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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Los Borja en la narrativa: Apuntes para su historia

Scripta: Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna, 2017
Resumen: Las presentes páginas pretenden constituirse como una guía útil para el estudio de la novela sobre los Borja de autor español, aunque no exclusivamente, publicada en los últimos veinticinco años.
Antonio Huertas
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Proximity of Women Representations: Male Writers' Panorama in Selected Prose Fiction

Journal of Language and Literature
This study explores how male writers portray women in prose fiction and how these portrayals reflect or differ from real-life gendered experiences across historical periods.
Johniel Acala Seño, Matilda H Dimaano
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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The Rose of Thirteen Petals and the Pomegranate Tree & Literary Evocations of the Zohar in Contemporary Fiction

, 2023
This dissertation explores the role of the Zohar as an ever-relevant source of inspiration and as a model for the representation of the mystical experience in contemporary works of literary fiction.
MERAV FIMA (16936407)
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Fictio Juris and the legal construction of wine: Natural vs. artificial in Spanish law (1860–1932)

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This paper explores the development of Spanish wine legislation between 1860 and 1932, focusing on the concept of fictio juris, a legal fiction that defines wine as a product derived solely from grape fermentation while permitting additives that alter ...
Pablo Alonso González
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La chambre du fils, microcosme dramatique. La culture matérielle dans la pièce de théâtre contemporaine La Chambre de l’enfant, de Josep Maria Benet i Jornet

Strenae, 2014
Many contemporary dramatists like to stage fragmented, amputated or atypical family units, as if the current societal "destructuring" phenomenon among families were also reflected in current theatrical productions.
Anne-Claire Yemsi-Paillissé
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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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Être là ou ne pas être là – esquisse de typologie du spectral dans quelques œuvres littéraires occidentales contemporaines

Between, 2017
Abrstact (english) Contemporary realistic fiction sometimes includes features which echo ancient ghost tales. Some characters come back after their death, other experience great difficulties inhabiting the present, as if they were haunted.
Catherine Grall
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