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Children’s Sexualisation and Toys
English Literature, 2021 This article offers an analysis of children’s sexualisation in children’s literature by focusing on the collection Barbie Unbound: A Parody of the Barbie Obsession. With Photos by Geoff Hansen (1997) by Sarah Strohmeyer.
Moja, Beatrice
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English Literature, 2021 This article argues that transgression provides an illuminating critical category to examine the narrative construction of John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006).
Canani, Marco
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Ідеї дарвінізму в романі Едіт Вортон «Напівсон» [PDF]
, 2020 The article is devoted to the analysis of the problem of presence of Darwinism ideas in E. Wharton's novel “Twilight Sleep”. The relevance of the study is due to insufficient research of the influence of Darwin’s ideas on the development of the world ...
Bilynska, Khrystyna
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Edwardian Hegemony in Tressell and Sassoon
English Literature, 2022 Ostensibly, all that connects Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914) and Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928) is that their authors lived in south-east England during the early 1900s and wrote about their ...
Melia, Paul
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The Slow Apocalypse in The Low, Low Woods
English Literature, 2023 The comics series The Low, Low Woods is set in the fictional former coal‑mining town of Shudder‑to‑Think, Pennsylvania. While the mines have long been abandoned, their variegated effects, from poverty to environmental destruction, still haunt the ...
Fuchs, Michael, Marini, Anna Marta
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Memories of the Limbaugh Administration
English Literature, 2021 This essay asks why radio host Rush Limbaugh appears in Infinite Jest as president and what this detail suggests about the relationship of the novel to conservative media, the later rise of Donald Trump, and radio’s role in Wallace’s imagination of ...
Severs, Jeffrey
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Shaping Scepticism, Arousing Belief
English Literature, 2014 The visceral responses of theatrical audiences to Othello across time and place clash oddly with the scepticism often ascribed to this play, and famously discussed in Stanley Cavell’s seminal work, Disowning Knowledge (2003).
Marzola, Alessandra
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English Literature, 2021 Although readers are more likely to dwell upon particularly funny, surprising, or disturbing moments in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, the novel contains many instances of breathtaking poeticism. A close reading of a few such lines, hidden gems
Shapiro, Mary
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The Fear of Laughter in Restoration Prose Fiction
English Literature, 2018 This article draws on recent studies on the fear of derisive laughter (or ‘gelotophobia’) in order to relate them to early modern comments on laughter and to the representation of that anxiety in some texts of Restoration prose fiction, and with a ...
Figueroa, Jorge
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“So Shall She Now the Softest Coulours Chuse/To Paint thy Fate & Shadow out thy Woes”
English Literature, 2017 This article will explore the ways in which literary forms empower emotional response to public events, using as a case study the wide range of literary texts – published and circulated in manuscript – inspired by the notorious Abergavenny scandal of ...
Quinault, Lucia
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