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Bogoderova, A. A. "Temporary marriage as Russian literary pattern in the 19th – early 20th century." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 3 (2020): 92–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/72/7.

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The paper deals with the subject of temporary marriage between Russian sailors and Japanese women in fictional and non-fictional literature. The literary pattern of temporary marriage includes time limitation of the marriage, the language or/and cultural barrier and the man’s leaving at the end. The time limitation sometimes makes one or both spouses consider this marriage as legal, but “not true.” There are two main variants of the pattern in Russian travel notes of the 19th − early 20th century. The first is the positive one (A. Krasnov, D. Schreider, and N. Bartoshewsky). Both husband and w

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Mekathoti, Dr Hemanth Kumar, and Dr Narasinga Rao Barnikana. "Marriage is a Mirage." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 11 (2020): 35–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i11.10832.

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Indian female writers attempt to depict the problems of women in the modern society dominated by male chauvinism and in rural India in particular, touching the feministic sensibilities. These female writers handle astonishing variety of themes. Among the women modern writers of fiction Kavery Nambisan occupies a unique place for more than one reason.She has begun her literary career by writing numerous children’s books. Female characters in her novels truly feel that love and marriage are not mere accidents but it is a trap and a cage where emotional stress haunts them through lack of care, bo

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Gillis, John R. "“A Triumph of Hope over Experience”: Chance and Choice in the History of Marriage." International Review of Social History 44, no. 1 (1999): 47–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002085909900036x.

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When Dr Johnson made his famous eighteenth-century remark about second marriages being a triumph of hope over experience, his wit could easily have been directed toward the unions that Steven King has illuminated. It is never entirely clear why people marry or choose to marry the people they do, a situation that is as frustrating to historians as to friends and family. Marriage remains one of life's great mysteries, perhaps the last great mystery left to us. It fascinates and absorbs us, providing an inexhaustible audience for daytime soap operas and evening situation comedies. Romance novels

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Kumari, Dr. Lakshmi. "Exploring Gender Dynamics in Buchi Emecheta's Fiction Second Class Citizen: A Feminist Literary Analysis." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research 6, no. 21 (2025): 50–54. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15254659.

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<strong>Abstract:</strong> This paper's main objective is to investigate how geography and identity interact in current migration narratives found in contemporary African literature. The fight for autonomy, identity and self-definition is portrayed by African female authors. By creating new subjectivities that specify their positionality inside the metropole, writers transcend restricted patriarchal and hegemonic contexts. Buchi Emecheta writes about her encounters with the diaspora and the complex oppressive systems that impede her from achieving her goals. These systems include racism, class

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Nuckolls, Charles W. "Making the World Safe for Patriarchy: Trump and the Zombie Apocalypse." Ethnologia Actualis 20, no. 2 (2020): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eas-2021-0009.

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Abstract Both Donald Trump in the White House and zombies in American fiction, movie, and television serials, highlight changes in American social structures, especially marriage and childbirth. Instead of a critique of such structures, however, the zombie genre largely reinforces traditional norms. To be sure, Trump himself is not a zombie, although his followers are often represented the living dead in American political cartoons. What is the connection between the two? In the first place, zombie fiction can be viewed as culturally conservative in orientation, because of its emphasis (whethe

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Zekri Masson, Souhir. "Marina Warner’s Inventory of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir. From Memoir to Filiation Narrative." European Journal of Life Writing 13 (March 25, 2024): 28–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.13.40272.

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Marina Warner’s Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir (2021) is her second work belonging to the genre of life writing, more particularly the memoir. She had already written a biography, The Dragon Empress: The Life and Times of Tz’u-Hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1980, about a Chinese empress in 1972, but her memoir is more personal, rather focused on her parents’ marriage, life itineraries and travels through Italy, England and Egypt during and after WWII. Interestingly, many characteristics of her memoir fit with another life writing genre, identified by the French theorist

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Zubair, Hassan Bin, and Nighat Ahmed. "Exploring Bicultural Ambivalence in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake: Representational Diasporic Identities in Indian Anglophone Fiction." International Journal of English Linguistics 8, no. 6 (2018): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n6p98.

