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Homecomings: Black Women’s Mobility in Early African American Fiction

European Journal of American Studies, 2020
In this article, I examine the patterns of black female mobility as represented in three African American mulatta novels: William Wells Brown’s Clotel (1853), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Iola Leroy (1893), and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s Hagar’s ...
Anna Pochmara
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Travelling Girlhood: Feminist Discourses as Narrative Resources for the American Adaptation of the Norwegian High-School Drama SKAM

International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2022
In the American adaptation of the Norwegian youth drama SKAM (2015-2017), the translation of feminist discourse informing the plot shifts the conflict from a social, political, and democratic level to a question of liberation from within.
Dag Skarstein, Synnøve Skarsbø Lindtner   +1 more
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Queer Cinema and Melodrama: A Perspective from Queer Directors

CINEJ Cinema Journal
This article examines the relationship between queer cinema and melodrama through the works of queer directors like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Todd Haynes, and Ümit Ünal.
Esra Yılmaz, Çiğdem Tanyel Başar
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What Was ‘Middle Australia’? Social Categorisation and Political Positioning in the Late‐20th Century

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
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THE RIGHT STUFF: From Western to melodrama and comedy

NECSUS, 2016
THE RIGHT STUFF (1983), directed by Philip Kaufman, has explored which genre conventions were appropriate for space travel. The film first uses the Hollywood Western, as has been acknowledged by several authors.
Wim Staat
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Generative AI and the Future of Musical Diversity

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract I argue that the current proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) represents a new stage in a longer historical process of distancing humans from their unique individual psyches and of reducing participation and cultural diversity in music. The argument consists of six parts: (1) reiterating the uniqueness of individual psyches,
Dor Shilton
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Melodrama, gênero dramatúrgico e linguagem televisiva: uma análise à luz de Bakhtin

Revista Eco-Pós, 2009
Ainda que as análises do melodrama sejam variadas, controversas e até mesmo incompatíveis, dois aspectos geram unanimidade: a durabilidade do gênero e sua maleabilidade. São essas características, aliadas à combinação de sentimentalismo e prazer visual,
Clara Fernandes Meirelles
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 152-174, July 2026.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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Negociación y ruptura en Tres días con la familia: la nueva generación del melodrama familiar

Comunicación, 2022
A lo largo de la historia del cine, la familia ha funcionado como la base narrativa del material melodramático. En ‘Tres días con la familia’, Mar Coll pone en cuestión los códigos cinematográficos del melodrama con respecto a la feminidad, la ...
Beatriz Herrero Jiménez, Samuel Caraballo Estévez   +1 more
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IN PURSUIT OF THE HOFFMANNESQUE

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 298-310, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article seeks to elucidate the term ‘Hoffmannesque’ — the eponymous adjective that refers to E. T. A. Hoffmann — through recourse to Hoffmann's own use of ‘esque’ words: arabesque, grotesque, burlesque, picturesque. By investigating the characteristics of ‘esque’ formulations and tracing their recurrence through Hoffmann's texts, I argue ...
Polly Dickson
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