Constructing History and Reconstructing the Self in The Night War Series

The paper presents a close reading of The Night War, an unfinished series of Captain America fanfiction, through the lens of Linda Hutcheon’s discussions of historiographic metafiction. The Night War series presents an alternate version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which Captain America’s best friend Bucky Barnes had kept a journal while he was a soldier in wwii, and the posthumously published diary became a literary classic. The paper examines the series’ structural aspects, most notably the fact that it is written entirely in the form of a classic war memoir, with detailed footnotes for both (fan)fictional and actual historical events. Thus, The Night War continuously draws the readers out of a highly verisimilitudinous piece of writing and explicitly points to its own artificiality. The metafictional nature of the series comes to the fore in one of the series’ sequels, in which the authors’ growing thematic insistence on the unreliability of historical narratives is realized through an audio-sequel. Therefore, The Night War series also exemplifies a transmedia story, one in which an entire alternate universe is created to discuss the ideas of history, memory, the self – and the inherent instability of these very categories. The paper seeks to contextualize these narrative interventions by analysing The Night War both as a piece of fanfiction and as an example of historiographic metafiction

Gender and Class in George Bernard Shaw\u27s Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion depicts a young flower girl’s linguistic and sartorial transformation into a fake duchess under the tutelage of a well-off phonetician. Eliza Doolittle’s and Henry Higgins’s clashing personalities and humorous misunderstandings however point to wider societal forces – that of gender and class. The circumstances of their meeting and their initial interactions serve as clear illustrations of their disparate levels of education, sophistication and social capital. Eliza Doolittle’s position as a young working-class woman makes her uniquely vulnerable to exploitation at the hands of middle-class men, and while Shaw does not frame Higgins as predatory, he nevertheless emphasizes Eliza’s anxieties and worries. Even though Higgins’s clear lack of interest or ill-intent enables the readers to laugh at Eliza’s fear for her virtue, as her transformation progresses, the untenability of her new social position becomes glaringly obvious. Higgins may have corrected Eliza’s speech and provided her with fashionable clothes, but he has no interest in concerning himself with her future, now that she is too genteel to work as a flower girl, but too poor to truly ascend to a higher class. This lack of consideration for Eliza’s prospects can be interpreted as a sign of Higgins’s uncaring character, but is also a symptom of wider societal obstacles facing women trying to find their place in the world. Eliza manages to triumph and carve a space for herself by integrating her two identities, in the end thriving as an amalgam of the duchess Higgins presented her as and the flower girl she once was

Preschoolers' fears

Strah je stanje koje je nelagodno i u sebi sadrži prijetnju, a posljedica je unutrašnjeg ili vanjskog podražaja. No, strah u evaluacijskom smislu može biti i koristan jer pomaže samozaštiti i preživljavanju pojedinca. Strah se pojavljuje u dobi od šest mjeseci. Većina djece u toj dobi ima izraženi strah od odvajanja od primarnog skrbnika. Kako djeca odrastaju, pojavljuju se i mnogi drugi strahovi npr. od: životinja, liječnika, otmičara, lopova, vremenskih nepogoda, imaginarnih bića, mraka, škole, bolesti, smrti, itd. Strah od liječnika jedan je od mnogih strahova karakterističnih za predškolsku dob. Cilj ovog istraživanja je bila utvrditi intenzitet straha, iskustva i doživljaje djece predškolske dobi pri odlascima liječniku/ci. Ispitivanje je provedeno na ukupno 61 djece, od toga 31 djevojčice i 30 dječaka. Sva djeca tijekom istraživanja pohađala su Dječje vrtiće Osijek.Fear is a condition that is uncomfortable and contains threat. It is a result of internal or external stimulation. However, in terms of evaluation, fear can be useful – it helps self-protection and survival of the individual . Fear appears at the age of six months. Most children at this age have expressed fear of separation from their primary guardian. As children grow older, there are many other fears such as fear of animals, doctors, being kidnapped, thieves, weather, imaginary creatures, the dark, school, illness, death, etc. Fear of doctors is one of many fears that are characteristic of preschool age. The aim of this study was to determine intensity of fear and experiences of preschool children when they go to the doctor's. Testing was conducted on a total of 61 children , of whom 31 are girls and 30 boys. All children during the research attended kindergartens in Osijek

Religija kao diskurzivno oruđe u Richardu III.

The paper examines the use of religious language in Shakespeare’s Richard III. More precisely, it analyses how faith is invoked as a means of self-protection, but also to threaten and commit violence. Utterances by various secondary characters are used as examples to point to the diverse and specific ways Shakespeare utilizes the discourse of faith in Richard III. However, the majority of the paper focuses on the Duke of Gloucester (later crowned Richard III) as the character who shows the greatest skill in using religion as a discursive weapon, and his sudden inability to publicly proclaim his piety is highlighted as the culminating point of the play

Religija kao diskurzivno oruđe u Richardu III.

The paper examines the use of religious language in Shakespeare’s Richard III. More precisely, it analyses how faith is invoked as a means of self-protection, but also to threaten and commit violence. Utterances by various secondary characters are used as examples to point to the diverse and specific ways Shakespeare utilizes the discourse of faith in Richard III. However, the majority of the paper focuses on the Duke of Gloucester (later crowned Richard III) as the character who shows the greatest skill in using religion as a discursive weapon, and his sudden inability to publicly proclaim his piety is highlighted as the culminating point of the play

Negotiation of Sentimental and Abolitionist Traditions in Harriet Jacobs\u27s Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl offers invaluable insight into the specific position of female slaves in antebellum United States. However, the importance of the text does not rest solely on its historical value. It is first and foremost a narrative, and not only the story itself, but the way the story is told, is what differentiates Jacobs’s text firstly from those focused on male slaves, and secondly from those written by white abolitionists. Thus, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl becomes a means of negotiation between various facets of the narrator’s identity and what the society expects of her, according to the dominant social views on femininity and chastity. Moreover, Jacobs’s text, through (and in spite of) both sentimental and abolitionist writing, tries to maneuver the narrator’s position as regards her white, free, northern, female audience. By focusing on her experiences of womanhood and motherhood, Jacobs seemingly relies on the white female readers’ sympathy, but ultimately rejects the kind of identification which would be based on the shared idea of “true womanhood”. By doing so, Jacobs points to the necessity of a deeper, intersectional understanding of slave women’s sufferings, and not one based solely on the sentimental notions of moral sympathy and sympathetic identification

Facebook as a Museum Content Sounding Board

This paper gives an analysis of the ways in which three US museums with longstanding presence on social media and high online audience engagement use Facebook as a platform for distributing information about their programmes and topics relevant for their collections. Information technology influences the work environment in heritage institutions, changes their organization and calls for new responsibilities in the process of shaping online content in order to meet the needs of online users. The primary goal of the paper is therefore to reveal these activities and detect professional trends that can be of use in further research and help define online strategies for museums in general