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Anna Karenina i Arktis: Tekst og landskap i Aritha van Herks Places Far From Ellesmere

open access: yesNorsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift, 2018
Anna Karenina in the Arctic: Text and Landscape in Aritha van Herk’s Places Far From Ellesmere The Arctic is an imagined space as much as a geographical place; our ideas and understanding of the region are based both in the fictional and the ...
Janicke Stensvaag Kaasa
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Swamped: On Depression and Vision

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Swamped” cracks open my experience of depression by exploring how a specific place—a swamp—acted on me to bring social and emotional injuries, but also modes of seeing that ultimately moved me out of the depression, to the fore. In writing from this specific place, I build on moments in which something—a desire for beauty, the luminosity of ...
Petra Rethmann
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Beyond therapeutics: Psychosis and poetics

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how poetry serves as a form of semiotic rearrangement for those undergoing episodes of what psychiatry calls psychosis. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, I explore how poetry's capacity to hold intemporal experiences facilitates an ambiguous economics of meaning that serves as a semiotic ...
Anjana Bala
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Bullshit activities

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Frankfurt gave an account of “bullshit” as a statement made without regard to truth or falsity. Austin argued that a large amount of language consists of speech acts aimed at goals other than truth or falsity. We don't want our account of bullshit to include all performatives.
Kenny Easwaran
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De bois e outros bichos: nuances do novo Realismo brasileiro

open access: yesEstudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, 2012
The article analyses two short stories by Marçal Aquino, “Boi” and “A exata distância da vulva ao coração”, which were published in two different selections.
Tânia Pellegrini
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Composing senselessness: Autoethnography after homicide

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.
Abstract Not all narratives create meaning, or create the same kinds of meaning; instead, some stories amplify meaninglessness, which—it is argued—is its own form of sense‐making. This article examines how meaning is formulated through narrative in the absence of a meaningful death, specifically in the context of a motiveless murder.
Jerome Arrow
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Patagonian Imaginary Nature: Colonial Narratives in Documentary Films on Subnational Spaces (1920–1955)

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, EarlyView.
This study contributes to the ongoing historical examination of ecological and postcolonial questions in Latin America through the lens of new media genre narratives. Early 20th‐century documentary films of Argentine Patagonia institutionalised a natural binary opposition, positioning those challenging colonial power relations based on natural ...
Cielo Zaidenwerg, Mauricio Dimant
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« Je suis un petit peu alchimiste » : la collision des genres littéraires dans la Trilogie allemande de L.-F. Céline

open access: yesRevue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises, 2019
L.-F. Céline’s Trilogie allemande is a work that is still difficult to define today. Following a current interpretation, the voice of the novelist has given way to the chronicler’s perspective.
Jacopo Leoni
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