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How to be impolite in ancient Greek: silencers and dismissals in Greek comedy
Veleia, 2022 This paper examines impoliteness in ancient Greek, taking into account the linguistic structure of silencers and dismissals, their communicative functions and their gender distribution in three comedies by Aristophanes. Silencers and dismissals serve a number of different communicative goals: reinforcing disagreement, creating comic effect, and ...
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Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.The IMPOSTERS study analysed 150 recurring ‘human’ Simpsons characters and found that periodontitis or tooth loss was associated with a 23‐fold higher hazard of all‐cause mortality. This was reported in the Simpsons universe, with the death of ‘Bleeding Gums’ Murphy, 3 years before the first such reports in our universe.
Praveen Sharma, Thomas Dietrich
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Silva Fennica, 1987 In world literature, there are many forests of significance, e.g. oak forest of Mamre and in Danteâs Divine Comedy. Finnish literature has abounded with forest topics since ancient folkore. We have a literature of floaters, loggers and paper workers of
Suhonen, Pekka
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
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Irina Dumitrescu
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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Biography of Socrates in the Context of Ancient Drama
Pitannâ Lìteraturoznavstva, 2014 Biography of Socrates is regarded as a kind of artistic text, deliberately turned philosopher to all citizens of the Athenian Polis, built in ethical and aesthetic coordinates that are relevant in the development plan of the ancient drama, its two ...
Natalia Astrachan
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Conscience et réflexivité dans la philosophie mathématique de Cavaillès
Methodos, 2004 Cavailles’ epistemology is known for a rough critique of the notions of conscience and subject. This critique does not aim at dismissing the notion of conscience from philosophy but only to relieve it of its role of primitive notion.
Pierre Cassou-Noguès
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The Rhythmic and the Metronomic: On Charlie Chaplin's Gait
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Matthew Beaumont
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Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics
Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation into the increasingly popular trend amongst philosophers on the metaphysics of powers, exemplified by the statement: ‘To be real is to possess a power to affect (or to be affected by) other things’. First, I briefly trace the history of this idea (from the Eleatic dialectic of ancient times to present day quantum
David Rozema
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