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Despindo Moll Flanders: Performances de Identidade e Vestuário no longo século XVIII [PDF]

In her radical reassessment of Enlightenment rationalism, Terry Castle points out how eighteenth-century culture can be defined as a culture of travesty.
Perazzini, Federica
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The Curse as a Garment in Greek Tragedy [PDF]

, 2016
This article considers how Greek tragedy adapts the metaphor of the curse as a garment used in Ancient Near Eastern rituals and treaties. Using this comparative material, I analyze the fatal garments used by female characters in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon ...
Fletcher, Judith
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A comparison of flow state markers experienced across AR, game-based, and analog deliberate vocabulary study activities

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction
Flow is described as a state in which people become so involved or engrossed in an activity that nothing else seems to matter (Csikszentmihalyi, 2009). This state of consciousness seems to occur when a person is involved in a task and seemingly unable to
Adam Dabrowski, Ayako Yokogawa
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A vocabulary size test

, 2020
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P. Nation, D. Beglar
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Generation and L2 vocabulary learning: A classroom action study on the efficacy of the generation desirable difficulty in learning L2 vocabulary

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction
The present study investigates the use of generative strategies and the effect on second language (L2) vocabulary retention and learner confidence in vocabulary knowledge over time.
John Duplice
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Weaving Narrative [PDF]

Enide’s tattered dress and Erec’s fabulous coronation robe; Yvain’s nudity in the forest, which prevents maidens who know him well clothed from identifying him; Lanval’s fairy-lady parading about in the Arthurian court, scantily dressed, for all to ...
Wright, Monica L.
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Seeing through a glass darkly : Piers Plowman and the corruption of sign systems [PDF]

, 1989
The last half of the fourteenth century in England is perhaps one of the greatest periods of social, economic, and religious change in English history. Piers Plowman, written in three versions from ca. 1362 to ca.
Pigg, Daniel Farris
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Undressing the Power of Fashion: the Semiotic Evolution of Gender Identity By Coco Chanel and Alexander Mcqueen [PDF]

, 2015
The use of clothing reinforces gender roles culturally assigned to men and women by emphasizing individuals\u27 biological sex and encouraging them to behave in specific ways based on their sex.
Marcangeli, Sveva
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Sex, Culture, and the Politics of Fashion in Stuart England [PDF]

, 2018
This dissertation is the first full-length study to analyze the politicization of dress and material objects, exploring the manner in which fashion served as a site for political discourse and agency, during the seventeenth century, specifically from ...
Brinkman, Emilie M.
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Rigor and self-awareness in L2 instructed vocabulary research: A commentary on Isbell and colleagues (2024), Stoeckel and Ishii (2024), and Aizawa (2024)

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction
In this discussion paper, I examine three exceptional articles presented at the 2023 Symposium of the Japan Association for Language Teaching’s Vocabulary Special Interest Group.
Joseph P. Vitta
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