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Acknowledging Ambivalence in Teaching about Art and Aesthetics
Abstract In this article Daniel Brodén explores the ambivalence in teaching about art and aesthetics in the humanities. By comparing and contrasting Gert J. J. Biesta's educational theory and Jacques Rancière's writing on aesthetics, he hopes to bring some of the particularities of aesthetic experiences into focus and to discuss a tension in ...
Daniel Brodén
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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This paper presents a digital microfluidics‐based technique for transferring and reconfiguring soft nanomembranes. Laser‐machined nanothin membranes are picked up, transported, and aligned via tailored surface tension and the actuation of water droplets, enabling the development of flexible electronics, the integration of functional materials on 3D ...
Quang Anh Nguyen +15 more
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Spanish juniper woodlands are expanding across central Spain as farmland is abandoned. By combining 34 years of land‐cover data with high‐resolution photogrammetry and field measurements, we show that juniper growth depends on topography, solar exposure and competition with shrubs. High irradiance increases biomass in older stands but limits young ones,
Laura Bentley +5 more
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Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque
Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality.
Rasmus Vangshardt
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Semantic dementia: A form of circumscribed cerebral atrophy
Presents case reports of a 67‐yr‐old man and 2 women (aged 60 and 66 yrs) with primary cerebral atrophy in whom progressive breakdown in language and visual perception are attributed to loss of semantic information. This form of dementia is distinct from that of Alzheimer′s disease and is assumed to represent a form of circumscribed cerebral atrophy ...
Julie Snowden +2 more
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The role of the Praenotamenta of Jodocus Badius Ascensius in shaping early modern dramatic criticism
Abstract This article examines the profound and enduring legacy of the treatise on classical drama known as Praenotamenta ascensiana in shaping early modern dramatic poetics. Written by Flemish scholar Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462–1535) as a preface to his 1502 edition of the Classical plays of Terence, this work has been unjustly overlooked by the ...
Giulia Torello‐Hill
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‘By consultation of elevated minds’: the role of paratexts in Giovanni Battista Calderari's comedies
Abstract Genette's Seuils considers the dramatic paratext as the odd one out, and, indeed, the early‐modern theatrical paratext has remained understudied. This article discusses the paratexts of the comedies of Giovanni Battista Calderari, a sixteenth‐century author quite neglected by scholars, whose works were published in Vicenza and Venice.
Lies Verbaere
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Thinking night studies through a southern European perspective
Abstract To emphasise the contribution of situated perspectives to the advancement of the field, this review provides a genealogy of night studies across southwestern Europe. This interdisciplinary field of research has significantly developed in English‐speaking scholarly communities, and it has only more recently been growing in importance on ...
Giuseppe Tomasella
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La fantasma de Valencia y las comedias de Fiestas del jardín de Alonso de Castillo Solórzano: hipótesis de datación y circunstancias de representación. [PDF]
Monzó Ribes C, Blanco Campos F.
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