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The Alchemist and Medieval Faerie Romance [PDF]
Ben Jonson Journal, 2019 In The Alchemist, Doll's faerie queen is frequently interpreted by critics as representative of Jonson's scepticism toward folkloric belief and superstition. The supernatural-monarch-come-prostitute who appears before Dapper the clerk is thought to be drawn from contemporary accounts of cozeners who would claim to be in contact with the faerie realm ...
Bull, Steve
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Glauce’s “Foolhardy Wit” and the Revision of Romance in The Faerie Queene [PDF]
Spenser Studies, 2018 Britomart’s old nurse Glauce is introduced in The Faerie Queene Book III as a stock figure who nonetheless transcends her low generic origins through comic improvisation and transformation.
Sue P. Starke
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NUST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021 This research study focuses on the analysis of the narrative techniques of the text The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holy Black, an American novelist, in light of Wendy. B.
Bushra Munawar, Hina Rafique, Huma Amin
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Deceit and guile in the Iranian national epic romances [PDF]
پژوهشنامه ادب غنایی, 2016 Iranian national epics are full of short and long romances and their main structure consists of love. Epic loves have basic differences with pure romances such as Leili va Majnun and Khosrow va Shirin.
Kamal-al-Din Arekhi +2 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses.
Yajie Li, Yuhao Ding
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Strategic framing of novel ideas: How contestation shapes the evolution of novelty
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurs use strategic framing to gain support for their novel ventures, products, and services. A key challenge entrepreneurs face is that audiences often contest frames that introduce novel ideas, especially when these ideas disrupt audiences' mental and business models.
Janina Klein +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article examines the ending of a friendship in ethnographic fieldwork. I argue that friendship is a necessarily ambiguous concept and relation, made most distinctive as a ‘friendship’ at its end. Reflecting on a friendship that was ended between this author and an old friend in fieldwork in Halleigh, North Manchester, England, I discuss the ...
Katherine Smith
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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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