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Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. "Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Holy Week: Testing Religious Ethics in Times of Atrocity." Holocaust and Genocide Studies 33, no. 2 (2019): 225–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcz025.
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Abstract Jerzy Andrzejewski wrote the novella Holy Week at the time of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This real-time Polish fictional response immediately raised critical controversy. Whereas some critics saw it as an inadequate representation of the Holocaust, others considered the 1945 version a product of socialist realism. Here the author argues that Andrzejewski’s wartime fiction investigates the viability of his Catholic existentialist orientation during a time of terror. While his wartime essays and his correspondence with Czesław Miłosz reflected Andrzejewski’s struggle to maintain his faith in human brotherhood, his fiction traced the disintegration of Grace-given faith in the commonality and dignity of all human beings. The stories progress from a tragic ending of friendship to the failure of spiritual resistance and ultimately to the complete moral collapse of the Polish community. The unflinching depiction of the failure of Catholic Poles before their responsibility to extend neighborly love to their doomed Jewish neighbors communicates Andrzejewski’s insistence on the Catholic obligation to love one’s neighbor.
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Zhu, Dan, Liru Yang, and Xin Liang. "Gender classification in classical fiction: A computational analysis of 1113 fictions." Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 19, no. 9 (2022): 8892–907. http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2022412.
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<abstract> <p>Recent decades have witnessed the rapid development of literary studies on gender and writing style. One of the common limitations of previous studies is that they analyze only a few texts, which some researchers have already pointed out. In this study, we attempt to find the features that best facilitate the classification of texts by authorial gender. Based on a corpus of 1113 classical fictions from the early 19<sup>th</sup> century to the early 20<sup>th</sup> century. Eight algorithms, including SVM, random forest, decision tree, AdaBoost, logistic regression, K-nearest neighbors, gradient boosting and XGBoost, are used to automatically select the features that are most useful for properly categorizing a text. We find that word frequency is the most important predictor for identifying authorial gender in classical fictions, achieving an accuracy rate of 92%. We also find that nationhood is not particularly impactful when dealing with authorial gender differences in classical fictions, as genderlectal variation is 'universal' in the English-speaking world.</p> </abstract>
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Wójcikowska-Wantuch, Paulina. "Dyskurs postkolonialny w powieści „Dzieci Wołgi" Guzel Jachiny." Rusycystyczne Studia Literaturoznawcze 33 (October 6, 2023): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rsl.2023.33.09.
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In this article, Paulina Wójcikowska-Wantuch analyzes the presence of postcolonial discourse in A Volga Tale, a novel by Guzel Yakhina, a Russian author of Tatar origin, whose fiction is concerned with themes of history and identity. Yakhina focuses on the tragic events of the Soviet period shown from the perspective of a single person and her fictions represent the post-memory trend in literature. She stresses the cultural and linguistic distinctness of the German minority, which ultimately fell victim to Stalin’s imperialistic policy. Yakhina exposes the destructive mechanisms of the imperial power, but refrains from unambiguous assessments of historical reality. She focuses on the problem of responsibility for one’s neighbors, emphasizing the importance of the characters’ individual choices. In the light of the ethical issues raised in the novel, the problem of national identity is of secondary importance. In connection with the above, A Volga Tale and also other novels by Yakhina elude any unambiguous assignment to postcolonial literature.
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Porter, Abioseh Michael. "Post-Civil War Literary Fiction: A Catalyst for Understanding Sierra Leone's Recent Past, Present, and Future." African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review 13, no. 1 (March 2023): 129–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/acp.2023.a900893.
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ABSTRACT: Until very recently, it seemed that a major difference between the literature of Sierra Leone and the literatures of its other West African neighbors was the absence, especially in prose fiction, of a sustained body of work by Sierra Leonean authors. This situation might seem mystifying to scholars of Sierra Leone's social and intellectual history because, after all, that country had played a major and pioneering role in the development and spreading of Western education in West Africa. This fundamental narrative of the inability of Sierra Leone's creative writers to produce high quality literature, in current times, has been seriously challenged by several new authors. This article analyzes the ways in which Sierra Leonean literature has moved from a space in which its earliest writers failed to understand fiction writing as a major outlet to express the dreams, nightmares, hopes and desires of a people to one in which high quality fiction is flourishing. It highlights how the civil war and its dreadful aftermath changed the literary landscape in Sierra Leone in many positive ways.
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Alvarez, Celia Lisset. "The Pool." After Dinner Conversation 4, no. 9 (2023): 38–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20234985.
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Why are people resistant to (even seemingly positive) change? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, Carrie decides to go back to her Florida roots and, with her husband, purchase and improve an apartment complex to its former glory. She spends huge amounts of money renovating the apartments and restoring the swimming pool, and does it all without raising rents. However, no matter what she does, the residents complain. She changes out the appliances and they complain the new ones aren’t avocado green. She rebuilds the pool, and they complain about the noise. She makes the washing machines free, and they complain about the neighbors coming to use them. The last straw is when she changes the complex policy to allow pets, and one of the neighbors drowns two barking dogs in the new pool to send a message. Exasperated, Carrie finally decides to sell the complex.
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Alyami, Nasiba Abdulrahman. "Language Shift Among Saudi Children Studying in Riyadh International Schools: Fact or Fiction?" International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2024): 103–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v6i1.1583.
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The study aimed at identifying whether there exists a language shift towards English among Saudi children studying in international schools in Riyadh. This was approached through investigating the code choices they prefer to use in different life domains (such as the home domain (parents and siblings), school domain (friends and teachers), neighbors, and relatives…etc.), i.e. from their parents' perspectives. To achieve the aim of the study, a descriptive survey approach was followed, where the study sample consisted of (382) parents. The questionnaire was also used as a data collection tool. The results revealed that Saudi children studying in international schools in Riyadh showed different tendencies towards language choice, while communicating in different domains. More specifically, they tend to use English more than their native tongue (Arabic) in daily spontaneous communication. The findings thus indicate that the children are in fact going through early stages of Language Shift.
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Pirok, Alena. "Specters of the Mythic South: How Plantation Fiction Fixed Ghost Stories to Black Americans." Southern Cultures 29, no. 4 (December 2023): 16–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917560.
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Abstract: The author challenges the notion of southern ghost stories as inherently subversive. Beginning with the stories in late nineteenth-century plantation fiction, this essay explores how wealthy white southerners used the genre to redeem and remake the region's past and present. White authors' claims of fraternity with largely nameless and faceless Black contacts are central to the story and reveal how these ghost stories helped to suppress reality, in favor of mythic tales. A comparison of the planation ghost stories and ghost stories accurately attributed to Black southerners shows that rather than faithfully recording the stories or making room for the oppressed to speak, white writers of planation ghost stories made a mockery of their Black neighbors and denied their post-emancipation agency. The roots of today's southern ghost stories are vastly more diverse, and significantly less empowering, than the celebrated Southern Gothic tales.
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Aleksov, Bojan. "One hundred years of Yugoslavia: the vision of Stojan Novaković revisited." Nationalities Papers 39, no. 6 (November 2011): 997–1010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2011.619180.
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This article examines a text written 100 years ago by Stojan Novaković, a leading Serbian scholar and president of its Academy of Science. Written in a political science fiction genre, it foresees a country of united South Slavs in 2011. Yugoslavia, in the enlightened vision of Novaković, will appear and strengthen due to scientific and economic development on one hand and common culture based on a common vernacular on the other. Elite-driven unification is the only mode for South Slavs to survive facing the challenges of modernization and the territorial threats of their neighbors. Accurate in some and grossly naive in other aspects, this text is a testimony of Yugoslav ideas preceding the actual creation of the state, as shared by the most prestigious among the Serbian intellectual elites.
