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Translation as a journey through possible and impossible worlds
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2023 In this paper, translation is examined from the perspective of the semantics of possible worlds. The consequences of this viewpoint are explored, particularly in relation to the metaphor of traveling through possible and impossible worlds in translation ...
Valery Z. Demyankov
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Unnatural Temporalities and Projected Places in Sam Shepard’s Cowboys #2
ELOPE, 2021 Sam Shepard’s Cowboys #2 (1967) belongs to his first period of play writing. In this phase, his works exhibit experimental, remote, impossible narrative/fictional worlds that are overwhelmingly abstract, exhibiting “abrupt shifts of focus and tone ...
Omid Amani +2 more
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Исследования языка и современное гуманитарное знание, 2021 In the present paper we make an attempt to define the phenomenon of autofiction as opposed to the well-established notion of autobiography, that over the last number of years has sparked off considerable debate about factual and fictional in life-writing,
Maria A. Yalovenko
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Modal realism: Yet another hybrid version [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2015 The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of modality by means of the existence of concrete impossible worlds. In particular, I pursue a strategy according to which logical impossibility is analyzed as logical inaccessibility.
Vacek Martin
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Degrowth but, Where? Degrowth For Whom? [PDF]
ARQ, 2022 It is almost impossible to disagree with a proposal seeking to slow things down to minimize harm to the planet. However, the question is where. The manifesto in The Case for Degrowth acknowledges the challenge of asking distinct populations to lower ...
Deepak Lamba-Nieves
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Hyperfine-Grained Meanings in Classical Logic [PDF]
, 1991 This paper develops a semantics for a fragment of English that is based on the idea of `impossible possible worlds'. This idea has earlier been formulated by authors such as Montague, Cresswell, Hintikka, and Rantala, but the present set-up shows how it ...
Muskens, Reinhard
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A Theory of Impossible Worlds (Metalepsis)
Castilla: Estudios de Literatura, 2015 The purpose of this work is threefold: First, to develop a textual model of literary genres based on generic categories, natural and elemental, capable of being applied to all literary texts, existing or imaginable; second, to attempt to explain the ...
Alfonso Martín-Jiménez
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Degrowth but, Where? The Case for Degrowth [PDF]
ARQ, 2022 It is almost impossible to disagree with a proposal seeking to slow things down to minimize harm to the planet. However, the question is where. The manifesto in The Case for Degrowth acknowledges the challenge of asking distinct populations to lower ...
Giorgos Kallis +3 more
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Figures et mondes impossibles en jeu vidéo
Sciences du Jeu, 2023 The author studies impossible figures and worlds in video games. To this end, they draw on scholarship dealing with impossibility in fiction, in particular certain works on possible worlds theory, and draw inspiration from approaches relating to the ...
Jesse Aidyn
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D’un monde à l’autre ou les rhétoriques de l’exemple dans les manuels de microéconomie
Revue de la Régulation, 2018 In France, for more than 15 years, many economics students have urged their professors to leave “imaginary worlds” behind. This paper takes this plea as an invitation to interrogate ourselves about the world(s) we tell our students about. In this context,
Sophie Jallais
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