Rockstar Games, Red Dead Redemption, and Narratives of “Progress” by Esther Wright

“…Usually bound up with other loaded terms such as “civilization” (and its implicit antithesis, “savagery”), popular culture that falls under the broader umbrella of the Western genre has often used the idea of progress and development, from past to future, as a cornerstone of their stories and messages. …”
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„Occisio Gregorii Vodae…”, între document şi prelucrare literară by Ileana Mihăilă

“…Theories concerning the historical conditions of its creation (namely its time, place and author), the display of the facts in comparison to whatever details were included in other historical sources, as well as the issue of its genre all undergo critical analysis. It is then argued that it, in fact, is a mascherata (masquerade), which owes much to the Italian Renaissance tradition of carnival shows bearing this generic name. …”
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The Impact of Peer Feedback on L2 Literature Review Writing: A Mixed Methods Study by Jing Yan, Yu Zhu, Xinrong Ye

“…The qualitative text analysis demonstrated that students paid unbalanced attention to the genre-specific characteristics of the literature review and the concreteness varied accordingly. …”
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Linguistic Insights into Eurolect of Institutional Documents Based on the System of Logico-Semantic Relations by Vladislav Hrežo

“…The present article draws primarily on a text-based approach while aiming attention at researching one genre of EU legal language the judgement in its English language version by employing quantitative and qualitative research methods and serves as a pilot analysis. …”
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Cinema as Testimony and Discourse for History: Film Cityscapes in Autobiographical Documentaries by Iván Villarmea Álvarez

“…Classic documentaries tried to deal with historical issues in an objective way, but the evolution of the genre placed subjectivity at the centre of discourse. …”
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L’énonciation aphorisante dans l’article de presse : une syntaxe sous contrôle(s) by Grégoire LACAZE

“…A newspaper article belongs to a speech genre that is particularly suited for the quotations of other people’s words. …”
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Specifics of covering migration problems in regional printed mass media by A.Yu. Anisimov, D.V. Tumanov

“…The following parameters have been studied: newsbreak, frequent lexical units, connotative elements, and genre characterization of materials. As a result of the analysis, it has been concluded that mass media of small Russian towns are highly tolerant to migrants. …”
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Saint-Cyr: a “Useful” School for Girls? by Dominique Picco

“… La Maison de St Cyr est un établissement national, qui par l’objet de sa fondation mérite considération puisqu’il est un moyen de récompenser les enfants des parents qui ont bien mérité de la patrie; l’organisation de cette Maison est un chef d’oeuvre dans son genre, les institutrices réunissent à la vertu la plus pure et à la plus grande modestie, tous les talents utiles et d’agrément, elles seules ignorent leur mérite; l’éducation y est aussi variée et aussi complète qu’on peut le désirer pour des mères de famille dans quelque position qu'elles se trouvent, tout y retrace l’ordre l’union l’égalité et la fraternité, la simplicité et l’économie en sont le piédestal: tels sont les titres de cet intéressant établissement dégagé de son ancienne prérogative de nobles. …”
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“Signing off on the right side of History?” Relating in Louise Welsh’s apocalyptic trilogy by Marie-Odile PITTIN-HEDON

“…Relying on the critical and theoretical writing of Michael Foessel, Jean-Paul Engélibert, Bertrand Gervais, Denis Mellier, Hélène Machinal and François Hartog, it shows that Welsh’s trilogy, which spans the whole catastrophe from the outbreak of the virus to the aftermath of the apocalypse, borrows from the essential tropes of the genre to reflect upon the necessity for humans to relate to their past and their future, but also to relate to themselves and to each other. …”
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Action / Participation by Stéphane Huchet

“…From Neoconcretism until today, “participation” has become a genre that has not lost its mythical motivating force. …”
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¿Cómo se duerme a un bebé en la Amazonía? Apropiación del villancico chachapoyano Niño Manuelito como canto de cuna en varios grupos de la red Ucayali-Amazonas by Alejandro Prieto Mendoza

“…Finally, I discuss a second type of common traits proper of the lullaby as a musical genre such as diminutives, reduplications, the topic of a potential danger, and repetitions.…”
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Curval à rebours : une histoire éditoriale by Simon Bréan

“…Avant d’être représentatives d’une science-fiction française, ses œuvres sont surtout des manifestations de la singularité de Philippe Curval, qui aborde ce genre comme une matière verbale et sensuelle et qui y sculpte des intrigues étranges et des images frappantes. …”
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The Precarious Balance of Refugees: Rupture and Connectivity in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and Helon Habila’s Travelers (2019) by Vanessa Guignery

“…However, Hamid and Habila also draw from the potentialities of the novelistic genre to devise formal ways of connecting apparently disparate story lines and thereby suggest possibilities for cross-cultural solidarity between refugees who share a common condition of vulnerability.…”
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Mujeres en la murga porteña: Arte, territorialidad y empoderamiento by Almendra Aladro

“…The work realized reflects that the progressive incorporation of women into this genre has produced its artistic resignification and has turned it into a tool of struggle for political participation in the management of urban rights and, in particular, of the cultural type. …”
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"He will die in another way before he is dead". The violence of the prison system in "The Double Dying of an Ordinary Criminal" by Breyten Breytenbach by Rosa Calì

“…Then, it will present a short introduction to the South African prison literature genre. Then, Breytenbach’s short story The Double Dying of an Ordinary Criminal will be analysed, with special emphasis on the themes of the double and death, and Breytenbach’s indictment of prison conditions and the death sentence during Apartheid (1948-1991). …”
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La science-fiction au prisme de l’intime : étude des séries Lupus et Aâma de Frederik Peeters (2002-2014) by Alain Boillat

“…The emphasis is on the gap established by Peeters with certain conventions of the genre, since introspection and everyday life are in both series privileged on exoticism and spectacular: introspection is superimposed on spatial exploration. …”
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Science-fiction féministe, des œuvres aux fans by Hélène Breda

“…It aims to show that, even though SF has often been considered as a male-dominated cultural arec (from authors to audiences, and for character representations), many female readers and spectators appropriated the genre. Firstly, I put this subject into a historical perspective, by explaining that female SF fandoms were created in opposition to the male writers and fans communities which rejected them. …”
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Edukacja dziecka ku ponadczasowym wartościom – rozważania na przykładzie współczesnej "Baśni o perle" Anny Gibasiewicz by Anna Józefowicz

“…On its example, I look at the contemporary implementation of the traditional genre, which is a fairy tale and the values carried by the story. …”
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Newman polémiste et satiriste by Keith Beaumont

“…He admirably illustrates also that literary genre so prized by our Victorian ancestors, polemic. …”
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“Anti-plagiarism” System in Self-regulation of Scientific Activity by N. I. Martishina

“…The author formulates the conditions for the effective application of the system in scientific and educational practice such as: 1) content analysis of textual coincidence in research papers only for reference purposes, 2) decision-making about the acceptance of manuscript for publication based on the general principles of publication and research ethics, 3) differential treatment of textual coincidence depending on the level, character, and genre of a paper, 4) unified standards for preparation of research publications and academic papers. …”
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