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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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Between the Traditional and the Modern Macedonian Prose
Kultura (Skopje), 2014 This essay is an attempt at an affirmative (re)actualization of the analytical reading/s of Racin’s artistic (short-story and novelist) prose. The author focuses mainly on the inspirational and social particularities which coincide with the creation of ...
Naume Radicheski
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Category “Event” in the latest Spanish literature as exemplified by flash fiction of Andrés Neuman and Helena Cosano [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2019 Article deals with analysis of category of an event in the latest Spanish flash fiction. The relevance of the real research is caused by absence in modern literary criticism of researches on category of an event in the latest Spanish literature.
Khoreva Larisa G.
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Severance: Body and Yearning [PDF]
, 2009 Presents literary criticism for the book "Severance" by Robert Olen Butler, a collection of fictional first person narrative prose poems by characters who are within 90 seconds of dying.
A. Clark
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
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Reading Books and Reading Minds: Differential Effects of Wonder and The Crossover on Empathy and Theory of Mind [PDF]
, 2017 We tested sixth graders for empathy and theory of mind before and after an academic unit on either Wonder or The Crossover. Wonder was associated with improved perspective-taking; students who read The Crossover increased in concern for others.
Louise Freeman
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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
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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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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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