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Can Nationalism Be Democratic?
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nationalism and democracy are often presented as natural allies: National self‐determination is best achieved through democratic institutions, while a shared national identity generates the trust and willingness to compromise that stable democracies need. This article, however, explores two possible points of conflict. The first concerns rival
David Miller
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, 2013 Myths both create primary literary text of oral tradition periods and constitute a source of inspiration for contemporary literature. Many authors employ the mythical elements in their fictional works with the aim of providing meaningfulness or transform
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Occasion and audience as poetic constructs in early modern occasional poetry
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Occasional poetry, composed for specific events such as weddings or funerals, was a dominant form of poetry in early modern Europe. Despite its historical prominence, the role of the occasion as a literary and rhetorical construct in occasional poetry has been very little studied.
Eeva‐Liisa Bastman
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Порівняльна міфологія — галузь гуманітарного знання, що системно зіставляє міфи різних культур із метою виявлення спільних тем, мотивів і наративних структур.Comparative mythology is a field of humanities that systematically compares myths from different
Луцюк, Микола Володимирович
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Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
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To be(long) or not to be(long): Literature and community
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Over several decades, the modern world's intensified mobility has prompted a broad interest in community studies in the social sciences, which address in new ways the topics of place, belonging, and identity formation. Such topics being salient to literature and literary studies as well, the overall aim of the article is to extract a selection
Svend Erik Larsen
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Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper invites the readers to rethink regulatory governance by examining how trust‐based and rule‐based governance interact. To do this, it uses analytical narratives of three fictional polities: “Trustland”, “Regland”, and “Concordia”. Each polity represents a stylized model of governance: Trustland is anchored in trust‐based governance ...
David Levi‐Faur
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Myth and Law among the Indo-European, Studies of Indo-European Comparative Mythology
, 1974 le Roux-Guyonvarc'h Françoise. Myth and Law among the Indo-European, Studies of Indo-European Comparative Mythology. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 52, fasc. 3, 1974. Langues et littératures modernes - Moderne taal- en letterkunde.
le Roux-Guyonvarc'h, Françoise
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Titian's Falconer: From Zorzone to Girolamo Cornaro
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The identity of the sitter in Titian's Falconer and the issue of its dating have been subject to a false, yet very influential assumption: that The Falconer should be dated to a point as late as 1537 in order to connect it to the identity of Zorzone Cornaro (1517–1571), son of Girolamo (1485–1551).
Rachel Healy
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