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Tied Up In Knots: Irony, Ambiguity, and the 'Difficult' Pleasures of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Upon its release in February 2015, Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Fifty Shades of Grey met with vehement critical derision, finding itself reproached on both artistic and ideological grounds.
McCulloch, Richard
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Beyond salaries: Teachers' experiences of navigating early years education amid economic instability in Türkiye

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The intersection of economic conditions and early years education has long been debated, particularly where financial constraints shape educational practice and professional realities. Türkiye, characterised by high inflation and structural vulnerabilities in purchasing power parity, provides a critical context for examining how economic ...
Ebru Aydın, Şerif Yüksel
wiley   +1 more source

Apostle Battery Table Bay Fire Command

open access: yesScientia Militaria, 2012
Although it had been agreed at an Imperial Defence Committee meeting in London in June, 1933, that South African coast defences should be modernised at a cost of £130 000 – which today seems a quite ridiculous amount - none of the recommendations had ...
L.A. Crook
doaj   +1 more source

‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

"CRAZY" STORY-TELLING (F. M. DOSTOEVSKY, V. M. GARSHIN, A. P. CHEKHOV)

open access: yesИзвестия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки
Not only the general theme of madness, but also the features of the narrative allow us to compare the Garshin’s "A Red Flower" with "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" by Dostoevsky and "Ward No. 6" by Chekhov.
Angelika Molnar
doaj   +1 more source

Charles et ses images

open access: yesFlaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique, 2009
From the 1930s to the present, Charles Bovary is probably the most altered character in the adaptations of Flaubert’s novel. The first directors made a victim of him, but gradually, the cinema began to emphasize his deleterious dimension and attributed ...
Anne-Marie Baron
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Drinking Bourbon with Cupid

open access: yes, 2014
It was Valentine’s Day, and rather than enjoying the suspiciously commercial holiday with a romantic partner, I was alone watching reruns of “How I Met Your Mother,” from a cozy armchair with a cigar in one hand and a glass of bourbon in the other.
Kirkenir, Joseph L.
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The influence of rivers on seabird foraging ecology

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rivers act as vital arteries to the world's oceans, delivering fresh water and nutrients that sustain marine ecosystems. Globally, river flow increasingly is being altered by climate change and anthropogenic pressures; yet the significance of rivers to predatory marine species, such as seabirds, and the extent to which river‐related changes ...
Julia B. Morais   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

À l’école des bêtes : l’intellectuel tourné en ridicule dans un groupe de lampes plastiques cnidiennes

open access: yesPallas
Between around 70 and the second half of the 2nd century CE, Cnidian workshops produced a typology of plastic lamps, modeled in the shape of a seated man or animal reading an open scroll, with a phallus-shaped spout.
Daria Russo
doaj   +1 more source

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