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, 2020 The Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million people live under an Israeli siege, enforcing conditions that continue to plummet to ever more unimaginable
Sharif, Y.
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Approaching the Absurd: A Physical Theatre-Based Acting Methodology for Theatre of the Absurd
, 2021 https://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/5592fa94-e727-4d55-8450-cec31b512fcc/thumb/128.jpgThis thesis explores the theatrical periodization of the Theatre of the Absurd and attempts to establish the foundation for a Physical Theatre-based acting methodology ...
Andrews, Kieran
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Solidarity and the Absurd in Kamel Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2016 This article examines Kamel Daoud’s treatment of solidarity and the absurd in Meursault, contre-enquête and posits that the question of how to live in solidarity with others is central to the novel, although the word ‘solidarity’ never appears in it ...
Sarah Horton
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Camus and Sartre on the Absurd
, 2021 In this paper, I highlight the philosophical differences between Camus’s and Sartre’s notions of the absurd. “The absurd” is a technical term for both philosophers, and they mean different things by it.
Kim, Hannah H.
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Observing the Absurd: Photographs
, 2018 Photographs from the MFA Exhibition "Observing the Absurd" as shown at the Cora Stafford Gallery in Denton ...
Weld, Blake
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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TRANSFORMATION OF ENGLISH VICTORIAN NONSENSE IN THE 20TH CENTURY: LEWIS CARROLL AND JOHN LENNON
Филологический класс, 2019 The author of this article analyzes the fiction by the world famous musician John Lennon from the perspective of the literary nonsense. Despite the fact that the influence of L. Carroll’s texts on the works by J.
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