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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King +2 more
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"Parabasis" in the Anatomy Lesson by Danilo Kiš [PDF]
The research focus of this paper is the chapter "Parabasis" of the polemical book The Anatomy Lesson by Danilo Kiš. The author aims to draw a parallel with the genealogical characteristics of the parabasis in ancient comedy to explain its function in The
Bečejski Mirjana M.
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Mixed feelings, mixed outcomes? When emotionally ambivalent framing enhances idea appreciation
Abstract Research Summary Despite growing interest in how linguistic strategies shape audience responses to innovative ideas, prior evidence on the benefits of using emotional language remains mixed. Building on research on emotional ambivalence and social evaluation, we introduce the concept of emotionally ambivalent framing (i.e., the combination of ...
Donato Cutolo +2 more
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Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through the Intersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical
While identity research has given sustained attention to marginality, intersectionality, and the effects of power on identity, the formal interactional dynamics through which identities are constituted remain limited. I present identity entanglement as a useful framework for better understanding and articulating the relational complexities of identity.
Jules Vivid
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Prologue as a structural element in the comedies of Aristophanes
The article explores the concept of comic prologue in Ancient Greek comedy, examining its function and significance within the structure of the comedy as a whole. The function of the prologue can be understood by breaking it down into structural elements
E. N. Buzurnyuk
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And then there was us Et puis nous sommes apparus
In 1987, the academic conference ‘Origins and Dispersals of Modern Humans: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives’ was held in Cambridge, UK. Subsequently referred to as the ‘Human Revolution’ conference, this meeting brought together the most prominent academics working in the field of human origins, including archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists,
Emma E. Bird +2 more
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A Euripides quote in the prologue to The Knights (Eq. 14–20)
This article deals with the distribution of dialogue lines between two slaves in the prologue of Aristophanes’ The Knights. There is no agreement among editors which slave utters the quote from Euripides’ Hippolytus (Eur. Hipp.
G. S. Belikov
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Mare, potere e demagogia nella commedia attica
In the face of a single attestation of thalassokratia in ancient Attic comedy, the ancient exegetes have already traced the numerous passages that lead, in mostly critical or ironic terms, to the concept of thalassokratia and especially to the compelling
Gianluca Cuniberti
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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Laughter and the Comic in the Soviet Film Comedy of the 1960s-1970s [PDF]
The author of the article notes the influence of the research of Russian folklorists and cultural historians on the interpretation of the 20th century art and captures the humanitarian trend towards searching for primarily archetypal situations and ...
Salnikova Ekaterina V.
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