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ViaticaThis article examines the appearance of Isabelle Eberhardt as a traveller in Malika Mokeddem’s Le Siècle des sauterelles (1992). It discusses Mokeddem’s view of the place of women in the Algerian desert and how she negotiates the freedom of her heroines ...
Amina Zarzi
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 This article reflects on two rape stories, namely, the rape of Dinah and the rape of Tamar. In the two rape stories, the male figures are portrayed as heroes – the defenders of the rape victims.
Hulisani Ramantswana
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Activist Discourse and the Origins of Feminist Shakespeare Studies
Multicultural Shakespeare, 2023 This essay reconsiders interpretations of Shakespeare by Irish writer Anna Murphy Jameson and the American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller. Developing an informal method in which the voice of the female critic rallies in defence of Shakespeare’s ...
Magdalena Nerio
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City of God and the Duty of Just Memory
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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Symbolon, 2021 Representations of Ugly Heroines in Dramatic Texts. Heroines of A.P. Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” and Sándor Bródy’s “The Medic” Inferences about female characters’ body can be made from several different aspects in the drama framework including information ...
Ágnes Váradi
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O mito contemporâneo da heroína esportiva: da guerra ao pódio
Caderno de Educação Física e Esporte, 2019 Objetivo: identificar o imaginário social transmitido pela mídia sobre atletas consideradas heroínas esportivas e identificar os discursos sobre as diferenças de gênero transmitidas pela mídia nos Jogos Olímpicos Rio 2016.
Rafael da Silva Mattos +7 more
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The Depersonalized as Vanishing Hero and Heroine in Yorùbá Moral Placards
Yoruba Studies Review, 2021 The paper critically examines the relationship between the idea of moral placards and the existence of Yorùbá heroes and heroines. It takes as its starting point the philosophical import of the Yoruba proverb.
Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi
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The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 3, Page 348-362, July 2026.Abstract This article brings together theories of history and filmic realism to analyze the representation of the provinces in Nataliia Meshchaninova’s The Hope Factory (Kombinat “Nadezhda,” 2014) and Andrei Zviagintsev’s Leviathan (Leviafan, 2014). It argues that these two films share a typically realist attitude of respect toward the profilmic in ...
Daria Ezerova
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