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BILLINGS, SABRINA. "Speaking beauties: Linguistic posturing, language inequality, and the construction of a Tanzanian beauty queen." Language in Society 38, no. 5 (November 2009): 581–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404509990443.

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ABSTRACTThis article considers language use in Tanzanian beauty pageants, where contestants’ onstage speech is the focus of explicit and implicit critique. In particular, contestants who speak English are far more likely to win than are their Swahili-speaking counterparts. But because English has limited circulation and is restricted to the educated elite, speaking English is, for most contestants, possible only through memorization. Local ideologies that give preference to purity over standardness mean that, while contestants’ speeches are often full of grammatical oddities, their linguistic posturing is typically well received. Yet once a contestant reaches the pinnacle of competition, expectations for language use rise, and once-successful contestants find themselves at a glass ceiling. Findings presented here point to the local and hierarchical nature of language ideologies, and to the need to account for the common practice in multilingual communities of successfully employing “incomplete” linguistic knowledge for indexical and referential effect. (Language ideology, multilingualism, Swahili, English, language purity, beauty pageants, education)*
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Janssen, Michel, and Sergio Pernice. "Sleeping Beauty on Monty Hall." Philosophies 5, no. 3 (August 13, 2020): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies5030015.

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Inspired by the Monty Hall Problem and a popular simple solution to it, we present a number of game-show puzzles that are analogous to the notorious Sleeping Beauty Problem (and variations on it), but much easier to solve. We replace the awakenings of Sleeping Beauty by contestants on a game show, like Monty Hall’s, and increase the number of awakenings/contestants in the same way that the number of doors in the Monty Hall Problem is increased to make it easier to see what the solution to the problem is. We show that these game-show proxies for the Sleeping Beauty Problem and variations on it can be solved through simple applications of Bayes’s theorem. This means that we will phrase our analysis in terms of credences or degrees of belief. We will also rephrase our analysis, however, in terms of relative frequencies. Overall, our paper is intended to showcase, in a simple yet non-trivial example, the efficacy of a tried-and-true strategy for addressing problems in philosophy of science, i.e., develop a simple model for the problem and vary its parameters. Given that the Sleeping Beauty Problem, much more so than the Monty Hall Problem, challenges the intuitions about probabilities of many when they first encounter it, the application of this strategy to this conundrum, we believe, is pedagogically useful.
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Thompson, S. H., and K. Hammond. "Beauty is as beauty does: Body image and self-esteem of pageant contestants." Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity 8, no. 3 (September 2003): 231–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03325019.

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Berkman, Robert M. "One, Some, or None: Finding Beauty in Ambiguity." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 11, no. 7 (March 2006): 324–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mtms.11.7.0324.

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This is a scene from a fifth-grade mathematics class: Students are in pairs, chatting eagerly; some are making sketches, others are bending straws and rearranging them on the desk, and still others are scribbling a variety of words. After two minutes, I hit the bell and say, “Okay contestants, time to vote. Hands behind your backs!” The room is silent as arms pull away from the table. “Okay, choose!” I call out, and hands stretch forward. Some students curve their fingers to make an “O”; others point a thumb upward.
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Wonderlich, Anna L., Diann M. Ackard, and Judith B. Henderson. "Childhood Beauty Pageant Contestants: Associations with Adult Disordered Eating and Mental Health." Eating Disorders 13, no. 3 (May 2005): 291–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10640260590932896.

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Bumb, M. J. "Undressed for Success: Beauty Contestants and Exotic Dancers as Merchants of Morality." Journal of Popular Culture 41, no. 1 (February 2008): 164–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2008.00497_4.x.

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Karashchuk, L. N., Ye N. Shalimova, and V. N. Goleva. "Features of volitional self-regulation and motivation in students participating in beauty and talent competitions." PERSONALITY IN A CHANGING WORLD: HEALTH, ADAPTATION, DEVELOPMENT 9, no. 2 (33) (June 30, 2021): 192–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.23888/humj20212192-199.

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Talent contests in modern society occupy a certain niche, they cause a diverse attitude in various social strata and have overgrown with a huge number of stereotypes. These stereotypes do not always correspond to reality. We wondered if the girls contestants could have any personality traits, in contrast to girls who had never participated and would not like to participate in such events and began to study the characteristics from the motivational and volitional sphere. We assumed that female contestants should be motivated to achieve success, due to their confidence in their external data and good volitional qualities. We consider these personality traits to be the most important for participation in a competitive event, because successful overcoming of obstacles, perseverance in achieving goals, striving for victory depend on the level of their development. The results of the study showed that the studied group has high volitional self-regulation. However, we cannot talk about the motivation for achieving success, since the subjects are inclined to motivate the avoidance of failures. In addition, we found that female students generally prefer interiorized success, i.e. one that is achieved through inner work, and not outside influence. Interestingly, beauty and talent contestants, more than their peers, prefer success as recognition, which may be due to their desire to win a prize, approval or title. The results of the study can be used as a justification for educational work at the university in the format of beauty and talent contests, as well as the characteristics of personal development and self-realization within the framework of these contests. It is possible to develop psychological techniques and methods for psychological support of girls participating in various competitions of a similar format.
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Balogun, Oluwakemi M., and Kimberly Kay Hoang. "Political Economy of Embodiment: Capitalizing on Globally Staged Bodies in Nigerian Beauty Pageants and Vietnamese Sex Work." Sociological Perspectives 61, no. 6 (September 6, 2018): 953–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0731121418797292.

