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    ‘Girls wanna have fun’?: The Comical free Verse in Dorothy Parker’s Poetry during the Roaring Twenties by Francisco José Cortés Vieco

    Published 2014-12-01
    “…Dorothy Parker’s corpus of poetry transcends the portrait of a socialite and mythic times: New York in the Roaring Twenties. Underneath jazz rhythms, fun nights and the neon lights of this city, public and private female anxieties remain. …”
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    Luxurious Cinema Palaces in the Roaring Twenties and the Twenty-First Century: Critical Analyses of Movie Theatres by Siegfried Kracauer and Their Relevance Today by Viola E. RÜHSE

    Published 2020-10-01
    “…Impressive cinema palaces with exterior façades illuminated appealingly at night were significant for the big city life of the roaring twenties. The film screenings in the prestigious buildings were framed by a diverse supporting programme. …”
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    THE SEAMSTRESS of HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD / by McGraw, Erin, author 644289

    Published 2008
    “…Lucky for Nell, her experience as a seamstress to the ladies of her Kansas town translates beautifully to work as a costumer to Hollywood in the Roaring Twenties. She renames herself Madame Annelle, and builds a new life for herself that looks so much more like the one she had always imagined. …”
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    Financialization Historically Contemplated: Putting Old Wine in New Barrels by Persefoni Tsaliki, Lefteris Tsoulfidis

    Published 2023-09-01
    “…The findings suggest that the financialization phenomena of the post-1982 years are comparable to those of the “roaring twenties.” The observed differences are quantitative, in the main, and although they indicate the presence of regularities, they, nevertheless, do not suggest an altogether different stage of finance-led capitalism.…”
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    Las voces de Lautréamont by Myriam Mallart

    Published 2017-09-01
    “…Both translations of the book, which are very different from a linguistic point of view, above all in what concerns the critical work surrounding the text, happen to coincide with two essential moments of the surrealist’s reception: the “Roaring Twenties”, which were years of an enormous surrealist activity, and the sixties, a decade in which the movement itself became part of the “History of Literature”. …”
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    Female Figures of the Jazz Age in Dorothy Parker’s Short Stories by Isabel López Cirugeda

    Published 2015-12-01
    “…A corpus of Parker’s short stories written in the 1920s and early 1930s will be analyzed from feminist perspectives, such as those by Pettit, Melzer or Showalter, in terms of ‘appearance’, ‘social life’ and ‘bonds with men’ to determine whether her heroines respond to the stereotype of the flapper in the Roaring Twenties. Results show a satirized viewpoint conveying dissatisfaction regarding body, idleness and romance predicting many of the conflicts of women in the second half of the XXth century. …”
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    La représentation des sexes dans le milieu thermal by Marie-Ève Férérol

    Published 2023-07-01
    “…Carole Carribon began to show interest in this question but her works are primarily about the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties. This article completes her precursory work (Carribon, 2009, 2011) by focusing on the medical use of spa, formalised in 1947 with the creation of Social Security. …”
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    “Otherness” in America: Hemingway, Hungarians, and Transnationalism by Teodóra Dömötör

    Published 2020-07-01
    “…The values they propagated in society illustrate that the Roaring Twenties was an openly discriminatory decade in which ignoring and sometimes literally attacking the “other” for deviating from the prescribed norms of the era was acceptable. …”
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    Benjamin e il gioco dell'oppio by Massimo Palma

    Published 2019-07-01
    “…In the late, roaring Twenties and the early, uncanny Thirties of the 20th Century, German philosopher and essayist Walter Benjamin went through a considerable series of experiments with drugs. …”
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