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The dramas of Manojlo Đorđević Prizrenac on the Serbian stage [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
The paper interprets and evaluates the dramas performed by Manojlo Đorđević Prizrenac: Slobodarka, Zlatna grivna, and Jasmina and Irena. The first part of the paper focuses on the key poetic, dramaturgical, and genre features of these dramas ...
Pejčić Aleksandar S.
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.
Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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Mediterraneanism Meets Global Ethics: A Poetic and Material Analysis of The Island of Missing Trees

open access: yesLiterature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article delves into discussions around the global novel through a poetic and material analysis of The Island of Missing Trees (2021) by British‐Turkish writer Elif Shafak. Internationally acclaimed, the novel's central plot is a love story set in 1974 Nicosia (Cyprus) between Kostas, a Greek Cypriot, and Defne, a Turkish Cypriot, who ...
Aina Vidal‐Pérez
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Mother of Holiness: Phoebe Palmer's Maternal Grief, Silence, and Spiritual Leadership in her Spiritual Narrative

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 343-358, September 2025.
This article expands upon a central aspect of Holiness evangelist Phoebe Palmer's (1807–1874) theology, which has been only tangentially mentioned by scholars: her gendered identity of motherhood. It first considers how Palmer narrated the deaths of her first two sons in her spiritual narrative The Way of Holiness as divine punishment for her ...
Layla Koch
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Positive Microbiology in the Movies

open access: yesMicrobial Biotechnology, Volume 18, Issue 9, September 2025.
How ‘Positive Microbiology’ is portrayed in commercial movies and its potential as a tool for education and engaging general audiences to counteract germaphobia. Image done with freepik. ABSTRACT Microbes are essential for sustaining life in our planet.
Manuel Sánchez‐Angulo
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Melodrama e heroização: a mídia no relato biográfico

open access: yesMatrizes, 2013
O ponto de partida desta pesquisa pressupõe que a mídia constitui a sociedade contemporânea e sua presença se alastra em todos os níveis do processo social.
Ana Carolina Escosteguy
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Intervenciones contaminantes y profilaxis cinemática en la vecindad de Pepe El Toro: la trilogía del mexicano Ismael Rodríguez (1948-1953)

open access: yesLatin American Literary Review, 2017
Uno de los retos del director mexicano Ismael Rodríguez es yuxtaponer una estética escenográfica que dé cuenta de las tribulaciones resultantes de la vida en el medio urbano, junto a un discurso de benevolencia, capaz de subrayar los problemas que, en ...
Silvia Juliana Rocha Dallos
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Transformation of Melodrama in Turkish Cinema from Yeşilçam to the Present: The Films Innocence and Destiny

open access: yesSelçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi
Melodramas are dramatic works of art where the detailed character studies dominate the plot. The dialogues used in melodramas are generally emotional, and the characters are often portrayed in stereotypical forms.
Kemal Çelik
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THE ROLE OF FREUDENREICH'S "BORDERMEN" WITHIN THE HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK OF THE FOLK DRAMA

open access: yesFluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 1994
The authoress points out principial characteristics of melodrama, using the example of Freudenreich's "Bordermen", basing her observations on S. D. Baluhati's theoretical insights.
Adriana Car-Mihec
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Streaming Economy: Seriality and Netflix Original Korean Series

open access: yesGlobal Storytelling
Seriality is one of the most important and recognizable elements of television since its inception and has been understood in terms of gaps, interruptions, and repetitions.
Benjamin Han
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