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A RECEPÇÃO DE OS MISERÁVEIS NO BRASIL DO SÉCULO XIX RECEPTION des Misérables à Century BRÉSIL XIX
Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar três ensaios sobre o romance francês Osmiseráveis, de Victor Hugo, a que leitores brasileiros do século XIX tiveramacesso.
OFIR BERGEMANN DE AGUIAR
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Forgive, Because You Were Forgiven
ABSTRACT Philosophical orthodoxy has it that forgiveness is always discretionary—a gift we are free to extend to those who wrong us, but one that we are never morally required to offer. I dispute this orthodoxy, arguing that forgiveness is sometimes obligatory, even though wrongdoers can never demand or otherwise extract it from us.
Abraham Mathew
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Notre Dame de Paris, Romance Dramático?
Este artigo analisa Notre Dame de Paris, romance de Victor Hugo publicado em 1831, explorando o significado da obra em relação com os debates que tiveram lugar ao longo da década de 1820.
Jefferson Cano
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Moral Tolerance: The Ethics of Social Punishment in Cases of Moral Disagreement
ABSTRACT In many practical contemporary contexts, people need to make correct ethical judgements about how to respond to perceived wrongdoing—in particular, whether to punish it or tolerate it. This judgement can be challenging when the wrongdoer does not accept the allegation of wrongdoing at the level of moral principle, holding that the type of ...
Hugh Breakey, Graham Wood
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures
Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
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Et s’il n’en reste qu’un… Le mépris comme arme de combat chez Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo, homme de combat, a adopté à de nombreuses reprises la posture du « seul contre tous » dans sa vie politique comme dans sa vie littéraire. Le mépris, assorti de l’ironie et d’un sens féroce de la polémique, apparaît alors comme une arme de ...
Delphine Gleizes
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ABSTRACT This article examines how the Venezuelan government defended the gradual transformation of the country's political system from democracy to authoritarianism in an international forum. Building on the concept of international legitimation strategies, we qualitatively analyse Venezuelan government speeches at the United Nations General Assembly (
Felipe Jaramillo Ruiz, Osmel Osuna
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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Victor Hugo: poética romántica en Cromwell
El presente estudio es un intento por describir algunos elementos de la poética romántica tal como fuera propuesta por el escritor francés Víctor Hugo.
Juan Brando
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