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Jerusalem Post;  September 3, 1998 ;     517 words ......terms of literary quality, he believes the best of s-f is equal to the best of what he calls "realist literature." He says, "It's realist literature that's beginning to look a bit nostalgic, and not really paying attention to the bigger picture...

OLFACTION, AUTHORITY, AND THE INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY IN SALMAN...

Symposium;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......1985) invite comparison for any number of reasons:(1) The position of each within or at the edges of fantastic and magic realist literature; the monstrous appearance, eccentric psychology, and mythical typology of each of the three protagonists; and the firm...

LESBIAN LESSONS; Lecturer gets pounds 12,000 to study gay women in French...

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  July 20, 2000 ;     380 words ......yesterday branded a total waste of money . It will allow her leave to research a book into lesbian desire in post-1968 French realist literature . Dr Cairns, 37, will take a sabbatical from Stirling University for a full academic year . A replacement will be paid...

In the spirit of Peter Pan.(Book Review)

The Evening Standard (London, England);  July 25, 2005 ;     490 words ......are abandoned for city slums and tower blocks, salsa has been ousted by grinding reggae and thumping techno, and magic realist literature, with its tendency to coat harsh realities in fairy dust, no longer seems a suitable response to modern life. The new...

Danube Dreams

Forward;  December 13, 1996 ;     700+ words ......the first post-World War II prose writer in Yugoslavia to rebel against the trend of predominantly national-patriotic realist literature. Although most of Mr. Albahari's poetically compressed stories occur in a Belgrade suburb in communist Yugoslavia, they...

How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's...

Canadian Slavonic Papers;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......genuinely struck a chord among Soviet audiences. How Life Writes the Book is an analysis of the writing of socialist realist literature. Lahusen shows how the Soviet system created a novelist, a novel, and an audience. Rather than accept the final novel...

`Maria de Buenos Aires' at Symphony Center

Chicago Sun-Times;  October 14, 1998 ;     402 words ......de Buenos Aires." It is an extremely weird mix of glorious tango music and an over-the-top text that reads like magical realist literature at its most annoyingly pretentious. Kremer asked Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov for a new concert version of "Maria...

Empowering the human security debate: making it coherent and meaningful.

International Journal on World Peace;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......far greater proportion of the world's population than those areas normally identified as security issues in the dominant Realist literature. INTRODUCTION The parameters of the global security debate have been flexing vociferously since the end of the Cold War...

The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia.(Historical and...

Notes;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......topic, and social activity; she shows how opera in all its facets was experienced by audiences and incorporated into the realist literature of the nineteenth century. For music historians, this study is a worthy addition to that of Robert Ridenour, Nationalism...

Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan:...

The China Journal;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......people per se ... " (Hsiau, p. 125). Literature scholars see this as beginning with the rise in Taiwan's rural social realist literature (xiangtu wenxue) movement in the 1970s, but it has been much stronger since democratization. The first two chapters deal...

LITERATURE-CUBA: HOMAGE TO A FOUNDER OF MAGIC REALISM

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  October 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ......told IPS. The author of Un camino de medio siglo: Carpentier y la narrativa de lo real maravilloso (Carpentier and Magic Realist Literature), published in 1994,Padura believes that these efforts to refocus attention on Carpentier's works and make them available...

Gautschi-Lanz, Catherine. Le Roman a table: Nourritures et repas...

Nineteenth-Century French Studies;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......of the nineteenth century, its introduction aires at providing a background both for the history of gastronomy and of realist literature. In this it is not entirely successful. Such preambles are of necessity summary in nature, but this one seems excessively...

Take That, Stephen King; The Big Dumb Book World

The Stranger;  February 11, 2004 ;     376 words ......book, in both its fiction and nonfiction incarnations, she finds, is not so different from didactic utopian socialist-realist literature; How Stella Got Her Groove Back, meet How the Steel Was Tempered. The prolific professionalism of contemporary commercial...

Education: Tales Out Of School Strange Stories From The Global Classroom

The Independent - London;  July 27, 2000 ;     452 words ......Described as a "total waste of money" by Tory MSPs, the grant is to pay for research into "lesbian desire in post-1968 French realist literature". Dr Lucille Cairns will take a year-long sabbatical investigating why lesbianism has been marginalised by scholars and...

Academics find out how to get [pounds sterling]1m for talking absolute...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 10, 2003 ;     543 words ......a senior lecturer who took time out at Stirling University to research a book into 'lesbian desire in post-1968 French realist literature'. Last week the Scottish Daily Mail revealed that the Scottish Executive has spent [pounds sterling]30,000 on a study...