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Back to where we came from: evolutionary psychology and children’s literature and media [PDF]

, 2017
In 2010, The New York Times ran an article which announced that ‘the next big thing in English [Studies]’ was ‘using evolutionary theory to explain fiction’.
Cocks, Neil, Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin
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La « narcolittérature », ses critiques et ses défenseurs : que nous apprend le « boom » éditorial d’un mauvais genre mexicain ?

América
The question of “bad genres” is not dissociated from the normative judgments that permeate a society. Moreover, these judgments are attached to differentiated positions within the Mexican literary field.
Antoine Ducoux
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Vampires, Viruses and Verbalisation: Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a genealogical window into fin-de-siècle science [PDF]

, 2018
This paper considers Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, published in 1897, as a window into techno-scientific and sociocultural developments of the fin-de-siècle era, ranging from blood transfusion and virology up to communication technology and brain research,
Zwart, Hub
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Anthologizing Sir Samuel Ferguson: Literature, History, Politics [PDF]

, 2013
Published Online: 2013-10-25; This content is open access.Although Sir Samuel Ferguson is generally recognized as one of the key figures of mid-nineteenth-century Irish literature, there has been no major edition of his poems since 1916, as a result of ...
Jędrzejewski, Jan
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Bilingual Khmer/English Literature: Contestation Practices and Strategies in the Cambodian Literary Field

IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2018
The study aims to examine how different agents namely individuals, groups, and organizations form the Cambodian literary field compete through selected practices.
Fransiskus Tri Wahyu Setiawan
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A Theory of Genre Formation in the Twentieth Century [PDF]

, 2015
In his article "A Theory of Genre Formation in the Twentieth Century" Michael Rodgers explores the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and magical realism in order to theorize about genre formation in the twentieth century ...
Rodgers, Michael
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Literatura, imprensa e cidade: a constituição do campo literário no Brasil

Vértices, 2012
O presente artigo objetiva relacionar literatura e jornalismo no âmbito da vida moderna, enfocando o jornalista e o escritor como seus agentes, imersos na cidade como novo espaço de relações que criam oportunidades de surgimento e amadurecimento de novos 
Sérgio Arruda de Moura
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Representations of madness in Indo-Caribbean literature [PDF]

This thesis presents a critical reading of selected Indo-Caribbean prose and poetry and explores their shared concern with issues of madness and insanity.
Gramaglia, Letizia
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German studies in the U.S.: history, theory and practice [PDF]

, 2012
This paper discusses the profile of German Studies in the context of interdisciplinary intercultural area studies, as it has been developed during the last decades at universities in the United States, particularly at the University of California at ...
Seeba, Hinrich C.
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Edmundas Malūkas in the Literary Field: The Trajectory and the Strategies of a Popular Writer

Literatūra (Vilnius)
The lack of research on popular literature is evident to those interested in contemporary Lithuanian literary processes and their critical interpretation.
Taisija Oral
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