Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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“Cut Prose”? The Sentence and the Line in Marianne Moore’s Poetry
Transatlantica, 2021 This article seeks to examine Marianne Moore’s line breaks and the formal tensions they reveal or even create between the grammatical sentence and the poetical line.
Aurore Clavier
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Evaluating prose style transfer with the Bible [PDF]
, 2018 In the prose style transfer task a system, provided with text input and a target prose style, produces output which preserves the meaning of the input text but alters the style.
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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I Knew There Was Something Wrong with That Paper : Scientific Rhetorical Styles and Scientific Misunderstandings [PDF]
, 2005 This selection unpacks scientific prose and claim substantiation for Nobel Prize winner, Stan Prusiner, in the transmissible spongiform encephlopathies field (i.e., mad cow disease). Applying linguistic strategies such as M. A. K. Halliday\u27s favorite
Reeves, Carol
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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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Mustafa Lutfî el-Menfâlûtî’de ‘Koyu Karamsarlık’
İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi, 2019 Vahyin akılla, bilimin dinle, benliğin yaratıcıyla, dünyanın ahiretle çeliştiğini düşünen Batı modernitesi en güçlü etkisini kendi yuvası Avrupa’da gösterdikten kısa bir süre sonra 18.
Adnan Arslan
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„MEINE LYRIK SEI IN MEINER PROSA ENTHALTEN.“ LINGUISTISCHE ÜBERLEGUNGEN ZUR LYRIK UND ZUR PROSA VON HANS BERGEL / English Title: “MY LYRIC IS CONTAINED IN MY PROSE” – ABOUT THE LANGUAGE IN THE LYRIC AND PROSE OF HANS BERGEL [PDF]
Journal of Languages for Specific Purposes, 2023 Writing about the lyric of Hans Bergel is an unusual challenge for the researcher. The Transylvanian author, who emigrated to Germany, is known especially for his prose texts; his lyric falls on the second place in his writings, but this doesn’t mean ...
Anita Szell
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