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MARKING OF SACRED PLACES; pp. 129–144 [PDF]
Trames, 2020 For most religions, nature has been an important medium and, to a smaller or greater extent, all religions use nature or its sacredness as a metaphor for religion.
Mare Kõiva +4 more
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Digital Storytelling Through #Endsars.Com as A Form of Narative Memorial
ELT Worldwide: Journal of English Language Teaching, 2023 Communal digital (auto) biographical is a memorial of trauma that exists in a synthetic frame referential to the memories of abuse. #Endsars.com highlights the collective narratives of netizens who are abused and subjugated by the Nigeria Police Force ...
Jayne I. Owan, Onyekachi Peter Onuoha
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Lingual, 2021 There is evidence that contemporary Nigeria is drifting towards a society of monolingual English users, a component of which could be defined as lacking in ethno-linguistic identity. This trend is found among a generation of young Nigerian urban dwellers
Peter Ochefu Okpeh, James Udaa
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The Scientization of Literary Study [PDF]
Proceedings of the 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, 2019 Scholarly practices within the humanities have historically been perceived as distinct from the natural sciences. We look at literary studies, a discipline strongly anchored in the humanities, and hypothesize that over the past half-century literary studies has instead undergone a process of “scientization”, adopting linguistic behavior similar to the ...
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Andrew Piper
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Fännikultuuri loomine koroonakriisis Eesti ja Valgevene jalgpallijuhtumite näitel [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2021 The comparative study analyses the relationship between sports culture and the COVID-19 crisis based on the case studies of fan groups in Estonia and Belarus. Sports and the COVID-19 pandemic are closely interconnected. In the Estonian case, the official
Anastasiya Fiadotava, Piret Voolaid
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Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2020 Referring to the discussion on the critical potential of dystopias in fiction, the article examines twentieth century feminist plays by Ann Jellicoe, Bryony Lavery and Germaine Greer for their presentation and critical deconstruction of gender roles ...
Edyta Lorek-Jezińska
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Identity and Diasporic Trauma in Mira Jacob’s “The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing” [PDF]
English Studies at NBU, 2021 This article explores the assimilation politics in Mira Jacob’s novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing (2013). The intersection of memory, trauma, and mourning with reference to immigrant experience is discussed.
Jameel Alghaberi, Sanjay Mukherjee
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Latour and Literary Studies [PDF]
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2015 I am interested in questions of reading and interpretation. I am also drawn to actor-network theory and the work of Bruno Latour. Can these attractions be brought into alignment? To what extent can a style of thought that describes itself as empiricist and rejects critique speak to the dominant concerns of literary studies?
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The Superior Visual Perception Hypothesis: Neuroaesthetics of Cave Art
Behavioral Sciences, 2021 Cave Art in the Upper Paleolithic presents a boost of creativity and visual thinking. What can explain these savant-like paintings? The normal brain function in modern man rarely supports the creation of highly detailed paintings, particularly the ...
Per Olav Folgerø +2 more
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Nowhere and everywhere: Navigating gendered urban spaces in Haruki Murakami’s After Dark
Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya, 2021 Nowhere and everywhere: Navigating gendered urban spaces in Haruki Murakami’s After Dark Urban space has been one of the most underexplored elements analyzed in literary works.
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