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The Mouse and The Icon: on the Ethnographic Roots of Dostoevsky’s Poetics [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2020 The article focuses on a well-known episode of the novel by Dostoevsky Demons where the narrator calls placing the mouse in the icon case “a senseless, mocking blasphemy.” Unlike the obvious narrative function — to symbolize a series of coming ...
Sergey V. Alpatov
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Dostoevsky and David Foster Wallace: On Parallel Tracks? [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2021 The article discusses ways in which David Foster Wallace engages with Dostoevsky’s life and works. The article points out that Wallace’s commencement speech, “This Is Water,” makes no direct references to Dostoevsky, yet the moral and spiritual values ...
Ellen Chances
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ANTİK MEZOPOTAMYA SOSYAL DÜZENİNDE DEMONLAR: PAZUZU VE LAMAŠTU PARADOKSU
History Studies, 2023 Yaşamın her alanına yayılan paradoksal düşünme ve kişilerin karakterleriyle uyuşmayan zıt davranışları, aslında birbirine tezat ancak aynı zamanda sinerjik ve sistem içerisinde birbiriyle ilişkili dualiteleri birlikte düşünmeyi gerektirmiştir.
Yeşim Dilek
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Predictive Maxwell's demons [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2020 Here we study the operation efficiency of a finite-size finite-response-time Maxwell's demon, who can make future predictions. We compare the heat and mass transport rate of predictive demons to non-predictive ones and find that predictive demons can achieve higher mass and heat transport rates over longer periods of time.
Nathaniel Rupprecht, Dervis Can Vural
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Why Did Jesus’ Disciples Fail to Cast Out the Deaf and Mute Spirit? (Mark 9:14–29)
Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, 2023 On the basis of a close reading of the pericope of the healing of the boy with a mute spirit as it is recorded in Mark 9:14–29, I argue that Mark intended Jesus’ enigmatic answer “this kind can can come out only through prayer and fasting” (Mark 9:29 ...
Torsten Löfstedt
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The Hypostasis of the Archons: Platonic Forms as Angels
Religions, 2023 The thesis of this paper is that Platonic Forms are angels. I make this identification by claiming that Platonic Forms have the characteristics of angels, in particular, that Platonic Forms are alive. I offer four arguments for this claim.
Marcus William Hunt
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Grey-Wolf-Based Wang’s Demons for Retinal Image Registration
Entropy, 2020 Image registration has an imperative role in medical imaging. In this work, a grey-wolf optimizer (GWO)-based non-rigid demons registration is proposed to support the retinal image registration process.
Sayan Chakraborty +4 more
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Photonic Maxwell’s Demon [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2016 8 pages, 3 ...
Vidrighin, M.D +5 more
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Caesarius of Heisterbach. Dialogus miraculorum. Dictio V: On demons. Russian translation, preface and commentary [PDF]
Религия, церковь, общество, 2018 This is the first Russian translation of the 5th distinctio of the Dialogus Miraculorum, perhaps the most interesting part of the famous collection of exempla compiled by Caesarius of Heisterbach in 1220s.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Andersen
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The Demons of Judas and Mary Magdalene in Medieval Art
Religions, 2022 There are few specific studies on the demonic possession of Judas and Mary Magdalene, especially as regards the representation of these demons in medieval art.
Elena Monzón Pertejo +1 more
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