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Narrator, character, other: Kafka’s triangle in Fürsprecher

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Franz Kafka's protagonists are conspicuously featureless, and yet Kafka is persistently read as a fabulist of the plight of the individual before impervious, impersonal, and indifferent legal structures. How can Kafka champion the individual against such forces when his heroes do not have personalities to lose?
Lindsay O’Connor Stern
wiley   +1 more source

What's Wrong With Self‐Censorship?

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, discourse on freedom of speech has shifted away from exclusive focus on the state and towards societal threats to speech. Amidst this change, the notion of “self‐censorship” has gained increased prominence. Not only has self‐censorship emerged as a common reference point, several recent studies identify it as embodying a ...
Gideon Elford
wiley   +1 more source

Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

Toward an Index of Adaptive Personality Regulation. [PDF]

open access: yesPers Soc Psychol Bull
Irwing P, Cook C, Hughes DJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

What Adult Medical Care Can Learn from Pediatrics: Creating Comfort, Connection, and Joy in the Hospital. [PDF]

open access: yesMayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes
Hole MK, Letchuman S, Gates J, Berry LL.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Use and Functions of English in Egyptian Social Media

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the contemporary functions of English in Egypt through two interrelated lines of inquiry. First, it provides an updated account of the status and roles of English in the country, revisiting and extending Schaub's assessment in light of significant historical, socio‐economic and linguistic developments over the past two ...
Lucia La Causa
wiley   +1 more source

Kinship Terms and Person Address in the English‐Speaking Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of migration, globalization and digitalization on the use of nominal address terms in the English‐speaking Sri Lankan Tamil (SLT) diaspora community by undertaking a corpus analysis of English fiction authored by diaspora members with SLT heritage. In the 40 years since the outbreak of the Sri Lankan civil war,
Anke Lensch
wiley   +1 more source

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