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How do various stakeholders capitalize off of display workers’ bodies? This article uses a comparative-case approach to examine two different sites—beauty pageants in Nigeria and high-end sex workers in Vietnam—where women’s bodies are differentially staged with varying degrees of visibility. Theoretically, this article develops the concept of political economy of embodiment to account for a network of people onstage, backstage, and offstage who capitalize off displayed bodies in qualitatively different ways. Beauty pageants in Nigeria take place on highly visible national and global stages. Contestants’ bodies signal African beauty as being fashion-forward, which propels and integrates Nigeria into international arenas of diplomacy and trade. High-end sex workers in Vietnam work on a stage that is hidden from the general public yet open for a select group of Vietnam’s elites. Sex workers’ bodies are on display to project an ideal of Asian ascendancy in Vietnam’s market.
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Gelfant, Blanche H. "Beauty and Nightmare in Vietnam War Fiction." Prospects 30 (October 2005): 751–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300002258.

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“Hue is the most beautiful city in the world,” a Vietnamese woman tells Marine Lieutenant Kramer, a central character in Robert Roth's Vietnam War novel,Sand in the Wind. Published in 1973, five years after the sweeping Tet Offensive had reduced Hue to rubble,Sand in the Windset the city within a complex meditation upon beauty and its relation to human desire, history, the vagaries of chance, ephemerality of happiness, and ineluctability of loss. Though ambitious in intent,Sand in the Windhas not been widely acclaimed. Except for John Hellmann's close reading, it has usually been referred to passingly or overlooked. Thomas Myers dismissed it as a “sterile mural,” a static work fixed upon a wall. I prefer to think of it as “walking point” — an action Myers ascribed to Vietnam War fiction he endorsed for “cutting trails” (227). Like the pointman of a patrol who clears a path for others to follow, the Vietnam War novel, Myers argued, opened a way into tangled historic territory — the territory of war now inhabited by literature. I propose to enter this forbidding area throughSand in the Wind, for I believe that like the novels Myers lauded it too secures a way, a unique way, of engaging safely with the Vietnam War and the losses it entailed.The lives of an estimated 5,713 soldiers, American and Vietnamese, were lost in the battle at Hue, as were almost 3,000 civilian lives. That the “longest and bloodiest” battle of the Offensive took place in Hue during the festive days of Tet was particularly shocking, for Hue was commonly considered an open city, and Tet, the lunar New Year, a time of peace and renewal. Traditionally, Tet Nguyen Dan ushered in the new year with three days of festivity, days of respite during which communal bonds were strengthened. Family members and their relatives renewed the bond of blood by gathering together for an exchange of gifts and good wishes; ancestral bonds were renewed by visits to family graves. Rice farmers plowing their paddies renewed the bond between man and nature.
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Chung, Nogin. "Transforming a Beauty Pageant: Mrs. America Contest in the Palisades Amusement Park and Asbury Park, NJ." New Jersey History 126, no. 1 (October 26, 2011): 18–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/njh.v126i1.1102.

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The paper examines the history and transformation of the Mrs. America Pageant that was first initiated as a part of the Palisades Amusement Park attractions and later moved to Asbury Park, NJ. It looks at how the idea of model motherhood was enacted in the contest for married women which had begun as a beauty contest emulating the Miss America Pageant. The contest which transformed itself into a "home-making Olympics" after the Second World War testing contestants' skills of cooking, baking, sewing, and even changing diapers in addition to judging their physical appearance truly reflected the social ideal for American women in the Cold War period. The paper assesses how the contest helped to consolidate the notion of the perfect housewife, implying that beauty and home economics went together, and contributed to the professionalization of women's work at home.
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Cohen, Marion D. "Truth & Beauty: Mathematics in Literature." Mathematics Teacher 106, no. 7 (March 2013): 534–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mathteacher.106.7.0534.

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Syunnerberg, Maxim A. ""Beautiful women suffer unhappy fates"? History of beauty pageants in Vietnam. Part I. Category of beauty and the fate of beauties in traditional Vietnam." South East Asia: Actual problems of Development, no. 3 (48) (2020): 242–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.31696/2072-8271-2020-3-3-48-242-255.

