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...appropriation of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, in 2003. All three have been critically and commercially well-received, appealing to a wide variety of readers, prize judges and drama producers who have turned both Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith into successful bbc adaptations. Often touted as a role model in the lesbian literary tradition, Waters is quick to acknowledge one of her immediate forerunners. "Jeanette Winterson is someone who had a huge effect," she says, "because she was writing clearly lesbian literature with literary ambitions as well. Her novels are good literary models. I think suddenly lesbian writers thought...
There are various ways of addressing this concern, some philosophical and some pragmatic. On the philosophical end, one might question whether we ought to accept the “self-interest” model of rational choice foisted upon us by economists. After all, protest only seems irrational when “success” is so individualistically defined. On the pragmatic end, the public relations victories that human rights advocates are winning serve as evidence that one will not be alone in making ethical decisions and hence that such efforts at bringing about change need not be totally...
...He’s a really cool kid.” Shields, known to his Greek fans as “Petros,” admits that he receives much of his inspiration from Britney Spears. “She’s not exactly my role model, but she is the greatest thing pop culture has in our generation,” he says. “She’s great at capturing attention and controlling people.” As for himself, he says, “I wouldn’t mind being a washed...
...risk of sounding cliché,” Perrotti says, “Tal really walks the talk. He’s a model of positive psychology...
...route to our utopic cosmopolis, Appiah suggests, we will also save the arts—in the cosmopolitan model of constant intercourse and “contamination” over authenticity, great works of art are restored to being objects of common worth, the inheritance...