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Taking Root in Floating Cities – Space, Environment, and Immigrant Identity in Kerri Sakamoto’s Floating City

open access: yesStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2020
Human identity is shaped not only by culture, but also by nature – the environment in which people grow up and live, the places and spaces they visit, work in, and pass on an everyday basis.
Antoniak Joanna
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Use of cultivated plants and non-plant remedies for human and animal home-medication in Liubań district, Belarus

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2017
Background To use any domestic remedy, specific knowledge and skills are required. Simple logic dictates that the use of wild plants in the context of limited interaction with nature requires prior identification, while in the case of non-plant remedies ...
Renata Sõukand   +14 more
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Kummitused eestivenelaste folklooritekstides: klassifikatsioon, Valgevene ja Eesti paralleelid [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused
We examine materials related to ghosts from the Russian collection of the Estonian Literary Museum, drawing parallels with Belarusian and Estonian traditions. The thematic content is divided into five categories: (1) names and terminology; (2) appearance
Elena Boganeva, Ilja Butov, Mare Kõiva
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Landscape, culture, and education in Defoe's Robinson crusoe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In their article "Landscape, Culture, and Education in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe" Geert Vandermeersche and Ronald Soetaert discuss Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a narrative that translates nature and our dealings with it into a literary text ...
Soetaert, Ronald, Vandermeersche, Geert
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Rederijkers, Kannenkijkers : drinking and drunkenness in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Low Countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article discusses drinking practices and conceptions of drunkenness in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Low Countries from the perspective of the rederijkers or guildsmen who would regularly gather together to practice the vernacular art of ...
Van Bouchaute, Sarah   +1 more
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Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article focuses upon Alicia LeFanu (fl. 1809–36), author of several poems, six multi-volume novels, a critical biography of her grandmother, Frances Sheridan, and articles for the Court Magazine.
Fitzer, Anna M.
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE MORPHEMATIC STATUS AND ON THE PARSING OF THE ROMANIAN FINAL VOWEL –"Ă" IN COMMON NOUNS FORMED THROUGH MOTIONAL DERIVATION

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2020
Observations on the Morphematic Status and on the Parsing of the Romanian Final Vowel –ă in Common Nouns Formed through Motional Derivation. This study represents the result of research on the morphology of the contemporary Romanian language and ...
Diana-Maria ROMAN
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Social and cultural of criticism: Contribution to the interpretation of the twelve books of Serbian literary criticism) [PDF]

open access: yesBaština, 2022
The paper sheds light on the importance of the first edition project of twelve volumes of Serbian literary criticism as a stage in the development of criticism as a culture in Serbian society and as a premise for the publication of a new edition of ...
Mumović Ana M.
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Surface tension: History of culture and Boris Eikhenbaum’s concept of “Literary environment” [PDF]

open access: yesRhema. Рема, 2020
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue of Rhema entitled “Literary Environment and Artistic Culture in the 20th century” and devoted to Russian and Ukrainian literary and artistic associations.
I. Pilshchikov, A. Ustinov
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Del giro lingüístico al giro narrativo: Rorty, la contingencia del lenguaje y la filosofía como narrativa

open access: yesGrafía, 2013
The aim of this paper is to explain and evaluate Rorty’s thesis of the contingency of language, by examining the validity of the Davidsonian proposal of passing theories of meaning, upon which the thesis rests.
Jorge Sierra Merchán
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