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Hermeneutics of (sport) heroism [PDF]
, 2015 The work is based on an interpretation of heroism and its specific forms in comparison with the possible heroism of sports. The first part discusses the definition of heroism and then we acquaint with selected concepts of heroism (Campbell's conception ...
Oborný, Josef, Štaud, Ondřej
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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The Temporal Stability of the Tendency to Worship Celebrities
SAGE Open, 2013 This study examined the test–retest and internal reliability of a scale used to measure celebrity worship. We administered the Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) and several related items on two different occasions approximately 3 months apart to 248 ...
James Griffith +4 more
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Like a hawk among house sparrows: Kauto star, a steeplechasing legend [PDF]
, 2013 The concept of ‘icon’ has been applied to numerous athletes as a result of their sporting achievements, likeable public personas, and stories of triumph, resilience and courage.
Dashper, K, Fletcher, T
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Persona Studies, 2017 Whenever there is a major political event and the #TheBachelor live-tweeting continues, or popular online media outlets such as Jezebel go ahead with their pre-planned celebrity gossip coverage, there is outrage: seemingly, it is impossible to keep up ...
Jocelyn Smith
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The Political Novel in the Age of its Impotence: On Recent German Right‐Wing Fiction
The German Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract While scholars have increasingly studied the German right's publishing strategies and literary politics, less attention has been paid to the literary texts as such. They are worth examining in detail, I argue here, because they reflect in exaggerated form a problem that troubles political novels more generally: the dwindling role of the novel ...
Sophie Salvo
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Journal of Management and Business ReviewThe level of popularity of Korean music is in line with the increasing number of K-pop fans in Indonesia. Despite K-Pop's increasing popularity in Indonesia, K-beauty's reputation has declined.
Juniarty Siahaan +2 more
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EDITORIAL: Trials of celebrity
Pacific Journalism Review, 2013 THIS ISSUE of Pacific Journalism Review engages with the theme of the dynamics of fame in a small country. In contrast to the dominant focus in the newly emergent field of Celebrity Studies on celebrity as a global phenomenon, the emphasis in this issue ...
Barry King +2 more
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HUBUNGAN CELEBRITY WORSHIP DENGAN BODY IMAGE REMAJA YANG MENGIDOLAKAN K-POP : Studi Korelasi di SMP Negeri 45 Bandung Tahun Ajaran 2018/2019 [PDF]
, 2019 Penelitian dilatarbelakangi oleh adanya indikasi gejala celebrity worship dan body image yang ada di kalangan siswa yang menggemari K-pop. Celebrity worship merupakan fenomena pengidolaan individu pada seorang selebriti dan body image merupakan persepsi ...
Rizkia Nur Utami, -
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