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This paper explores the cultural ambivalence and bicultural identity issues in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. This Indian Anglophone novel carries different diasporic sensibilities. Issues of marriage and culture are very prominent with the importance of family relationships in the context of immigrant feelings and loss of identity. Unconditional love and acceptance of family relations emerge victorious at the end of the narrative. The writer shares the second generation migrant experience since they were born to parents who immigrated and settled to United States. While migrants from some of t

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OUFI, Noha Jaafar. "WOMAN IN THE NOVELS OF TALEB ALREFAI (A STUDY IN THE TEXT SOCIOLOGY)." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 04, no. 02 (2022): 105–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.16.8.

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The woman transferred from a passive in the poetry world to an active entity in the novel's ‎world which put her under the concern facing trouble and the society suffers that she has as ‎a doubter, wife, and a sweetheart, the novel lance targeted her from the first beginning of ‎this art, Al-Refaee is and of those who wrote about her to talk on the behalf of her tongue in ‎most of his novel works.‎ The reader of those novels find that it is built of three pillars:‎ First: the case of the divorce and the divorced woman in the Arab society.‎ Second: Educated woman and the failure marriage relati

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Shehata, Abdel kareem. "The Unemployed Main Character in the Fiction of Kunut Hamsun and Najeeb Mahfouz: A Comparative Study in the Light of Sustainable Development." International Journal of Literature Studies 1, no. 1 (2021): 62–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijts.2021.1.1.8.

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The Norwegian novelist Kunut Hamsun published his novel Hunger in 1921. The novel was translated into English by George Egerton. In this novel, Hamsun introduces the character of Andereas Tangen, a journalist who has a good life but starts to lose his living, and his essays begin to be refused. He becomes unemployed and suffers poverty, hunger, and homelessness for some time. By the end of the novel, he finds a job on a ship that is sailing from his town Christiania to fetch coal. During the 1930s the Egyptian novelist and short story writer Nageeb Mahfouz wrote his collection of short stories

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Apriliyanti, Bunga, Kamaluddin Abunawas, Muhsin Ahmad, and Aprilia Kastang. "Analysis of Genetic Structuralism in the Novel Alf Syams Musyriqah by Khaled Hosseini." International Journal of Religion Education and Law 4, no. 1 (2025): 19–32. https://doi.org/10.57235/ijrael.v4i1.4436.

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This research presents four problem formulation items, namely: First, what is the structure of the novel Alf Syams Musyriqah? Second, what are the social facts in Alf Syams Musyriqah's novel? Third, what is the collective subject in Alf Syams Musyriqah's novel? Fourth, what is Khaled Hosseini's world view in Alf Syams' novel Musyriqah? This type of research is library research. The approach used is a literary sociology approach using the theory of genetic structuralism as an analytical tool. The data collection method used in this research is literature study. The data analysis technique used

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Jaleel, Eman Mahir. "Resistance/Complicity in Women’s Subordination to Patriarchal Powers in The Sand Fish." Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities 28, no. 11 (2021): 49–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jtuh.28.11.2021.23.

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One of the objectives of feminism in the academia is to expose, in creative and critical resistance literature, various facets of men’s justification for the subordination of women. Resistance literature is growing as a massive body of work in the Arab region too, especially the creative and critical works by Arab women writers, and Maha Gargash’s contribution to it is commendable. The present paper examines the nature of struggle the protagonist, Noora, in Gargash’s novel The Sand Fish launches against patriarchal forces to combat her oppression. An analysis of the fictional character Noora r

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Wilt, Judith. "SHIRLEY: REFLECTIONS ON MARRYING MOORES." Victorian Literature and Culture 30, no. 1 (2002): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150302301013.

