The book ('Tradition in the Contemporary World. Janče: the Green Threshold of Ljubljana') deals with dimensions of tradition in modernity, as reflected in the half-urbanized environment on the ...northeastern outskirts of Ljubljana - at Janče with its surroundings. The author analyzes the concept of tradition, which is one of the core in ethnology and folklore studies, and presents its concretizations in the ethnographic field, especially its role in local festivals. She mainly focuses on peasant work and its ritual dimensions as well as on other types of heritage/tradition of rural environment. Heritage is not only positively valued by local inhabitants, but also represented in the idealistic form, thus creating rural idyll, attractive for tourists. Having a special value, it has become the means of invoking and preserving identifications with certain communities and the area itself, and is at the same time also used as an argument in general and sustainable development of the area.
Feminist criticism has debated whether detective novels with women detectives are able to succeed in portraying feminist heroines. Rye examines the two series of J. A. Jance to provide some ...interesting answers to the ways that concept of gender influence construction of detective figures and the narratives in which they appear. Jance's work demonstrates an awareness that the heroic plot structure underlies the narrative of the male detective.
I've been getting a lot of e-mails saying isn't it time that Beaumont gets lucky. Melissa Soames does have his grandmother's seal of approval, which is a step in the right direction. That's the thing ...about writing a series. You get a whole group of characters in the background. In Long Time Gone, I put Ron Peters' kids in the foreground. The readers who've been dealing with them since they were little girls will see what they're doing now.
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