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Queer, Gender And Crime Fiction In French Studies: A Hazardous Scientific Endeavour, Andrea Hynynen Oct 2017

Queer, Gender And Crime Fiction In French Studies: A Hazardous Scientific Endeavour, Andrea Hynynen

CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language

This article focuses on the multifaceted challenge faced by academics doing queer and gender studies of French crime fiction. It argues that the French literary arena still entertains a sharp divide between literature and commercialist mass fiction, which hinders the establishment of popular fiction studies. It further discusses the reasons for and the effect of queer theory’s late arrival to France, arguing that France’s strong republican ideal entails a fear of ghettoization that has undermined the development of gender and queer analysis, especially of literature. These phenomena, in combination with France’s centralized, traditionalist academic institutions and linguistic franco-centrism, contribute to …

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The Way We Read Now: Middlebrow Fiction In Twenty-First Century Europe, Diana Holmes Oct 2017

The Way We Read Now: Middlebrow Fiction In Twenty-First Century Europe, Diana Holmes

CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language

The allocation of a novel to the category ‘middlebrow’ is partly a matter of marketing and shifting attitudes to literary value, but this article argues that it also designates certain stylistic and narrative qualities that are little esteemed by ‘serious’ critics, but appeal consistently to a wider reading public. The article focuses on one sub-category of contemporary middlebrow fiction, feminine crime, through a comparative analysis of novels by Fred Vargas (French) and Kate Atkinson (British). The argument addresses the relationship between popular and middlebrow within the genre of crime writing, and the ways in which a female perspective inflects generic …

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Preface, Dominique Jeannerod, Federico Pagello, Michael Pierse Oct 2017

Preface, Dominique Jeannerod, Federico Pagello, Michael Pierse

CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language

This second issue of CALL Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language makes available a group of papers selected from the considerably larger body of work that was presented at The Cultures of Popular Culture conference, promoted by the Royal Irish Academy’s Committee for Modern Languages, Literary and Cultural Studies and held at Queen’s University Belfast on 13 and 14 December, 2013. The conference was the first one entirely devoted by the RIA to a subject that has become increasingly central in the field of Modern Languages as well in numerous other disciplines. If compared to the countless academic …

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Scapegoating In The Films By Alejando Fernández Almendras, Ilka Kressner Oct 2017

Scapegoating In The Films By Alejando Fernández Almendras, Ilka Kressner

Views from Below: The Underdog in Contemporary Latin American and Spanish Film

Chilean filmmaker Fernández Almendras has examined the processes of victimization of the “poor man” in several of his feature films, most prominently Matar a un hombre [To Kill a Man] (2014, Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Price at Sundance Festival) and Aquí no ha pasado nada [Much Ado About Nothing] (2016). Both works exemplify processes of victimization through verbal performative acts: words in the form of humiliations, menaces and blackmail become the fatal weapons of scapegoating.

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Biographical Sketches Of The Agora Writers, Editor Editor Oct 2017

Biographical Sketches Of The Agora Writers, Editor Editor

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Nature As A Theme In China, Gail Silveira Oct 2017

Nature As A Theme In China, Gail Silveira

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Flash And Smoke: The Importance Of Spectacle And Music In Theatre, Leigh Mackintosh Oct 2017

Flash And Smoke: The Importance Of Spectacle And Music In Theatre, Leigh Mackintosh

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Oppression In Antigone And Africa, Rebecca Mcgowan Oct 2017

Oppression In Antigone And Africa, Rebecca Mcgowan

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The Freemasonry Of Race: Booker T. Washington And W. E. B. Dubois On Education And Black Cultural Consciousness, Beverly Brown Oct 2017

The Freemasonry Of Race: Booker T. Washington And W. E. B. Dubois On Education And Black Cultural Consciousness, Beverly Brown

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Education Systems: Classical Vs. Jeffersonian, Jennifer Bolt Oct 2017

Education Systems: Classical Vs. Jeffersonian, Jennifer Bolt

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A History Of The Untouchables: The Buraku And The Dalit, Katelyn Coyle Oct 2017

A History Of The Untouchables: The Buraku And The Dalit, Katelyn Coyle

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Women In The Sciences, Bridgette Polite Oct 2017

Women In The Sciences, Bridgette Polite

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Distorted Realities: Existentialism In The Works Of Salvador Dali, Grace Rochfort Oct 2017

Distorted Realities: Existentialism In The Works Of Salvador Dali, Grace Rochfort

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Gender Relationships In Latin America: Mario Vargas Llosa’S Death In The Andes, Derrick Van Leer Oct 2017

Gender Relationships In Latin America: Mario Vargas Llosa’S Death In The Andes, Derrick Van Leer

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The Political Influence Of Countries On Their Citizens, Jackie Fox Oct 2017

The Political Influence Of Countries On Their Citizens, Jackie Fox

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Communist Or Anti-Imperialist? The Personal Politics Of Gabriel García Marquez, Lydia Nilsen Oct 2017

Communist Or Anti-Imperialist? The Personal Politics Of Gabriel García Marquez, Lydia Nilsen

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Girl Power!, Rosalind Eberhart Oct 2017

Girl Power!, Rosalind Eberhart

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Einstein’S “Science And Religion”: How The Ideas Presented Are Evident In Genesis And Australian Aboriginal Legends Of The Dreamtime, Mary M. Mohay Oct 2017