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“‘The Omnipresent,’ said a Rabbi, ‘is occupied in making marriages.’ The levity of the saying lies in the ear of him who hears it, for by making marriages the speaker meant all the wondrous combinations of the universe whose issue makes our good and evil.” 1— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda“Sir, your god, your great Bel, your fish-tailed Dagon, rises before me as a demon . . . Behold how hideously he governs! See him busied at the work he likes best — making marriages. He binds the young to the old, the strong to the imbecile. He stretches out the arm of Mezentius, and fetters the dead to the liv

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Opeyemi, Ajibola. "When it no longer matters whom you love: the politics of love and identity in Nigerian migrant fiction." Inkanyiso 13, no. 1 (2021): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ink.v13i1.13.

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A number of creative texts by Nigerian migrant writers recreate migrant characters’ experiences of love, intimacy and connected identity politics in the diaspora. However, there is a paucity of scholarly engagements with Nigerian migrant writers’ representation of the complexities that attend the formation and reconfiguration of migrant characters’ identity and love relationships outside the motherland. This study, therefore, examines the intersection of love, place and identity in three purposively selected texts – Segun Afolabi’s Goodbye Lucille, Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah and Unoma Azu

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Chakraborty, Sanchayita Paul, and Dhritiman Chakraborty. "Bengali Women’s Writings in the Colonial Period: Critique of Nation, Narration, and Patriarchy." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 66, no. 1 (2018): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2018-0004.

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Abstract Critical engagements like the first autobiography written by a Bengali woman, Rasasundari Devi, and the non-fictions by Kailashbasini Devi, Krishnabhabini Das, and other women writers in the second half of the nineteenth century contested the imagined idealization of the Hindu domesticity and conjugality as spaces of loveableness and spiritual commitment. They criticized coercion in child-marriages and the forceful injunctions of the Hindu scriptures on both married and widowed women. Such rhetoric of quasi empowerment needs to be disaggregated to perpetuate issues of ‘double coloniza

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Britton, Jeanne M. "Theorizing Character in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda." Nineteenth-Century Literature 67, no. 4 (2013): 433–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2013.67.4.433.

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Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801) demands to be read through the dual meanings of “character”—the literary persona and the moral sense. Through performances of literary character that work to reveal moral character, Edgeworth generates a theory of novelistic character that is shaped by impersonation and interiority. Often considered an unfortunate episode in an otherwise sophisticated novel, Edgeworth’s incorporation of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie (1788) in Belinda is in fact central to the novel’s consideration of character. Edgeworth’s meditation on character illuminates a nu

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Olkhovych-Novosadiuk, M. M. "VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT «JOY» IN THE UKRAINIAN WORLDVIEW:BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF FICTIONAL PROSE." Opera in linguistica ukrainiana, no. 28 (September 28, 2021): 248–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2414-0627.2021.28.235549.

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JOY is considered to be one of the basic human emotions and key concepts in culture. The study of emotional concepts is complex as it combines psychological, cognitive, linguistic and ethnocultural fields. The study of concepts is valuable because it enables us not only to identify the culturally specific worldview of a certain lingual-cultural community and single out its national and cultural peculiarities, but also understand the word as a lexical unit in the context of culture, cognition, and communication. The article is dedicated to the research of the emotional concept JOY, its structur

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Sinyakova, Lyudmila N. "НОME Topos and Associated Motifs in A. P. Chekhov’s Prose of 1890s: Humility, Escape, Departure". Philology 19, № 9 (2020): 102–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2020-19-9-102-113.

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Purpose: The article examines the topos of HOME and following motifs A. P. Chekhov’s late prose. Results: The 1st story, A Woman’s Kingdom, portrays a rich young woman who is bored with her eventless everyday life. Being clever and open-hearted, Anna Akimovna searches for human values, such as empathetic communication, loving family, etc. The fictive time is Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, so genre tradition of Christmas narratives involves miracles connected with status changes (marriage, family reunification, poor relative gets award or gift from their rich uncle, an orphan finds their pare

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Sinyakova, Lyudmila N. "НОME Topos and Associated Motifs in A. P. Chekhov’s Prose of 1890s: Humility, Escape, Departure". Philology 19, № 9 (2020): 102–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2020-19-9-102-113.