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Fonash, Michael. "Steinbeck’s A Russian Journal and Things: Stalin and Museums." Steinbeck Review 20, no. 1 (June 2023): 46–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.20.1.0046.
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Abstract A piece of travel writing, rather than the well-received fiction that solidified his public reputation, Steinbeck’s 1948 A Russian Journal lacks both the reading and the critical audiences it so well deserves. This article explores the textual complexities that make A Russian Journal a wholly different and experimental work for the writer. Concerned with language, translation, and objectivity during the Cold War, Steinbeck wants to communicate things that reflect the ethos of Soviet society to the American public. Using things rather than words, Steinbeck models an alternative mode of translinguistic communication using things that impress on its readers more than just words, but concepts, emotions, and power. Knowing that Russia today, well into the twenty-first century, is a place of “otherness,” Steinbeck’s mode of writing using things to communicate needs to be underscored and discussed as a means to share and know more about our worldly neighbors that live in other cultural and linguistic zones.
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Chubinidze, Ani. "Young People and Collective Trauma in Georgian Fiction about The Abkhazian War and The 2008 Russo-Georgian War." Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 61, no. 3 (2023): 17–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.a903436.
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Abstract: The ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia has brought the attention of Western academic discourses to the long history of Russian colonialism, cultural dominance, and military aggression. Ukraine has not been the only victim of Russian invasions in the last few decades. The following article depicts the voice of Georgia, a small country with a population of 3.7 million people that has also experienced the horror of war from its neighbors. This article focuses on studying the depictions of traumatized adolescents with the use of trauma theory and children's literature studies in two texts about the Abkhazian war (1992–1993) and the 2008 Russo-Georgian war: Nugzar Shataidze's "Journey to Africa" (2004) and Tamta Melashvili's Counting Out (2010). This article showcases that the discussed narratives reflect global trends in children's literature and literary trauma theory. I argue that Georgian fiction fits the pluralistic approach of the literary trauma theory, delineating individual stories intertwined with culturally and socially specific narratives. The examined texts are replete with geographic places, social values, and specific environments that shape Georgian society's collective trauma. Besides, adolescents are the central figures that expose the psychological, physical, and mental suffering that wars bring to society.
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Rochelson, Meri-Jane. "“THEY THAT WALK IN DARKNESS”: GHETTO TRAGEDIES: THE USES OF CHRISTIANITY IN ISRAEL ZANGWILL’S FICTION." Victorian Literature and Culture 27, no. 1 (March 1999): 219–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150399271124.
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AT THE END of the Victorian era and in the first decades of the twentieth century, Israel Zangwill was a well-known name in Europe, America, and even the Middle East. The enormous success of his 1892 novel Children of the Ghetto had made Zangwill the spokesperson for English Jewry throughout the world, as he revealed and explained an alien community to its non-Jewish neighbors and made the universe of the Jewish immigrants more intelligible to their acculturated coreligionists. An early Zionist, Zangwill met with Theodore Herzl in London and attended the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897; he continued to participate in the movement until 1905, when he formed his own nationalist group, the Jewish Territorial Organization (ITO). He became active in the pacifist and feminist movements of the early 1900s, and his literary output of that period for the most part reflects those interests, although he still explored issues of Jewish identity in numerous short stories and the highly popular play The Melting Pot (1908). In all, Zangwill published eight novels, nine collections of short fiction, eleven plays, and a volume of poetry, writing on both Jewish and more general themes; and (with the exception of some of his later thesis drama) his work was for the most part both popular and acclaimed. During the later 1880s and 1890s Zangwill was a prolific journalist, publishing columns on literature and current topics not only in the Jewish Standard, but also in the comic paper Puck (later Ariel, which he also edited), the Critic, and the Pall Mall Magazine. In short, he was very much a turn-of-the-century literary personality, esteemed as one of their own by his Jewish readers, but also prominent in the more general transatlantic literary milieu.
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Anderson, Marie. "Metaphors." After Dinner Conversation 1, no. 6 (2020): 26–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc2020163.
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To what degree can race relations, driven by media perception or inadvertent errors in speaking, be overcome by personal, positive, interactions? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, a retired, white, widowed woman lives in a predominately black neighborhood. Her African-American husband is long dead and she has made every effort to integrate herself into her black community. She is longtime friends with her neighbors, particularly the 16-year-old boy, Zion, who comes over daily to give her dog a diabetes shot and assist her with chores around the house to make extra money. However, as the Black Lives Matter protests escalate in the community, the narrator increasingly becomes the target of hate, sometimes for no reason, sometimes because of her thoughtlessness. Her relationship with Zion continues to falter until he sheepishly takes the side of those in the community and separates all ties with the narrator. He returns the various gifts she has given him over his life because he wishes to leave his childhood behind and take up the fight against oppression. This story, like all After Dinner Conversation stories, has suggested discussion questions at the end.
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Yanev, Kristiyan. "The Marginal Other in Post-Soviet Space (Observations on Polish Literary Reportage Concerning the East)." Balkanistic Forum 32, no. 3 (September 15, 2023): 212–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v32i3.12.
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The paper analyzes Polish literary reportage as a trend evolved from a rather marginalized position of a hybrid genre to a prized form of literary expression in the last decades. More often than not, the genre’s main focus in the unprivileged, problematic or unknown marginal Other, which is visible in the journalistic fiction about Poland’s eastern neighbors. At the same time, the imagining of the Other can be problematic and biased, which is a major concern for the authors, whose position between the belletristic and the journalistic poses different demands on the texts about Russia. The major political, cultural and economic post-1989 transformation in the countries of the former USSR occupy a privileged place among the topics of the genre. The text compares the representation of post-Soviet reality in the literary reportages of Ryszard Kapuściński, Jacek Hugo-Bader and Jędrzej Morawiecki, focussing on the depiction of the marginalized groups in the postcommunist society. The texts argues that each decade after the Soviet Union’s collapse brings forth a different type of marginalization (ethnic and political in the 1990s; social and cultural in the 2000s; religious and ideological in the 2010s).
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Gupta, Jyoti, Mr Deepak Mangal, Harsh Bansal, and Dr Vikas Singhal. "Fake Social Media Post Detection by Using Deep Learning Algorithm." International Research Journal of Computer Science 11, no. 05 (May 30, 2024): 483–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.26562/irjcs.2024.v1105.09.
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In today's digital age, social media serves as both a boon and a bane, offering immense opportunities for personal growth while also being a breeding ground for misinformation and deception. The rise of sophisticated multimedia manipulation techniques has blurred the line between reality and fiction, presenting significant challenges to discerning genuine content from fabricated ones. This paper presents an overview of the escalating threat posed by fake posts on social media and proposes a novel approach for their detection. The proposed method leverages advanced technologies such as Error Level Analysis (ELA) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to distinguish between authentic and manipulated posts. Unlike traditional approaches reliant on manual feature extraction, our framework employs deep learning methodologies for more nuanced pattern recognition and generalization to unseen data. By combining ELA for initial image analysis and CNNs for deep feature extraction, followed by classification using Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNNs), we achieve robust detection of fake images .Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, with a peak accuracy of 91.3% using Residual Networks and KNN. This method offers a promising solution to mitigate the proliferation of fake images on social media platforms, thereby combating the spread of misinformation, propaganda, and chaos.
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Schaffer, Talia. "Care Communities." South Atlantic Quarterly 118, no. 3 (July 1, 2019): 521–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-7616139.
