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‘Tell your story’: resignification and minstrel legacy in Percival Everett’s James

Cogent Arts & Humanities
The paper considers Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) and its peculiar technique as an example of resignification and a contemporary reworking of Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and American minstrel shows.
Ana Kocić Stanković, Dušan Stamenković   +1 more
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THE USE OF POETIC THEMES AND CONCEPTS PECULIAR TO DIVAN POETRY IN WANDERING MINSTREL STYLE TURKISH POETRY / ÂŞIK TARZI TÜRK ŞİİRİNDE DİVAN ŞİİRİ HAYAL VE MAZMUNLARININ KULLANILMASI [PDF]

Folklor/Edebiyat, 2014
In our history of literature, folk poetry has a more deep-rooted tradition than poetry. Contrary to common belief, although poetry and folk poetry were inspired by quite different sources and followed quite different paths from each other they are not ...
Yakup Poyraz**
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Queering Institutional Milestones in Elite Higher Education: Queer Perspectives on Princeton University and Coeducation (1960–1980)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III, Judy Jarvis, Eric Anglero   +2 more
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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“MUZIKA RETORIKA” IN THE CONTEXT OF CARNIVALESQUE” / KARNAVALESK BAĞLAMINDA “MÜZİKA RETORİKA”* [PDF]

Folklor/Edebiyat, 2015
Concepts that were propounded by the Russian contemplator Mikhael Bakhtin based on his literature reviews, such as dialogue, dialogy and carnivalesque are also used in studies on popular culture. According to Bakhthin, at the carnival, a public culture
Aykut Çerezcioğlu**
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
wiley   +1 more source

Generative AI: A Problematic Illustration of the Intersections of Race, Gender and Class

The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This commentary analyses images generated by DALL‐E across three time periods to show that, despite advances in photorealism, the tool persistently reproduces racist, gendered and classist tropes in its depictions of Black American women.
Donnesh Dustin Hosseini
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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 121-138, March 2026.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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A POEM OF HÜDAİ AND A LOCUTION PROPOSAL

Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2014
Some poems are names’ dictionary related with stories, or a kind of missive which mentions the important sides of folk stories. This kind of poems are texts used for datation and for forming the story’s geography.
Faruk Çolak
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The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 509-524, December 2025.
Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
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