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Fantastyka świata prymarnego

Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
This article is an attempt to discuss the issue of Primary World fantasy, fantasy set in the world we can identify as ours, which has so far been mostly absent in academic discourse. At the same time another type of fantasy, Secondary World fantasy, has
Rafał Dąbrowski
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Fear and Fantasy in the Public Domain: The Development of Secured and Themed Urban Space [PDF]

Journal of Urban Design, 2007
Current projects to upgrade public spaces in Western cities seek to produce secured space by improving safety and decrease feelings of fear, and to produce themed space by promoting urban entertainment or fantasy. This study examines how ‘fear’ and ‘fantasy’ influence urban design and management of two public spaces in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Melik, R.G. van, Aalst, I. van, Weesep, J. van   +2 more
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Goffman's Tempting the Devil in Stigma: A Close Rereading of Goffman's “Subversive” Construct of “the Normals” Versus “the Stigmatized”

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma, relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma.
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

Abandoning the Quest? High/Epic Fantasy and the Challenges of the Anthropocene

Atlantis
The aim of this article is to determine why the prototypical form of high/epic fantasy cannot effectively address the present environmental, social and political problems gathered under the umbrella term of the Anthropocene.
Weronika Łaszkiewicz
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Grimm et Once upon a time, entre contes et séries télévisées

Strenae, 2015
Grimm and Once Upon a Time offer a surprising example of two tv shows broadcast at the same time and relying on the same hypotext, the fantastic tale. And yet, these two television rewritings of the same intertextual substratum differ radically.
Isabelle Périer
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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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The Timely Rise of a Teenage Reformer: Youth Revolt, Feminism and the Struggle for a ‘New Sexual Morality’ at the Dawn of the Spanish Second Republic

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
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Surrealist Curation: Urban Domesticity Through the Surrealist Poetics of Analogy

European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 2020
The tactic of surrealist poetic analogy forms the surrealist curation that functions as an agent that occupies, engages, and ultimately transforms the city and its built environment that surrounds us.
Ke Sun
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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Magiczne światy Bena Aaronovitcha. Modelowanie rzeczywistości w cyklu o Peterze Grancie

Literatura i Kultura Popularna
The reality presented in Aaronovitch’s cycle featuring Peter Grant is a world imitating the extratextual one — it is mostly set in London, with all its characteristic landmarks, and includes references to various historical facts, figures, and ...
Joanna Kokot
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