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The feminist philosophy of “ethics of care” has been important for disability studies inasmuch as it helps us see caregiving as widespread and admirable, rather than as a failure of autonomy. Care ethicists usually imagine care as either an institutional situation or an intimate dyad. However, in “Critical Care,” I add a third case in a midrange scale: the care community. The care community is a voluntary social formation, composed of friends, family, and neighbors, that coalesces around someone in need. It is my contention that by exploring the care community, we can make important aspects of care visible and rethink care relationships. What we see in care communities is a process, rather than a preset care structure, and that fluidity allows us to interrogate the conditions under which care can develop and the dynamics of extended care. I use Victorian fiction to showcase care communities, since novels of this period are marked by ubiquitous spontaneous small groups forming around people who are ill or hurt, but I also make a case that care communities continue to exist today, particularly among queer communities and people of color, performing a vital function in our ordinary lives. Finally, I argue that care communities can help us fundamentally rethink disability as a need like any other need rather than an inherent identity. Eva Feder Kittay has argued that care relations are the foundation of civic society; in that case, disability and the care community that arises in response to it are not marginalized cases but are what, profoundly, makes social life possible.
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Sheridan, Paul, Mikael Onsjö, Claudia Becerra, Sergio Jimenez, and George Dueñas. "An Ontology-Based Recommender System with an Application to the Star Trek Television Franchise." Future Internet 11, no. 9 (August 22, 2019): 182. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi11090182.
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Collaborative filtering based recommender systems have proven to be extremely successful in settings where user preference data on items is abundant. However, collaborative filtering algorithms are hindered by their weakness against the item cold-start problem and general lack of interpretability. Ontology-based recommender systems exploit hierarchical organizations of users and items to enhance browsing, recommendation, and profile construction. While ontology-based approaches address the shortcomings of their collaborative filtering counterparts, ontological organizations of items can be difficult to obtain for items that mostly belong to the same category (e.g., television series episodes). In this paper, we present an ontology-based recommender system that integrates the knowledge represented in a large ontology of literary themes to produce fiction content recommendations. The main novelty of this work is an ontology-based method for computing similarities between items and its integration with the classical Item-KNN (K-nearest neighbors) algorithm. As a study case, we evaluated the proposed method against other approaches by performing the classical rating prediction task on a collection of Star Trek television series episodes in an item cold-start scenario. This transverse evaluation provides insights into the utility of different information resources and methods for the initial stages of recommender system development. We found our proposed method to be a convenient alternative to collaborative filtering approaches for collections of mostly similar items, particularly when other content-based approaches are not applicable or otherwise unavailable. Aside from the new methods, this paper contributes a testbed for future research and an online framework to collaboratively extend the ontology of literary themes to cover other narrative content.
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Magerstädt, Sylvie. "Love Thy Extra-Terrestrial Neighbour: Charity and Compassion in Luc Besson’s Space Operas The Fifth Element (1997) and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)." Religions 9, no. 10 (September 27, 2018): 292. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel9100292.
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The role of romantic love in cinema–and its redeeming aspects–has been extensively explored in film studies and beyond. However, non-romantic aspects of love, especially love for the neighbour, have not yet received as much attention. This is particularly true when looking at mainstream science fiction cinema. This is surprising as the interstellar outlook of many of these films and consequently the interaction with a whole range of new ‘neighbours’ raises an entirely new set of challenges. In this article, the author explores these issues with regard to Luc Besson’s science fiction spectacles The Fifth Element (1997) and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017). Both films have divided fans and critics and it is indeed easy to dismiss them as mere spectacle with little depth or message, as many reviewers have done. Yet, as this article demonstrates, beneath their shiny, colourful surface, both films make a distinct contribution to the theme of neighbourly love. What is more, Besson’s films often seem to develop a close link between more common notions of romantic love and agapic forms of love and thus offer a perspective of exploring our relationship to the alien as our neighbour.
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Keivanshokuh, Hooman, and Amirhossein Vafa. "VIOLENCE AND BIGOTRY: REGRESSIVE INNOVATION IN KEVIN BARRY’S CITY OF BOHANE." Folia linguistica et litteraria XIII, no. 39 (February 2022): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.39.2022.4.
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Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane is one of the most celebrated recent works of Irish fiction. It is set in 2053, and tells the story of a people living in an environment of constant conflict where senseless acts of violence and bigotry are prevalent. This surprisingly negative imagining of Ireland in the future cannot be ignored considering the modern history of the country. The contemporary history of Ireland is fraught with a long and desperate struggle against the English Empire and its colonial forces as they tried for centuries to take over their neighboring island and completely colonize Ireland and its people. The English used two main weapons to further their goals in this matter: brutal military force and cultural sabotage. The cultural sabotage that the English brought to Ireland was mainly done by replacing Gaelic with English as the language of the Irish, and portraying them as culturally inferior and uncivilized in comparison to their English neighbors. Irish literature of the past few centuries has struggled to come to terms with this history of violence and dehumanization perpetuated by the English. Surprisingly, Kevin Barry in his novel callously repeats and escalates most of these negative stereotypes that have plagued Irish literature for years. The following study takes a closer look at the history of colonial violence and negative Irish stereotypes, and argues that City of Bohane is regressive in its depiction of Ireland as culturally ignorant and violent. That is to say, while the story is set four decades into the future, the author inexplicably insists on moving back in time to unearth and repurpose major colonial stereotypes that portray the Irish as uncivilized and backwards, to the great detriment of his innovative style and creative use of language in this novel.
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Mart, Michelle. "The “Christianization” of Israel and Jews in 1950s America." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 14, no. 1 (2004): 109–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rac.2004.14.1.109.
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AbstractIn the 1950s, the United States experienced a domestic religious revival that offered postwar Americans a framework to interpret the world and its unsettling international political problems. Moreover, the religious message of the cold war that saw the God-fearing West against atheistic communists encouraged an unprecedented ecumenism in American history. Jews, formerly objects of indifference if not disdain and hatred in the United States, were swept up in the ecumenical tide of “Judeo-Christian” values and identity and, essentially, “Christianized” in popular and political culture. Not surprisingly, these cultural trends affected images of the recently formed State of Israel. In the popular and political imagination, Israel was formed by the “Chosen People” and populated by prophets, warriors, and simple folk like those in Bible stories. The popular celebration of Israel also romanticized its people at the expense of their Arab (mainly Muslim) neighbors. Battling foes outside of the Judeo-Christian family, Israelis seemed just like Americans. Americans treated the political problems of the Middle East differently than those in other parts of the world because of the religious significance of the “Holy Land.” A man such as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who combined views of hard-nosed “realpolitik” with religious piety, acknowledged the special status of the Middle East by virtue of the religions based there. Judaism, part of the “Judeo-Christian civilization,” benefitted from this religious consciousness, while Islam remained a religion and a culture apart. This article examines how the American image of Jews, Israelis, and Middle Eastern politics was re-framed in the early 1950s to reflect popular ideas of religious identity. These images were found in fiction, the press, and the speeches and writings of social critics and policymakers. The article explores the role of the 1950s religious revival in the identification of Americans with Jews and Israelis and discusses the rise of the popular understanding that “Judeo-Christian” values shaped American culture and politics.
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Alasgar Kasimi, Sehrane. "Periods of cultural development of Azerbaijan." SCIENTIFIC WORK 60, no. 11 (November 6, 2020): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/60/21-26.