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Purpose: The article examines the topos of HOME and following motifs A. P. Chekhov’s late prose. Results: The 1st story, A Woman’s Kingdom, portrays a rich young woman who is bored with her eventless everyday life. Being clever and open-hearted, Anna Akimovna searches for human values, such as empathetic communication, loving family, etc. The fictive time is Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, so genre tradition of Christmas narratives involves miracles connected with status changes (marriage, family reunification, poor relative gets award or gift from their rich uncle, an orphan finds their pare

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Brassard, Genevieve. "“Not the mother type”: Exploding the Myth of Maternal Devotion in Marghanita Laski's To Bed with Grand Music." Literature & History, November 24, 2022, 030619732211392. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03061973221139264.

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Second World War propaganda targeted women in conflicting ways, expecting them to contribute to the war effort while also upholding an idealized view of motherhood as essential to women's identities. This essay examines a fictional challenge to the wartime myth of maternal devotion, Marghanita Laski's To Bed with Grand Music (1946), in dialogue with historical discourse and documents, to argue for the power of fiction to highlight and challenge expectations surrounding women's private lives in times of national crisis. Laski dissects her protagonist's conflicted motivations and exposes her man

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Chakrabarty, Bandana. "Topography of Loss: Homeland, History and Memory in Sorayya Khanâ€™s Fiction." Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 11, no. 1 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v11i1.963.

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The paper explores the interplay of memory and history in the three novels of Sorayya Khan â€“ Noor (2003), Five Queenâ€™s Road (2009) and City of Spies (2015). In each of these novels, the writer explores the violence of history. In the first novel it is the liberation war of Bangladesh, in the second, the partition of India and in the third, it is the international control over Pakistan, in this case, the American presence. Not necessarily concerned with chronological histories she centre-stages individual actions and the causes and effects behind them. Based in the States, Khan is born of a

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Solanki, Naresh M. "DEPICTION OF WOMEN IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN AND BRITISH FICTION." Towards Excellence, March 31, 2021, 686–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.37867/te130159.

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It was time of nineteenth century when women writers used to have male pennames for publication. Theme of marriage and society were prevalent in both American and British society. It was a microcosm of its own as women readers used to write about their life through the eyes of women writers. This phenomenon is historical as it stands between Mary Wollstonecraft, arguably the first feminist thinker and Virginia Woolf, arguably the most famous one. Changing times in the second half of nineteenth century was affecting the sensibility and religious clutches on society. It was also affecting notion

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Kuismin, Anna. "Palava rakkaus ja öljy pumpulissa." Sananjalka 64, no. 64 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.30673/sja.119791.

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Artikkelissa analysoidaan kansanihmisten rakkaus- ja kosintakirjeiden representaatioita fiktiivisissä teksteissä, jotka ajoittuvat 1880-luvulta 1900-luvun ensimmäiselle vuosikymmenelle. Taustalla on New Literacy Studies -tutkimussuunta, jonka piirissä tekstejä tarkastellaan käytäntöinä. Käytännöt vaihtelevat tilanteittain ja tekstilajeittain, ja teksteihin liittyvät ihanteet, normit ja arvostukset ovat erilaisia eri yhteisöissä ja eri kulttuureissa. Kirjetaitoihin kuuluvat kirjekonventioiden hallitseminen sekä kirjeen sisältöön ja asioiden esittämistapoihin liittyvät käytänteet. Artikkelin toi

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ÖZSOY, Tuğçe. "BUCHI EMECHETA’NIN İKİNCİ SINIF VATANDAŞ ADLI ROMANINDA, ADAH’NIN ÜZERİNDEKİ ATAERKİL, IRKCI, SOSYAL BASKI VE ADAH’NIN EĞİTİM VE YAZI YAZMA SAYESİNDE ÖZGÜRLEŞMESİ." Africania, March 24, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.58851/africania.1179670.

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Buchi Emecheta is a prominent Nigerian writer in African feminist literature. In Buchi Emecheta’s novel Second Class Citizen (1994), the protagonist Adah suffers from tripple oppression. Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen (1994) puts emphasis on the concerns of racism, gender, sexism, marriage, bride price, polygamy, women’s obligation to bear male children, education, financial freedom, and writing fiction, as well as class oppression. In her opinion, subalternation and oppression of African women should be put an end. Buchi Emecheta analyzes the gender, class, and race intersectionality in her

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Harris, Sandy, Sandra Lowery, and Michael Arnold. "When Women Educators are Commuters in Commuter Marriages." Advancing Women in Leadership Journal 10 (June 12, 2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.21423/awlj-v10.a150.

