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Reading Gadda, 2. Gadda’s «Giornale» and the Writings of the Great War
GriseldaonlineThe article aims to present a preliminary analysis of the interrelations between Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Giornale di guerra e di prigionia and the extensive textual corpus it belongs to: the autobiographical writings of the Great War.
Giorgio Nisini
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“This loose, drifting material of life:” Virginia Woolf’s Diaries and memoirs as Private Epitexts
E-REA, 2018 Virginia Woolf’s literary output is characterised by remarkable homogeneity and coherence between aesthetic principles on the one hand and formal aspects on the other, some qualities which her readers and critics have long recognised, thanks to her ...
Annalisa FEDERICI
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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Itinéraires, 2011 Everybody knows that since the beginning, women wrote memoirs. Why did so few women produce “egohistorical” narratives precisely from the moment they were granted a wide array of rights and achieved formal equality?
Jean-Louis Jeannelle
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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La mémoire littéraire dans quelques Mémoires de la Révolution
Itinéraires, 2009 Memoirs are referential texts, but this does not mean that they exclude memory from fictional or autobiographical works, in which the historical dimension is far less prominent.
Anne Coudreuse
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
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Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Suicides disguised as homicides present a persistent challenge in forensic case analysis, particularly when the weapon is deliberately removed after discharge. This study investigates the evolution of weapon concealment techniques—specifically the “load‐and‐rope” and “helium balloon‐tied gun” methods—across documented casework, forensic ...
Ernesto Damiani +2 more
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