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How Far Is the Future?

open access: yesimg journal, 2021
The pandemic and consequent economic fallout, intertwined with the climate crisis, has led to a recalibration of the distance that separates the present from the future.
Karen Pinkus
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Dikeledi’s revenge: A reading of Bessie Head’s ‘The collector of treasures’

open access: yesLiterator, 1996
This essay focuses on the title story of Bessie Head's collection The collector of treasures and pays particular attention to the role of the phallus in the text.
M. Crous
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La zona, una ciudad de México globalizada y colapsada por la violencia

open access: yesRevista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2013
La injusta realidad de lo que se vive en las ciudades y espacios poblacionales tercermundistas globalizados muestra ya claras señales de una descomposición social que sigue deteriorándose ante la falta de oportunidades y de educación para las actuales y ...
Demetrio Anzaldo-González
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Truth and reconciliation: Confronting the past in Death and the Maiden (Ariel Dorfman) and Playland (Athol Fugard)

open access: yesLiterator, 1995
Both plays deal with the devastating effects of the sociopolitical on the individual and point to the ways that factuality enters fiction, either to defictionalize it or refictionalize it.
C. Maree
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Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance

open access: yesJournal of Popular Culture, 2018
Popular romance fiction is the most prolific and profitable popular genre globally, a robust counter to narratives in the media and academia about the death of the book. Like all genres of fiction, romance has multiple dimensions.
L. Fletcher, Beth Driscoll, Kim Wilkins
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Affective commitment foci as parallel mediators of the relationship between workplace romance and employee job performance: a cross-cultural comparison of the People’s Republic of China and Pakistan

open access: yesPsychology Research and Behavior Management, 2018
Purpose The purpose of the present study is twofold. First, we examined the relationship between workplace romance and employee job performance and tested the role of affective commitment foci – namely, affective coworker commitment, affective supervisor
M. A. S. Khan   +4 more
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Identity Games and Polemics Between the Arts: Marcel Proust and Claude Jutra [PDF]

open access: yesSlovo a Smysl
Take It All (1964) is a remarkable autofiction film in which the Quebec filmmaker Claude Jutra (1930–1986) responds to Proustian theories about the superiority of literature (a ‘pure art’) over cinema and other arts based on ‘direct imitation of reality’
Eva Voldřichová Beránková
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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RUSSIAN AND TATAR PROVERBS AND PROVERBAL PHRASES WITH AN ELEMENT OF COMPARISON

open access: yesМногоязычие в образовательном пространстве, 2023
The article is devoted to the study of stable expressions with an element of comparison at the grammatical, lexical and syntactic levels. The purpose of the study is a comparative analysis of paroemias, such as proverbs, sayings, phraseological units in ...
I.A. Fedorova, L.R. Mingatina
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Això era i no era: mito y memoria en Montserrat Roig

open access: yesArbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2006
Este artículo analiza el uso y el significado de la memoria en la obra narrativa de la escritora barcelonesa. Això era i no era, típico comienzo de los cuentos de hadas, afirma a la vez que niega la verdad de la historia; Roig sentía una ambivalencia ...
Geraldine C. Nichols
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Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy at the margins

open access: yesMedia Culture and Society, 2017
Facebook has consolidated its position as the one-stop-shop for social activity among the poor in the global South. Sex, romance, and love are key motivations for mobile and Internet technology usage among this demographic, much like the West.
P. Arora, L. Scheiber
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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