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Performing recognition : El castigo sin venganza and the politics of the ‘literal’ translation (2015)
Journal Article
Maitland, S. (2015). Performing recognition : El castigo sin venganza and the politics of the ‘literal’ translation. Bulletin of the Comediantes, 67(1), 37-56. https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2015.0001

In Lope’s Ferrara, honour is a function of public perception. The Duke has been betrayed but cannot seek justice without making his betrayal public, destroying his reputation and shattering his legitimacy to rule. Only by seeking revenge in private c... Read More about Performing recognition : El castigo sin venganza and the politics of the ‘literal’ translation.

Social conflict in the contemporary French roman noir (2015)
Journal Article
Kimyongür, A. (2015). Social conflict in the contemporary French roman noir. Australian journal of crime fiction, 1(1),

Conflict is by definition at the heart of the crime novel: most evidently in the usually violent conflict between victim and perpetrator but also in a more abstract, though equally important, way in the conflict between the perpetrator and the social... Read More about Social conflict in the contemporary French roman noir.

El conocimiento de la realidad a través de la ficción: Una lectura epistemológica de Borges y Cortázar (2015)
Book
Riberi, A. (2015). El conocimiento de la realidad a través de la ficción: Una lectura epistemológica de Borges y Cortázar. Walter Frey

This brief study deals with aspects related to fantastic literature in Borges and Cortázar, and of the worldviews that originate in it. Both Borges and Cortázar redefine the fantastic in epistemological terms, so that their own study can be considere... Read More about El conocimiento de la realidad a través de la ficción: Una lectura epistemológica de Borges y Cortázar.

Becoming Confucian Citizens: The Making of Students’ Cultural Citizenship in Classical Education (2015)
Book Chapter
Wang, C. (2015). Becoming Confucian Citizens: The Making of Students’ Cultural Citizenship in Classical Education. In M. Qian (Ed.), Education and Modernity in Sociology 社会学视野中的教育与现代性 (117-130). Beijing: People's Daily Publishing Corporation

通过关注正在当代中国复兴的儒家读经教育，作者以读经学生为研究对象，对他们进行了正式或非正式访谈，讨论了他们的公民身份在读经过程中的塑造。本文的基本论点是：儒家读经教育塑造了学生的自我主体性，形成一种新的文化公民身份——儒家公民；儒家公民的基本品质是好学... Read More about Becoming Confucian Citizens: The Making of Students’ Cultural Citizenship in Classical Education.

Culture in translation: the case of British Pathé News (2015)
Journal Article
Maitland, S. (2015). Culture in translation: the case of British Pathé News. Perspectives, studies in translatology, 23(4), 570-585. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676x.2015.1056813

At the risk of serving and betraying two masters, the intellectual and practical work of the translator is best characterized as an ethical problem: to navigate our anxieties of otherness by making difference accessible while also protecting the ‘oth... Read More about Culture in translation: the case of British Pathé News.

Hybrid identity and the utopian impulse in the postmodern Spanish-American comic novel (2015)
Book
McAleer, P. (2015). Hybrid identity and the utopian impulse in the postmodern Spanish-American comic novel. Boydell & Brewer

An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of... Read More about Hybrid identity and the utopian impulse in the postmodern Spanish-American comic novel.

Making a star on the small screen: The case of Mina and RAI (2015)
Journal Article
Haworth, R. (2015). Making a star on the small screen: The case of Mina and RAI. Journal of Italian cinema & media studies, 3(1-2), 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms.3.1-2.27_1

© 2015 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. Anna Maria Quaini (née Mazzini), or Mina as she is more commonly known, is a prolific Italian pop singer who rose to fame in the late 1950s. She was particularly dominant from the mid-1960s to the mid-1... Read More about Making a star on the small screen: The case of Mina and RAI.

Screening out the East: the playing out of inter-German relations at the Cannes film festival (2015)
Journal Article
Ward, E. M. (2015). Screening out the East: the playing out of inter-German relations at the Cannes film festival. German life and letters, 68(1), 37-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12067

This article examines the previously unexplored role of the Cannes Film Festival as an alternative arena for Cold War politics and the playing out of the West German Hallstein Doctrine in 1957 and 1959. The Hallstein Doctrine was an important strateg... Read More about Screening out the East: the playing out of inter-German relations at the Cannes film festival.

Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius (2014)
Book
Rorato, L. (2014). Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius. Maney Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315095967

© Modern Humanities Research Association and Taylor and Francis 2014. All rights reserved. The idea of writing a book about fictional representations of Caravaggio came to me as far back as 2004 when I was writing a paper on art as inauguration in Pi... Read More about Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius.

‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies (2014)
Journal Article
Feng, L. (2014). ‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies. Transnational Cinemas, 5(2), 127-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/20403526.2014.959725

Stars are often associated with glamour and beauty, but in this paper I would like to question how the concept of “chou” (literally meaning ugliness) is embraced in contemporary Chinese cinema. The popularity of chouxing (ugly star) in the Chinese ci... Read More about ‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies.

A shared population of epidemic methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus 15 circulates in humans and companion animals (2014)
Journal Article
Harrison, E. M., Weinert, L. A., Holden, M. T. G., Welch, J. J., Wilson, K., Morgan, F. J. E., Harris, S. R., Loeffler, A., Boag, A. K., Peacock, S. J., Paterson, G. K., Waller, A. S., Parkhill, J., & Holmes, M. A. (2014). A shared population of epidemic methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus 15 circulates in humans and companion animals. mBio, 5(3), Article ARTN e00985-13. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00985-13

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a global human health problem causing infections in both hospitals and the community. Companion animals, such as cats, dogs, and horses, are also frequently colonized by MRSA and can become infect... Read More about A shared population of epidemic methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus 15 circulates in humans and companion animals.

Crime in popular fiction: Remembering the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French crime fiction (2014)
Journal Article
Kimyongür, A. (2014). Crime in popular fiction: Remembering the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French crime fiction. The Australasian journal of popular culture, 3(1), 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc.3.1.33_1

Critics have evoked parallels between the French experience of Vichy during World War II and the Algerian War of Independence, in terms of their intensely divisive nature and the difficulty the French have had, and continue to have, in acknowledging... Read More about Crime in popular fiction: Remembering the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French crime fiction.

Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997 (2014)
Book Chapter
Feng, L. (2014). Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997. In East Asian Film Stars (113-127). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029195_8

Anyone who is interested in Hong Kong cinema must be familiar with one name: Chow Yun-fat (b. 1955). He rose to film stardom in the 1980s when Hong Kong cinema started to attract global attention beyond East Asia. During his early screen career, Chow... Read More about Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997.