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Vietnam, a country of the Confucian cultural area, the sensual side of relations has traditionally not been exposed. Female beauty has not received much attention in fiction, let alone state historical publications. Often the use of this concept had a negative connotation, and the beauties themselves had a hard lot. Fundamental shifts in social thought and social life in Vietnam in the 20th century reflected in the perception of beauty and the ability of women to realize themselves through their appearance, a striking manifestation of which was the scale of various beauty contests held in the country.
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Mitchell, Margaret E. "‘Beautiful Creatures’: The Ethics of Female Beauty in Daphne du Maurier's Fiction." Women: A Cultural Review 20, no. 1 (April 2009): 25–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09574040802684798.

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Starr, Chloë. "The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China." NAN NÜ 9, no. 2 (2007): 392–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/138768007x244424.

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Kim, Young Chul, Jin Geun Kwon, Sung Chan Kim, Chang Hun Huh, Hee Jin Kim, Tae Suk Oh, Kyung S. Koh, Jong Woo Choi, and Woo Shik Jeong. "Comparison of Periorbital Anthropometry Between Beauty Pageant Contestants and Ordinary Young Women with Korean Ethnicity: A Three-Dimensional Photogrammetric Analysis." Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 42, no. 2 (December 22, 2017): 479–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00266-017-1040-7.

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Kim, Sung-Chan, Hyung Bae Kim, Woo Shik Jeong, Kyung S. Koh, Chang Hun Huh, Hee Jin Kim, Woo Shun Lee, and Jong Woo Choi. "Comparison of Facial Proportions Between Beauty Pageant Contestants and Ordinary Young Women of Korean Ethnicity: A Three-Dimensional Photogrammetric Analysis." Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 42, no. 3 (January 29, 2018): 748–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00266-018-1071-8.

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Booker, M. Keith. "Beauty and the Beast: Dualism as Despotism in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie." ELH 57, no. 4 (1990): 977. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2873093.

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VERONICO, N. TARRAYO. "BEAUTY IN BREVITY: CAPTURING THE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE OF FLASH FICTION BY FILIPINO WRITERS." i-manager’s Journal on English Language Teaching 8, no. 2 (2018): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.26634/jelt.8.2.14584.

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Xinyi, Ma, and Hua Jing. "Humanity in Science Fiction Movies: A Comparative Analysis of Wandering Earth, The Martian and Interstellar." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 4, no. 1 (January 30, 2021): 210–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.1.20.

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Wandering Earth, released in 2019, is regarded as a phenomenal film that opens the door to Chinese science fiction movies. The Chinese story in the film has aroused the resonance of domestic audiences, but failed to get high marks on foreign film review websites. In contrast, in recent years, science fiction films in European and American countries are still loved by audiences at home and abroad, such as The Martian and Interstellar, which have both commercial and artistic values. It can be seen that the cultural communication of western science fiction movies is more successful than that of China. Taking the above three works as examples, this paper analyzes the doomsday plot, the beauty of returning home and the role shaping of scientific women in science fiction movies from the perspective of the organic combination of “hard-core elements of science fiction” and “soft value in humanity”, in an attempt to help the foreign cultural communication of domestic science fiction movies. As an attempt to facilitate the global development of Chinese science fiction, this paper concludes that certain Chinese traditional cultural spirit needs further spreading, that Chinese science fiction and humanity should be combined in a more natural way, and that in particular, female character need in depth and multi-dimensional interpretation.
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Vermeulen, Pieter. "Beauty That Must Die: Station Eleven, Climate Change Fiction, and the Life of Form." Studies in the Novel 50, no. 1 (2018): 9–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2018.0001.

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Oestreich, Kate Faber. "Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction: The Art of Female Beauty." Journal of Victorian Culture 21, no. 2 (January 5, 2016): 253–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2015.1124588.

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Moser, Keith. "The Fiction of Michel Serres: Writing the Beauty, Fragility, and Complexity of the Universe." French Review 88, no. 2 (2014): 33–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tfr.2014.0002.

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Bubíková, Šárka. "Ethnicity and Social Critique in Tony Hilleman’s Crime Fiction." Prague Journal of English Studies 5, no. 1 (July 1, 2016): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2016-0008.

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Abstract American mystery writer Tony Hillerman (1925-2008) achieved wide readership both within the United States and abroad, and, significantly, within the US both among white Americans and Native Americans. This article discusses Hillerman’s detective fiction firstly within the tradition of the genre and then focuses on particular themes and literary means the writer employs in order to disseminate knowledge about the Southwestern nations (tribes) among his readers using the framework of mystery (crime) fiction. Hillerman’s two literary detectives Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee, both of the Navajo Tribal Police, are analyzed and contrasted with female characters. Finally, the article analyzes the ways in which Hillerman makes the detectives’ intimate knowledge of the traditions, beliefs and rituals of the southwestern tribes and of the rough beauty of the landscape central to the novels’ plots, and how he presents cultural information.
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Thau, Tena. "Expanding the Romantic Circle." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 23, no. 5 (August 15, 2020): 915–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-020-10114-y.

