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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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EXPERIENTIAL MEANING BREADTH AND GRAMMATICAL COMPLEXITY REALIZATION VARIATIONS OF W. SHAKESPEARE’S KING LEAR AND J. CROWTHER’S KING LEAR [PDF]
This research is aimed to analyze experiential meaning breadth and grammatical complexity realization variations of W. Shakespeare’s King Lear and J. Crowther’s King Lear. This research tries to answer three questions.
CHRISTI , IRMIA
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Municipalities across the United States and the world face profound climate adaptation and mitigation challenges. To assess current engagement and future potential of various professional communities to communicate about and contribute to such efforts, we conducted 56 in‐depth interviews in Virginia with members of five communities of practice (elected
Teresa Myers +4 more
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Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other
ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Aristotle's Theoria in Contemplative Education
Abstract This essay analyzes Pierre Hadot's reading of Aristotelian theoria in order to evaluate theoria's relevancy for the contemporary field of Contemplative Education. It emphasizes the limited engagement with theoria against a backdrop of heightened attention to mindfulness‐based practices. The essay critiques the conflation of Plato and Aristotle'
Tomas de Rezende Rocha
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Abstract The calcite tests of foraminifera used for reconstructions of past oceanic and climatic conditions are altered after deposition in pelagic sediments by recrystallisation but this process remains poorly understood. To investigate the controls and impacts of recrystallisation we compare laser ablation (LA‐) ICP‐MS‐derived Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratio ...
Janett Voigt +3 more
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Religion and Spirituality in Addiction Recovery
ABSTRACT This article addresses the role of religion and spirituality in addiction recovery, the difficulties concomitant with studying this necessarily interdisciplinary subject, and the possibilities that an expanded understanding of addiction as a historical and cultural phenomenon offers.
Jennifer Lois Hahn
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