Representing Violence in Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis: ‘Extremely Lout and Incredibly Gross’ by Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès

“…This presentation will analyse the textual devices responsible for the effects of violence in the novel, their connection to the representation of the failure of social and symbolic links, and the rhetoric of excess which muscles them up. The question of the reception of textual violence will underscore our analyses, which will focus on the way the text holds the reader a hostage to its fictional apparatus.…”
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Edukacja XXI wieku – czy renesans trivium ma sens? by Piotr Lewiński

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Walking in the footsteps of the forefathers. The concept of “ancestry” between political use of molecular biology and indigenous territory, understood as a relationship between the... by Laura Volpi

“…However, the natives seem lukewarm to the uncritical acquisition of a strategic discourse based on the rhetoric of “temporal primacy”. Thus, despite having assimilated an ancestral-genetic discourse, they reshape it in light of a more relational conception of territory. …”
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COVID-19 and Scottish Independence: The Instrumentalisation of the Pandemic in the Constitutional Debate by Nelly Gérard

“…The article concludes that the Covid-19 pandemic is instrumentalised in the larger constitutional debate, either to promote independence and constitutional reform in the case of the SNP, or to undermine nationalist rhetoric through the use of depoliticisation strategies in the case of the Scottish Conservative Party.…”
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A New Look at the Victorian ‘Criminal Classes’: A View from the Archives by Philippe Chassaigne

“…It then considers the actual meaning of this rhetoric about the ‘dangerous classes’: a strengthening of social control, or a promotion of social cohesion?…”
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Sydney Carton’s Other Doubles by Joel J. Brattin

“…A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel almost obsessed with doubles and doubling. Dickens’s rhetoric in the novel is full of doubles, as is his imagery: mirrors, reflections, and echoes pervade the novel. …”
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L’arrivée de la libération gay en France. Le Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire (FHAR) by Michael Sibalis

“…The new homosexual activists who joined the FHAR drew their revolutionary rhetoric from left-wing militants of May 1968. They denounced “the dominant heterosexual and capitalist sexuality” and engaged in deliberately provocative actions. …”
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Consensus Over Political Divisions: Polish Input in the Debate on Multiculturalism and Immigration to the European Union by Jerzy Ciechański

“…That ideological supremacy has been effectively questioned only by the public reactions to the 2015 EU immigration crisis. Political rhetoric on immigration has changed more than actual policy.  …”
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Matriarchal Exemplarity in Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance by Emma Rayner

“…This article focuses on the ways in which Isham absorbs matriarchal example into her narrative by examining the Booke’s treatment of Lady Judith Isham’s spiritual melancholy. The exemplary rhetoric employed by Isham around her mother’s illness proves that it is not despite but because of the generic hybridity of her diary that a coherent strain emerges within it – if not in the form of a recognizable modern “self,” then in the shape of multiple lives bound into one multi-generational matriarchal consciousness.…”
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Dérision de l’étranger et exaltation du Britannique dans l’œuvre de William Hogarth 1697-1764 by Isabelle Baudino

“…Yet even if he ridiculed his British compatriots, he developed a complex graphic rhetoric to make fun of foreigners. Among them, both the French and the Italians were particular butts for ridicule and this can be explained by the wars as well as by the more pervasive conflict which opposed Britain to the Continent throughout the eighteenth century. …”
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Alt Lit, Illuminati Girl Gang and Porn Carnival: A Decade of Online Poetry Communities (2010-2020) by Laura Marie Marciano

“…The kind of twenty-first-century poetry that contains the language of late capitalism, products and brands, and resembles the syntax of text messaging, Instagram comments and memes, is a result of the collective rhetoric of a Millennial group of writers that came of age on the Internet. …”
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The Auto/biographical Nature of Ukrainian Women’s Literature on the War in Donbas by Anna Gaidash

“…The paper discusses the perspective of women, forms of undermining patriarchy, and rhetoric of “national autobiography” along with self-consciousness and self-reflexivity as markers of auto/biographical texts of Ukrainian women writers of the period in the selected texts.…”
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A la recherche de la ressource foncière territoriale sur les territoires de montagne by Catherine Herrera

“…Spatial malfunctions (homogenisation of landscapes, urban sprawl, etc.) and socio-economic problems (exclusion of the most fragile elements of the population, growth of second homes, etc.) have led local authorities in charge of managing land and development to re-examine their relationship with space. The rhetoric of political actors responsible for addressing this question has thus become increasingly marked by a desire to intervene more strongly in land management issues. …”
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The Neverending 90s in Serbia by Nađa Bobičić, Vanja Petrović

“…The ideological imaginary uniquely draws from rhetoric used to justify regional wars, serving as the phantasmic foundation of contemporary anti-gender mobilizations. …”
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L’ermite et le virtuose by Denis Laborde

“…Thus at the two extreme of this rhetoric of virtuosity, two conflicting faces of pianistic asceticism were constructed: Gould, absorbed by technology; Cziffra, by technique.…”
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A Comparative Study about the Meaning of Metaphors According to Mohammad Reza Isfahani and Donald Davidson’s theories by morteza Barati, Hossien Dabbagh

“…Metaphor in the West countries is an issue that has been examined from a variety of perspectives. In the Islamic rhetorical tradition, metaphor has a more limited realm for its definition and application. …”
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Mobilizing the Past: Germany and the Second World War in Debates on Brexit by Thomas Williams

“…While recognising that references to Britain’s wartime past and fears of German power in the present-day EU are by no means identical issues, this article traces the frequent convergence of these two themes in Eurosceptic rhetoric during the decade preceding Britain’s exit from the EU on 31 January 2020.It reveals that concerns about Germany’s “domination” of the European project, an important theme in British Euroscepticism since Thatcher, resurfaced in the early 2010s, particularly in the context of the Eurozone debt crisis. …”
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The Politics of Waiting: Transnational Identity and Exile in Achy Obejas’ Ruins by Kevin Concannon

“…A tension emerges within the transnational as a result, as attempts to re-imagine the fluidity of political belonging are countered by a national rhetoric organized in terms of maintaining division. …”
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Arguing sovereignty in Songhay by Bruce S. Hall

“…In this article, a reinterpretation of the exercise and rhetoric of sovereignty in imperial Songhay is proposed that focuses on ways in which Islamic authority was claimed and contested byrulers. …”
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Pertinence des reformes LMD au Cameroun : analyses des qualités personnelles et professionnelles des diplômés employés dans les entreprises formelles by Joseph Bomda, Innocent Fozing, Vandelin Mgbwa

“…As it stands, these results reveal a vagueness that detracts from the political rhetoric on the professionalization of academics in the LMD reform period, on the one hand, and the new world order in education marked by a process of standardization that ignores particularities, on the other.…”
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