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AbstractOur romantic lives are influenced, to a large extent, by our perceptions of physical attractiveness – and the societal beauty standards that shape them. But what if we could free our desires from this fixation on looks? Science fiction writer Ted Chiang has explored this possibility in a fascinating short story – and scientific developments might, in the future, move it beyond the realm of fiction. In this paper, I lay out the prudential case for using “attraction-expanding technology,” and then consider it from a moral point of view. Using the technology would, in one respect, be morally good: it would benefit those whom prevailing beauty standards marginalize. But attraction-expanding technology also raises a moral concern – one that can be cast in non-harm-based and harm-based terms. I argue that the non-harm-based objection should be rejected, because it is incompatible with a moral principle central to queer rights. And the harm-based objection, I argue, is outweighed by the benefits of attraction-expanding technology, and undermined by the prerogative you have over your personal romantic choices. I conclude by considering whether, from the perspective of society, the development of attraction-expanding technology would be desirable.
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Horodowich, Elizabeth. "Venetians in America: Nicolò Zen and the Virtual Exploration of the New World*." Renaissance Quarterly 67, no. 3 (2014): 841–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/678776.

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AbstractIn 1558, the Venetian patrician Nicolò Zen publishedDello scoprimento, a text that suggested that his Venetian ancestors had made landfall in the Americas before Columbus. Generations of scholars have pored over Zen’s text and accompanying map with the hopes of determining whether or not this voyage took place. Zen’s text, however, cannot be classified as either history or fiction; like many other early modern travel accounts, it was a combination of both. Shifting the focus about what is significant from the text’s truthfulness to its tactics, from the historicity of the voyage to the mechanics of the composition, reveals a series of fascinating textual strategies surrounding the European production of knowledge about the New World. Specifically, Zen followed well-established patterns for European travel writing, playing with quotation, pastiche, and temporality in order to depict his fellow Venetians as experts on the Americas and as viable contestants in the race to New World empire.
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Stoneley, Peter. "Sentimental Emasculations: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Beauty." Nineteenth-Century Literature 54, no. 1 (June 1, 1999): 53–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2902997.

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This essay reassesses the notion of passionlessness in relation to debates on race and women's fiction. In nineteenth-century writing by white men and women, the primitive other-animal, black, or Indian-becomes the touchstone of intact maleness in a smothering and emasculatory culture. To write about blackness is to write about desire, but it is also to avoid desire altogether: the black figure represents both sexuality and childish innocence. There is the same contradiction as that between "dumb beasts" and "the Beast," between the helpless and the wicked. But in the implicitly emasculatory scenarios of women's writing, this essay detects a rejection of female as much as of male desire. Women's novels both facilitate and impede a consuming gaze. In repeated episodes, the black male body is exposed and punished, celebrated and lamented, in the same moment. Blackness threatens to call forth or desublimate white desire, and white writers move between the sexual allure of blackness and the need to reaffirm the superiority of white discipline. The emasculatory scenario serves as another opportunity to assert a Christian, maternal love, even if, to the other readers, this can seem an unconvincing "cover story" for the texts' secret "black" desire.
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Gagnebin, Jeanne Marie. "LITERATURA, MULHERES, DISCURSO FILOSÓFICO. SOBRE HELENA." Revista Ideação 1, no. 42 (December 17, 2020): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/ideac.v1i42.5957.

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RESUMO: Este artigo pretende estabelecer, a partir da figura de Helena na tradição poética e filosófica (platônica) grega, como o discurso filosófico se constitui por uma recusa semelhante da beleza da ficção e da sedução das mulheres. Ficção e “feminino” apresentariam uma valorização da ambiguidade e da pluralidade de possíveis que coloca em risco a definição unívoca do conceito filosófico clássico de “verdade”. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Ficção, Feminino, Filosofia.ABSTRACT: This paper aims to establish, based on the figure of Helen in the Greek poetic and philosophical (Platonic) tradition, how the philosophical discourse is constituted by a similar refusal of the beauty of fiction and the seduction of women. Fiction and “feminine” would present an appreciation of ambiguity and the plurality of possible ones that put at risk the univocal definition of the classic philosophical concept of “truth”.KEYWORDS: Fiction. Feminine. Philosophy.
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Castronovo, Russ. "Beauty along the Color Line: Lynching, Aesthetics, and the Crisis." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 121, no. 5 (October 2006): 1443–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2006.121.5.1443.

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“What have we who are slaves and blacks to do with Art?” asked DuBois in his 1926 essay “Criteria of Negro Art.” In an era of lynching, art hardly seemed appropriate for political struggle. Nevertheless, DuBois and his colleagues at the Crisis risked making connections between lynching and art by putting aesthetics to democratic use even as the theatricality of ritualized violence gave lynching an aesthetic dimension. Starting with DuBois's manifesto and reading in reverse chronological order every issue of the Crisis to its first issue in 1910, this article re-creates a critical narrative that traces the development of aesthetic theory among African American writers associated with the NAACP's national magazine. Contextualizing DuBois's work in the Crisis with fiction by Jessie Fauset and Walter White, I examine an alternative aesthetics that relies on propaganda to assail the ugliness of race relations. (RC)
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Tooby, John, and Leda Cosmides. "Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, Fiction and the Arts." SubStance 30, no. 1/2 (2001): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685502.

