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Mediation between Linguistic Hegemony and Periphery Languages in the Nobel Prize for Literature
This article explores the Nobel Prize for Literature as an embodiment of Western hegemony, despite its universal disposition. It demonstrates that the award is prestigious and canonises selected literary works as quintessential, as well as offering ...
Wendo K. Nabea
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Post-Millennium Nobel Literature Prizes in the Context of Global Literary Trends
Globalization has intensely affected the leading art of literature that has, for centuries, deployed languages to discharge a pivotal role in the construction of national cultures.
Fethi Demir, Nahide Ece Süslü
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Controversies in Selecting Nobel Laureates: An Historical Commentary Marshall A. Lichtman
There is universal agreement that the Nobel Prizes, given to individuals who have made an extraordinarily notable contribution to humankind in the fields of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace, are the most prestigious ...
Marshall A. Lichtman
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William Somerset Maugham and the Nobel Prize
This article provides an analysis of the Swedish reception and Nobel Prize nominations of William Somerset Maugham. Its purpose is firstly to present a largely unknown aspect of the reception of his work through an assessment of reviews published in ...
Paulus Tiozzo
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Louise Glück: Mythological Feminism and an Attempt to Overcome Antagonism [PDF]
For many people the fact that Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature was a complete surprise. Ian Probstein comments on the judges’ decision and reminds about the poet’s “CV” that includes National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Prize,
Ian Probstein
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology 1977: A literature review of the Radioimmunoassay Technique
The first study about radioimmunoassay was published in 1960 by 2 scientists, who created this new method to quantify human insulin, at a time when studies on diabetes and its pathophysiology were beginning to stand out.
M. S. N. Carvalho +6 more
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The enactment of physician-authors in Nobel Prize nominations.
Several physicians have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, but so far none of them have received it. Because physicians as women and men of letters have been a major topic of feuilletons, seminars and books for many years, questions arise ...
Nils Hansson +3 more
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The Nobel Year of I.A. Bunin. (Following diaries and family letters) [PDF]
This article draws on the diaries and correspondence of Ivan Bunin and his closest associates to trace the course of the year before he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, which represented the peak of recognition both for Bunin's own literary ...
Tatiana Dvinyatina
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What Does (a Nasty) Woman Want? [PDF]
In this video essay I have juxtaposed material from three films about female desire – made by women at different historical moments in time, in different countries.
Agnieszka Piotrowska
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