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Gold and tears of Maria Moura: a contemporary heroine in the hinterland of the nineteenth century
Gragoatá, 2005 Which should be the main traces of a heroin that really belongs to the XXIst century? The feuilleton of the XIXth century brings to paper many of the the strategies of theatrical melodrama, which appeared in France after French Revolution.
Patrícia Coelho Moretzsohn
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Le silence, mise à l’épreuve de la sincérité au théâtre (1802-1828)
Quêtes Littéraires, 2017 In 19th century French very successful melodrama, discourse is seen as a powerful way to get attention. Criminals and traitors are masters of speech and seductive persuasion, but they never achieve their goals by the end of the play.
Florence Fix
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The ThinkerThis article focuses on two post-apartheid melodramatic films that engage with the experiences of queer characters. While melodrama is often dismissed as a less serious and less sophisticated cinematic genre, I argue that it can be powerfully used to ...
Andy Carolin
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The JLS at 50: Art, literature and socio‐legal studies
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S202-S215, September 2025.Abstract This article began life as a lecture the author was invited to deliver as part of the Journal's 50th‐anniversary celebrations in the summer of 2024. The piece explores how law, literature and socio‐legal studies in the United Kingdom have evolved alongside each other since the birth of the Journal of Law and Society in 1974.
BARBARA HUGHES‐MOORE
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El melodrama como discurso histórico, político y mediático en América Latina, la otra modernidad
Academo, 2019 Menospreciado, olvidado, incluso descontextualizado por los discursos académicos elitistas que lo colocan como un discurso inútil y poco crítico que celebra la pobreza y las melancolías históricas de América Latina. Sin embargo, el melodrama coloca a los
Xavier Brito Alvarado +1 more
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Welcome to the Dark Side: Use of Humour in Indoctrinating to Extremist Ideologies
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 55, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT The paper argues that humour can be very effective in disseminating extremist ideologies, in part because of humour's inherent capacity to hinder critical reflection and in part because humour requires bringing together two conflicting frames of interpretation. With extremist humour, the other frame needed to make sense of what is funny is the
Jani Sinokki
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Secuencias, 2016 El melodrama clásico, mal entendido como Woman´s Film, construye en la mayoría de sus relatos clásicos a la mujer como significante de pasividad y renuncia.
Beatriz Herrero Jiménez
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Frankenstein, Emile, ChatGPT: Educating AI between Natural Learning and Artificial Monsters
Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 4, Page 702-719, August 2025.Abstract The emergence of ChatGPT, and other generative AI (GenAI) tools, has elicited dystopian and utopian proclamations concerning their potential impact on education. This paper suggests that responses to GenAI are based on often‐implicit perceptions of naturalness and artificiality.
Gideon Dishon
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The Rise of the Natural-Rate of Unemployment Model [PDF]
, 2000 With respect to political mythology, the Northern spring of 1968 is chiefly remembered (like its forerunner of 1848) as a \u27springtime\u27 of youthful and hirsute left-revolutionary fervour.
Leeson, Robert
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