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RUDOVA, LARISSA. "“Who's the fairest of them all?” Beauty and Femininity in Contemporary Russian Adolescent Girl Fiction." Russian Review 73, no. 3 (June 4, 2014): 389–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/russ.10737.

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Ying Wang. "The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China (review)." China Review International 14, no. 1 (2008): 267–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0036.

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Chen, Eva. "Its Beauty, Danger, and Feverish Thrill: Speed and Cycling Women in Fin de Siècle Fiction." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 63, no. 4 (2017): 607–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2017.0049.

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Stradella. "The Fiction of the Standard of Taste: David Hume on the Social Constitution of Beauty." Journal of Aesthetic Education 46, no. 4 (2012): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jaesteduc.46.4.0032.

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Tooby, John, and Leda Cosmides. "Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, Fiction, and the Arts." SubStance 30, no. 1 (2001): 6–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sub.2001.0017.

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Singh, Dr Jyoti. "The Ideology of Beauty and Devaluation of the Womankind: A Reading of Contemporary Indian English Fiction." Paripex - Indian Journal Of Research 3, no. 7 (January 1, 2012): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/22501991/july2014/29.

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Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. "The Artist as a Mother and the Birth of Terrible Beauty in the Post-Holocaust World: Ruth Almog's The Inner Lake." AJS Review 28, no. 2 (November 2004): 249–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0364009404000169.

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In her path-breaking study of Israeli women's fiction, Yael Feldman concludes her analysis of Ruth Almog's Roots of Air (1987) with an insightful observation. In this major work, Feldman claims, Almog trespassed into the male writers' territory and became the first among Israeli woman writers to produce an autobiographical fiction of the “portrait of an artist as a young girl.” Feldman concludes that, once the stage of “therapeutic” self-examination, which encompasses “both the oedipal fixation and the daughter–mother identification,” has been completed, “Almog has now embraced the mother in herself.” Indeed, Feldman identifies the next stage in Almog's artistic evolution in her collection of stories, Artistic Mending (1993), suggesting that now the story of another has become the focus of Almog's artistic concern. In Artistic Mending the writer turns her “motherly” attention to life stories of children, mainly second-generation Holocaust survivors, seeking ways to understand, but also “mend” the damaging effects of the tragic historical legacy.
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Wang, Aiqing. "Contemporary Danmei Fiction and Its Similitudes with Classical and Yanqing Literature." JENTERA: Jurnal Kajian Sastra 10, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/jentera.v10i1.3397.

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Danmei, aka Boys Love, is a salient transgressive genre of Chinese Internet literature. Since entering China’s niche market in 1990s, the danmei subculture, predominantly in the form of original fictional creation, has established an enormous fanbase and demonstrated significance via thought-provoking works and social functions. Nonetheless, the danmei genre is not an innovation in the digital age, in that its bipartite dichotomy between seme ‘top’ and uke ‘bottom’ roles bears similarities to the dyad in caizi-jiaren ‘scholar-beauty’ anecdotes featuring masculine and feminine ideals in literary representations of heterosexual love and courtship, which can be attested in the 17th century and earlier extant accounts. Furthermore, the feminisation of danmei characters is analogous to an androgynous ideal in late-imperial narratives concerning heterosexual relationships during late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the depiction of semes being masculine while ukes being feminine is consistent with the orthodox, indigenous Chinese masculinity which is comprised of wen ‘cultural attainment’ epitomising feminine traits and wu ‘martial valour’ epitomising masculine traits. In terms of modern literature, danmei is parallel to the (online) genre yanqing ‘romance’ that is frequently characterised by ‘Mary Sue’ and cliché-ridden narration.
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Mason, Bonita. "Review: Searching for the truth of book-length journalism." Pacific Journalism Review 21, no. 2 (October 31, 2015): 200. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v21i2.134.

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Mason, Bonita. (2015). Searching for the truth of book-length journalism. Pacific Journalism Review, 21(2): 200-203. Review of Telling True Stories: Navigating the challenges of writing narrative non-fiction, by Matthew Ricketson. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2014. 282pp. ISBN 978-1-742379-35-7Australian journalism academic and practitioner Matthew Ricketson’s new book opens with two quotes: one from South African writer Nadine Gordimer on the enduring presence of ‘beauty’ in the quest for truth; the other from US comparative literature professor Peter Brooks on the impossibility of separating our own humanity and imaginations from what we write. Gordimer has also written elsewhere of the writer’s responsibility, as a social being, to take part in their world through their writing—to become ‘more than a writer’ (1985, p. 141). The kind of writing Ricketson seeks to define, and describes, analyses and advocates in this book (much of which is also investigative), comes closest to meeting these roles and responsibilities for the non-fiction writer.
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Jothimani, S., and P. Dinakaran. "Theme of Life and Death in Katherine Anne Porter’s “Holiday”." NOTIONS 9, no. 2 (2018): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.31995/notions.2018v09n2.01.

