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Cyclization of small forms of Balkar prose

Кавказология, 2023
This article outlines a range of theoretical issues concerning the development of a promising artistic form of the narrative cycle by Balkarian writers. The object of research is small genres of prose (short stories, short stories, satirical miniatures),
Asiyat D. Atabieva
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The Literacy of America's College Students [PDF]

, 2006
Measures the literacy of 1,827 graduating college and university students from eighty institutions. Looks at the ability to perform prose tasks such as read and use texts; search and comprehend forms; and conduct quantitative, computational ...
Andrea L. Cook, Justin D. Baer, Stephane Baldi   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

[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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‘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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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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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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FOOTBALL AND CROATIAN SHORT PROSE

Lingua Montenegrina, 2011
Relationship between short prose and football should be considered in the same context as the correlation between the structure of a literary genre and its function to the modern consumer society. There are few selected examples in the Croatian literature covering the topic of football: a collection of short stories The Survival League by Gordan ...
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