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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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Studies in Arts and Humanities, 2019 I started taking photographs of Direct Provision in 2007 while I was confined – as an asylum seeker – living in The Old Convent Direct Provision Centre in Ballyhaunis. The photographs that I took then, and after I received a permission to stay in Ireland
Alexander Kouker
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Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Nursery rhymes, which are rich in literary devices, benefit children's language learning. Less is known about the influence that nursery rhymes' messages may have on children's development. We focused on “Monday's Child,” a popular nursery rhyme that alleges children's day of the week of birth forecasts their differences in ...
Emily Wood +8 more
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The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore
The Journal of Popular Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Garrulous parrots appear in a wide array of pop culture forms—from urban legends, television sitcoms, and advertising, to comics, pulp detective fiction, and jokes (naming a few). The birds can be helpful, clever agents; but more often they are mischief makers challenging social norms. Among the pandemonium of parrots in expressive culture, we
Greg Kelley
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Molecular Ecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pollinators harbour diverse RNA viromes that play a vital role in their health. Yet, factors that shape viral communities are often unclear. The European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is experiencing a viral epidemic since the emergence of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor (varroa) introduced vector‐borne transmission, which has also been ...
Jana Dobelmann, Lena Wilfert
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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Reasons, rationality, and opaque sweetening: Hare's “No Reason” argument for taking the sugar
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Caspar Hare presents a compelling argument for “taking the sugar” in cases of opaque sweetening: you have no reason to take the unsweetened option, and you have some reason to take the sweetened one. I argue that this argument fails—there is a perfectly good sense in which you do have a reason to take the unsweetened option. I suggest a way to
Ryan Doody
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Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2006 This essay proposes some analytical possibilities concerning the relationship between madness and gender in the history of mental asylums in the mid-20th century in Colombia.
María Angélica Ospina Martínez
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Lugar de encuentros de tópicos románicos : Doña Juana la Loca de Pradilla
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII, Historia del Arte, 1999 Estudio del cuadro titulado «Doña Juana la Loca» de Pradilla, que aquí es considerado como la culminación de la pintura de historia en España y el inicio de su decadencia.
José Enrique García Melero
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