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Personification, Synaesthesia and Social Cognition
, 2017 Defining synaesthesia has proven to be a challenging task as the number of synaesthesia variants and associated phenomena reported by synaesthetes has increased over the past decade or so.
Williams, A. L. +5 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Recurrent Themes in Chichewa Verse in Malawian Newspapers
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2003 The paper discusses verse written in Chichewa, the national language of Malawi, that is published in Malawian newspapers, specifically the weeklies; the Weekend Nation and the Malawi News.
Pascal J. Kishindo
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s
History, EarlyView.Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using biographical methods, the study explores the lives of 34 young people undertaking engineering apprenticeships in Teesside, Northeast England. It examines why working‐class youth in a deindustrialised region might be attracted to engineering, how they might secure apprenticeship, and the invaluable role households play in orchestrating ...
Anoop Nayak, Graham Gaunt
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how 57 Jewish and Arab children (aged 4–8), displaced from their homes during the 2023–2024 Israel–Hezbollah war, interpret war and articulate moral reasoning. Using a qualitative design and reflexive thematic analysis, the study draws on children's accounts generated through card‐based interviews addressing war ...
Or Perah Midbar Alter +1 more
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"The fall of the house of Usher" : a master text for (Poe's) American Gothic
Journal of English Studies, 2009 This paper analyses a selection of Poe’s fiction taking as a point of departure the contentions of critics such as Hillis Miller and Eric Savoy on the characteristics of American Gothic.
Marita Nadal
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