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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

Dostoevsky’s Women: Finding a Voice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In Fyodor Dostoevsky\u27s works Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and The Idiot, the characters of Lisa, Sonya, and Nastasya Filippovna reveal the author\u27s inability to envision an autonomous woman leading a functional life independent of ...
Nogas, Michelle A
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More on pejorative language: insults that go beyond their extension [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Slurs have become a big topic of discussion both in philosophy and in linguistics. Slurs are usually characterised as pejorative terms, co-extensional with other, neutral, terms referring to ethnic or social groups. However, slurs are not the only ethnic/
Castroviejo, Elena   +2 more
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Der "Lügengeneral" Iwolgin Dostojewskijs Roman "Der Idiot" [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Der Artikel analysiert die Gestalt des General Iwolgin in Dostojewskijs Roman "Der Idiot". Konstatiert werden Übereinstimmungen der Figurencharakteristik mit dem psychopathologischen Befund der "Pseudologia phantastica".
Dr. Garstka, Christoph
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Hired Childcare and Changing Maternal Perceptions Among the Urban Poor: Baby Farming in the Western Lands of Late Imperial Russia

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores baby farming in the western regions of late imperial Russia, framing it as a childcare practice of the lower‐classes – a form of crèche for working mothers. The article delves into the public discourse surrounding baby farming among the educated strata and contrasts it with how this practice was viewed by the lower ...
Ekaterina Oleshkevich
wiley   +1 more source

Green Day´S Jesus of Suburbia. (De-)Constructing Identities in the Land of Make-Believe

open access: yesDiffractions, 2015
In 2004, when Green Day released their album American Idiot, the long-term effects of 9/11 were still unfolding across America and the world at large. With the prevailing discourse of the war on terror serving the purposes of implementing a culture of ...
Sónia Pereira
doaj   +1 more source

Swearwords Used by Gangsters in the “Alpha Dog” Movie [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Many people assume that swearwords is a rude word and should be avoided. Those words are used to insult, to curse, to offend or to mock at something when the speaker has strong emotion (Hughes, 1991,05).
Christian, D. (Daniel)   +1 more
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Multilocus sequence typing of the invasive pest Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) and associated endosymbiont reveals unexplored diversity

open access: yesInsect Science, EarlyView.
A multilocus sequence typing approach is proposed to explore Halymorpha halys genetic diversity, taking into consideration both insect nuclear markers and markers from the gut symbiont “Candidatus Pantoa carbekii.” Increased information was revealed regarding the number of distinct holobiont haplotypes in native and invasive populations of the pest ...
Matteo Dho   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pemberdayaan masyarakat retardasi mental sebagai upaya meningkatkan kesehatan jiwa melalui metode proverasi

open access: yesCounsellia, 2017
Abstrak Desa Krebet merupakan salah satu dari empat desa di Kecamatan Jambon Kabupaten Ponorogo yang mayoritas penduduknya mengalami gangguan retardasi mental, sehingga julukan “Kampung Idiot” masih melekat hingga saat ini di masyarakat tersebut. Kondisi
Dahlia Novarianing Asri   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Account of Opinion Implicatures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
While previous sentiment analysis research has concentrated on the interpretation of explicitly stated opinions and attitudes, this work initiates the computational study of a type of opinion implicature (i.e., opinion-oriented inference) in text.
Deng, Lingjia, Wiebe, Janyce
core   +1 more source

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