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Literature
Zhuang Peina, Liu Shishi
Summary: This paper argues that the Western and ancient Chinese cultures have similar theoretical paths regarding the body and nature, based on a comparative cultural analysis. The mutual understanding and exchange between the East and West could offer inspiration for handling the difficulties and conflicts that mankind faces.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE-EAST & WEST
(2023)
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Literature
Ahmed Shalabi, Yousef Abu Amrieh
Summary: The representation of the Occident in the works of contemporary Anglophone Arab diasporic writers offers a different image of the West compared to previous Arab intellectuals and writers. These texts aim to restructure the glorified image of the West inherited by Arab people, depicting the challenges faced by Arab immigrants and refugees. The importance of Occidentalism in shedding light on the struggles encountered by Arab immigrants/refugees in Western societies is highlighted in novels like Rawi Hage's Cockroach and Laila Lalami's The Other Americans.
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Literature
Victoria Glista
Summary: In the novel Women Talking, the women of a Mennonite colony come together to plot a nonhierarchical community after discovering they have been serially raped. The book emphasizes the importance of bodily comportment in revolutionary worldmaking and revitalizes nonviolence as an agonistic and egalitarian concept within the Mennonite faith.
CONTEMPORARY WOMENS WRITING
(2023)
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Stephen Coleman
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of confident self-expression as a practice of democratic citizenship, which is equally important as literacy. It also explores the differences between 'doing citizenship' and 'being a citizen'.
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Film, Radio, Television
Sally Barnden
Summary: This essay assesses the afterlives of a sixteenth-century legal proceeding in film, theatre, and scholarship, focusing on a musical adaptation that revised earlier versions of the story in response to historiographical concerns. It examines the engagement of the musical with new historicist ideas about early modern identity contingency.
ADAPTATION-THE JOURNAL OF LITERATURE ON SCREEN STUDIES
(2023)
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Communication
Kenneth Zagacki, Chandra A. Maldonado
Summary: This article examines how Obama used aporia to address the conflicting constraints and possibilities exposed by the Dallas shooting, while also reassessing the concept of double consciousness.
RHETORIC SOCIETY QUARTERLY
(2023)
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Bailey Sincox
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Literature
Kyle Keeler
ISLE-INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
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Literature
Sam Goodman
Summary: This article critically explores how Graham Swift's three novels - Waterland (1983), Last Orders (1996), and Here We Are (2020) - depict the (south) east of England, and how his portrayal of Norfolk, Kent, and Sussex informs the themes, characterization, and narrative form of these books.
CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION
(2023)
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Brian Jenner
Summary: The study of rhetoric teaches students to deal with reality and calls for a renewed focus on language arts.
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Literature
Leonard Neidorf
ANQ-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SHORT ARTICLES NOTES AND REVIEWS
(2023)
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Daniel-Henri Pageaux
Summary: The article reports on six meetings held in Matrafured, Hungary, dedicated to the Enlightenment movement in Hungary, Central and Eastern Europe. The author highlights the major directions of these meetings, which were organized in a comparative, interdisciplinary, and cosmopolitan manner.
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Language & Linguistics
Aine McMurtry
Summary: Told from the perspective of a soft-boiled egg, this article draws on a posthuman framework to explore Sharon Dodua Otoo's German-language story about a retired Nazi rocket scientist. The text challenges the norm of whiteness in society and reveals the unnoticed racist categories and privileges. By employing decolonial perspectives and concepts from materialist thought, the article highlights the materialist politics of Otoo's narrative and its impact on human and nonhuman bodies.
FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES
(2023)
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Literature
Reina Anamoto
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Literature
Joanna Turner
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Literature
Carmen Reisinger
Summary: This article explores the influence of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre on the history of Hamlet criticism, specifically focusing on its translations and remediations in nineteenth-century Britain. It examines how the translations changed the content and form of the novel, blurring the boundaries between fiction and literary criticism. These translations sparked significant discussions and had a profound impact on the culture and society of nineteenth-century Britain.
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Literature
Micha Lazarus
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Literature
Michael Goodrum
Summary: This article provides an initial exploration of Henry S. Whitehead's weird fiction in the context of American imperial expansion into the Caribbean during the interwar years. It situates Whitehead and his work within the larger historical context and discusses how he incorporated and manipulated history in his fiction. The article examines the role of light in Whitehead's fiction and imperial projects, and how his horror fiction both shapes and dispels notions of the Caribbean as a space of horror. Furthermore, it suggests further avenues for future research.
LITERATURE COMPASS
(2023)
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Language & Linguistics
Jose Luis Nogales Baena
Summary: This article documents the revision and publication of the second Spanish edition of Witold Gombrowicz's novel Ferdydurke in 1964. It explains the conscious decisions made by either Gombrowicz or Ernesto Sabato to seek editorial success and place the novel and its author in a significant position in the literary system. The study also analyzes the textual differences between the first and second Spanish editions and their implications.
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Literature
John Henry
