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The Theatre of Cruelty and the Drama of the 1950s [PDF]
Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2018 The stage of the ’50s brings a new aesthetic attitude, initially perceived as a threat to the theatre itself. Many voices talked about the death of representation, about final aesthetics, but time has proved that it was merely an effort to adapt the ...
Claudiu Margan
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A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
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Le vertige intertextuel. Une lecture de Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête
Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises, 2019 By questioning the presence of the work of Albert Camus in the novel Meursault, contre-enquête (Barzakh, 2013 and Actes Sud, 2014) by Kamel Daoud, the marks appear of a political and poetic commitment that arises today as yesterday from a concern due to ...
Veronic Algeri
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Defence of Absurd Theories in Economics [PDF]
Theories that involve plainly false and even bizarre assumptions are argued to have an important role in bundling empirical facts in a way that allows these to be understood, handled and used as modules in the construction of mechanisms by economists ...
Nordberg, Morten, Røgeberg, Ole Jørgen
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Punchline with(out) purpose: Integrating research on instructional humour and seductive details
British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction We integrated research on instructional humour and seductive details to investigate when affiliative course‐related humour is effective or rather ineffective for learning. We assumed that instructional humour without a cognitive function (irrelevant humour) would have detrimental effects on learning performance resembling the ...
Lisa Bender +2 more
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“OPTICAL ILLUSIONS” OF HARMS AND ORKENY. MINUTES-ESSAYS ABOUT THINGS THAT MAY BE ABSURD
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2016 The essay is devoted to understanding such complicated philosophical and cultural categories as “absurd” and “grotesque”. Author reflects on them through the literary text by Erken and Harms.
Zs Heteni
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fifty years after the formation of England's child protection system, the country continues to reel from new instances of high‐profile child death tragedies where children have been harmed despite practitioners complying with the processes and procedures designed to protect them.
Ciarán Murphy, Michael Murphy
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Civically and politically participating children and teens encounter contrasting societal beliefs about their identities and actions. Some portray them as heroes, others as naive or rebellious; some celebrate their efforts, while others dismiss or diminish them.
Markéta Supa +3 more
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Moore's Paradox and Assertion [PDF]
If I were to say, “Agnes does not know that it is raining, but it is,” this seems like a perfectly coherent way of describing Agnes’s epistemic position. If I were to add, “And I don’t know if it is, either,” this seems quite strange. In this chapter, we
Littlejohn, Clayton
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THE CORRELATION OF SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF LANGUAGE ABSURD (INTERPRETATION METHODS)
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The article studies the correlation of semantics and pragmatics of utterance absurdization as required to actualize the author's illocution goal. Specific types of language anomalies are specified: semantic contamination, semantic randomness, semantic ...
Stanislav Sidorenko
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