Einstein’S “Science And Religion”: How The Ideas Presented Are Evident In Genesis And Australian Aboriginal Legends Of The Dreamtime, Mary M. Mohay

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Searching For The Middle Ground: Finding Balance In Literary Extremes, Leslie Harris Oct 2017

Searching For The Middle Ground: Finding Balance In Literary Extremes, Leslie Harris

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The Secret Of Life, Rachel Moore Oct 2017

The Secret Of Life, Rachel Moore

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Exploring Homoeroticism In Herman Melville’S Novella Billy Budd, Sailor, Dana Sliva Oct 2017

Exploring Homoeroticism In Herman Melville’S Novella Billy Budd, Sailor, Dana Sliva

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Heroism Or Delusion: The Ambiguities Of Opting For Death In Iphigenia In Aulis, Richard C. Burke Oct 2017

Heroism Or Delusion: The Ambiguities Of Opting For Death In Iphigenia In Aulis, Richard C. Burke

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In This Issue..., Editor Editor Oct 2017

In This Issue..., Editor Editor

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Table Of Contents, Editor Editor Oct 2017

Table Of Contents, Editor Editor

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The American Pickers Demonstrates Communication Skills, Jeffrey Brand Oct 2017

The American Pickers Demonstrates Communication Skills, Jeffrey Brand

Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD

This activity prepares students to identify persuasive communication practices in non-classroom environments and to view reality-based television programs as a learning platform for understanding communication theories and concepts. Using selected scenes or an entire episode from a popular reality-television program, American Pickers, students can observe how Mike and Frank establish a rapport with new customers, get to know them and their stories, negotiate sales, interact with each other as a team, and leave with a new relationship (client) and connection intact. The purpose of this exercise is to help students observe these initial contacts and relationships as they develop on …

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Developing A Supportive Communication Climate For Virtual Task Groups, Brent Kice Oct 2017

Developing A Supportive Communication Climate For Virtual Task Groups, Brent Kice

Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD

This class activity places students in virtual teams to assess Gibb’s (1961) defensive or supportive behaviors as a means of reinforcing trust among virtual task-group members. A worksheet offering a fictitious online chat transcript is provided for group analysis; student directions for creating unique team names are also given. This activity helps students to establish positive climates for virtual task groups.

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Men’S Rights Activists And The Ray Rice Domestic-Violence Case: Using Critical Communication Pedagogy To Counter Hegemonic Masculinity, David H. Kahl Oct 2017

Men’S Rights Activists And The Ray Rice Domestic-Violence Case: Using Critical Communication Pedagogy To Counter Hegemonic Masculinity, David H. Kahl

Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD

Some groups in society communicate in ways that attempt to marginalize others. One such group is the Men’s Rights Activists (MRA) who use language to attempt to normalize the subjugation of women through its rejection of feminism. This activity is designed to engage students in a dialogue about MRA’s response to the domestic-violence incident involving Baltimore Ravens’ running back Ray Rice and his fiancé, Janay Palmer, in a hotel elevator. Specifically, the activity allows students to learn about MRA members and their hegemonic ideology, to examine/view the domestic-violence incident, and to use critical-communication pedagogy (CCP) as a means to examine …

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Closing The Assessment Loop In The Basic Communication Course, Claire H. Procopio Oct 2017

Closing The Assessment Loop In The Basic Communication Course, Claire H. Procopio

Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD

Participation in the learning-outcome assessment is an important expectation of most communication teachers. Considerable communication research has been devoted to defining assessment, identifying what is assessed, and determining how best to do assessment (Morreale, Backlund, Hay, & Moore, 2011). The National Communication Association (NCA) recently announced the publication of Learning Outcomes in Communication (NCA, 2015). This case study explores how a program, one new to learning-outcome assessment in the basic course, overcame common challenges with implementing assessments. The case illustrates how to use assessment data meaningfully and offers specific strategies that individual communication instructors, course directors, and assessment leaders can …

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Blending Theory And Application: Student-Authored Organizational Case Studies, Colleen Arendt Oct 2017

Blending Theory And Application: Student-Authored Organizational Case Studies, Colleen Arendt

Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD

Case studies have been used as a pedagogical method for nearly a century. The case-study method provides numerous benefits for students, encouraging problem-solving, perspective taking, reflecting, and strategizing. After a semester of reading and discussing published case studies, the purpose of this assignment is to have students write and analyze their own case studies based on their organizational experiences. This assignment blends theory and application, helps students engage in important sensemaking about their experiences, and calls on them to contribute knowledge and content to the course. Variations, debriefing prompts, and an assignment appraisal are included.

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Enemies Of The State: The Symbolic Annihilation Of White-Zimbabwean Identity In The Twenty-First Century, Rick Malleus Oct 2017

Enemies Of The State: The Symbolic Annihilation Of White-Zimbabwean Identity In The Twenty-First Century, Rick Malleus

Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD

This article explores the Zimbabwean government-controlled newspapers’ symbolic annihilation of white-Zimbabwean identity in the twenty-first century. Zimbabwe has been through political, social, and economic upheaval in the last 15 years, and it is in this context that the media’s construction of white identity is examined. Using a content analysis of online articles from The Herald and The Chronicle, six themes of constructed white identity were identified. The government media’s motivation for this symbolic annihilation of white-Zimbabwean identity is discussed, and the article concludes with a consideration about why this construction of white-Zimbabwean identity matters.

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