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The musical history of Azerbaijan is a part of understanding of the ancient past of Azerbaijan. The universally recognized development peculiarities of Azerbaijan are the result of the specific musical culture of the Azerbaijani people. Difficulties of studying the ancient music culture of Azerbaijan are directly related to the absence of leading sources and indirect references. Oral traditional folklore, folk song creativity, fiction and archaeological monuments are the main sources of the study of the past of Azerbaijani culture. It is important to preserve the authenticity of classical music and folk songs of Azerbaijan, starting with the ancient ancestors of the Azerbaijani people: thousands of years before our era had a different historical effect on the Medians, the Caspians, the Albanians and other tribes. The extensive trade routes passing through Azerbaijan, the Silk Road, the invasion of various tribes as Huns- Suvars (in the VII century BC), Romans (at the beginning of our era), Khazars (VI - VII centuries), Cumanses (IX - XI centuries), Seljuk Turks (X-XI centuries), Mongols (XIII century), Persians, Arabs and had their specific impact on Azerbaijani folk music and culture. The broad and sophisticated international trade junction of the Middle East countries certainly came to Azerbaijan. Latin and Greek inscription about Domitian’s, XII Roman legion being on the shores of the Caspian Sea, were discovered on Gobustan rocks at the end of the first century The great Norwegian researcher and traveler, Tur Heyerdal in his scientific findings made a special place for Gobustan boat descriptions and considered similarity with the Sumerian culture. He also stated that, the civilization of Arabian Sea had contacted with Gobustan[5]. The Khazars are one of the oldest and most widely spread ethnic groups in the Eastern and Central Transcaucasia. According to ancient and old Oriental sources, during the existence of the Achaemenid rule (6th-4th centuries BC), they established ethno-cultural relations with their close neighbors, as well as with peoples who were relatively far from them. Key words: music history, archeological monuments, classical music, ancient tribes, folklore
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Ponomareva, Anastasia A. "The Observer as a Plot Position in the Poetry and Prose by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya." Studies in Theory of Literary Plot and Narratology 14, no. 2 (2019): 24–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2410-7883-2019-2-24-32.
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The article presents investigation the phenomenon, characteristic for poetry and prose by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya. It is actualization of the observer figure in the plot. The author determines poems by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya have stories micro-plots. The center is a lyrical heroine watching else’s life. The poetic creation of this plot position is eclectic. The motif theme is developed with the help of romantic and naturalistic clichés. On the one hand, the author reproduces the romantic situation of social alienation, elegiac motives of memory, loss, etc. On the other hand, the author actualizes the theme of the influence of the environment on the person, the idea of useful work, etc. The article shows the plot position, formed in poetry, organically entered into prose in the heyday of the “fiction talent” by writer. In prose works the lyrical component is absorbed by the plot. The observer is not only not removed from the events, but also actively involved in them. The article gives a thorough description of the story “Behind the wall” (1862). This story is exceptionally representative. The narrator watching the love story of his neighbors is brought to the fore. Fable observation is presented through a situation of listening, not peeping. The actualization of the poetic principle in the prose plot leads to the weakening of “fabulousness”. The constructive beginning, forming a prose plot, is the reflection of the narrator. Else’s love story is the background of his experiences. The shift of the plot emphasis from the lovers to the narrator leads to the fact that the social component of the plot, associated with the issue of female emancipation, is “extinguished”, there is a psychologization of the narrative. In conclusion that the figure of the observer in poetry and prose by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya has an important plot value, organizing the semantic core of the plot. In the poetic and prose versions of the plot position is repeated the same motif theme. In the process of observation before the lyrical heroine and the hero-narrator open the opportunity to live else’s life. The ways of its development differ in the poetry and prose by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya.
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Starchman, Bryan. "His Neighbor's Wife." After Dinner Conversation 2, no. 1 (2021): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc2021213.
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What is fair and equitable justice? Is the point of justice to deter crime, to punish those that commit crime, or to educate criminals so they can integrate successfully back into society? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the country has chosen to adopt the “Law Of Vindication.” If a drunk driver hits and kills someone with their car, their punishment is to be hit and killed with a car. The same reciprocal punishments exist for all serious crimes. Furthermore, it is a crime to not assist the government, when necessary, in providing the reciprocal punishment. The parents of a murdered child MUST murder the child of their killer. In this story, the narrator is in an unhappy marriage and decides his best chance of getting away with killing his wife is to kill his neighbor’s wife and wait for the law of retribution to require that his wife be killed as punishment. Of course, things don’t go quite as planned, and the law is interpreted differently than he expects.
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Starchman, Bryan. "His Neighbor’s Wife." After Dinner Conversation 4, no. 5 (2023): 70–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20234547.
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What is fair and equitable justice? Is the point of justice to deter crime, to punish those that commit a crime, or to educate criminals so they can integrate successfully back into society? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the country has chosen to adopt the “Law Of Vindication.” If a drunk driver hits and kills someone with their car, their punishment is to be hit and killed with a car. The same reciprocal punishments exist for all serious crimes. Furthermore, it is a crime to not assist the government, when necessary, in providing reciprocal punishment. The parents of a murdered child MUST murder the child of their killer. In this story, the narrator is in an unhappy marriage and decides his best chance of getting away with killing his wife is to kill his neighbor’s wife and wait for the law of retribution to require that his wife be killed as punishment. Of course, things don’t go quite as planned, and the law is interpreted differently than he expects.
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Dekker, Cees, and Corienvan den Brink Oranje. "Dawn: A Proton's Tale of All That Came to Be." Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 75, no. 1 (March 2023): 61–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.56315/pscf3-23dekker.
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DAWN: A Proton's Tale of All That Came to Be by Cees Dekker, Corien Oranje, and Gijsbert van den Brink. Translated by Harry Cook. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2022. 166 pages, discussion questions. Paperback; $22.00. ISBN: 9781514005668. *Imagine that you could witness the entire history of the universe first-hand, from the big bang to the end of time. Perhaps, if you were a sentient yet patient proton, you would have the necessary longevity and attention span, and this idea could become your reality. Such is the premise of Dawn: A Proton's Tale of All That Came to Be. "Pro," as the proton protagonist is known to his chatty neighboring subatomic particles, is born from quarks in the first second after the big bang, blind and knowing nothing, but with an insatiable curiosity about what is happening, and why. Conversations with other particles born a split-second earlier soon produce in Proton a deep admiration for a skilled Creator, and a sense of wonder and anticipation about what they have seen and what will happen next. *Throughout several chapters, Pro confusedly and vividly experiences the onset of light, nuclear fusion, a supernova, and incorporation into a molecule as part of a carbon nucleus. Pro ends up in the dust cloud that forms Earth, eventually witnessing the origin of terrestrial life as part of an RNA molecule. A rumor among the subatomic particles that the Creator wants to make personal contact with one of the creatures generates a guessing game as they witness the progress of evolution. Which lifeform will it be? *When Homo sapiens arrive on the scene, the story shifts to tracking biblical narratives, and the subatomic particles begin asking each other more theological questions. The Creator makes contact with two humans, a chieftain couple in Africa. The Fall ensues when the couple and their tribe reject the Creator's instructions, much to the subatomic particles' surprise and horror. Pro and his neighbors are then able to witness key moments in the progress of redemption, becoming fly-on-the-wall observers to events in the lives of several important biblical characters. "How is the Creator going to fix things?" the particles ask each other. *At this point it becomes apparent what a colossal challenge the three authors (a nano scientist, a novelist, and a theologian)1 have taken upon themselves. They have tried to produce a gripping narrative in which the protagonist does not know the outcome, but Christian readers will. They have set out to tell an entertaining story of the history of the universe from a Christ-centered perspective, filled with imaginative details that are consistent with modern science but also with the biblical witness. They have charged into a literary no man's land between fiction and nonfiction. *Do they succeed? In many ways, admirably so. The merging of science and biblical witness is skillfully accomplished, respecting the integrity of each source of knowledge. To readers of this journal, the idea of a Creator patiently guiding the evolution of the universe and of life over billions of years in order to generate Earth and its humanity, followed by the increasingly intimate involvement of that Creator in redeeming humanity, is familiar. To many others, this idea will be revelatory. *If evaluated as a work of fiction, it would be safe to say that Dawn is wildly imaginative, yet it is also strangely hindered by the passivity of the narrating subatomic particles. "Imagine that you yourself could determine where you would like to go" (p. 28), they muse just before the first protocell develops. Pro witnesses and experiences history but cannot intervene. The subatomic particles can react, but they have no agency in the macroscopic world. They do not embark on a quest or a voyage of self-discovery. "Just go with the flow" (p. 29), one advises. The tropes of fiction, however, are probably the wrong standards for evaluating this book. *Dawn succeeds, in the end, as creative nonfiction--the memoir of a proton. Along the way, it retells the old, old story in an imaginative way. The authors have created one of the most accessible books on science and Christianity to come out in recent years. Even young adults will be able to enjoy it. *Note *1Cees Dekker, distinguished nano-scientist at Delft University of Technology; Corien Oranje, novelist/theologian and author of Christian children's literature; and Gijsbert van den Brink, theologian and holder of the Chair of Theology and Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. *Reviewed by David O. De Haan, Professor of Chemistry, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92110.
