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“Queens of Ghost‐Land” 134 Years Later: Un‐Masking an Appalachian Witchcraft Accuser
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1891, newspapers across America printed a story about witches in the Appalachian Mountains and the alleged powers they possessed to control their small farming community. The article was scathing in accusation and ultimately contributed to continued othering of the women profiled, increasing their visible vulnerabilities of class, gender ...
Aíne Norris
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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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WISDOM, 2016 This article dwells on epistemological-motivational aspects of the literary non-fiction genre. The general features of memoir literature are examined form the point of view of their epistemological and cognitive aspects. The cognitive and informational specificities of non-fictional narratives are also considered.
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Literary Journalism on Trial: Janet Malcolm, Criminal Character and the Legacy of New Journalism
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Jess Cotton
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Prejudicial but not unduly so? Addressing the epistemic and non‐epistemic dangers of rap evidence
Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.Abstract Recent years have seen mounting concern about the use of rap music as evidence in criminal proceedings, alongside an ever‐increasing number of cases involving ‘rap evidence’. Yet, while rap music is widely recognized to be highly prejudicial as evidence in court, little is known about how ‘prejudicial effect’ is, or should be, conceptualized ...
ABENAA OWUSU‐BEMPAH
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite evidence that gender‐inclusive language represents genders more equally than generic masculines, it still faces resistance, possibly due to its perceived association with left‐wing politics. This study explores the social meaning of gender‐inclusive language compared with generic masculines in French and German, using four gender ...
Benjamin Storme +3 more
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Transfrontalité et perméabilité dans les genres de non-fiction: l’essai et la chronique
Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2016 Partiendo de la noción de literatura de pensamiento, como conjunto heterogéneo y complejo de formas literarias con vocación argumentativa, el estudio que sigue pretende mostrar a la vez el valor paradigmático del ensayo, en el marco de estas escrituras, y la naturaleza transfronteriza de los géneros de no-ficción, entre los cuales el ensayo y la ...
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Non-fiction, fiction – or what? A discussion of genre in the writings of K. O. Viderø
Fróðskaparrit - Faroese Scientific Journal, 2017 The writings of the Faroese author, pastor and Bible translator K.O. Viderø (19061991) trespass the border between fiction and non fiction and are difficult to define in relation to genre. A definition of genre is on the other hand crucial for the way we read them. K.O.
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