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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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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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Space and Narrative in the Short Story by e.I. Zamyatin The Meeting

RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
The short story The Meeting by E.I. Zamyatin has hardly been studied by researchers as an independent work. However, it is of considerable interest in the context of the reception of cinematography in the literature of the first half of the 20th century ...
Ekaterina S. Podolina
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REALISME MAGIS DALAM CERPEN: KASUS CERPEN GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, TRIYANTO TRIWIKROMO, DAN A.S. LAKSANA

Jurnal Poetika, 2014
Magic Realism Prose brings the magic and the reality at once in a narration. Reality and magic have mutual support to build a narration. The support between the reality and the magic is not only manifested in the unity of the narration but also gives the
Imam Muhtarom
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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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From the editor

, 2009
Tharaud, Barry (Dogus Author)The Fall 2009 issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose is abundant in range and size. The issue begins with Peter Betjemann’s discussion of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century attitudes toward a crafts tradition in Britain ...
Tharaud, Barry
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Hyäne als Metapher in der Kurzprosa von Siegfried Lenz und Necip Fazıl Kısakürek

Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur
In vielen Kulturen werden Tiere als Metaphern benutzt, um bestimmte Eigenschaften oder Handlungen von Menschen zu beschreiben und hervorzuheben. Am deutlichsten wird das in der Umgansprache bei dem Gebrauch von vergleichenden Phraseologismen wie z.B ...
Seval Ayne
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Postmodern features of short prose by T.N. Tolstaya

Вестник Адыгейского государственного университета, серия «Филология и искусствоведение», 2021
Рассматривается малая проза Т.Н. Толстой с целью выявления в ней как общих постмодернистских, так и индивидуальных особенностей. При анализе произведений Т.Н. Толстой используются герменевтический, сравнительно-сопоставительный и интертекстуальный методы, что позволяет подойти как к уникальному явлению не только к её творчеству, но и ко всей русской ...
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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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