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The East in Pushkin’s Lyrics of 1824–1825: Country Estate Contexts [PDF]
This article attempts to explain why Alexander Pushkin, who arrived at his ancestral estate of Mikhailovskoye in 1824 and found himself in the heart of Russian life, turned his attention to the East. Indeed, the first major work that Pushkin wrote in the
Ekaterina E. Dmitrieva
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This study seeks to establish the extent to which In Wonderland is a cultural hybridity discourse and a writing-back to Euro-American travelogues. In this ‘different’ travelogue, Hamsun’s voice cuts through the borderlands of the Russian colonized ...
Soha El Samad
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On the Origin of the Tingidae (Insecta, Heteroptera)
ABSTRACT The hypothesis of a Gondwanian origin of the family Tingidae (Insecta, Heteroptera) has been promoted and seems to be generally accepted by specialists. However, the area of emergence and diversification of the clade, South American or Australian, is still debated and cannot be solved without integrating Vianaidinae, a subfamily considered as ...
Gilardet Rémy +3 more
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Using an optimized MaxEnt model integrated with the HSI‐InVEST habitat quality model, we predicted that suitable habitats for the Oriental Stork in China will expand (0.22%–7.82%) and shift northeastward under future climate scenarios, with altitude and precipitation identified as key drivers.
Pengzhou Chen +5 more
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Royal Titles Bill, 1876: Part 2*
Abstract The satirical, antisemitic pamphlet The Blot on the Queen's Head (often characterised as an attack on Disraeli's mismanagement of the Royal Titles Bill) also contains a devastating caricature of Gladstone's opposition and Robert Lowe's reckless nastiness, while pointing to strong dissensions within the Liberal Party.
Robert O'Kell
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ABSTRACT Rather than examining the identification of Black people in the United States with Arabs and Muslims, this article explores emerging scholarship about people who identify as Black and Arab and Muslim. The article first charts the larger intellectual contexts in which Arabs and Muslims became associated with U.S.
Edward E. Curtis IV
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Orientalism in Pushkin\u27s cycle Imitations of the Koran [PDF]
In this article the author reveals the problem of the origin and significance of Orientalism in Russian literature, the connection between East and West. Analyzing Pushkin\u27s Imitations of the Koran , the author made linguistic conclusions concerning
TOPVOLDIEV, K.
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Russian-Eastern Intersections. A Venetian ‘Anomaly’
This article is devoted to the research of a group of scholars from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice who over the course of several decades – especially starting from the 1970s, and partly up to now – have studied the cultural and political ...
Aldo Ferrari
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