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Leonid Andreev’s Story Chemodanov as a Hagiography of the ‘Nizhechelovek’

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
The story Chemodanov (1916) is considered as a parody version of a hagiography (anti-life), as well as a version of the collision ‘Man - Fate’ developed in the work of Leonid Andreev.
Alisa V. Mytareva
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Four Dimensions of Presidential Leadership: Rethinking Nelson Mandela's Presidency

open access: yesPresidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article applies a four‐dimensional analytical framework to re‐evaluate Nelson Mandela's presidency (1994–1999). The framework distinguishes tensions and synergies across four key domains of leadership: executive and symbolic, party and state, international and domestic, and formal versus informal.
Anthony Butler
wiley   +1 more source

Hagiography in the tenth and eleventh century

open access: yes, 2014
In her paper Hagiografie v 10. a 11. Století, Marie Bláhová of Charles University in Prague examines the early history of the development of this genre.
Bláhová, Marie
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Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War, by Gary D. Jaworski

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 48-67, February 2026.
The symposium on Gary D. Jaworski's book Erving Goffman and the Cold War is based on an "Author meets Critics" event held at the European SSSI 2024 Conference in Pisa. After a brief introduction by Dirk vom Lehn, Gary Jaworski briefly suggests his motivation for writing the book.
Chiara Bassetti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

الثقات في كتاب الضعفاء لابن الغضائري

open access: yesمجلة كلية الفقه, 2017
        Praise be to Allah, the Lord of worlds, prayer and peace be upon the most honorable creature prophet Mohammed and his pure progenies….        Hagiography has an important role in the jurisprudential deduction; it is the deduction backbone; the ...
ثائر عبد الزهرة الموسوي
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The Dharma Bums: A (Fictional) Pseudo-Buddhist Hagiography, or a Pseudo-ojoden

open access: yesReligions
This paper analyses Jack Kerouac’s brief but intense conversion to American pseudo-Buddhism and the artistic effect of this biographical development, arguing that his conversion was total from a spiritual point of view and that its almost immediate ...
Ovidiu Matiu
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Latin Hagiography in Medieval Iceland

open access: yes, 2017
I. INTRODUCTIONA. Latin literacy in Iceland and the cult of saintsB. Icelandic quasi-hagiography and the Christian monarchs of NorwayII. THE ICELANDIC SAINTS AND THEIR LATIN TEXTS A. S. Thorlacus Scalotensis episcopus. – 1.
Jensson, Gottskálk
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Hagiography and Medieval Literature. A Symposium

open access: yes, 1984
Dierkens Alain. Hagiography and Medieval Literature. A Symposium. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 62, fasc. 4, 1984. Histoire médiévale, moderne et contemporaine — Middeleeuwse, moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. pp.
Dierkens, Alain
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Death as Triumph in Castilian Medieval Hagiography

open access: yes, 2022
La tipología de la muerte en la hagiografía es estudiada aquí a través de obras medievales castellanas: los cuatro poemas que Berceo dedicó a santos, y tres martirios leídos por flores sanctorum (Mamés, Vitores y Cristina).
Baños Vallejo, Fernando
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