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Gatti, Maria G. "Good Neighbor, Bad Neighbor: Fact and Fiction in an FBI Investigation of Brazilian Literature during World War II." Hispanic American Historical Review 102, no. 3 (August 1, 2022): 449–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-9798291.
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Abstract Brazilian novelist Érico Veríssimo (1905–75) was an ambiguous subject of the Good Neighbor Policy: invited to the United States by the Department of State, he was also accused of anti-Americanism by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). An international police investigation into Veríssimo shows a Brazilian-US network in which literature is questioned both as a potential vehicle for subversion and as representative of its political context. Archival sources related to this investigation reveal how police agents searched for clues within fiction and how ideology often got lost in translation. Through a close reading of these sources, I explore the function of literature and the processes for its interpretation in political culture. This essay, by probing the contradictions of the Good Neighbor Policy and the transition from World War II to the Cold War, reveals how Brazilian and US police in collaboration applied the anti-Axis counterintelligence apparatus to the surveillance of Allied literature.
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Ogundipe, Stephen T. "Conceiving Neighbourhood in Northern Nigerian Fiction." Utafiti 13, no. 2 (March 18, 2018): 133–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26836408-01302008.
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Representations of neighbourhood in contemporary Northern Nigerian fiction are a departure point for scholars exploring the structures and sources of ethnic and religious violence. Using Edify Yakusak’s After They Left and Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday, Slavoj Zizek's analysis of the concept of neighbour is applied here, to engage theoretically with Northern Nigerian social conditions. This framework illuminates the links existing between the everyday experience of neighbourhoods in real life, and their imaginative representations in the literary arts.
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Gerace, Adam. "When TV neighbours become good friends: Understanding Neighbours fans’ feelings of grief and loss at the end of the series." PLOS ONE 19, no. 6 (June 12, 2024): e0302160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302160.
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Fans may experience significant upset and distress when a television series ends. However, grief and loss reactions to the end of a fictional series have seldom been investigated. It is likely that the degree to which such reactions are felt is influenced by viewing motives (e.g., pleasure, meaning making), connection to the series and its fan community, relationships formed with characters, including parasocial bonds and experiences of empathy, and tendency to engage with others’ perspectives and emotions, including fictional characters. The purpose of this study was to examine predictors of fans’ grief and loss reactions to the end of the television series Neighbours, which aired from 1985 to 2022. Fans (n = 1289) completed an online survey shortly after the screening of the final episode. The survey measured grief emotions and cognitions, acceptance that the series had ended, distress at the loss of a parasocial relationship with a favourite character, feelings of closure, and expressions of gratitude for the series. Predictors of these grief and loss reactions examined in the survey were viewing motives, fan identity, strength of a parasocial relationship formed with a favourite character, empathy towards that character, and tendency to take others’ perspectives, experience empathic concern and personal distress, and tendency towards engagement with fictional characters. Greater grief and loss reactions were experienced by fans whose motives for watching involved being entertained and exposed to different lifestyles, who felt a stronger fan connection to the series, and who formed stronger parasocial empathic relationships with their favourite character. Factors such as gender, age, and empathic tendencies predicted various types of grief reactions. Understanding fan experiences when a long-running series ends advances theory and research on viewer parasocial relationships and engagement with media, as well as providing evidence that the loss of a series or favourite character can be viewed as a type of grief experience.
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Syme, Ronald. "The Cadusii in history and in fiction." Journal of Hellenic Studies 108 (November 1988): 137–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/632636.
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Lands and peoples on the northern edge of an empire never fail to arouse curiosity; and their first entry into history exhibits sharp contrasts. The Hyrcani made a notable impact when Alexander in the year 330 invaded their country.Hyrcania permits a fairly close definition. It occupied the southeastern corner of the Caspian (a sea which frequently took that name). To the north was the wide steppe, inhabited by the Dahae, on the east the region Margiana. To the south Hyrcania extended into the Elburz mountains; and under the last Achaemenid it formed one satrapy with Parthyene, its neighbour on the southeast. Belonging to the narrow neck between the Caspian and the Salt Desert, Hyrcania lay beside the highroad from Ecbatana to Bactra. Hence a vital link for successive imperial powers.
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Szostak, Sylwia. "Poland’s Return To Europe." Europe on and Behind the Screens 1, no. 2 (November 29, 2012): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2012.jethc021.
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The changing political sphere in 1989 and the subsequent 2004 European Union accession had a profound impact on Poland’s economic, political and social spheres. Both events are considered to have marked Poland’s ‘return to Europe’ and strengthened the relations with its Western neighbours. This article examines the changing patterns of television fiction programming flow in Poland in the post-Soviet era, exploring the impact of those two events on Poland’s audiovisual sector. This article therefore assesses whether, and if so – how, this metaphorical ‘return to Europe’ is manifested on Polish television screens.
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El Bejaoui, Moufida. "LE RIAD: D’UN LIEU DE VILLÉGIATURE À UN LIEU DE MÉMOIRE DANS LA VIEILLE DAME DU RIAD DE FOUAD LAROUI." La mémoire et ses enjeux. Balkans – France: regards croisés, X/ 2019 (December 30, 2019): 123–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.29.2019.9.
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THE RIAD: FROM A PLACE OF VILLAGE TO A PLACE OF MEMORY IN THE OLD LADY OF RIAD OF FOUAD LAROUI François and Cécile buy a riad in Marrakech. To their astonishment, they discover Massouda who, to clear the place, demands the return of his son Tayeb. The couple seeks help from neighbor Mansour. This one gives them a memory in which the life of the son of Massouda covers a large part of the common history of Morocco and France going from the Protectorate to the Second World War. Keywords: Fiction, History, Colonialism, Satire, Writing, Memory.
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Collier, Graham. "Technology Focus: Offshore Facilities (September 2022)." Journal of Petroleum Technology 74, no. 09 (September 1, 2022): 75–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/0922-0075-jpt.
