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The Book / Literature / Library as a Anti-Value in the Works of V. Bryusov and A. Blok

Филологический класс, 2021
In Russian literature, alongside the mythologization of book / literature / library, an idea is developed of the escape from book. The work of symbolist poets holds an important place amid the literary interpretations of this idea.
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Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through the Intersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
While identity research has given sustained attention to marginality, intersectionality, and the effects of power on identity, the formal interactional dynamics through which identities are constituted remain limited. I present identity entanglement as a useful framework for better understanding and articulating the relational complexities of identity.
Jules Vivid
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Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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N.A. Nekrasov and the Literature of the Small Indigenous Peoples of Russia (Translation of the Poem "Knyaginya Trubetskaya" into the Yakut Language)

Язык и текст, 2021
The article is devoted to the history of translation thought in Yakutia. Much attention is paid to the literary influence of Decabrists and Russian writers on the work of Yakut poets the first half of the 20th century.
N.G. Gavrileva
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Messianic motifs in the works of the poets of the Silver age (M.A. Voloshin, A.A. Blok, S.A. Esenin)

Неофилология
INTRODUCTION. Historiosophy is an important aspect of Silver Age poets’ work, in particular, M.A. Voloshin, A.A. Blok and S.A. Yesenin. The purpose of the study is to identify and conceptualize Messianic motifs (in their various manifestations) in the ...
A. A. Yudakhin
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Andrei Rublev in 20th-Century Russian Poetry: Examples and Analyses

Studi Slavistici
This article presents a comprehensive analysis of poems and poetic fragments by twentieth-century Russian poets that engage with the figure of the fourteenth–fifteenth-century icon painter Andrei Rublev.
Oleg A. Lekmanov
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