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"How difficult for [women], then, to achieve a balance in the midst of thesecontradictory tensions, and yet how necessary for the proper functioning of ourlives." (Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gifts from the Sea in Exley, 1996).She put down the telephone and shouted with glee! The dream job she had alwayswanted was hers. Just 40, with a new Ph.D. degree hanging on her wall, she wasnow officially a university professor. The new job was located 3 l/2 hours away fromher home and she and her husband who owned a small business had alreadydiscussed how she would rent a small apartment and work there four

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Levine, Michael, and William Taylor. "The Upside of Down: Disaster and the Imagination 50 Years On." M/C Journal 16, no. 1 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.586.

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IntroductionIt has been nearly half a century since the appearance of Susan Sontag’s landmark essay “The Imagination of Disaster.” The critic wrote of the public fascination with science fiction disaster films, claiming that, on the one hand “from a psychological point of view, the imagination of disaster does not greatly differ from one period in history to another [but, on the other hand] from a political and moral point of view, it does” (224). Even if Sontag is right about aspects of the imagination of disaster not changing, the types, frequency, and magnitude of disasters and their repres

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Heise, Franka. ""I’m a Modern Bride": On the Relationship between Marital Hegemony, Bridal Fictions, and Postfeminism." M/C Journal 15, no. 6 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.573.

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Introduction This article aims to explore some of the ideological discourses that reinforce marriage as a central social and cultural institution in US-American society. Andrew Cherlin argues that despite social secularisation, rising divorce rates and the emergence of other, alternative forms of love and living, marriage “remains the most highly valued form of family life in American culture, the most prestigious way to live your life” (9). Indeed, marriage in the US has become an ideological and political battlefield, with charged debates about who is entitled to this form of state-sanctione

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Burns, Belinda. "Untold Tales of the Intra-Suburban Female." M/C Journal 14, no. 4 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.398.

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Australian suburbia, historically and culturally, has been viewed as a feminised domain, associated with the domestic and family, routine and order. Where “the city is coded as a masculine and disorderly space… suburbia, as a realm of domesticity and the family, is coded as a feminine and disciplinary space” (Wilson 46). This article argues how the treatment of suburbia in fiction as “feminine” has impacted not only on the representation and development of the character of the “suburban female”, but also on the shape and form of her narrative journeys. Suburbia’s subordination as domestic and

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S.Nandhini and Dr.A.Kayalvizhi2. "Subjugation to Celebration in the select novels of Shoba De and Shashi Deshpande." November 10, 2022. https://doi.org/10.36993/RJOE.2022.7.4.02.

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Indian fiction in English has been enhanced by a few proficient women writers, including Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Nayanatara Sahyagal, Attain Hosain, Santharamarau, Shashi Deshpande, and Shobha De. They encompass a women's point of view on society. They have illustrated Indian women, their battle, their misery, and their awkward position, keeping in view their picture and job, which the general public has made. Their central devotion comprises investigating the ethical quality of women characters and their battle with difficulties in making their personalities. Since the start of ci

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Žmuida, Eugenijus. "Literature in the Face of War: ‘Not Our’, ‘Our’, and ‘Everyone’s’ War." Lituanistica 69, no. 1 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.6001/lituanistica.2023.69.1.3.

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Through literary analysis, comparative and memory studies, the article focuses on the works of Lithuanian fiction on the theme of the Great War (1914–1918), which became a prerequisite for the establishment of the Lithuanian nationstate. The aim of the article was to show different attitudes towards the war, convey the develop ment of collective consciousness, and present a summary assessment of the war as a spiritual shock and a global event of memory. The works selected for analysis be long to the contemporaries of the Great War: the classics of Lithuanian literature who stand out for the

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Shiloh, Ilana. "A Vision of Complex Symmetry." M/C Journal 10, no. 3 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2674.

