The Clothes They Wore

The Tash her Father Wore : World Literature ,

This article studies the Turkish-German writer Kemal Kurt’s Ja, sagt Molly (1998) [‘Yes, says Molly’], an ironic meta-fiction to which little critical attention has been paid. Kurt questions the representation of Turks as untutored aspirants to Western culture and challenges the traditional images of exclusion and discrimination. Through a study of his use of pastiche and references to World Li...

The parasite’s new clothes

A population of stems cells continuously rejuvenates the outer surface of a human parasitic flatworm.

THE EMPEROR's CLOTHES

The emperor's new clothes

bewildered by my first reading of Hans Christian Anderson's 'The Emperor's New Clothes'. It was a story book with pictures, and the emperor was drawn prancing down the street in underclothes befitting the Victorian era (I was amused to discover that in today's versions he is depicted stark naked). I was disappointed with the end of the tale, not being old enough for what is, in effect, a story ...

The emperor ’ s clothes

In 1835, Hans Christian Andersen published “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, one of the 164 fairy tales that earned him worldwide fame. A little more than 25 years ago, drawing inspiration from that tale, F. Gross reported the existence of an ailment capable of affecting multiple systems, “the Emperor’s clothes syndrome”. This syndrome primarily affects students and physicians for whom career succes...