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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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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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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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Iced vovos: a one act play [Play script] [PDF]
, 2018 This script was developed through a collaborative process. A work of stream-of-consciousness prose reflecting on Iced VoVos, an iconic Australian confectionery, penned by Janet McDonald constitutes the heart of the script.
Baker, Dallas, McDonald, Janet
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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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‘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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Shaping an Image of Europe: Half Way Over Iceland (George Bowering: “Discoloured Metal”)
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2019 This paper deals with George Bowering’s short story “Discoloured Metal” from his 1994 collection of short prose The Rain Barrel. Analysis of the short story is focused on four main points: 1. a possible approach to shaped short prose, 2.
Nikola Tutek
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’n Kort herbetragting van Uys Krige se prosa met verwysing na 'The dream' as sleutelteks
Literator, 1988 Uys Krigc’s prose has always received less attention from scholars of the Afrikaans literature than his poetry, translations and plays, Krige was never awarded any Afrikaans literary prize for his prose, which evoked comparatively little interest from ...
J. L. Marais
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Classifying and diacritizing Arabic poems using deep recurrent neural networks
Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences, 2022 Poetry has a prominent history in Arabic literature. The classical Arabic poetry has 16 m that vary in rhythm and target purpose. Chanting a poem eloquently requires knowing the poem’s meter and obtaining a diacritized version of its verses (letters ...
Gheith A. Abandah +5 more
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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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