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   The labyrinth is probably the most universal trope of complexity. Deriving from pre-Greek labyrinthos, a word denoting “maze, large building with intricate underground passages”, and possibly related to Lydian labrys, which signifies “double-edged axe,” symbol of royal power, the notion of the labyrinth primarily evokes the Minoan Palace in Crete and the myth of the Minotaur. According to this myth, the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, was born to Pesiphae, king Minos’s wife, who mated with a bull when the king of Crete was besieging Athen

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Chen, Jasmine Yu-Hsing. "Beyond Words." M/C Journal 27, no. 2 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3033.

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Introduction Despite the expansive and multimodal realm of Chinese Boys’ Love (BL) culture (also known as danmei in Chinese), audio works have been notably absent from scholarly discussions, with the focus predominantly being on novels (e.g. Bai; Zhang). This article aims to fill this gap by delving into the transformative impact of sound on narrative engagement within the Chinese BL culture. Focussing on the audio drama adaptations of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (modao zushi, hereafter Grandmaster), originally a serialised Chinese BL novel, this analysis aims to unravel the meticulousl

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Higley, Sarah L. "Audience, Uglossia, and CONLANG." M/C Journal 3, no. 1 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1827.

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Could we also imagine a language in which a person could write down or give vocal expression to his inner experiences -- his feelings, moods, and the rest -- for his private use? Well, can't we do so in our ordinary language? -- But that is not what I mean. The individual words of this language are to refer to what can only be known to the person speaking; to his immediate private sensations. So another person cannot understand the language. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations par. 243 I will be using 'audience' in two ways in the following essay: as a phenomenon that produces

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Letherby, Gayle. "Mixed Messages." M/C Journal 18, no. 3 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.972.

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You look great.You look amazing.I didn’t recognise you.You are looking 10 years younger.Just how much weight have you lost? It really shows.Isn’t Gayle looking great?Have you done it just through diet and exercise, [or surgery]?Have you lost some more since I last saw you?You don’t want to look scrawny.You are not planning to lose any more are you?Have you seen Gayle doesn’t she look drawn?Of course you are still much heavier than the NHS recommendation. Thinking and Writing about Fat… Since the beginning of my academic career I have written auto/biographically. Like others I believe that in i

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Sheu, Chingshun J. "Forced Excursion: Walking as Disability in Joshua Ferris’s The Unnamed." M/C Journal 21, no. 4 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1403.

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Introduction: Conceptualizing DisabilityThe two most prominent models for understanding disability are the medical model and the social model (“Disability”). The medical model locates disability in the person and emphasises the possibility of a cure, reinforcing the idea that disability is the fault of the disabled person, their body, their genes, and/or their upbringing. The social model, formulated as a response to the medical model, presents disability as a failure of the surrounding environment to accommodate differently abled bodies and minds. Closely linked to identity politics, the soci

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Burns, Alex. "'This Machine Is Obsolete'." M/C Journal 2, no. 8 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1805.

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'He did what the cipher could not, he rescued himself.' -- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (23) On many levels, the new Nine Inch Nails album The Fragile is a gritty meditation about different types of End: the eternal relationship cycle of 'fragility, tension, ordeal, fragmentation' (adapted, with apologies to Wilhelm Reich); fin-de-siècle anxiety; post-millennium foreboding; a spectre of the alien discontinuity that heralds an on-rushing future vastly different from the one envisaged by Enlightenment Project architects. In retrospect, it's easy for this perspective to be dismissed as

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Nile, Richard. "Post Memory Violence." M/C Journal 23, no. 2 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1613.

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Hundreds of thousands of Australian children were born in the shadow of the Great War, fathered by men who had enlisted between 1914 and 1918. Their lives could be and often were hard and unhappy, as Anzac historian Alistair Thomson observed of his father’s childhood in the 1920s and 1930s. David Thomson was son of a returned serviceman Hector Thomson who spent much of his adult life in and out of repatriation hospitals (257-259) and whose memory was subsequently expunged from Thomson family stories (299-267). These children of trauma fit within a pattern suggested by Marianne Hirsch in her in

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Thompson, Jay Daniel, and Erin Reardon. "“Mommy Killed Him”: Gender, Family, and History in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)." M/C Journal 20, no. 5 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1281.

