas Teupert
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Introduction: Exile and Innovation☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 8-25, February 2025.Abstract The early modern period was an age marked by the forced migration and displacement of social groups and individuals around the world. Huguenots, conversos, Catholics, cavaliers, Jacobites, and French emigrés alike fled or were expelled from their homes and communities.
Annalisa Nicholson, Christophe Gillain
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Literary Insanity and Psychiatric Literacy: Youth, Mental Health, and Contemporary Russian Fiction
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 1, Page 31-50, January 2025.Abstract In the first post‐Soviet decade, Russian mental health professionals sounded the alarm about a looming psychiatric crisis affecting the nation’s youth. Some twenty years later, a spate of literary works seemingly marked the fictional apotheosis of these anxieties.
Jenny Kaminer
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