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Katherine Anne Porter contributed memorable stories to American literature for over half a century. A Southerner and a contemporary of Fitzgerald and Hemingway the amount of her published writings are very small though her reputation is considerable. The Saturday Review has positioned her in the legacy of Hawthorne, Flaubert, and James as an artist and story-teller. Her fiction has been marked for its elegance, beauty, brilliance and accuracy. Most of the critics acknowledge about the supremacy of Porter’s literary style. They adore the effectiveness of her sarcasm, the precision of her language, and the economy of her structure.
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Coquet, Clotilde. "Lyrisme et paysage chez Camus et Faulkner." Revue Romane / Langue et littérature. International Journal of Romance Languages and Literatures 52, no. 1 (April 24, 2017): 80–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rro.52.1.08coq.

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Abstract This article links Camus’s recurrent lyrical themes and motifs with those of Faulkner. The speeches delivered by the two authors on receiving the Nobel Prize clearly underpin their conception of the art of writing, torn between suffering and beauty. For them the landscape alone can serve as a generative core to reveal the country itself. This article questions the tension raised by the South (Algeria and the imaginary county of Yoknapatawpha) and the authors’ aspiration for a lyrical prose liberated from the pressure of fiction writing. It outlines a parallel between their destiny and their accidental deaths.
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Blom, Ivo. "Picturesque Pictures: Italian Early Non-fiction Films within Modern Aesthetic Visions." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 19, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 49–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2021-0004.

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Abstract Within early non-fiction film, the Italian travel or scenic films of the 1910s may be considered the most picturesque. They are remarkable for their presentation of landscapes and cityscapes, their co-existence of modernity and nostalgia, their accent on beauty – at times at the expense of geographic veracity and indexicality – and their focus on the transformed gaze through the use of special masks, split-screens, and other devices. The transmedial roots for this aestheticization can be found both in art (painting) and popular culture (postcards, magic lanterns, etc.). While the author was one of the firsts to write on this subject decades ago, today there is a need for radical revision and a deeper approach. This is due to the influx of recent literature first by Jennifer Peterson’s book Education in the School of Dreams (2013) and her scholarly articles. Secondly, Blom’s co-presentation on Italian early nonfiction at the 2018 workshop A Dive into the Collections of the Eye Filmmuseum: Italian Silent Cinema at the Intersection of the Arts led to the recognition that revision was needed. Finally, the films themselves call for new approaches while they are being preserved and disseminated by, foremost, the film archives of Bologna, Amsterdam, and Turin.
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Sluis, Ageeth. "BATACLANISMO! Or, How Female Deco Bodies Transformed Postrevolutionary Mexico City." Americas 66, no. 04 (April 2010): 469–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003161500004764.

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In the spring of 1925, Santa Anita's Festival of Flowers seemed to follow its tranquil trend of previous years. The large displays of flowers, the selection of indias bonitas (as the contestants of beauty pageants organized in an attempt to stimulate indigenism were known) and the boat-rides on the Viga Canal, all communicated what residents of neighboring Mexico City had come to expect of the small pueblo in the Federal District since the Porfiriato: the respite of a peaceful pastoral, the link to a colorful past, and the promise that mexicanidad was alive and well in the campo. Unfortunately, wrote Manuel Rámirez Cárdenas of El Globo, “the modern newspaper,” the next day, this idyllic tradition was rudely interrupted by a group of audacious, scantily clad women. The culprits were actresses of Mexico City's Lirico theater, who walked around Santa Anita's streets in “picaresque clothing”—stage outfits that left little to the imagination, particularly in broad daylight—and upset visitors and campesinos alike. According to Cardenas, abuelitas and mamas were shocked by the display, averting their eyes from the female spectacle in fear of “elpecado mortal.” Thankfully, for the mothers and grandmothers in the audience, the festival continued in predictable fashion after the initial uproar. Organizers continued with the traditional dances, and judges selected an india bonita from a pool of young, decente mestizo girls to represent the pueblo and the festival.
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Sluis, Ageeth. "BATACLANISMO! Or, How Female Deco Bodies Transformed Postrevolutionary Mexico City." Americas 66, no. 4 (April 2010): 469–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tam.0.0258.

