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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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Hyäne als Metapher in der Kurzprosa von Siegfried Lenz und Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und LiteraturIn 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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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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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 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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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
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‘Clinging Together Against the Dark’: A Pragmatist Reading of Sustainability Conversations
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a typology of managers' interpretations of sustainability as ‘narrative fields’ derived from a qualitative multi‐site study and offer a Pragmatist reading of the results. Pragmatism is grounded in an ethic of meliorism, the belief in the possibility of gradually improving the world through human effort and ...
Barry A. Colbert, Elizabeth C. Kurucz
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Autobiograficzne, metapoetyckie, eseistyczne w twórczości Bogusławy Latawiec
Autobiografia, 2018 Bogusława Latawiec is the author of – among others – short prose verging on essay. These works reveal her attitude towards the art of words and at the same time they tell the private history of the woman writer. It is a dialogic attempt to define herself
Joanna Grądziel-Wójcik
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, 1985 This essay attempts to gain insight into seventeenth-century conceptions of literary translation in the Low Countries by looking at one of its central figures, Joost van den Vondel.
Hermans, T
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