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Hinterland Gothic: Subtropical Excess in the Literature of South East Queensland
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2019 South East Queensland’s subtropical hinterlands—the mountainous, forested country lying between the cities of the coast and the Great Dividing Range—are sites of a regional variation of Australian Gothic.
Emma Doolan
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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Gothic entrapment within textuality in Auster’s travels in the scriptorium
Ilha do Desterro“Gothic-postmodernism” builds upon the shared ontological inquiry into the nature of reality inherent in both the Gothic and postmodernism. By adapting most of the thematic and narrative elements of the Gothic to postmodernist fiction, this genre ...
Mohammad-Javad Haj'jari
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2010 Amitié Sincère – a Counter Narrative and a Story of Love Between Women. A Reading of Karen Blixen’s/Isak Dinesen’s »The Roads Round Pisa« »The Roads Round Pisa« is the opening story in Karen Blixen’s debut work Seven Gothic Tales (1934).
Claudia Lindén
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023 ObjectiveTo study the differences in computed tomography angiography (CTA) imaging of gothic arches, crenel arches, and romanesque arches in children with Aortic Coarctation (CoA), and to apply computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to study hemodynamic ...
Jinjie Qin +7 more
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Technical Challenges in the Construction of Gothic Vaults: The Gothic Theory of Structural Design [PDF]
, 2012 The construction of a Gothic vault implied the solution of several technical challenges. The literature on Gothic vault construction is quite large and its growth continues steadily.
Huerta Fernández, Santiago
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Contested Castle: The Gothic Novel and the Subversion of the Domestic Ideology\u3c/em\u3e by Kate Ellis [PDF]
, 1992 Kate Ellis\u27s purpose in The Contested Castle is to examine the relationship between two epi-phenomena 0f middle-class culture the idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic ( pp. ix-x).
Hoeveler, Diane
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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