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In the spring of 1925, Santa Anita's Festival of Flowers seemed to follow its tranquil trend of previous years. The large displays of flowers, the selection of indias bonitas (as the contestants of beauty pageants organized in an attempt to stimulate indigenism were known) and the boat-rides on the Viga Canal, all communicated what residents of neighboring Mexico City had come to expect of the small pueblo in the Federal District since the Porfiriato: the respite of a peaceful pastoral, the link to a colorful past, and the promise that mexicanidad was alive and well in the campo. Unfortunately, wrote Manuel Rámirez Cárdenas of El Globo, “the modern newspaper,” the next day, this idyllic tradition was rudely interrupted by a group of audacious, scantily clad women. The culprits were actresses of Mexico City's Lirico theater, who walked around Santa Anita's streets in “picaresque clothing”—stage outfits that left little to the imagination, particularly in broad daylight—and upset visitors and campesinos alike. According to Cardenas, abuelitas and mamas were shocked by the display, averting their eyes from the female spectacle in fear of “elpecado mortal.” Thankfully, for the mothers and grandmothers in the audience, the festival continued in predictable fashion after the initial uproar. Organizers continued with the traditional dances, and judges selected an india bonita from a pool of young, decente mestizo girls to represent the pueblo and the festival.
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Nguyên-Quang, Trung. "“No Man Is an Island”: On Fragmented Experiences in Zadie Smith’s NW 2012." Anglica Wratislaviensia 56 (November 22, 2018): 77–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0301-7966.56.6.

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Published in 2012, Zadie Smith’s NW appears to break with the aesthetics of On Beauty 2005, her Booker Prize shortlisted novel: abandoning the linearity of traditional story-telling of which On Beauty partook, NW displays a formal fragmentation that allows the narrative to jump back and forth from one point of view to another, one time period to another, and this with no apparent rationale. Indeed, the novel weaves together the threads of four different narratives seen through four different characters, its structure thus fragmented into seemingly disparate subplots and timelines, as though it were taking to task the linearity of time itself. Through the analysis of the various fragmentary modes in NW, this paper wishes to contend that, while it may first appear to be a challenge to the congruence of plot, one that is reminiscent of the postmodernist taste for discontinuity and experimentation, this writing commitment for fragmentation is fundamentally a political stance in Smith’s fiction. By deconstructing the linear fabric of plot, NW seems to argue that experience — whether it be cultural, political, social or individual — is multifarious and ever-shifting, and thus can only be accounted for by discursively espousing its fragmentary nature. Therefore, the multiplication of subject-positions, the refusal of monologic narratives, as well as the eschewal of linearity in NW must be understood as rebuttals of a reality conceived of unilaterally, or normatively defined. In other words, my argument is that, in NW, the poetics of fragmentation is a politics of authenticity, since it is only through the representation of fragmented experiences that fiction can have any claim on realism.
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Алисеенко О. Н. "К ВОПРОСУ О СПЕЦИФИКЕ РЕНЕССАНСНОГО ПАСТОРАЛЬНОГО ХРОНОТОПА И ПУТЕЙ ЕГО ДАЛЬНЕЙШЕЙ МОДИФИКАЦИИ." International Academy Journal Web of Scholar 2, no. 8(38) (August 31, 2019): 22–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31435/rsglobal_wos/31082019/6660.

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The specific character of the Renaissance pastoral chronotop as well as the ways of its further modification has been under consideration in the article provided. It has been proved that semantic background of pastoral chronotop as the specific fiction time and space predominant to the Renaissance stage of pastoral transtext development encloses a number of significant determinants. The definite components are closely connected with the Renaissance interpretation of Plato by the Neoplatonists, i.e. the predominance of the spacial existence, the idea of the community, the tradition of the demythologization of the novel space, the relatedness of the Renaissance pastoral chronotop with the ethico-philosophical complex “Love-Beauty-Good” which has become classical.
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Hanafi, Muchlis Muhammad. "Problematika Terjemahan Al-Qur’an Studi pada Beberapa Penerbitan Al-Qur'an dan Kasus Kontemporer." SUHUF 4, no. 2 (November 5, 2015): 169–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.22548/shf.v4i2.53.

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The process of translation is beset with problems. On the one hand, translation demands a faithful transfer of the meaning as contained in the source text into the target language, but on the other hand, the process also requires elegance and beauty in the choice of words and expressions. These obstacles are magnified when the source text in question is the Qur’an, because it is not a man-made creation or a work of fiction or poetry, but the word of God. This article will explore some of these problems with reference to translations of the Qur’an published by the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indone-sia and three other publishers.
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Juanna, Juanna, and Sholihul Abidin. "ANALISA SEMIOLOGI PESAN MORAL PADA FILM “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST LIVE ACTION”." Commed : Jurnal Komunikasi dan Media 2, no. 2 (April 16, 2018): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.33884/commed.v2i2.472.

