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A Stranger in a Not So Strange Land
Fiction collection
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Stranger than fiction : the case histories of Sigmund Freud
The general aim of this study is to arrive at a critical assessment of the cultural-historical significance of Freud' s major case histories, through a close examination of three of the most famous: the cases of "Dora", "Schreber" and the "WolfMan". My investigation of the case histories themselves …
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Welcome Home Stranger: The Evolution & Assimilation of the Queer Monster
<p>The queer monster has been a staple in fiction for ages. The “other” aspect that defines monstrosity is naturally paired with the ostracized queer figure. How better to accent a demon, than with the demonized? This essay explores why queerness clings to the monstrous, and how this dynamic has …
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The sinner, the stranger, the sacrifice maker : an apocryphal autobiography
This report serves as a kind of explanation and expansion upon the work I have taken on the past few months. It explores how the concepts of memory and perspective play a role in the narratives that we create. I accomplish this through my work with board games and theatrical recreations. It further …
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Everyday stranger harassment and coping among Asian Indian and U.S. students
… researcher investigated the impact of everyday stranger harassment (ESH) on body shame, body surveillance, control beliefs, and fear of rape among U.S. and Asian Indian female college students. Strategies used by women to cope with ESH also were examined. The project consisted of a pilot and …
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An architecture of evangelism: Hospitality to the stranger in a Lutheran context
… is open to meeting with and being hospitable to strangers. This paper investigates the tensions that have caused church members to turn inwards instead of to the threshold: the tensions between the church as the house of God and the house of the people of God, and the pressure for the …
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If Only I Knew: The Stranger in the Twentieth-Century Short Story.
… parts. The first explores the variations of the stranger genre in the American twentieth-century short story by examining the short works of Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and David James Duncan. The second provides …
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"A Stranger to the World": Women, Bisexuality, and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England
… genre, and linear temporality. Ultimately, "A Stranger to this World" promotes a viewpoint of eighteenth-century sexuality that embraces ambiguity and becomes relevant to twenty-first century culture.</p>
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'Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction': Black Women in American Literature of the *South
"Although the South has been an enduring site of criticism in American Studies and in American literary history, my dissertation argues that it is impossible to consider what the ""South"" and what ""southernness"" mean as cultural references without looking at how black women have contributed to …
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'And That Misformed Shape, Misshaped More': The Stranger Mathematics of 'The Faerie Queene'
… ‘harmony’; ‘symmetry’ (etc.). Arguing for ‘the stranger mathematics’ of The Faerie Queene, it proposes that this terminology, in prioritising the rational architecture of verse, has long occluded those structures (lexical, prosodic, imagistic) that manifest the more irrational and unpredictable …
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Maternal employment as a predictor of infant social experience and responsiveness to stranger
… their infants and infants' responsiveness to a stranger. The total number of subjects was 76 with 51 infants of nonworking mothers and 25 infants with working mothers. There were 38 males and 38 females and the infants ranged in age from 3 to 12 months. The measures consisted of a questionnaire …
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Unity in "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger" and Mark Twain's Debt to Christian Science.
… of the availability of the original Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts. These manuscripts, for the first time, presented three distinct versions of Twain's mysterious stranger stories. Study of these texts has revealed that after Twain's death in 1910, his editor, Albert Bigelow Paine, without …
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Stranger Danger? Three Essays on Consumer Trust and Data Disclosure in Multi-Actor Environments
Technological advancements and digitalization in recent decades have led an increasing number of firms to recognize the value of multi-actor business models. Integrating third parties into business processes provides firms with several benefits, including access to additional resources, skills, and …
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When the Poet Is a Stranger: Poetry and Agency in Tagore, Walcott, and Darwish
<p>ABSTRACT</p><p>This study is concerned with the process of the making of a postcolonial poet persona where the poet is addressing multiple audiences and is trying to speak for, and speak to, multiple constituencies through poetry. The poets examined here, Rabindranath Tagore, Derek Walcott, and …
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Intimate Stranger, Strange Intimacy: Towards the (Sinthôm)Ethics of Transference Love in Lacan’s Analyst’s Discourse
… to investigate. The central claim of Intimate Stranger, Strange Intimacy is that transference love opens up an ethical condition in which the subject could recognize the truth concerning one’s own desire, which provides the opportunity for radical change in one’s subjectivity but the subject …
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