The nature of libertine promises in Laclos's Les 'Liaisons Dangereuses [PDF]
, 2003 This article suggests that the libertines Valmont and Merteuil privilege promises because their futural orientation implies a godlike control of people and events, and because promises offer the possibility of being broken, of further pleasure to be ...
McCallam, D.
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Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Unsuccessful efforts to update the middle power concept for the contemporary international system have prompted calls for the concept to be “historicized”—to be retired from common use and treated as a purely historical term. The problem with this proposal is that “middle power” has become increasingly popular in the 2020s in analysis ...
Kim Richard Nossal
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Structures in Crisis: A Narrative Approach to Asghar Farhadi’s Films [PDF]
, 2020 This paper proposes an exploration of the films of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi. It employs a methodology based on textual analysis, focusing specifically on the structural design of his films and the focalization processes of his scripts.
Rodríguez Serrano, Aarón
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Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
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The rhythmic dimension in fiddle-playing as the music moves to newer performing and learning contexts [PDF]
, 2008 Publisher ...
Cranitch, Matt
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Can riots represent? A democratic theory
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
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Smoothie or Fruit Salad? Learners’ Descriptions of Accents as Windows to Concept Formation [PDF]
, 2015 This paper explores the linguistically naive descriptions which one set of EFL learners provided when identifying and describing accents. First and second-year English majors at a French university were asked to do two tasks.
Alice Henderson +70 more
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The development of a tape recording for appreciative listening to choral speaking in the fourth grade [PDF]
, 1959 Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston ...
Allison, Janet H.
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Weaving Political Identities: Jean‐Luc Nancy, Empedocles, and (the Later) Plato
Constellations, EarlyView.
Benjamin Hutchens
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Pragmatical Paradox of Signature
Signata, 2018 The paper proposes to grasp handwritten signature as a metaphysical invention of the so-called “Western” civilization, where the signature is supposed to make possible juridical identification of the person who wrote it. However, despite this expectation
Michaela Fišerová
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