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The Potential of Poetry in Sociolinguistics
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 348-352, June 2026.ABSTRACT Research in the field of sociolinguistics has taken a relational and artistic turn, as scholars have developed creative means of showing research findings. Drawing on relational ethics, we explore the capacity of art to reach beyond the indexical.
Angela Creese, Adrian Blackledge
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Emotions Guaranteed: On the Kitsch Contract
ESPESKitsch is usually described as overwhelming – as if it captivates the audience, almost inevitably taking hold of them and manipulating emotions. Such assumptions are influenced by aesthetic positions like Kant’s, who claimed that ‘pure’ aesthetic ...
Thomas Küpper
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The Camp of Reason: Spinoza's Ethics as Affirmative Excess
Nursing Philosophy, Volume 27, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Perhaps Spinoza's Ethics is the most austere text in Western philosophy: axioms, definitions, propositions, demonstrations, arranged with the composure of a Euclidean proof. Yet readers who persist report something closer to exhilaration than to the satisfaction of verification. This paper asks why.
Jamie Brian Smith
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Sentimentalismo e kitsch: pontos cegos no modernismo artístico
História: Debates e Tendências, 2019 Na visão histórica de Clemente Greenberg, o modernismo é caracterizado pelo “purismo”, ou seja, pela recusa de agentes contaminantes na constituição das formas específicas de arte.
Gerson Luís Trombetta
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 259-272, March 2026.Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Familiarity as a « Kitsch » Generating Mechanism in Private and Media Discourse [PDF]
Anadiss, 2022 The paper investigates the implications of the colloquial language in the production and reception of the kitsch as a language phenomenon, with a special focus on its processability within the language field in which it manifests itself.
COCA, Monica
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 564-574, July 2025.ABSTRACT This paper articulates the implications of linguistic relativity for liberal nationalism and the objectivity of national culture. The nationalism scholarship of recent decades has been largely characterized by a modernist and constructivist orthodoxy that emphasises the artificial, top‐down and socially constructed nature of national culture ...
Rhianwen Daniel
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Fusion-kitsch des arts performatifs chez Marcel Proust1
Itinera, 2023 Marcel Proust’s novels certify kitsch by the presence of architecture, theater and fashion. The writer produced his works using textual accumulation and hybridization. These two processes call for other arts in romantic production. From this point
Axel Richard Eba
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Anton Chekhov and the Catastrophes of Teaching
Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 514-530, June 2025.Abstract In this essay, Ross Collin offers ethics‐focused readings of Anton Chekhov's popular short stories “The Schoolmistress” and “The Teacher of Literature.” Chekhov shows in the two stories how teaching can inhibit teachers' flourishing. That is to say, teaching under bad conditions can draw teachers into moral “catastrophe,” to use Cornel West's ...
Ross Collin
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