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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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Short prose: adventure of narrative formulas

, 2019
In this study we analyzed the narrative formula from the short prose of the Romanian writers B. P. Hasdeu, C. Negruzzi, L. Donici, P. Goma, to identify the readiness to look for new discursive strategies. After a substantially updated critical reconsideration, we established that the authors demonstrate in the short prose texts mobility and unexpected ...
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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The Gender of Heteroclites1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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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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Belacqua and the “I” in the Novellas – the Narration of Two Worlds in the Prose of Samuel Beckett

ABEI Journal, 2011
Based on the analysis of excerpts from Samuel Beckett´s first book of short stories, More Pricks than Kicks (1934), this article investigates to what extent the narrator in this book demonstrates certain  characteristics that appear in subsequent prose ...
Livia Bueloni Gonçalves
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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SHORT EXPRESSIONIST GENRES AS A MODERNISTIC SIGN IN SLOVENIAN LITERATURE

Истраживања, 2012
This paper raises the question of the existence of Expressionist prose as a significant segment of the Slovenian literary movement between the two world wars.
Bojana Stojanović Pantović
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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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The city as a motif in Slovene youth literature [PDF]

Urbani Izziv, 2003
The article presents the city as motif of Slovenian youth literature in four different periods, beginning in the first period of original Slovenian youth literature in the second half of the 19th century, second period in the first half of the 20th ...
Milena Mileva Blažić
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