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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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Construcciones focalizadoras y oralidad
Lexis, 2018 This paper addresses three Spanish focus constructions: clefts, the Det+N+ ser construction (e.g. la verdad es que...), and the lo+adj+ser construction (e.g. lo bueno es que...).
Liliana Ruiz Velasco D.
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THE ANTHOLOGY “STATE OF WAR”: SYNERGY, PROBLEMATICS, GENRE ORIGINALITY OF THE TEXTS [PDF]
Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні наукиThe anthology “State of War” is a fiction and documentary prose about the bloody war unleashed by Russia on Ukrainian lands, a prose in which the authors, through the prism of their own worldview, experience and emotions, offer the general readership ...
Valentina Р. Biliatska +1 more
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The Chronotope and the Study of Literary Adaptation : The Case of Robinson Crusoe [PDF]
, 2010 This paper proposes a reflection on the potential of the chronotope as a heuristic tool in the field of adaptation studies. My goal is to situate the chronotope in the context of adaptation studies, specifically with regard to perhaps the most central ...
Collington, Tara
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Thea Astley’s modernism of the 'Deep North', or on (un)kindness [PDF]
, 2019 Although she is often perceived as a writer of the local, the rural or the regional, Thea Astley herself notes writing by American modernists as her primary literary influence, and emphasises the ethical value of transnational reading and writing ...
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Na pomedzí traktátového a románového žánru .(In between Genres of Tract and Novel ) [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2007 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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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Akademisk Kvarter, 2012 According to Giambattista Vico, inventive and creative thinking involves the ability to actively combine conditions in new ways and the ability to constantly observe the diverse circumstances through new perspectives.
Rune Andersen, Knud Knudsen
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