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The Idyllic as a Symptom (in the Narrative Structure of Texts of Slovak Literary Realism) [PDF]

open access: yesSlovenska Literatura, 2018
The study aims to approach the idyllic within the context of realistic representation not as a category represented by strictly specified group of idyllic means of expression but rather a stylistic layer in which variability of expression plays a major ...
Milan Kendra
doaj  

Chronic Disease and Disability in an 18th‐Century Portuguese Nun: An Integrative Multisource Approach

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents an integrative approach to chronic disease and disability in a Portuguese nun who died in 1779. The aim is to interpret her condition by combining osteopathological and burial context evidence with written sources. It offers a concise example of how bringing these sources together can enhance pathological interpretation and
Nathalie Antunes‐Ferreira
wiley   +1 more source

Anachronism in the writing of History: ¿Error or Possibility? Some reflections about the concept of time in Carlo Ginzburg, Marc Bloch and Georges Didi-Huberman

open access: yesHistoria y Sociedad, 2016
In his unfinished and posthumously published book Apologie pour l’histoire, Marc Bloch bestowed on future historians a seminal legacy of critical reflections on the concept of time as the object of historical analysis.
Maria Eugenia Chaves Maldonado
doaj   +1 more source

The potential effect of megafaunal extinctions on modern conservation of horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Many plant species worldwide are struggling to regenerate due to the ongoing effects of climate change. These effects appear to be further exacerbated by the loss of keystone megafauna, which were important seed dispersers. By identifying the traits commonly seen in seeds spread by modern elephants, it is possible to predict which species likely ...
Andrew J. Tighe
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching financial crises: A leverage experiment

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract College students often struggle to understand the prevalence of asset price bubbles and the difficulty of timing asset purchases and sales. Even economics students are consistently surprised when bubbles burst. These breaks can have real macroeconomic effects, particularly when the price surge is fueled by leverage.
Lee Coppock, Daniel Harper, Charles Holt
wiley   +1 more source

Pagan Revenants in Arthur Machen’s Supernatural Tales of the Nineties

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2014
In his Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction (1999), Robert Mighall presents ‘anachronistic conflict’ as the defining feature of the mode. The resurgence of pagan gods and the discovery of a fossil race are the two main triggers of such a conflict in ...
Sophie Mantrant
doaj   +1 more source

Could foxes be surrogate seed dispersers of a megafaunal fruit vine in southern South America?

open access: yesEcosphere, 2022
Plants that bear oversized fruits, but do not co‐occur with present‐day large‐bodied frugivores to disperse their seeds, are considered to represent seed dispersal anachronisms.
Diego Muñoz‐Concha   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Image [&] Narrative journal editorship (in 2 issues) - The story of things: reading narrative in the visual [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Based on the conference convened by Carson & Miller to accompany their project The Story of Things, these two journal issues of Image [&] Narrative explore the relationship between narrative and the visual.
Carson, J, Miller, R
core   +1 more source

Vacilante vida escrita del novelista argentino. Diario de escritor editado por el autor, entre presentes y comienzos

open access: yesCuadernos LIRICO, 2019
When the self that is taken as an object of writing includes its multiple alienation, it undoes the equivalence between author-narrator-character ruled by Lejeune in 1975.
Juan Pablo Luppi
doaj   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

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