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Introduction Nancy Thompson (Heather Langekamp) is one angry teenager. She’s just discovered that her mother Marge (Ronee Blakley) knows about Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), the strange man with the burnt flesh and the switchblade fingers who’s been killing her friends in their dreams. Marge insists that there’s nothing to worry about. “He’s dead, honey,” Marge assures her daughter, “because mommy killed him.” This now-famous line neatly encapsulates the gender politics of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). We argue that in order to fully understand how gender operates in Nightma

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Hawkins, Katharine. "Monsters in the Attic: Women’s Rage and the Gothic." M/C Journal 22, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1499.

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The Gothic is not always suited to women’s emancipation, but it is very well suited to women’s anger, and all other instances of what Barbara Creed (3) would refer to as ‘abject’ femininity: excessive, uncanny and uncontained instances that disturb patriarchal norms of womanhood. This article asserts that the conventions of the Gothic genre are well suited to expressions of women’s rage; invoking Sarah Ahmed’s work on the discomforting presence of the kill-joy in order to explore how the often-alienating processes of uncensored female anger coincide with contemporary notions of the Monstrous F

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Cantrell, Kate Elizabeth. "Ladies on the Loose: Contemporary Female Travel as a "Promiscuous" Excursion." M/C Journal 14, no. 3 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.375.

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In Victorian times, when female travel narratives were read as excursions rather than expeditions, it was common for women authors to preface their travels with an apology. “What this book wants,” begins Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa, “is not a simple preface but an apology, and a very brilliant and convincing one at that” (4). This tendency of the woman writer to depreciate her travel with an acknowledgment of its presumptuousness crafted her apology essentially as an admission of guilt. “Where I have offered my opinions,” Isabella Bird writes in The Englishwoman in America, “I have

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Coull, Kim. "Secret Fatalities and Liminalities: Translating the Pre-Verbal Trauma and Cellular Memory of Late Discovery Adoptee Illegitimacy." M/C Journal 17, no. 5 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.892.

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I was born illegitimate. Born on an existential precipice. My unwed mother was 36 years old when she relinquished me. I was the fourth baby she was required to give away. After I emerged blood stained and blue tinged – abject, liminal – not only did the nurses refuse me my mother’s touch, I also lost the sound of her voice. Her smell. Her heart beat. Her taste. Her gaze. The silence was multi-sensory. When they told her I was dead, I also lost, within her memory and imagination, my life. I was adopted soon after but not told for over four decades. It was too shameful for even me to know. Impri

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Murphy, Ffion, and Richard Nile. "The Many Transformations of Albert Facey." M/C Journal 19, no. 4 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1132.

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In the last months of his life, 86-year-old Albert Facey became a best-selling author and revered cultural figure following the publication of his autobiography, A Fortunate Life. Released on Anzac Day 1981, it was praised for its “plain, unembellished, utterly sincere and un-self-pitying account of the privations of childhood and youth” (Semmler) and “extremely powerful description of Gallipoli” (Dutton 16). Within weeks, critic Nancy Keesing declared it an “Enduring Classic.” Within six months, it was announced as the winner of two prestigious non-fiction awards, with judges acknowledging Fa

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Bartlett, Alison. "Business Suit, Briefcase, and Handkerchief: The Material Culture of Retro Masculinity in The Intern." M/C Journal 19, no. 1 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1057.

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IntroductionIn Nancy Meyers’s 2015 film The Intern a particular kind of masculinity is celebrated through the material accoutrements of Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro). A retired 70-year-old manager, Ben takes up a position as a “senior” Intern in an online clothing distribution company run by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway). Jules’s company, All About Fit, is the embodiment of the Gen Y creative workplace operating in an old Brooklyn warehouse. Ben’s presence in this environment is anachronistic and yet also stylishly retro in an industry where “vintage” is a mode of dress but also offers alternat

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