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Disillusionment with Chinese culture in the 1880s : Wang Tao\u27s Three classical tales
, 2016 Leading scholars of modern Chinese literature have long discussed how the May Fourth became a hegemonic force and have sought to uncover the “burdens of May Fourth”; that is, those discourses eclipsed by the May Fourth intellectuals as they promoted the ...
SHI, Xiaoling
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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development
New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 81-87, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
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Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica, 2017 Biography as a representation The article presents biography understood as a representation, using Frank Ankersmith’s concept of „rendering justice” to the past, Philippe Lejeune’s referential pact, and Michał Paweł Markowski’s typology of four ...
Anita Całek
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Choose, Compose, Contemplate: Semantic Theorizing in Management Research
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract By analysing life stories through a reflexive semantic theorizing process, this article introduces an alternative to many conventional coding‐based qualitative analysis techniques. Rather than relying on coding techniques that often strip narrative data of its context and nuance, following the proposed approach helps preserve the richness and ...
Lakshmi Balachandran Nair, Fabien Moreau
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Double image : the Hughes-Plath relationship as told in Birthday letters : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in English at Massey University [PDF]
, 2002 Proceeding from a close reading of both Birthday Letters and the poems of Sylvia Plath, and also from a consideration of secondary and biographical works, I argue that implicit within Birthday Letters is an explanation for Sylvia Plath's death and Ted ...
Cain, Helen Jacqueline
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Patrick Hayes, The Oxford History of Life-Writing, Volume 7: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945–2020
European Journal of Life WritingThis magnificent volume – the seventh to appear in the Oxford series under the general editorship of Zachary Leader – offers an interpretation of literary biographical writing from 1945 to 2020.
Neil Vickers
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Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reevaluates Walling as a neglected precursor to American Western Marxism, arguing that his 1912–1914 trilogy synthesized Marxist theory of his time and Deweyan pragmatism into a distinct “pragmatist conception of history.” Born into “aristocracy” yet radicalized, Walling's unique trajectory—as a co‐founder of the NAACP and critic ...
Paulo Antunes
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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