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Linguistic peculiarities of Edward Lear’s limericks
InterConf, 2023 This paper deals with the peculiarities of Edward Lear’s limericks. It provides the view of nonsense in the English literature. E. Lear’s principle of nonsense is considered.
A. Pikalova
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Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 408-428, July 2023., 2023 Abstract This article challenges the almost universal historiographical claim that women's bodies were thought to become increasingly masculine as they aged in early modern English medicine, especially after menopause. It is not surprising that this ‘masculinisation hypothesis’ has endured with very little critical appraisal, as there have been few in ...
Amie Bolissian
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The Politics of the British Environment since 1945
The Political Quarterly, Volume 94, Issue 2, Page 208-215, April/June 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines, first, how environmental concerns have shaped British politics since 1945, making the environment an object of governance; and second, how political developments have an environmental history, focussing on the environmental demands of social democracy.
Matthew Kelly
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Przekładaniec, 2022 This article discusses selected “rewritings” of Edward Lear’s nonsense poem “The Akond of Swat”, focusing specifically on the translators’, illustrators’, adapters’ and editors’ attitudes towards the allusive nature of the poem – and specifically the ...
Agata Hołobut
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Character education and the instability of virtue
Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 889-898, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Character education in schools in England is flourishing. I give many examples of the enthusiasm for it as well as drawing attention to the UK government's new ambivalence towards it. Character education seems largely impervious to the many criticisms to which it has been subjected.
Richard Smith
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Los cuentos limerick de Silvina Ocampo
Castilla: Estudios de Literatura, 2016 Este trabajo presenta una lectura de tres relatos paradigmáticos del nonsense ocampiano en su inflexión Lear, “El automóvil”, “Sábanas de tierra” y “La pista de hielo y de fuego”, de la compilación titulada Y así sucesivamente (1987). Se sabe que Silvina
Natalia Biancotto
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Riley in Cairo: British Art and Egypt in the 1980s
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 650-672, June 2022., 2022 In the early 1980s, Bridget Riley produced a series of paintings distinguished by their use of the same group of colours, said to have been inspired by the vividly preserved painted tombs that she encountered during a visit to Egypt in the winter of 1979–80.
Richard Johns
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Human hope and the reign of God
Dialog, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 20-26, Spring 2022., 2022 Abstract This article discusses the theological virtue of hope in relation to the Christian expectation of God's coming reign. Hope, as distinct from optimism and from all sorts of individualistic hopes, refers to God's gift of future. Hence, the tension between expecting God's coming reign, on the one hand, and the challenge of living constructively ...
Werner G. Jeanrond
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The challenge of addressing obesity in people with poorly controlled asthma
Obesity Science &Practice, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 682-689, December 2021., 2021 Abstract Objective There is a high prevalence of obesity in people with asthma, and obesity is associated with poorly controlled asthma. Significant weight loss might improve asthma control: the purpose of this study was to investigate patient characteristics and factors that might affect implementation of a weight loss and/or roflumilast intervention,
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Reflection and synthesis: How moral agents learn and moral cultures evolve
Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 55, Issue 6, Page 935-948, December 2021., 2021 Abstract One aim of moral education is to help society progress from morally imperfect conventions towards more perfect ones. According to a popular view, reflecting judgment is the vehicle of this progress. In this paper, I argue that although reflection is important, it is not enough; moral development also requires practical synthesis.
Joanna Burch‐Brown
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