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Afterlives of the Persian Gifts to Versailles
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 279-295, September 2024.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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Literacy, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 278-288, September 2024.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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Hungarian Cultural Studies, 2015 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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Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 2024.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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Swimming Lessons: Exploring and Embracing the Graphic Memoir [PDF]
, 2023 My thesis is both creative and analytical, delving into the graphic memoir genre and its components. My own graphic memoir is at the heart of this piece: Swimming Lessons, which I wrote and drew over the past four years.
Donati, Sophia
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Romantic objects, Victorian collections: Scribal relics and the authorial body
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1-3, January-March 2024.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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European Journal of Life Writing, 2015 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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“The compass of possibilities”: Re-Mapping the Suburbs of Los Angeles in the Writings of D.J. Waldie
European Journal of American Studies, 2011 This article uses the works of the writer, memoirist, and Lakewood, California public official, D. J. Waldie to deepen our concept of “region” and to re-assess many of the stereotypical discourses associated with the American suburbs.
Neil Campbell
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The Reluctant Memoirist: Breaking the silence on deaf identity
, 2011 She leaned across the picnic hamper, reaching out for my hearing aid in my open-palmed hand. I leaned back, batting her hand away from mine. The glare of the summer sun blinded me and I struck empty air. She was quick.
McDonald, Donna
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