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Abstract This article uses campaign reports and memoir literature to explore tsarist officers’ views of masculinity—both their own and that of their opponents—during the conquest of the Caucasus, focusing particularly on the Nicolaevan era. It frames conquest as a form of cultural exchange and argues that tsarist officers’ understandings of the gender ...
Ian W. Campbell
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GENRE MODIFICATION IN G. IVANOV’S MEMOIR «PETERSBURG WINTERS»
The book of Ivanov’s memoir prose “Petersburg winters” from the time of publication evoked ambiguous assessments of contemporaries, critics and literary critics.
A A Rogovsky
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Afterlives of the Persian Gifts to Versailles
Abstract The fate of diplomatic gifts after their presentation can reveal patterns of instability and shifting narratives on the items themselves and how they were perceived and received at the time. Often, these important pieces of material evidence disappear or are decontextualised from their exchange.
Samantha Happe
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Can the Memoirist Speak? Representing Iranian Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Recent Popular and Scholarly Publications Roshanak Kheshti Booils DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics ...
Roshanak Kheshti
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Abstract Teachers of young writers often feel pressure to focus on narrow, tested conventions, forms and processes of writing. These pressures can contribute to instruction that does not consider students' interests, experiences, language or cultures, but rather can further deficit views of students whose backgrounds do not closely align with those ...
Charlotte L. Land +2 more
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Memory, History and Resentments in the Primary Public Instruction in the Province of Parana (Brazil, 1853-1889) [PDF]
Dialoging with the historiographic research field on Resentment in History, this work on history of education turns the look towards primary public education in the Province of Paraná, in southern Brazil, in the second half of the nineteenth century ...
Juarez José Tuchinski dos Anjos +1 more
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Abstract One of the most common questions we get asked as historians of psychiatry is “do you have access to patient records?” Why are people so fascinated with the psychiatric patient record? Do people assume they are or should be available? Does access to the patient record actually tell us anything new about the history of psychiatry?
Jonathan Sadowsky, Kylie Smith
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For most writers the first experience of narrative comes from within the family. Facts, opinions, distortions and – very occasionally – truth, are shaped into family stories.
Heather Richardson
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Romantic objects, Victorian collections: Scribal relics and the authorial body
Abstract Over the course of the nineteenth century, literary manuscripts came to be seen as tangible evidence of the creative process and as a key to the personality of the author. The material traces of writing were understood to outlive their creators and promise to resurrect the authorial body through the magic of the relic.
Tim Sommer
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Contemporary Israeli literature is presently preoccupied with the past diasporic lives of the previous generation, the one that came to Israel from practically all four winds in the mid-late twentieth century.
Ilana Rosen
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