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Canada and BeyondThis article presents an intersectional reading of Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa Child (2001) through the lens of Affect Theory. Particularly, I draw from Sara Ahmed’s The Promise of Happiness and Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism to analyze the role these ...
Sheila Hernández González
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MONSTROSITY OR DOUBLE FETUS. [PDF]
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1899 Myself and father, Dr. E. A. Benton, were called in consultation by Dr. W. N. Hunt of this city at 1 p.m., June 15, 1899, in the case of Mrs. D., a multipara in her fourth confinement. She had been in labor for about twelve hours with a vertex presentation in the first position, and strong labor pains for several hours after complete dilation of the os
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A portrait unseen: Neil Bartlett's queer theatrical adaptation of Wilde's Dorian Gray
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Neil Bartlett's 2012 theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray presents a provocative reimagining of Wilde's novel, emphasizing its homoerotic and aesthetic dimensions while engaging with the historical and cultural anxieties surrounding queerness.
Younes Poorghorban
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RecherchesStarting from the motif examined by Bram Dijkstra (1986), this text addresses the hybridization between woman and tree in three stories by contemporary Hispanic American women authors: «September in the skin» (2019) by the Argentine Yanina Rosemberg, «To
Patricia Poblete Alday
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Brobdingnagian monstrosity at the right heart. [PDF]
Eur Heart J Case Rep, 2021 Abbas E, Al-Hefny E.
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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Equity How and Equity for Whom? Incorporating Equity Into Local Government Budgeting Processes
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social equity is politically polarized, with advocates contending that it is a governance mandate and opponents claiming that it promotes reverse discrimination and inefficiencies. When implementing policies and programs, local bureaucrats must maneuver within this legal, ethical, normative, and political battlefield.
Alexis R. Kennedy +2 more
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Grotesque maternity: reading "happiness" and its eugenics in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child (1988) [PDF]
, 2014 This paper contexualises and reads Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child (1988) as a criticism towards the Family Acts conducted by Thatcher’s government in 1980s Britain. The article principally draws attention to the main and minor protagonist’s “annomalous”
Uematsu, Nozomi
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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