Nonsense as Autobiography: The Children’s Poems and Family Secrets of Laura E. Richards by Etti Gordon Ginzburg

“…Unlike her formal autobiographies, which primarily served to maintain a mythic legacy of her renowned parents, Julia Ward and Samuel Gridley Howe, Richards’s nonsense poetry subtly subverts the constraints of this narrative. Beneath a playful surface, her rhymes reveal insights and tensions that her official autobiographies strategically obscure. …”
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An alien among aliens: Translating multicultural identities in Singapore’s contemporary theatre by Bei Hu

“…It reveals Kuo’s proposition of multiculturalism as a counternarrative to the official discourse of multiracialism propagated by the authorities, uncovering how playwrights represent as translation agents within multilingual narratives. …”
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« La deuxième communauté noire la plus prospère du pays » : l’espoir d’une vie en banlieue résidentielle à Atlanta pour les migrant·es africain·es-américain·es by Nicolas Raulin

“…This article looks at the emergence of Atlanta's reputation as a new promised land for the country's black residents, highlighting the role of the press and migrants themselves in developing a narrative praising the promise of life in Georgia's capital city. …”
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Rare epithelial gastric cancers: a review of the current treatment knowledge by Angelica Petrillo, Margaret Ottaviano, Luca Pompella, Emilio Francesco Giunta, Pasquale Pisapia, Gianpaolo Marte, Andrea Tufo, Sara Di Lorenzo, Jessica Orefice, Chiara Miceli, Umberto Malapelle, Bruno Daniele, Ferdinando De Vita

“…Due to the low number of cases, many aspects must be elucidated in this context. In this narrative review, we highlight the importance of a better understanding of rare GCs to personalize the cures in the light of the precision medicine concept. …”
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Reimagining the New World Order Post-Covid-19 by Maqsood Hussain

“…Though the relative balance of power will potentially shift in favor of China feeding the narrative of counter-hegemonic balancing, yet it would be misleading to conclude the demise of the US-led global order in the foreseeable future. …”
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Seeking victims’ perspective on remedy: the case of Brasil Verde Farm’s workers by Regiane Cristina de Oliveira

“…To understand the challenges preventing the effectiveness of the remedy system, this article relies on the collaboration with workers from Barras (Piauí), that were subjected to slave labor in the Brasil Verde Farm. The workers’ narratives – collected through oral history methodology, during a fieldtrip to Piauí, in March 2016 –, help to overcome the ongoing debate on remedy studies related to the discourse of victims’ “wants and needs”, and reveal that any reparation measure that intend to promote social emancipation has to deal with the absences of the right to participation, security, adequate standards of living, health, adequate housing, education, and also access to land.…”
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“Invading Your Hearts and Minds”: Call of Duty® and the (Re)Writing of Militarism in U.S. Digital Games and Popular Culture by Frédérick Gagnon

“…Accordingly, our goal is to conduct a content analysis (Sisler 2008) of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to show how these games contain images and narratives that (1) resonate with and reinforce a tabloid imaginary of post-9/11 geopolitics (Debrix 2008); (2) glorify military power and elicit consent for the idea that state violence and wars are inevitable; and (3) encourage our myopia by depicting a sanitized vision of war and downplaying the negative consequences of state violence (Stahl 2006). …”
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The Role of Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Taytnapam Toponyms by Eugene S. Hunn, Richard H. McClure Jr.

“…Traditional geographic narratives, such as those of Taytnapam elders Jim Yoke and Louis Castama, served a critical pedagogical role in educating the young with respect to native livelihoods. …”
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Russia`s Cultural Diplomacy in the Current Geopolitical Context by Alina STOICA, Ana ORJUHOVSCHI

“…The use of this soft power, which complements traditional foreign policy strategies, is aimed at strengthening relations with partner countries, countering negative narratives or attracting/maintaining sympathy with states where the state in question has political, economic, etc. interests. …”
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Cinematic Orientalism: East-West Perception in Netflix's 'Swimmers' by Kemal Çelik

“…The orientalist and self-orientalist elements of the film are attempts to present an attractive narrative for Western audiences. The Muslim screenwriter's distortion of Eastern historical realities under Western producers' influence represents self-orientalism. …”
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L’emploi de formes d’adresse dans les interactions interculturelles – perceptions et discussions authentiques entre francophones et finnophones by Johanna Isosävi

“…Participants co-construct their experiences through discursive means, and their narratives often show shared knowledge. Finally, L2 speakers are not passive recipients, but exercise their agency by refusing an address form or suggesting an alternative. …”
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L’Empathie comme base de réflexion sur l’identité des marqueurs HAVE et WANT by Philippe Muller

“…Finally, it is shown that the empathy associated with WANT can be advantageously utilised in discourse in a specific narrative pattern, that of the “circle story”.…”
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Documentary film politics and the politics of documentary film by Lieza Louw

“…Miners Shot Down was received well locally and internationally, but as an overt political narrative presented in a subjective reconstruction, some of the omissions may impact on a fuller understanding of the tragic event.tion. …”
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Linezolid and serotonin syndrome by Haytham A. Wali

“…Despite its efficacy, linezolid can cause serotonin syndrome, a potentially fatal condition associated with excessive serotonin activity in the brain. This narrative review examined the pharmacological mechanisms of this interaction, particularly linezolid’s mild monoamine oxidase-inhibitory activity, which can trigger serotonin syndrome in combination with serotonergic drugs. …”
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The Mongol empire’s expansion and rethinking research trends in Chinese historical climatology by Ka wai Fan

“…Their findings reveal that Mongol expansion coincided with favorable climatic conditions, casting doubt on the traditional narrative. Additionally, this article probes the use of the Granger Causality Test in Chinese historical climatology, as exemplified by the work of David Zhang. …”
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PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITY DISORDER IN LARSSON’S “THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO” by Christy Tisnawijaya, Puji Astuti

“…This paper investigates how childhood trauma causes someone to suffer from a personality disorder. The narrative discussed in this paper is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2005). …”
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ISIS:Eastern Violence and Critique of Fascistic Reason: A Critical Look at Method, Content, and the Claims by Ghadir Nasri

“…Sources about ISIS are divided into two categories: Narrative sources and deliberative works. ISIS: Eastern Violence and Critique of Fascistic Reason written by Bachtyiar Ali (Tehran: Markaz Publisher, 2015), is a theoretical and philosophical research about entity and origins of ISIS. …”
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Tonal Poetry, Bop Aesthetics, and Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard by James J. Donahue

“…Further, becoming more attuned to the means by which Kerouac composed his fiction as an aural soundscape—how he was sensitive not just to the words themselves but to the sounds that comprise those words and their relationships—we can better appreciate the various ways that Kerouac imbued his novels with aural qualities that emphasized the ideas and emotions raised and/or engaged by the narratives.…”
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Poor quality care in healthcare settings: an overlooked epidemic by Augustine Kumah

“…Over the past decade, these events have remained prevalent despite increasing efforts to improve patient safety. This narrative literature review explores the burden of poor-quality care. …”
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Beyond Verbatim: Embodied Truth and the Limits of Language in House Arrest by Mehmet Ünal

“…Through verbatim text, minimalist staging and emotionally resonant performance, Smith highlights how individuals, particularly those from marginalised groups, are vulnerable to having their narratives distorted or controlled by those in power. …”
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