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“A Game of Thrones” – a New Classic?
Crossroads, 2013 The following paper depicts George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones as a novel worthy of receiving the title of a classic. Classics are presented as a section of literature to which permission is granted based on particular criteria which is full of ...
Magdalena Łapińska
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Proposta d'exploració de les referències lectores a partir d'un fòrum [PDF]
, 2012 Podeu consultar el llibre complet a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/28923Es presenten els resultats d'una indagació en el camp de les experiències dels alumnes referides al contacte amb la literatura durant la infantesa i l'adolescència, té com a objectiu ...
Díaz-Plaja, Anna +1 more
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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(u)Mzantsi Classics: Dialogues in Decolonisation from Southern Africa
Brock Education: a Journal of Educational Research and PracticeUsing a dialectical framework, this book interrogates the role that classics has played in southern Africa (Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and especially South Africa) from diverse perspectives, from the earliest European colonizers to the Fallist protests of ...
Adriana Brook
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Adaptations of Literary Works for the Youth [PDF]
Revija za Elementarno Izobraževanje, 2013 It is commonly argued that adaptation impoverishes literary classics through a process of simplification, which updates them for specific reading public.
Miha Mohor
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Rediscovery and Canonization: The Roman Classics in the Middle Ages
Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2017 Issue 3 of Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures explores the theme of the rediscovery and canonization of the Roman classics in medieval Western European literary culture, beginning in the eleventh century and reaching a wide impact on ...
Paolo Borsa +16 more
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Construction of a Model of Metonymy Chains in Translation of Chinese Classics
SAGE OpenAccording to the conceptual metonymy theory of cognitive linguistics, the relationship between the target text and the source text can be interpreted as a type of metonymy, which is still left unexplored in Chinese classics with various types of ...
Weijuan Chen, Weizhong Lu
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Journal of Religious Ethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The concept of humility has a long history of paradoxicality. From denoting a lowly social status—to becoming one of the highest Christian virtues—to falling under the critique of the liberators of the Enlightenment—to experiencing an upsurge of philosophical and psychological interest in recent years, the value of acknowledging one's least ...
Benjamin Birkenstock
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