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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

Politics, Poetry, People: an Overview of Contemporary Poetry Trends in the British Literary Landscape

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2019
The article deals primarily with the poetic discourse surrounding the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and the post-referendum developments in the UK.
Evgeniia Zimina, Mariana Sargsyan
doaj   +1 more source

Processing advantage for emotional words in bilingual speakers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Effects of emotion on word processing are well established in monolingual speakers. However, studies that have assessed whether affective features of words undergo the same processing in a native and non-native language have provided mixed results ...
Costa, Albert   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Churchill and Germany: A ‘Special’ Relationship

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract No other country defined the trajectory of Churchill's political career more than Germany, a country of which he had little direct knowledge but which he either sought to emulate, accommodate or oppose throughout his time in politics. This article traces Churchill's relationship with Germany from his entry into politics at the beginning of the
T. G. Otte
wiley   +1 more source

A Note on the Determinants of IFRS Policy Choice When Accounting for Non‐controlling Interest and Goodwill

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
This paper provides evidence on the choices made by European firms when measuring non‐controlling interest (NCI) and goodwill. Since 2009, IFRS 3 allows measurement of NCI either at fair value (full goodwill method) or at the proportionate share of net assets (partial goodwill method). IFRS 3 allows this policy choice on a per transaction basis.
Matilda Hellman Aasen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Amphibian Habits: Freedom, Death, and History in Hegel's Account Of Second Nature

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel's concept of habit is key to his account of social freedom. But it also appears preclude free reflection on social norms. Recent readers have either minimized this problem or concluded from it that social freedom necessarily implies new forms of unfreedom. This paper aims to avoid the latter conclusion while taking seriously its critical
Eskil Elling
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a uniform account of scrambling and clitic doubling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
A commonly held view in the literature on Scrambling and Clitic Doubling is that both constructions are sensitive to Specificity. For this reason Sportiche (1992) proposes to unify the two, an approach which has become quite standard in the relevant ...
Alexiadou, Artemis   +1 more
core  

Hegel and Utopia

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
wiley   +1 more source

S. Sholl’s “Own” and “Alien” Russia

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2018
In this paper, within the framework of the linguoculturological approach, the problem of interaction of cultures is studied. In this regard, the conceptual opposition of “own” – “alien” reflects the uniqueness of perception and interpretation of the real
Morozov Evgenii   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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