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“Beauty and The Beast Live Action” movie is a re-make film of the original version with the same title in 1991. As a romantic themed fiction show, it's no wonder that the film managed to tie the audience emotionally, so the audience can sense that they are part of the film as long as he/she watched the movie. By the time the film finishes, there will be at least a meaning or moral message that can be taken from a movie, which is composed of signs containing a moral message. Overall, the movie Beauty and The Beast Live Action gives a moral message that we should not judge a person just from his appearance alone, because the most important is the kindness of the person. However, if we look closely at the signs contained in each scene, there are still some moral messages beyond the theme of the film that we can take through semiological analysis, using qualitative research methods. This research uses Charles Sanders Peirce's semiology theory which divides the mark into three categories namely icons, indexes and symbols in creating meaning, which will then be summed up into a moral message. The object of research investigated is some snippets of scenes in the film that will be drawn conclusions of moral messages based on semiology analysis, so that ultimately obtained the results of research on what moral messages contained in every scene of the film and also that the moral message is not only obtained from the entire film alone, but also through each scene cut.
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Khabibullina, Lilia F. "Postcolonial Trauma in the 21st-Century English Female Fiction." Imagologiya i komparativistika, no. 15 (2021): 89–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/24099554/15/5.

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The postcolonial fiction of the 21st century has developed a new version of family chronicle depicting the life of several generations of migrants to demonstrate the complexity of their experience, different for each generation. This article aims at investigating this tradition from the perspective of three urgent problems: trauma, postcolonial experience, and the “female” theme. The author uses the most illustrative modern women’s postcolonial writings (Z. Smith, Ju. Chang) to show the types of trauma featured in postcolonial literature as well as the change in the character of traumatic experience, including the migrant’s automythologization from generation to generation. There are several types of trauma, or stages experienced by migrants: historical, migration and selfidentification, more or less correlated with three generations of migrants. Historical trauma is the most severe and most often insurmountable for the first generation. It generates a myth about the past, terrible or beautiful, depending on the writer’s intention realized at the level of the writer or the characters. A most expanded form of this trauma can be found in the novel Wild Swans by Jung Chang, where the “female” experience underlines the severity of the historical situation in the homeland of migrants. The trauma of migration manifests itself as a situation of deterritorialization, lack of place, when the experience of the past dominates and prevents the migrants from adapting to a new life. This situation is clearly illustrated in the novel White Teeth by Z. Smith, where the first generation of migrants cannot cope with the effects of trauma. The trauma of selfidentification promotes a fictitious identity in the younger generation of migrants. Unable to join real life communities, they create automyths, joining fictional communities based on cultural myths (Muslim organizations, rap culture, environmental organizations). Such examples can be found in Z. Smith’s White Teeth and On Beauty. Thus, the problem of trauma undergoes erosion, because, strictly speaking, with each new generation, the event experienced as traumatic is less worth designating as such. Compared to historical trauma or the trauma of migration, trauma of self-identification is rather a psychological problem that affects the emotional sphere and is quite survivable for most of the characters.
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Shen, Dan. "Edgar Allan Poe's Aesthetic Theory, the Insanity Debate, and the Ethically Oriented Dynamics of ““The Tell-Tale Heart””." Nineteenth-Century Literature 63, no. 3 (December 1, 2008): 321–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2008.63.3.321.

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For over one hundred years, critics have widely regarded Edgar Allan Poe as an aesthetician of literature as a whole, which has to a great extent oriented the interpretation of his prose narratives. In this essay I revisit Poe's relevant essays and reveal that Poe's aesthetic conception of the subject matter of poetry is due to poetry's peculiar generic characteristics not shared by prose fiction. Poe makes an unequivocal distinction in prose fiction between structural design and subject matter. While putting the tale's structural design completely on a par with that of poetry, Poe treats the tale's subject matter as different in nature from that of poetry——as ““antagonistical”” to Beauty and often based on the ethically related, though not ethically confined, ““Truth.”” In this essay I argue that if some of Poe's tales convey a moral, then that moral tends to be implicit and inseparable from the structural ““unity of effect,”” and the tale may react or respond to the cultural context in a certain way. In Poe's ““The Tell-Tale Heart”” we can see a characteristic interaction among a structurally unified dramatic irony, an implicit moral, and the historical ““insanity defense”” controversy.
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Vinczeová, Barbora. "A Journey Beyond Reality: Poetic Prose and Lush Imagery in Tanith Lee’s Night’s Master." Prague Journal of English Studies 5, no. 1 (July 1, 2016): 71–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2016-0004.

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Abstract Tanith Lee was a “highly decorated writer” (Chappell 1) whose work ranged from science-fiction, through fantasy and children’s literature to contemporary and detective novels. Although she published more than ninety novels and three hundred short stories, her audience has diminished through the years, affecting also the academic interest in her works. The aims of this article are to provide a literary analysis of one of her most famous novels, Night’s Master, and answer the question of why readers describe her prose as “lush” and “poetic”; and also interpret the recurring symbolism and themes of beauty, sexuality and metamorphosis in the work. This article also highlights the similarities between the novel and fairy tales in regard of numeric symbolism and morals.
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