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During the last great downturn in the oil and gas industry, I heard several glib comments along the lines of “the Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. … And now it’s the end for the oil industry.” At the time, I dismissed it as typical of our age, another short burst of one-line philosophy, just some attention-seeking doomsday prophecy that pops up far too frequently on our phones. So here we are in 2022, post COVID-19 (I hope), refreshed in thirst for oil, with commodity prices soaring, oil-producing company executives rubbing their hands with glee, and motorists complaining at the pump. All seems back to normal. But not so fast. The previous whisperings of the environmentalist movement have turned up in volume; change is now being shouted from street corners around the globe. While the oil and gas industry may be basking in the warmth of a new renaissance, there is a major shift toward carbon-free energy generation. Coastlines are being peppered with towering wind turbines, and the countryside is now farming more and more solar panels. Carbon capture and hydrogen generation are no longer science fiction fantasies and are now attracting interest, innovation, and investment. Does this all mean the glib comment about the “Stone Age” is about to come true? No. Not yet, anyway. At the turn end of the 19th century, coal was the major energy provider, but by the end of the 20th century, despite there being known huge reserves underground, coal mining had significantly declined in Europe and the Americas. Likewise with oil, at the start of the 21st century, oil and gas was the No. 1 energy provider, and the general consensus was that we would run out by mid-century. However, here we are, well into the third millennium, and oil and gas is still abundant, Saudi Arabia still sits on massive reserves as do some of its neighbors, and ExxonMobil appears to find a massive new oil field every time it drills a well off the Guyanese coast. Today, oil and gas are still important energy providers. They will remain with us throughout this century, but, like the coal industry, they will decline, not because we will run out, but because mankind will learn to harvest cleaner energy more favorable to the wellbeing of us all. In the meantime, I do hope that we are not so quick to rid ourselves of the impressive industrial engineering that is the legacy of a hundred years of oil and gas production. We find ourselves with a huge quantity of “idle iron” processing plants, refineries, offshore platforms, and a massive network of pipelines—idle, but not useless. Before the bulldozers and gas axes are released, there must be a drive for reuse of much of this infrastructure. It is comforting to see so much innovative thinking appearing in the Journal of Petroleum Technology advocating renewable energy and repurposing of aging oil and gas structures. It is worth noting that Stonehenge, built in Southern England more than 5,000 years ago, still functions as a remarkably accurate celestial calendar. I hope that you enjoy this month’s selection of technical papers. Recommended additional reading at OnePetro: www.onepetro.org. OTC 31494 - A Literature Review on Site Suitability and Structural Hydrodynamic Viability for Artificial‑Reef Purposes by Anas Khaled Alsheikh, UTP, et al. OTC 31986 - Alternatives to Conventional Offshore Fixed Wind Installation by Roy Robinson, Excipio Energy, et al. OTC 31655 - A Technical Limits Weight‑Control Tool for Integrity Management of Aging Offshore Structures by Sok Mooi Ng, Petronas, et al.
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Dale, Kim Z. "M.I.N.D. Your Marriage." After Dinner Conversation 4, no. 2 (2023): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20234212.
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Besides “being in love” and procreation, what is the purpose/function of a spouse? In this work of ethical marriage fiction, Sherry’s husband knows too much about her inner thoughts, specifically, that the barista at the local coffee shop is attractive. When Sherry talks to her neighbor, they piece together that she was unknowingly given a M.I.N.D. implant, allowing her husband to read her thoughts. She confronts him and he argues communication is hard, and this makes it easier. Additionally, if she has nothing to hide, then why does she care? In response, she gets a “mind vault” installed, a place to store thoughts and memories from her husband. He finds out, and goes to even more extreme measures to make Sherry compliant.
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Dmitrieva, Ekaterina E. "Pushkin’s Trigorskoye as a Source of Myth-making: Fiction Versus Pragmatics." Literary Fact, no. 3 (25) (2022): 211–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2022-25-211-232.
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In 1824 Pushkin was exiled to his mother’s estate Mikhailovskoye, where he was to stay until 1826. Then he was set free by the enthroned Tsar Nicholas I. Praskovia Alexandrovna Osipova-Vulf, the mistress of Trigorskoye, and her numerous family were Pushkin’s only neighbours during his exile period. A myth was gradually forming in the minds of Pushkin’s readers and admirers. According to this myth Pushkin depicted Trigorskoye in the village chapters of “Eugene Onegin,” Trigorskoye ladies and their mother became the prototype of the novel’s female characters, and Osipova’s son Alexey Wulf, then a student in Dorpat, became the prototype of Lensky. This myth, which in fact ignores the aesthetic self-value of a literary text, was started by M.I. Semevsky’s essay “A Trip to Trigorskoye,” as well as by Alexey Wulf’s own “Diary.” The paper deals with this myth evolution, considering how it subsequently rises from the realm of essays and memoirs to become a part of scholarly works and forms the concept basis of the museum space after the house-museum in Trigorskoye was founded. The appendix contains the minutes of a scientific meeting of the Pushkin’s Reserve’s staff in 1960, which reveals the mechanism of Trigorskoye mythologemes’ introduction into the museums space.
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de Almeida, Fernanda Pinto. "Rabhia." Kronos 50, no. 1 (June 26, 2024): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2024/v50a7.
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The growing interest in Mozambican crime fiction since the early 2000's reflects a move to portray underexplored characters, stories and spaces of postcolonial life through the lens of the police procedural. This period has not only seen numerous debates in Mozambique surrounding the purported 'death' of Mozambican literature, but it has coincided with a significant literary shift towards the crime novel. Works such as Mia Couto's Under the Frangipani and Lília Momplé's Neighbours have drawn Anglophone readers and scholars into these conversations.1 Since then, Mozambican writers have continued to expand the boundaries of the crime novel in order to question the status of 'engaged' literature and to offer readers nuanced explorations of the genre alongside that of the country's social inheritances of colonialism, liberation struggle, civil war and ongoing armed conflict.
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Kovarek, Daniel. "Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary." Research & Politics 9, no. 3 (July 2022): 205316802211222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20531680221122279.
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Recent literature on friends-and-neighbors voting focused on explaining citizens’ motives behind supporting local candidates; the cue-based account suggests that local ties signal accountability, constituency service orientation, and policy representation. Localism was also posited to serve as a cue for distributive politics, but assumptions of voters making inferences about receiving tangible benefits once a politician from their own stock is elected were not corroborated empirically. Drawing on a survey experiment ( N = 2000) fielded in Hungary, the paper provides a test of pork barrel politics and clientelism serving as manifestations of behavioral localism; that is, if voters formulate expectations of politicians engaging in aforementioned practices based on their local roots. Respondents in treatment and control group were shown the same candidate profile, fictive politicians differing only in their local roots. Results demonstrate that respondents who were told that the candidate was born and living in their hometown were more likely to believe that the politician will “bring home the bacon” as opposed to those confronted with a randomly selected Hungarian settlement as the candidate’s birthplace and residence. Findings refine our understanding of friends-and-neighbors voting, as well as voters’ expectations about likely non-programmatic behavior of elected candidates.
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Coverley, Harris. "Pneumadectomy." After Dinner Conversation 3, no. 1 (2022): 75–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc2022318.
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What if there was absolute proof of the soul? Would you ever have yours removed? Would you be friends with someone who had had it removed? In this work of philosophical short fiction, science has definitively discovered that your soul resides in your appendix. Sometimes, when your appendix is having issues, it is for medical reasons. However, sometimes it is because your soul, residing in your appendix, is having issues. The solution in either case is the same, remove the organ. Rolly is a young boy, like all other young boys, who likes to play with is friends. However, his appendix was inflamed and had to be removed. Now, the other children call him “No Soul” and refuse to play with him. Feeling left out, he goes to a neighbor’s house to visit another friend Cioran. However, Cioran’s parents are far more religious and, when their child had appendix issues, they refused to have it removed as they didn’t want to remove his soul. Because his appendix was not removed Cioran, unlike Rolly, died.
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Hammond, David. "A Night Out." After Dinner Conversation 5, no. 7 (2024): 16–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20245767.
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What does it mean to have all your needs met? Can humans ever be kept at pets? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the narrator is the human pet of Tuva, a member of the super AI machine race that has taken over and run earth. The narrator has everything he could want. A wonderful home, an unlimited supplied of media to consume, and a loving (in their own way) owner. He does, however, get bored as there are rising concerns that humans, left on their own, are incapable of taking care of themselves. One night Tuva takes the narrator to a neighbor AI’s house on a play date to meet their human Annika. They have a wonderful dinner that leads to sexual intercourse. After having sex Annika reveals that the narrator has been “studded out” to her so she could have a child of her own to care for and to love. The narrator is offended when he finds out, because human emotions are to unpredictable” that he will not be given access to his child.
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Poloczek, Katarzyna. "Women’s Power To Be Loud: The Authority of the Discourse and Authority of the Text in Mary Dorcey’s Irish Lesbian Poetic Manifesto “Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear”." Text Matters, no. 1 (November 23, 2011): 153–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10231-011-0012-9.
