Telling Stories of and with the Body: Artistic Tattoos Overwriting Breast Cancer Scars
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following recent advances in sociocultural linguistics on body semiosis, this paper analyses artistic tattoos over breast cancer scars as embodied communicative practices inscribing narratives of self. After sketching the ways in which sociolinguistics and the medical humanities conceptualise narratives of different kinds, we investigate the ...
Isabelle Buchstaller +1 more
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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
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The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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Chopin's Craft of Musical Form: Making Romantic Music with Classical Theme Types and Galant Schemata
Music Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Frédéric Chopin adhered to traditional practices in musical form to a far greater extent than hitherto acknowledged. He took certain standard formal paths with remarkable consistency throughout his compositional career and across almost all his favoured genres.
Matthew Riley
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Hemiolas and Displaced Metric States in Joropo
Music Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Joropo, a Colombian and Venezuelan folk genre, frequently employs simultaneous and successive multi‐level hemiolas, which are often displaced from one another – features which existing models of rhythmic dissonance cannot concisely account for.
Lina S. Tabak
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Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
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Emotional Design in Chinese Pictographic Character Learning: Effects on Cognitive Load, Aesthetic Pleasure, and Intrinsic Motivation Among CSL Learners. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)Liu B, Wang J, Yue Z, Ma J, Zhang J.
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Image-Based Recognition of Intricate Animal Motifs on Ming Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Using an Improved YOLOv8n Model. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Zhao Y, Luo S, Wang Q, Sun Q.
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