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London's Burning: Structuralist Readings of the Urban Inferno in the 1950's British Literature of Multi-culturalism [PDF]

English Studies at NBU, 2020
This article examines a literary triangle treating a modern re-imagining of the Dantean Inferno in Caribbean migrant experience. Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners advanced a stylistic and intellectual revolution in post-World War II British literature ...
Tadd Graham Fernée
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EIGENSINN AND DOMINATION IN LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL SOCIETIES

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 32-57, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article is a posthumously published text that was written by Alf Lüdtke and Alexandra Oeser but was left unfinished when Lüdtke died in February 2019. It examines two central notions—and their articulations—that Lüdtke and Oeser use differently in their work: domination and Eigensinn. On domination, it focuses on perspectives of Max Weber'
Alf Lüdtke, Alexandra Oeser
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"Maniquí", de Jean Rhys, o el potencial subversivo de la otredad femenina

Asparkía, 2013
A pesar del afán de algunos críticos por cuestionar el derecho que Jean Rhys tiene de figurar entre los escritores caribeños más importantes, basándose en su amplio conocimiento y constante uso de las tradiciones idelógicas y literarias europeas, así ...
María Dolores Herrero Granado
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The Plight of Not Belonging: Jean Rhys’s “Let Them Call It Jazz” and “The Day They Burned the Books”

ES Review, 2018
This paper offers an analysis of the short stories “Let Them Call It Jazz” (1962) and “The Day They Burned the Books” (1960), set in London and in the Caribbean respectively, with the aim to demonstrate that, no matter their origin, Rhys’s protagonists ...
Carmen Laguarta Bueno
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Devolution and Power: Employment Rights, Bargaining and Risk

Industrial Relations Journal, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 150-159, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article considers the implications of further constitutional devolution for the regulation of work and employment, taking Wales as its case study. It reviews the current profile of the Welsh labour market, the climate for industrial relations and existing structures of pay determination and collective bargaining in this context.
Jean Jenkins, Helen Blakely, Rhys Davies
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Double Exile: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019
The problems of cultural displacement and a shaky sense of one's own identity have been the main concern of the twentieth century Caribbean writer, Jean Rhys. As a white Creole writer living in England, Rhys attempts to capture the ambivalence of what it
Instructor Nibras Jawad Kadhim
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“As she drifted off into the dark river”. Linguaggio, silenzio e pazzia in To Room Nineteen di Doris Lessing

MediAzioni, 2023
The article analyses how Doris Lessing's short story To Room Nineteen (1963) is a particularly relevant case study because it stages the crisis of language and the very possibility of adopting the realist fiction by inscribing them in the crisis of a ...
Cristina Gamberi
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Social Equity in Municipally Owned Corporations: Do Women in the Boardroom Make a Difference to the Gender Pay Gap?

Public Administration, Volume 103, Issue 4, Page 979-991, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Representative bureaucracy theory posits that the presence of less‐advantaged social groups in public leadership positions is an important driver of social equity among the recipients of public services and the public servants who provide them.
Rhys Andrews
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"Maniquí", de Jean Rhys, o el potencial subversivo de la otredad femenina

Asparkía, 2002
Resumen A pesar del afán de algunos críticos por cuestionar el derecho que Jean Rhys tiene de figurar entre los escritores caribeños más importantes, basándose en su amplio conocimiento y constante uso de las tradiciones idelógicas y literarias europeas,
María Dolores Herrero Granado
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Jean Rhys: the Writings of a Woman Touched by the British Empire

Journal of English Studies, 2019
The starting point of this essay is the assumption that The British Empire, while it lasted, but also after its collapse, produced literature extolling its virtues and faults, which influenced some English authors in favour of or against colonialism ...
Francisco Javier Gil Jacinto
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