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Fear in the medical and literary imagination, medieval to modern: Dreadful passions

, 2018
This book is about an emotion constantly present in human culture and history: fear. It is also a book about literature and medicine, two areas of human endeavour that engage with fear most acutely.
McCann, DB, McKechnie-Mason, C
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Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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Review of the almanac: Balyuk N.A., Vychugzhanin A.L. (еds.) Tobolsk and all Siberia: historical, cultural, literary and artistic almanac: in 2 books. Tyumen – the capital of villages. Tobolsk: Izdatel’skii otdel TROBF «Vozrozhdenie Tobol’ska», 2023. Book 1. 480 p.; Book 2. 536 p.

Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология
The article presents a review of the historical and cultural literary and artistic almanac «Tyumen – the capital of villages». This publication is relevant and socially significant in the context of modern problems of the Russian village and the ...
V. V. Kondrashin
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Štefan Krčméry and Slovak history [PDF]

Slovenska Literatura
Štefan Krčméry (1892–1955) was an exceptionally complex creative personality. In addition to his literary work and editorial activities, he was involved in Matica slovenská and other associations.
Daniela Kodajová
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Urbs/passion/politics: Venice in selected works of Ruskin and Pound

, 2009
PhDThis thesis argues that the representations of Venice found in the works of John Ruskin and Ezra Pound can only fully be understood in the light of historico-political contexts such as the Austrian occupation of Venice, the rise of revolutionary ...
Barnes, David
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Periodization of literary history (background, philosophical origins and functions) [PDF]

تاریخ ادبیات, 2013
Historical studies, among the ways of classifying historical information, are most inclined to periodization. Periodization divides historical information in the time axis.
ناصرقلی سارلی
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Literary Texts and the Roman Historian [PDF]

The Classical World, 2005
Craige Champion, David S. Potter
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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André P. Brink se posisie in die Afrikaanse literêre sisteem van die 1960’s

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017
This article investigates Andre P. Brink’s role and position in the Afrikaans literary system of the 1960s. It is found that Brink was a very active role player in drama and prose, both as a writer and as a critic, and his activity is compared with every
Burgert A Senekal
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