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Nanook News, Vol. 04, No. 30 (May 16, 1963) [PDF]
, 1963 HOME ECONOMICS STYLE SHOW TONIGHT -- MILITARY EDUCATORS CONFER HERE -- MELODRAMA RETURNS! -- WILSON IN WASHINGTON -- "LONG DISTANCE RUNNDER" SHOWS SATURDAY -- AAAS HOLDS SPRING DINNER MEETING -- MUSEUM ANNOUNCES SUMMER HOURS -- PICTURES - PICTURES ...
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The Political Novel in the Age of its Impotence: On Recent German Right‐Wing Fiction
The German Quarterly, Volume 99, Issue 1, Page 5-20, Winter 2026.Abstract While scholars have increasingly studied the German right's publishing strategies and literary politics, less attention has been paid to the literary texts as such. They are worth examining in detail, I argue here, because they reflect in exaggerated form a problem that troubles political novels more generally: the dwindling role of the novel ...
Sophie Salvo
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Singing Off the Road to Life: The Threat of Sonic Delinquency in the Early Soviet Union
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 7-22, January 2026.Abstract During the New Economic Policy, Bolshevik activists and the public alike shared a fixation on singing criminals and young delinquents. It saturated stories of criminality and moral or social reform, from newspapers to sociological literature and even one of the first Soviet sound films.
Elizabeth Abosch
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism
The 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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REPRODUCTION OF MELODRAMA IN CONTEXT OF KADER AND MASUMİYET FILMS
Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2013 The genre of melodrama has manifested itself as the most popular and thebest-loved genre for long years in Turkish cinema. Melodrama lost its popularitydue to both censorship and a decrease in people’s interest in mid 1990s. However, ithas been seen that
Tuğba ELMACI
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El afecto, la apreciación y el juicio en el habla de las telenovelas
Lenguaje, 2012 Desde el enfoque de la telenovela como producto cultural en el cual emergen las emociones y los juicios de las colectividades y el habla estereotipada como su correlato, en este trabajo se propone un análisis de la valoración del discurso melodramático ...
Mireya Cisneros Estupiñán +1 more
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'From grade B thrillers to deluxe chillers': prestige horror, female audiences, and allegories of spectatorship in The Spiral Staircase (1946) [PDF]
, 2009 This paper examines the prestige ‘shocker’ The Spiral Staircase (1946), suggesting that it challenges the perception of the decline in quality in the horror genre in the 1940s, as well as assumptions in scholarship that the genre has historically been ...
Snelson, Tim
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Mediterraneanism Meets Global Ethics: A Poetic and Material Analysis of The Island of Missing Trees
Literature 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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The dramas of Manojlo Đorđević Prizrenac on the Serbian stage [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u PrištiniThe 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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