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The Post-Machiavellian Poetry of ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’

The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell, 2019
The Machiavellian dimension to the portrayal of Cromwell in ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’ has long been recognized. The first part of this essay moves beyond existing interpretations to situate Marvell’s political poem in relation
A. Brett
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The Return of the Anal Character

Review of General Psychology, 2011
The anal character is a central concept in the psychoanalytic theory of personality. It was originally described in the first decade of the 20th century, and quickly applied to the analysis of clinical cases, psychobiographies, and cultural phenomena. In midcentury a generation of psychoanalytically oriented psychologists found some evidence that anal
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The Return of the Accuser as God’s Defender: A Diabolical Reception of Elihu in Elie Wiesel’s The Trial of God

Journal of the Bible and its Reception, 2023
While a wealth of recent scholarship and popular reception has suggested the Elihu speeches in Job 32–37 are redundant and perhaps do not belong, still others maintain the character’s status as revelatory and divinely-inspired within the narrative.
Eric D. McDonnell
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Film notes: masculinity, violence, and queer identity in recent South African films

Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies, 2019
Told from multiple points of view, Vaya (meaning “to go”) follows the stories of three unrelated characters whose fates intertwine as they leave their hometowns in rural KwaZulu-Natal and head for Johannesburg – South Africa’s economic hub – on their ...
A. Pieterse
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Reading Ludwig Tieck’s The Fairies: Focusing on the Problem of the ‘other’ and ‘Hospitality’

The Criticism and Theory Society of Korea
This article reads the existence of ‘others’ that appear in The Fairies and discusses how ‘hospitality’ can be understood through this process. This article starts with the recognition that Tieck’s text enables us to think about the other and hospitality
Jin Hwan Kim
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Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle (review)

Bulletin of the Center for Children`s Books, 2019
and in order to return to her parents, she must complete three tasks. Meanwhile, her mother falls ill and Vidal grows increasingly threatening as the rebels continue to evade him.
Elizabeth Bush
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The Social Rate of Return to Investing in Character: An Economic Evaluation of Alberta’s Immigrant Access Fund Microloan Program

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2014
Skilled immigrants have been identified as a key source of labour supply to address the expected labour market shortages in Canada arising from an aging population and strong economic growth. The integration of immigrants into the workforce often requires that they have the necessary accreditation to work at their chosen occupation. However, credential
J. C. Herbert Emery, Ana Ferrer
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Queer Carnival, Gender, and Fascist Moments in Shinkai Makoto's Kimi no na wa (Your Name, 2016)

The Journal of Japanese Studies
:In Japanese animation, queer characters and plots are sometimes centrally presented and they seem to destabilize and challenge heteronormative identity categories. However, in Shinkai Makoto's sekai-kei animation Your Name (2016), the queering of bodies,
Andrea Germer
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American Fiction, Jewish Writers, and Black Characters: The Return of "The Human Negro" in Philip Roth

MELUS, 1984
In a number of essays collected in Shadow and Act, Ralph Ellison categorizes the typical uses to which modern American white writers have put Black characters: to image "the unorganized, irrational forces in American life"'; to image "disorder and chaos"2; to image "infantile rebellions [against], fears of, and retreat from reality"3; to image "almost ...
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Complexity and the Character of Stock Returns: Empirical Evidence and a Model of Asset Prices Based on Complex Investor Learning

Management Science, 2007
Empirical evidence on the distributional characteristics of common stock returns indicates: (1) A power-law tail index close to three describes the behavior of the positive tail of the survivor function of returns (pr(r > x) ∼ x−α), a reflection of fat tails; (2) general linear and nonlinear dependencies exist in the time series of returns; (3) the ...
Scott C. Linn, Nicholas S. P. Tay
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