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Masking Femininity: Women and Power in Shakespeare\u27s Macbeth, As You Like It, and Titus Andronicus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper analyzes the power that Lady Macbeth from Macbeth, Rosalind from As You Like It, and Tamora from Titus Andronicus assert and answers the questions of how women assert power in Shakespeare and the role gender plays in ...
Sorge, Kelly
core   +1 more source

High Cost and Low Trust: Insights From Qualitative Commercial Fishing Cost Data in the Northeast United States

open access: yesFisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In fisheries management, socioeconomic data, specifically qualitative data analysis, is often underutilized. This study qualitatively analyzed a primary federal data collection effort in the Northeast United States, The Greater Atlantic Region Commercial Fishing Business Cost Survey.
Elizabeth D. Conley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Algunes figures femenines meravelloses de la literatura catalana medieval

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia
This article explores various manifestations of the marvelous feminine in medieval Catalan literature, focusing on three Valencian works from the 14th and 15th centuries.
Maria Saiz-Raimundo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is There a Place for the Other in Fokloristics?
Ima prostora za drugog u fokloristici?

open access: yesStudia Mythologica Slavica, 2011
An attempt will be made in this paper to identify the frameworks within which it is possible to introduce the concept of the Other into folkloristics.
Nataša Polgar
doaj   +1 more source

The ugly in fine arts. The sensory nature of terror in the tales of the Brothers Grimm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The author, inspired by philosophical aesthetic reflection, presents one of the aesthetic qualities: ugliness. Based on the assumption that “Grimms’ Fairy Tales” directly reach the realm of the unconscious, utilising towards that end not only symbolic ...
Szwajkowska, Anita
core   +2 more sources

IN PURSUIT OF THE HOFFMANNESQUE

open access: yesGerman 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
wiley   +1 more source

“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
wiley   +1 more source

Animal Transformation in Early Modern English Witchcraft Pamphlets

open access: yesAnglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2019
Animal metamorphosis was a traditional component of witchcraft beliefs during the European early modern witch-hunts, during which it was taken for granted that witches could and did turn into animals regularly in order to easier do evil. It must be noted,
Paweł Rutkowski
doaj   +1 more source

The Dies Irae ( Day of Wrath ) and Totentanz ( Dance of Death ): Medieval Themes Revisited in 19th Century Music and Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
During the pivotal November 2002 football game of Arkansas vs. Georgia in the SEC conference championship, the Georgia marching band struck up their defensive rallying song. Instead of a typical defense song, the band played an excerpt of the Gregorian
Brooks, Erin
core   +2 more sources

“Queens of Ghost‐Land” 134 Years Later: Un‐Masking an Appalachian Witchcraft Accuser

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1891, newspapers across America printed a story about witches in the Appalachian Mountains and the alleged powers they possessed to control their small farming community. The article was scathing in accusation and ultimately contributed to continued othering of the women profiled, increasing their visible vulnerabilities of class, gender ...
Aíne Norris
wiley   +1 more source

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