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Positioning Daniel Defoe's Non-Fiction: Form, Function, Genre [PDF]
This volume analyses the form, structure and genre of a selection of non-fictional works by Daniel Defoe. Directing our scholarly gaze away from the much studied novels, the essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display in Defoe’s better known non-fictional texts, such as The Shortest Way with the Dissenters and A Tour ...
Mäkikalli, Aino, Mueller, Andreas K. E.
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Na pomedzí traktátového a románového žánru .(In between Genres of Tract and Novel ) [PDF]
The important poetic work of the Slovak classicist literature Pamětná celému světu tragoedia (Memorial Tragedy for the Entire World, 1791) has been in the literary historical interpretations typically connected with a genre of débat tract.
Erika Brtáňová
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The Psychos Are Coming, the Psychos Are Coming … They’re Already Here
American director Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion wastes no time in laying out the context of his film on the contemporary interconnectedness of the earth’s inhabitants and the concomitant susceptibility to catastrophe that such relationships imply ...
Edmund Weisberg
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Memoir which is one of the most common genre in the literary field has a special place in terms of presenting historical and social facts. A memoir is not the history itself but one of the aiding tools to understand history. This particular genre primarily focuses on the events and the phenomena that leaves traces in a personal account.
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The problem of causality in cultivation research [PDF]
This paper offers an up-to-date review of problems in determining causal relationships in cultivation research, and considers the research rationales of various approaches with special reference to causal interpretation.
Brosius, Hans-Bernd, Rossmann, Constanze
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The Power to Change the World: A Call for a Children’s Crusade
The purpose of this text is to analyse a children’s book published initially in Portugal in 2015, entitled A cruzada das crianças (vamos mudar o mundo) [The Children’s Crusade (Let’s Change the World)], by Afonso Cruz.
Ana Margarida Ramos
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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820
Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
Paul Stock
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Staging Narcocorridos: Las Reinas Chulas’ Dissident Audio-Visual Performance [PDF]
The four female performers of Banda de Las Recodas (a.ka., Las Reinas Chulas) are a teatro-cabaret group based in Mexico City. Originally conceived as a theatre piece, the musical group has taken on a life of its own, becoming known for its socio ...
Baker, Christina
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Bodily Signs and Disembodied Narrative in Pamela II [PDF]
To a large extent, the detractors of Pamela criticized Richardson’s focus on the body. Pamela’s actions and narrative style appeared to be motivated by her desire, namely, by her passions, traditionally located in the body. In particular, Pamela’s bodily
Capoferro, Riccardo
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Creativity as Queer Praxis: History, Pedagogy and Academic Assessment
Abstract This article draws upon insights from queer pedagogy to explore the ways that creative assessments can be used to disrupt rather than reproduce existing power structures within the academy. Queer pedagogy challenges essentialist categories, centres questions of subjectivity and addresses how knowledge is socially produced.
SAM CASLIN
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