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New Phytologist, EarlyView.Summary Evidence for the ongoing biodiversity crisis rests on assessment of a small fraction of described species, with major knowledge gaps for most organisms, including plants. Here, we highlight how digitised herbarium specimens can be used to accelerate and improve estimates of recent and ongoing plant extinctions.
Aelys M. Humphreys +4 more
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At the Crossroads of the Wittgenstein and Autobiography Highways [PDF]
, 2012 Book review of: Immler, Nicole L., Das Familiengedächtnis der Wittgensteins. Zu verführerischen Lesarten von (auto-)biographischen Texten. Edition Kulturwissenschaft Band 12. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2011.
Hrachovec, Herbert
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Неофилология, 2020 The specifics of the diary as a genre of literature is considered. An attempt is made to understand the genre nature of the diary and identify the characteristic features of its narrative structure.
Zh. K. Salkhanova, A. S. Utebekova
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The Aphorism and Play in the Artistic Paradigm of the Novels by Crébillon-fils [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2016 The article examines the function of ludic poetics and the role of aphorisms in the novels by Crébillon-fils: “L’Ecumoire, ou Tanzaï et Néadarné.” “Les Egarements du cœur et de l’esprit,” and “Le Sopha.” It argues that the specificity of the artistic ...
Natalya V. Lidzerhos
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Slanted Truths: The Gay Science as Nietzsche's Ars Poetica [PDF]
, 2016 This essay derives its focus on poetry from the subtitle of Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft: “la gaya scienza.” Nietzsche appropriated this phrase from the phrase “gai saber” used by the Provençal knight-poets (or troubadours) of the eleventh through ...
Hall, Joshua M.
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Simple Simon and the Cult of Certainty: How Case Studies Offer What Pop Leaders Cannot
Journal of Leadership Studies, Volume 19, Issue 4, Winter 2026.Popular leadership ideas gain influence through clarity and certainty, often at the expense of nuance and theoretical depth. This paper examines the tension between popular leadership discourse and scholarly research, drawing on Bourdieu's field theory to explain why visibility and charisma tend to outweigh rigor in the marketplace of ideas.
Derrick Neufeld, Julian Birkinshaw
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Biografia intelektualna Emila Ciorana (Emil Cioran's Intellectual Biography) [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2011 On the formation of Cioran’s vision of the world and man, influenced largely his belonging to precisely this and no other nation. Romanian fatalism, inability to illusions, seeing the inevitable, the Romanian people’s faith in the fact that sin and ...
Sławomir Piechaczek
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Literary Literacy as Situated Practice: Teacher and Mediator Beliefs in a Writers' House Museum
Literacy, Volume 60, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the beliefs of secondary school teachers of ‘Valencian Language and Literature’ (official subject title in Valencian secondary education, where Catalan is officially referred to as Valencian) and of mediators at the Joan Fuster House‐Museum (Sueca, Spain), regarding the literary mediation and literacy practices developed ...
Javier Roig‐López +1 more
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The aphorism as an esthetic experience between the human being and the universe
Senderos Pedagogicos, 2012 The metaphorical character of Aphorism acts as a symbol. Its deeper meaning is revealed in a minute and means through the interpretation in the aesthetic experience between the being and the world.
Wilson Orlando Torres García +3 more
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