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Creolizing Carmen: Reading Performance in Maria Antonia, Cuba's Overlooked Carmen Adaptation

submitted by imko94 1 day ago

The story of Carmen (Mérimée 1845, Bizet 1875), the (in)famous Gypsy from Spain, is the second most adapted narrative in the history of world cinema with more than eighty global versi...

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Tongue Twisters: The Travelogue Videos of Ming-Yuen S. Ma

submitted by eyoda86 1 day ago

Asian diasporic identities exist in a complicated tension with Asian nationalist identity formations, simultaneously affirming and disavowing the nation-state as constitutive of identity. Video mak...

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The Polysemy of Looking: Reading Ekphrasis alongside Images in Calvino's Castle of Crossed Destinies and Vargas Llosa's In Praise of the Stepmother

submitted by cindymitch84 4 days ago

Ekphrastic texts are usually published separately from the visual representations they re-represent. The relation between the text and the image is one of substitution: the text replaces the image....

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Fulvae Harenae: The Reception of an Intertextual Complex in Dante's Inferno

submitted by pfliig1r 12 days ago

This article highlights-to my knowledge, for the first time-a series of imitative practices and intertextual relationships linking Dante's most beloved classical authors, and shows how Dante dipped...

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'Every stone tells a story': the uses of classical texts by seventeenth-century English visitors to Greece and Asia Minor

submitted by ilinolep 12 days ago

This article analyses the uses made by seventeenth-century travellers to the Greek world of their knowledge of classical texts. It refers to a range of travellers-in particular, Levant Company empl...

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Sisyphus and Caesar: the opposition of Greece and Rome in Albert Camus' absurd cycle

submitted by RolandJay 12 days ago

Albert Camus' reception of the ancient world is a subject deserving greater consideration than it has currently received. This article will discuss the importance of Greece and Rome in Camus' Absur...

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Peter Handke's Thucydides{dagger}

submitted by skarc 12 days ago

Noch einmal für Thukydides, a collection of prose pieces by the Austrian writer Peter Handke, invites reflection on the history of his engagement with this classical author. In Kindergeschicht...

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Absent Presence: pater Ennius in Renaissance Europe

submitted by spoz 12 days ago

This article is a case study in what might happen to Classical Reception Studies when the object of reception no longer survives, or survives only in fragments or quotations from other authors. My ...

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The Afterlife of "Teachers' Beliefs": Qualitative Methodology and the Textline

submitted by seman 23 days ago

How do articles get written in ways that lead them to keep getting cited decades later-even when they are bad or mediocre articles that do not merit re-reading? The question may seem trivial, but a...

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Streams of Bereavement

submitted by pajeonta 23 days ago

Narratives across time. The author seeks to present a multilayered voiced account through vignettes and poems about the loss of her father who died 20 years ago. This aims to address the complex an...

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Plotting Maternity in Three Persons

submitted by JeremAlle 23 days ago

This performance text examines complexities of personal and maternal identity in family life. Speaking in first, second, and third person voices, the author offers autoethnographic accounts of the ...

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Need These Stories to Remind Me That There Is Hope: Poetic Representations of Living in Israel During the Al Aqsa Intifada

submitted by TrisCamden 23 days ago

This article uses poetic representation to describe 7 participants’ experiences living in Israel, where political violence is ongoing. The poems are derived from the participants’ spoke...

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The Politics of Becoming: . . . Making Time

submitted by tojmohol4 23 days ago

This article seeks to explore a politics of becoming. Emphasizing the dynamics of both time and the affects produced with it, we engage by following the questions that are taken up, which bubble th...

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"From High Skill to High School": Illustrating the Process of Deskilling Immigrants Through Reader's Theatre and Institutional Ethnography

submitted by Linda 23 days ago

From High Skill to High School details the experiences of immigrant professionals in an adult education employment program. This research reveals that immigrants with graduate degrees and years of ...

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The Lost Boys

submitted by renlianfeng 23 days ago

The following two poems were formed from transcribed interview text from an unpublished doctoral thesis (Lambert, 2006) which explores some of the ways in which identities and places could be consi...

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