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Private Lives: A detailed second volume of Doris Lessing's memoirs; an absorbing childhood memoir by J. M. Coetzee [Review of Doris Lessing's Walking in the Shade and J. M. Coetzee's Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life] (1997)
Journal Article
Easton, K. (1997). Private Lives: A detailed second volume of Doris Lessing's memoirs; an absorbing childhood memoir by J. M. Coetzee [Review of Doris Lessing's Walking in the Shade and J. M. Coetzee's Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life]. The Boston globe, N1, N4

Myth and Masculinity in Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the 'Tragic Hero'. (1997)
Thesis
Standish, I. Myth and Masculinity in Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the 'Tragic Hero'. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study argues that in Japanese popular cinema the 'tragic hero' narrative is an archetypal plot-structure upon which male genres, such as the war-retro and yakuza films, are based. I address two central questions in relation to these post-war Jap... Read More about Myth and Masculinity in Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the 'Tragic Hero'..

Can phonation types be reliably measured from sound spectra? Some data from Wa and Burmese (1997)
Journal Article
Watkins, J. (1997). Can phonation types be reliably measured from sound spectra? Some data from Wa and Burmese. SOAS Working papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 7, 321-339

This paper assesses the value of measuring aspects of an unmodified acoustic recordings of speech in the two language Burmese (Tibeto-Burman) and Wa (Mon_Khmer) in relation to the glottal source, or phonation type.
This method faces the problem of... Read More about Can phonation types be reliably measured from sound spectra? Some data from Wa and Burmese.