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A Short History of the Sublime in Polish Literature from a Comparative Perspective [PDF]

, 2015
The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Płuciennik, Jarosław
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Post-Apartheid National Spatial Development Planning in South Africa - A Brief History [PDF]

, 2010
Since coming to power in 1994 successive ANC-governments have engaged in a series of attempts at national spatial development planning in South Africa. These engagements have received scant treatment in the planning literature.
Oranje, Mark
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Magic Realism in the Novel of “The Last Pomegranate” Written by Baxtiar Ali

پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2015
Combining the realities of life with traditions, beliefs and extreme daydreaming of people of Caribe area, which was a mixture of African black slaves’ beliefs with the Indian traditions before Coulomb, leaded to the rising of Realism Style.
Hiwa Weisi, Mohammad Zahed Saeditabar, Ata Almasi   +2 more
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The emergence and transformation of literary space

Literator, 1995
"The main theoretical difficulty inherent in the teaching of literature", Paul deMan (1986:29) observed, “is the delimitation of borderlines that circumscribe the literary field by setting it apart from other modes of discourse”, Dissatisfied with ...
R. Nethersole
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A Tuner that Accelerates Parameters

, 1998
We propose a tuner, suitable for adaptive control and (in its discrete-time version) adaptive filtering applications, that sets the second derivative of the parameter estimates rather than the first derivative as is done in the overwhelming majority of ...
Atkinson, Paulo A, Pait, Felipe M.
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‘Evil never dies, right?’ Monstrous mediation in the A Nightmare on Elm Street Film Series

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
This article investigates images of mediation in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series, focusing primarily on its main antagonist, Freddy Krueger, and his monstrous uses of media.
Morten Feldtfos Thomsen
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Yingjin Zhang, ed. China in a polycentric world : essays in Chinese comparative literature

, 2000
This article reviews the book China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature edited by Yingjin ...
MORAN, Thomas
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Review of the South American whip scorpions (Thelyphonida: Arachnida) [PDF]

, 2002
The literature concerning South American thelyphonids presently supports recognition of about ten recent species of thelyphonids representing two genera.
Rowland, J.
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Contesting realities

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
In 2004, an unnamed Bush adviser accused a senior Wall Street Journal reporter of belonging to the “reality based community”—a community that believed solutions stem from the judicious study of reality. “We're history's actors, “ he told the journalist,
Jessica Whyte
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Kleist and Haiti: The Haitian Revolution in Heinrich Von Kleist’s 'Die Verlobung in St. Domingo'

Karib, 2018
This article revisits the question of how to interpret Heinrich von Kleist’s short story “Die Verlobung in St. Domingo”. While Kleist specialists have tended to insufficiently relate the story to the developing field of Haitian studies, scholars more ...
Jonas Ross Kjærgård
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