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The following article aims to examine Mary Dorcey's poem "Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear," included in the 1991 volume Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers. Apart from being a well-known and critically acclaimed Irish poet and fiction writer, the author of the poem has been, from its beginnings, actively involved in lesbian rights movement. Dorcey's poem "Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear" is to be construed from a perspective of lesbian and feminist discourse, as well as a cultural, sociological and political context in which it was created. While analyzing the poem, the emphasis is being paid to the intertwining of various ideological and subversive assumptions (dominant and the implied ones), their competing for importance and asserting authority over one another, in line with, and sometimes, against the grain of the textual framework. In other words, Dorcey's poem introduces a multilayered framework that draws heavily on various sources: the popular culture idiom, religious discourse (the references to the Virgin Mary and the biblical annunciation imagery), the text even employs, in some parts, crime and legal jargon, but, above all, it relies upon sensuous lesbian experience where desire and respect for the other woman opens the emancipating space allowing for redefining of one's personal and textual location. As a result of such a multifarious interaction, unrepresented and unacknowledged Irish women's standpoints may come to the surface and become articulated, disrupting their enforced muteness that the controlling heteronormative discourse has attempted to ensure. In Dorcey's poem, the operating metaphor of women's silence (or rather—silencing women), conceived of, at first, as the need to conceal one's sexual (lesbian) identity in fear of social ostracism and contempt of the "neighbours," is further equated with the noiseless, solitary and violent death of the anonymous woman, the finding of whose body was reported on the news. In both cases, the unwanted Irish women's voices of either agony, during the unregistered by anybody misogynist bloodshed that took place inside the flat, or the forbidden sounds of lesbian sexual excitement, need to be (self) censored and stifled, not to disrupt an idealized image of the well-established family and heteronormative patterns. In the light of the aforementioned parallel, empowered by the shared bodily and emotional closeness with her female lover, and already bitterly aware that silence in discourse is synonymous with textual, or even, actual death, the speaker in "Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear" comes to claim her own agency and makes her voice heard by others and taken into account.
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Sulimma, Maria. "“I am not by any stretch a gardener, just curious”: Feminist Gentrifier Memoirs and an Ethics of Urban Gardening." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 14, no. 1 (April 28, 2023): 70–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2023.14.1.4876.
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Even though the texts that this article refers to as “feminist gentrifier memoirs” are not exclusively examples of garden writing, their feminist writers’ gardening practices feature prominently to explore their conflicted position in a gentrifying neighborhood and the networks of care that form out of neighborly interactions over the garden. Drawing on urban studies in the social sciences and humanities, literary studies, and environmental humanities, the article turns to Anne Elizabeth Moore’s Gentrifier (2021) and Vikki Warner’s Tenemental (2018) as prominent engagements with the complex emotions caused by their writers’ white privilege, homeownership, and complicity in processes of displacement and real estate speculation. These texts employ modes and affordances of garden writing, feminist memoir, urban memoir, and gentrification fiction. The article further considers the ways they are influenced by the activism of community gardening and benefit from sustainability measures of cities, including urban farms and gardens (summarized under the keywords green or environmental gentrification).
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Perrins, R., and A. Roberts. "Cholinergic and electrical motoneuron-to-motoneuron synapses contribute to on-cycle excitation during swimming in Xenopus embryos." Journal of Neurophysiology 73, no. 3 (March 1, 1995): 1005–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1995.73.3.1005.
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1. We have previously shown that Xenopus spinal motoneurons make both chemical and electrical synapses with neighboring motoneurons. Because motoneurons are active during swimming, these synapses would be expected to contribute excitation to their neighbors. The significance of central motoneuron to motoneuron synapses was therefore investigated by analyzing the composition of the fast on-cycle excitation underlying spiking activity during fictive swimming in spinal motoneurons. To accomplish this we developed a method for very local application of drugs around a caudal recorded neuron while still being able to evoke and record essentially unaltered fictive swimming rostrally. 2. Intracellular recordings were made from spinal motoneurons during fictive swimming. Bicuculline (40 microM) and strychnine (2 microM) were used continuously to block inhibitory potentials locally around the motoneurons. The amplitude and duration of the fast excitation underlying spiking activity was measured before and during local applications of excitatory antagonists. 3. The nicotinic antagonists d-tubocurarine (10 microM) and dihydro-beta-erythroidine (10 microM) reduced the amplitude of this excitation by approximately 20%. Nicotinic antagonists also reduced the duration of this fast on-cycle excitation. The kainate/alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) antagonist 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX, 10 microM) reduced the amplitude (by approximately 30%) but not the duration of the on-cycle excitation. In the presence of 100 microM Cd2+, which blocks all chemically mediated transmission, a considerable amount (50%) of on-cycle excitation remained. 4. These results suggest that 20% of the on-cycle excitation comes from activation of nicotinic receptors by naturally released acetylcholine (ACh), presumably from other motoneurons.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Kaufmann, Jeffrey, and Annie Philippe Rabodoarimiadana. "Making Kin of Historians and Anthropologists: Fictive Kinship in Fieldwork Methodology." History in Africa 30 (2003): 179–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s036154130000320x.
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In a way which is in no sense adventitious,the relationship between an anthropologist and hisinformant rests on a set of partial fictions half scen-through.[I]deally, communication between a fieldworkerand the communities he worked with should continue for longtime spans, so that it is possible to return for further information.Bebe (Malagasy for grandmother) arrived home in the late afternoon, holding a rope tied around the neck of a male goat. She had come from a market ten miles down the coast, away from the market at Androka Vaovao where the ethnographer had located his ethnographic research. Buying the goat at a different market was worth the effort to Bebe. She had avoided paying the white foreigners' price: the tripling or quadrupling of the locals' price charged tovazaba(white foreigner). The ethnographer was asked not to come along, not to make pointless the buying trip. Before she had left for market, he had given her money for the estimated price of a young mature goat. People in Androka would hear, eventually, of her purchase, which was fine to her. Going to a distant market indicated to her neighbors that she was not in the mood to be extorted with higher prices every time she bought something for her foreigner dependent “offspring.” Several months earlier, she had first referred to the ethnographer as her offspring,zanako, when he had given her a lump sum, a two-month advance, for room and board.
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Bould, Sally. "Caring Neighborhoods." Journal of Family Issues 24, no. 4 (May 2003): 427–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x02250830.
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This article examines the situation in 47 “caring neighborhoods,” which are defined as those in which the neighbors report working together in caring for the neighborhood children. These suburban neighborhoods are White and predominately middle class. Fictive kin are found in some of these neighborhoods, and in all of the neighborhoods a low value is placed on privacy. These neighborhoods challenge the stereotype of the isolated nuclear family of the suburbs but reinforce the model of the male-breadwinner family. In considering how families can connect over child-rearing tasks and move beyond the male-breadwinner family, it is seen that the problem lies not in the suburban housing structure but in the condition of neighborhood mothers, who have to stay at home with pre-school-age children. This research suggests that to have the appropriate neighborhoods available to families, intentional neighborhoods will have to be built with an emphasis on gender equity.
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McKervey, Henrietta. "Lost in the Familiar." Irish University Review 54, no. 1 (May 2024): 116–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2024.0654.
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This essay opens with a creative response to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s short story ‘The Shortcut through IKEA’ and continues with a reader’s appreciation of her 2012 short story collection The Shelter of Neighbours. Consisting of fourteen stories, the collection is set in the fictional south county Dublin estate of Dunroon Crescent. Each story draws, in one way or another, on the Irish proverb ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine (‘people live in one another's shelter’). Dunroon Crescent is a community in proximity, where connections have either been forged or exist solely because of geography. The estate’s inhabitants are detached from themselves and each other but their lives also overlap and intersect, illuminated by the light of their pasts, by remembered loss and the legacies of earlier choices.
