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A New Poetics of Science: On the Establishment of “Scientific‐Fictional Literature” in the Soviet Union

The Russian Review, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 415-431, July 2020., 2020
Since the 1920s the relationship between literature and science, more specifically between the modes of popularizing scientific ideas to a broader public, was a broadly discussed topic among writers, critics and scholars. In these debates the relation between educational goals, entertaining devices and visionary thought experiments was a contested ...
MATTHIAS SCHWARTZ
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§193 and §246 of Philosophia botanica do not support that Linnaeus was a “typologist”

TAXON, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 213-216, April 2020., 2020
Abstract §193 and §246 of Linnaeus's Philosophia botanica have recently been invoked to suggest that Linnaeus used, or even introduced, the “Method of Type”, which implies that a genus is centred around a “typical” species. However, there is no support for this conclusion in either of the two paragraphs, rather the opposite.
Magnus Lidén
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A comparison between the concept of Newspeak in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel and the way of thinking about language in C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2020
The aim of the article is to investigate some of the possible sources of inspiration for Orwell’s concept of the artificial language called Newspeak, which, in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, is shown as an effective tool of enslavement and thought ...
Andrzej Wicher
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Fiction May Confront Theories. Locating Determinism of the Newspeak in G. Orwell’s 1984

Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2021
The paper focuses on the relationships between theory and practice and the consequences of dislocating theory from practice as they are illustrated through fiction. The case study carried out here concerns an exemplary novel, Ninety Eighty-Four by George
Cătălin Constantinescu
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All's well that ends well [PDF]

, 2010
A few years ago, Jasanoff adopted the central tenet of my accentological theory, viz. that the Balto-Slavic acute was a stød or glottal stop, not a rising tone (cf. Kortlandt 1975, 1977, 2004, Jasanoff 2004a).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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“The Other”, Official History, and Memory of the City in Soviet Guidebooks to Chernivtsi

Місто: історія, культура, суспільство, 2023
The paper examines attempts to create new interpretations of the memory and history of Chernivtsi during the Soviet era through the prism of guidebooks and tries to deconstruct it.
Orest Kostiv
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Мовні засоби вербалізації феномена «опір радянській тоталітарній системі» (на матеріалі публіцистичних та епістолярних текстів Валерія Марченка)

Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 2022
The Means of Verbalising the Phenomenon of “Resistance to the Soviet Totalitarian System” (Based on Journalistic and Epistolary Texts by Valeriĭ Marchenko) This article is devoted to the issue of language resistance under the con­ditions of ...
Інна [Inna] Ренчка [Renchka]
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Censorship and Orwell’s legacy: Interview with Jean Seaton [PDF]

, 2010
Censorship and Orwell’s Legacy: An interview with Jean Seaton, questions by Benedetta ...
Brevini, B
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The 'Underclass' Debate – A Discourse that Maligns People Living in Poverty

Social Change Review, 2013
The concept of an ‘underclass’ originates in the United States and is wide-spread in political and social science discourse today. Its power is most visible in discussions about deep cuts to social safety nets.
Michels Hans-Peter
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Aproximación lingüística al newspeak

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1983
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María Pilar Navarro Errasti
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