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Melodrama and Narrative Fiction: Towards a Typology [PDF]

, 2017
Recent research on melodrama has stressed its versatility and ubiquity by approaching it as a mode of expression rather than a theatrical genre. A variety of contexts in which melodrama is at work have been explored, but only little scholarly attention ...
Straub, Julia
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Reconnaissance of Voices: The Narrative Voices in a Short Story and a Prose Poem

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 2020
A story reaches the readers through the voice of the narrator. Either be it a piece of literature, a movie or a play, the techniques a narrator adopts plays a crucial role in driving home the narrated part in the right sense. The reader should be able to feel the same as the author, provided the author uses the right tone of the narration.
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[Review of] Gary Soto. Baseball in April and Other Stories [PDF]

, 1990
Gary Soto\u27s previous prose collections (Living Up the Street: Narrative Recollections -- 1985, Small Faces -- 1986, and Lesser Evils: Ten Quartets -- 1988) all contained stories about growing up, but this latest book focuses exclusively on the trials ...
Shirley, Carl R.
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Writing war, writing memory: the representation of the recent past and the construction of cultural memory in contemporary Bosnian prose [PDF]

, 2010
Focusing on the work of Miljenko Jergović, Nenad Veličković, Alma Lazarevska, and Saša Stanišić, this paper examines how the representation of the recent past intertwines with the construction of collective memory in contemporary Bosnian prose.
Vervaet, Stijn
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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Narrative Parallelism and Interpretive Narrative

Religions
The primary goal of my paper is to elaborate a methodology for literary interpretation that points out how a literary narrative prose text interprets its own characters, plots, and existential problems.
Gábor Kovács
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Lumină și umbră în proza balcanică: Portrete, mituri și destrămarea unei lumi la Sadoveanu și Stanković [PDF]

Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
This paper aims to analyze how Balkan literature reflects the disintegration of a traditional world through a subtle interplay of light and shadow, both stylistically and symbolically, in the prose of Mihail Sadoveanu and Bora Stanković.
Ivana IVANIĆ, Ema DURIĆ
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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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The evolution of narrative in Iran’s travelogue literature [PDF]

تاریخ ادبیات, 2010
Travel is the basis of many literary texts, which has a special importance in the literary attitude due to its defamiliarizing nature. From the first travelogue in Iran; That is, Nasir Khusraw's Safarnama, this literary type has been narrated in ...
قدسیه رضوانیان
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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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