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Why Fun Aunties Matter: A Modest Account
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, I offer a child‐centred account of the value of company‐keeping relationships between children and adults. These are relationships enjoyed by a child and an adult who is neither a mere acquaintance nor integrally involved in that child's care or upbringing.
Lesley Jamieson
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UK Live Comedy Sector Survey Report 2024 [PDF]
The UK Live Comedy Sector Survey 2024 was jointly conducted by the Centre for Comedy Studies Research at Brunel University, the Live Comedy Association, and British Comedy Guide. The UK Live Comedy Sector Survey was administered by Brunel University of
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Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biochemistry forms the foundation for understanding biomolecules and molecular processes crucial to dental and oral biology. However, it is often perceived as a challenging subject for dental students with diverse educational backgrounds. Analogies are a pedagogical tool that helps explain new and abstract concepts in biochemistry.
Ulysses Tsz Fung Lam, Yun Chau Long
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Global StorytellingChina’s strict censorship not only depoliticizes stand-up comedy but creates obstacles for feminist activities. With an experimental approach that compares comedy shows online and offline, this paper asks in which ways comedy and feminism can gesture the
Shaoyu Tang
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Altre Modernità, 2019 What follows is a qualitative analysis of the use of impoliteness for comic effect in the British comedy series Life’s Too Short written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Because each episode centres on Warwick Davis, an actor with restricted growth,
Dermot Heaney
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UK Live Comedy Sector Survey Report 2025 [PDF]
The UK Live Comedy Sector Survey 2025 was jointly conducted by the Centre for Comedy Studies Research at Brunel University, the Live Comedy Association, and British Comedy Guide.
Lockyer, S, Weaver, S, Rowe, G
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Two eighteenth-century English adaptations of the Celestina : Celestina: or the Spanish bawd : a tragi-comedy; and the Bawd of Madrid. [PDF]
, 1974 PhDThe introductory chapter discusses previous studies of Celestina imitations and adaptations, and the position of early Celestinesque works in Spanish literature.
Newton, Jeremy
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An investigation into BBC Radio 4 comedy appreciation ratings (AIs): ‘the cesspool with the velvet lid’ [PDF]
, 2014 BBC Radio 4 comedy is heard by over five million people every week in the UK. Selecting which comedy programmes are to be broadcast on the station is mainly the duty of a single person: Radio 4’s Commissioning Editor for Comedy. She faces a delicate task,
Benson Amanda
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2019 This review critiques Terry Lindvall et al.'s Divine Film Comedies: Biblical Narratives, Film Sub-Genres, and the Comic Spirit. Lindvall et al.'s account is a study of a synthesis of the impact of film comedies with religious themes. By carrying out this
Tereza Walsbergerová
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Criticón, 2016 This paper scrutinises a group of plays crucial to a better understanding of the itinerary that leads to our classical theatre: that of the urban comedy of Celestinesque type, also known by the critics as naharresca comedy or Romantic comedy.
Laura Puerto Moro
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