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Brazilian fiction prose about World War II
, 2008 This paper points out some Brazilian works of fiction that deal with the 2nd World War. The writers studied are José Geraldo Vieira (1897-1977), João Alphonsus (1901-1944) and Boris Schnaiderman (1917). In their works, we notice the peculiar ways in which the discourse attitude specific to fiction can unveil hidden aspects of reality.
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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The Voice Disrupted: Articulation, Hesitation, and Moral Seriousness in F. R. Leavis's Pedagogy
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Steven Cranfield
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Stuart D. Lee, reviewed by Andrew Higgins [PDF]
, 2015 Book review of A Companion to J.R.R.
Higgins, Andrew
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ROBERT WALSER'S ‘BLEISTIFTWEG’: POETICS OF ATTENTION AS CRAFT
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Robert Walser's entry into what he called his ‘Bleistiftgebiet’ in the early 1920s, when in response to a profound crisis as a writer he began to produce manuscripts in minuscule size, the so‐called ‘Mikrogramme’ (microscripts). Intertwining the analysis of the short prose form with Walser's reflections on the short‐lived
Anne Fuchs
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World War II in Soviet Prose – An Overview [PDF]
Philobiblon. Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in the Humanities, 2021 openaire +1 more source
Literary Journalism on Trial: Janet Malcolm, Criminal Character and the Legacy of New Journalism
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Jess Cotton
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IN PURSUIT OF THE HOFFMANNESQUE
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article seeks to elucidate the term ‘Hoffmannesque’ — the eponymous adjective that refers to E. T. A. Hoffmann — through recourse to Hoffmann's own use of ‘esque’ words: arabesque, grotesque, burlesque, picturesque. By investigating the characteristics of ‘esque’ formulations and tracing their recurrence through Hoffmann's texts, I argue ...
Polly Dickson
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