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L’art du paradoxe wildien : transgression, subversion ou inversion ?
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 Oscar Wilde’s works can be seen as paradoxical since they confront the ideology of his age. As an iconoclast, he exposes truisms, commonplaces and prejudices, which he examines from a decentered, possibly eccentric perspective.
Gilbert Pham-Thanh
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, 2010 This article commences with a brief overview of the history of dog racing in South Africa. It provides a synopsis of South Africa’s current legal position on dog racing and the betting thereon. The main question this article addresses is whether there is
Carnelley, Marita
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Shakespearean Crosswords [PDF]
, 1979 It is fairly well known that, according to the generally accepted history of the puzzles, crosswords were first created in the USA in 1913 and crossed the Atlantic to Great Britain some eleven years later.
Head, Brian
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Multiple Twinning in Nacre and Aragonite
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Electron backscatter diffraction map of a cluster of geologic aragonite, exhibiting single, double, and triple twins. The whole cluster is approximately 2 cm wide. Colors indicate crystal orientations, so that pixels where the a‐, b‐, and c‐axis is perpendicular to the image plane are green, red, and blue, respectively.
Connor A. Schmidt +7 more
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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 These two fin-de-siècle fantastic novels present music (opera-singing in Trilby and violin-playing in The Lost Stradivarius) as a supernatural agent enabling the singer or player to get access to a superhuman status and transcendental dimension. However,
Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay
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HOW DID DEVELOPED COUNTRIES INDUSTRIALIZE? THE HISTORY OF TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY: THE CASES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE USA [PDF]
This paper examines the history of trade policy in Great Britain and the United States and also refer to the cases of Germany and France. This paper indicates that it is a fallacy that early industrializers could have developed their industrial sector ...
Mehdi SHAFAEDDIN
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A new electrochemical system based on a microporous hybrid of carbon nanoplatelets and nanotubes to selectively capture Ni2+ from wastewater is constructed. The system temperature rises rapidly when irradiated with sunlight, which enhances the Ni2+ removal rate by 250% and the selectivity by 53%, and the energy consumption is also reduced by 51 ...
Ziquan Wang +11 more
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The Disraeli Roads of Anfield, Urban Renewal and Sporting Culture
Cahiers Victoriens et EdouardiensAt the tail end of the Victorian era, professional football was an emerging cultural development within British society. Expanding industrial cities such as Liverpool subsequently saw the emergence of large footballing venues typified by Anfield football
Ben Williams
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La poésie féminine victorienne ou comment donner un sexe aux anges ?
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 Although women had to fit a specific social position that they had been allocated in the middle of the 19th century, women poets resexualized the angelic figure of the woman as they chose to reveal sexual pleasure through writing about lesbian ...
Fabienne Moine Perez
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, 1997 The history of the American Revolution which most Americans have learned and which is everyday reinforced in the public media is essentially but one of several competing interpretations of that conflict.
Myers, James P., Jr.
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