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Staging Alfonso Reyes’s Ifigenia cruel: The challenges of multi-layered narrative, poetry, and anti-theatricality
(Liverpool University Press, 2019)
Alfonso Reyes play, Ifigenia cruel (1924), has been the subject of critical analyses in the fields of Mexican Cultural Studies and Classical Receptions Studies. These have focused on the play s historical context, its ...
“It’s your turn to step into their shoes”: The role of empathy in adolescents experiencing maternal cancer
(Emerald, 2019-01-04)
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of empathy in adolescents coping with maternal cancer to identify passive and active empathy forms and the role of these in adolescent coping at a challenging ...
National identity and belonging among gay ‘new speakers’ of Irish
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2019-03)
New speakers refer to people who use a language regularly but are not traditional
native speakers of that language. Although this discussion has been
going on for some time in other sub-disciplines of linguistics, it ...
The faster the better? Economic effects of the speed of inter‐city technology transfer in China
(Wiley, 2019-06-18)
Although existing studies questioned the simple positive correlation between the technology transfer speed and the benefits, they have been widely condemned for lacking em-pirical evidence. Using the ...
Leading change in teacher education: Balancing on the wobbly bridge of school-university partnership
(Eurasian Society of Educational Research, 2019-10-15)
Initial teacher education (ITE) programmes have been critiqued widely for failing to connect educational theory with everyday practices in schools. More meaningful collaborations between schools and teacher education ...
Beyond the martial façade: gender, heritage and medieval castles
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-07-02)
Gendered interpretations are rare both within castle-studies and heritage discourses on medieval castles. Yet, castles hold potential to inform multi-vocal accounts of the medieval past and to inspire meaningful heritage ...
"Saving Venice": local, global and transnational perspectives on cultural heritage in children's fantasy
(MDPI, 2019-05-29)
Children s literature has always been heavily influenced by the local and national climate in which it is produced, the birth of this literature having coincided in many places with the formation of the nation-state. Over ...
Exile, pistols, and promised lands: Ibsen and Israeli modernist writers
(MDPI, 2019-09-17)
Allusions to Henrik Ibsen's plays in the works of two prominent Israeli modernist writers, Amos Oz s autobiographical A Tale of Love and Darkness (2004) and David Grossman s The Zigzag Kid (1994) examined in the context ...
Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses in Tudor balladry
(University of Chicago Press, 2019-06-05)
This article provides the first sustained overview and analysis of the reception of Ovid s Metamorphoses in sixteenth-century English ballad culture. It highlights a significant tradition of translating materials from this ...
Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health (CHErIsH) study: protocol for a feasibility study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2019-08-22)
Introduction Childhood obesity is a public health challenge. There is evidence for associations between parentsâ feeding behaviours and childhood obesity risk. Primary care provides a unique opportunity for delivery of ...