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Review of Elices Agudo, Juan Francisco (2004). Historical and theoretical approaches to English satire. München: Lincom Studies in English Linguistics [PDF]
, 2006 The origins of satire lead us to the origins of Western civilisation, both in its practice and in its earliest theorisation (Horace, Juvenal)1. Its complexity has always attracted the interest of criticism.
Ruiz Moneva, María Ángeles
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Quintilian and Juvenal's Fourteenth Satire [PDF]
, 2020 Working paper, first published in 2013 on the Literary Interactions website, hosted at the University of St Andrews (https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/literaryinteractions/?page_id=4).This working paper explores Juvenal's fourteenth satire (published c.
Uden, James
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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan [PDF]
, 2015 For a brilliant satire on humanity, I can think of no better author to turn to than Aldous Huxley. His rhetoric is flawless, his characters unbelievably typical, and his satire tinged with just the right amount of reality to render it plausible.
Minnis, J. E.
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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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Naïve and sentimental character: Schiller’s poetic phenomenology [PDF]
, 2018 [Excerpt] "Poets are, by definition, “the preservers of nature,” but when they can no longer completely be so, they serve as its witnesses” and “avengers.” In the former case, they are natural; in the latter, they seek the lost nature. In the former case,
Dahlstrom, Daniel
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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Elementos ficcionales en la sátira de las ciudades
Revista de Filología Románica, 2009 The satire of cities has its own elements of fiction. Not only because satire has an unstable nature but also this literary genre was a traditional kind of text and moreover, a traditional class of rhetorical genre: demonstrative. I will mainly attend in
Felipe González Alcázar
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Reading between the laughter lines: Alan Riach explores the complex world of literary humour [PDF]
, 2016 No abstract ...
Riach, Alan
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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