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Undine (1895) by Adolphe Appia: The Manifesto of the Stage Space Reform [PDF]

Художественная культура
This article explores the early work of the famous Swiss theatre innovator Adolphe Appia (1862–1928) and his play Undine (1895). Based on the fairy tale by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777–1843), this text became a kind of laboratory of the artist’s ...
Medvedeva Elena V.
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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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From Social Justice to Metaphor: The Whitening of Othello in the Russian Imagination

Multicultural Shakespeare, 2021
Othello was the most often-staged Shakespeare play on early Soviet stages, to a large extent because of its ideological utility. Interpreted with close attention to racial conflict, this play came to symbolize, for Soviet theatres and audiences, the ...
Natalia Khomenko
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Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth‐Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
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Cubo-Futurism in Russia, 1912-1922 : the transformation of a painterly style [PDF]

, 2012
Cubo-Futurlsm is defined both in terms of the development of Cubist and Futurist styles of painting by the Russian avant-garde artists Liubov Popova, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Olga Rozanova and Ivan Puni between 1912 and 1915, and in terms of the reworking ...
Humphreys, Charlotte M.
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Work of Booth Tarkington in the Context of US Literature of the 1920s: Archetypes and Psychologism in the Novel “Gentle Julia”

Вестник Московского университета. Серия 14: Психология
Background. The archetypal approach in literary studies contributes to understanding the symbolic structure of literary texts. The study of archetypes in European and American literature of the early 20th century allows us to study the connection between
Elizaveta S. Azarova
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The Mystery of the “Finest Hour” of Russian The¬atre (Theatre Art as a Way of Constructing Russian Cultural Identity) [PDF]

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, 2018
The article presents the results of theatre art research in the context of constructing Russian cultural identity. Theatre art is considered in historical dynamics; the research analyses the main milestones in the development of the national style of the theatre.
Gavrilova, Liudmila V., Karlova, Olga A.
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Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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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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The Image of the “Small” Actor in Reality and Culture: from Teacher’s Warning to Vice and Revolt

Вестник Московского университета. Серия 14: Психология
Background. The image of a “small”, “minor” actor is of little interest to the audience and culture. This article focuses on an actor who remains in the shadow of genius, who does not bear the image of greatness, who is helpless and doomed.
Andrey L. Yastrebov
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