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Svahn, Elin. "Looking sideways." STRIDON: Studies in Translation and Interpreting 3, no. 2 (November 30, 2023): 51–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/stridon.3.2.51-81.
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This article presents an overview of contemporary bibliomigrancy patterns of translated fiction from the province of Quebec to Sweden, between 2000 and 2020. Quebec and Sweden offer an interesting comparison, since French is considered a central language but the province of Quebec occupies a peripheral position in comparison with its Anglophone neighbours, whereas Swedish is considered a semi-peripheral language but Sweden occupies a central position in the Scandinavian subsystem. Drawing on theories on bibliomigrancy and polysystem, the article investigates 26 titles from the point of view of external translation history, focusing on the following questions: What was translated? When was it translated? Where was it translated? Who translated it? Why was it translated? The analysis shows that different genres, notably novels, picture books, and graphic novels, have been translated into Swedish during the investigated time frame, with different patterns regarding factors such as publication interval, translators, and translation subsidies. The increasing tendency of Quebecois titles appearing in Swedish follows the increasing trend of French as a source language in Sweden’s literary market, in contrast to the more even pace of translated literature into Swedish more generally. The results further suggest that a region’s language may have a more significant influence than its geopolitical position in the international market of translations.
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Tolan, Fiona. "The Politics of Cleaning in Doris Lessing’s 1980s Realist Fiction: The Diary of a Good Neighbour (1983) and The Good Terrorist (1985)." Critical Quarterly 63, no. 1 (April 2021): 82–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/criq.12599.
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Van Vleet, Bryce, Emily Kinkade, Heather Fuller, and Andrea Huseth-Zosel. "LACKING FAMILY TIES DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC: OLDER ADULTS CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (November 1, 2022): 829. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2977.
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Abstract Social support from family provided benefits for coping during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, not all older adults had access to family. The present study investigates how older adults without access to traditional family ties conceptualized their social relationships throughout the first two years of the pandemic. A subsample of eight older adults without direct access to traditional family ties were identified from a larger 5-wave interview study conducted between April 2020 and June 2022. Transcripts were holistically coded and three overarching themes emerged: constraints of place, redefining family, and feelings of isolation and closeness. The first theme addressed having family members living far away and uncertainty of when they would get to see them again. However, these distance barriers could be overcome through technology. The second theme illuminated that during the pandemic, those without access to traditional family ties redefined their social relationships by developing fictive kin from neighbors, colleagues, and friends. The third theme highlighted that some older adults felt they were lacking strong social networks and were concerned they had nobody to contact if they needed help, while others felt that despite limitations, their social relationships grew closer due to connection through alternative forms of communication (e.g. texting). Results from this study clarify how traditional family ties were challenged and strengthened during physical distancing for some older adults. These findings extend the literature on how fictive kin forms in older adulthood during temporary crises and suggests potential avenues for social connection for older adults lacking traditional family support.
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Horetska, Olha. "Problems of Education of Mountain Children in Olena Tsehelska’s Literary Works." Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University 1, no. 2-3 (December 22, 2014): 69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.15330/jpnu.1.2-3.69-74.
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The article analyzes the literary works of a teacher, children’s writer, public figure ofWestern Ukraine – Olena Tsehelska. It aims to study the system of national-patriotic, moral,religious, labor upbringing of mountain children at the end of XIX – the first third of the XXcenturies. It was at this time when revived searches for a new curriculum, new methods and formsof education, laying the foundations of the national-patriotic, civic education of Ukrainian youth.The author stresses that one of the important factors of national education of youth has alwaysbeen fiction, particularly national bulleted text, which are literary works written by OelenaTsehelska. In fairy tales, short stories, novels the writer finds out about these family values thathave traditionally been famous for residents of mountainous terrain, as a community of spiritualinterests, harmony of relationships between representatives of different generations, caring forparents and elderly people in the family, respect for ancestors, family harmony, respect for folktraditions, faith in God that helped to survive in difficult circumstances of war periods, forcedrelocation to a foreign country. Little heroes from works of Oelena Tsehelska possess such traits ascivic consciousness, patriotism, devotion to the interests of the people, the capacity for selfsacrifice, compassion for the poor, love of neighbor. Works written be this writer is an importantfactor in the preservation of folk traditions, enriching current young generation with them whatbecomes important in the development of civil society in Ukraine .
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McFarland, Henry. "Step Back." After Dinner Conversation 2, no. 6 (2021): 11–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20212651.
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Is natural always the best choice? Should humans should step in and usurp nature? Are there uniquely human experiences that should take place, even if it means greater risk? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, Beth and Bob are expecting a baby. However, in this future, womb carried babies have been almost entirely replaced by the far safer “womb farms.” Beth has already decided she wants to have a natural pregnancy and carry the baby to term herself. She is shunned by others who see it as dangerous and selfish. Their neighbor, Sandy is the daughter of a Neo-Shaker family who used science to have their daughter born neuter, that is to say, without sexual organs or gender. Sex, they argue, is no longer necessary and sinful as procreation can now be handled without sex. Sandy self-identifies as female and intends to undergo a dangerous and painful procedure to add female sexual organs to her body. Beth dies during childbirth, but her baby survives. Bob and Sandy continue their friendship, and, overtime, start to fall in love. Sandy is finally scheduled for the operation, but Bob tries to talk her out of it. He has lost too many loved ones already. Sandy insists she must be made the gender to match her mental state and does the procedure.
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Nida Ansari. "Predicament of a Woman in Manju Kapur’s Home." Creative Launcher 4, no. 6 (February 29, 2020): 12–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2020.4.6.02.
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Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. She was born on 25th October 1948. She is an archetypal representative of the postcolonial women novelists. She was a professor of English Literature at her alma mater at Miranda House College, Delhi. But she is retired from there. She joined the growing number of Indian women novelists, who have contributed to the progression of Indian fiction i.e. Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Kamla Das, Geetha Hariharan, Anita Nair, Shobha De. Her novels reflect the position of women in the patriarchal society and the problems of women for their longing struggle in establishing their identity as an autonomous being. Her works not only gives voice to the society’s effort to improve its women population but it is for every woman’s self–consciousness in order to improve the society. She has written five novels, Difficult Daughters (1998), A Married Woman (2002), Home (2006), The Immigrant (2008), and Custody (2011). Kapur’s most memorable female characters are Virmati, Astha, Nisha, Nina, Shagun and so many others. All of them strive to assert themselves. These characters give us a rare glimpse of modernized Indian women who are in their aggression may enter into a scandalous relationship with her married neighbor, the professor or develop lesbian relationship as Virmati does in Difficult Daughters and Astha in A Married Woman. But Nisha in Home is different from her predecessors.
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Dobravec, Jurij. "Laudato si' na poti v katoliški princip eko-dia-loga." Res novae: revija za celovito znanost 1, no. 1 (2016): 50–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.62983/rn2865.16.c.
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Life as a biological process and Earth phenomenon represents inseparable interrelation among human beings and other nature. Therefore, resolving cracks award during recent environmental and social crisis is to be more successful by dealing with relations as by treating opposite clients like nature features on one side and human species on another. In Laudato si', Pope Francis is calling for a turn of human inner attitude into a deeper dialogue with nature and human neighbours. Many ecologists and philosophers recognized similar ideas, of those some are shortly presented here. Pope Francis is – likely unintentionally – summarizing and upgrading their thoughts and brings them to the broader audience in the form of universal ecology, which is rooted in the Christian tradition and supported by his authority. We will show how such ideas – tightly connected with natural processes and rhythms – extent fictive reconciliations about awareness of nature into a practical dialogue between humans and nature, without losing inherent characteristics of every involved participant.