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IRON AGE CELTIC ART AS THE RELIGIOUS METANARRATIVE VISUALIZATION

open access: yesАктуальні питання суспільних наук та історії медицини, 2021
The purpose of the article is to reveal to which extent the Iron Age Celtic art visualized the metanarrative of the Celtic religion. The methodology is based on the applying of structural and semiotic approaches to the symbols and representations of ...
Gennadii KAZAKEVYCH
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Two Kinds of “Woke”? Psychometric Validation of the Critical Right Scale and Revised Critical Social Justice Attitudes Scale

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Psychology, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 814-827, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study developed and validated the Critical Right Scale (CRS) to measure emerging critical right attitudes and revised the Critical Social Justice Attitudes Scale (CSJAS‐R), replicating its psychometric evaluation. A nationwide convenience sample of Finnish adults (n = 626) completed an online survey. Item screening used exploratory factor
Oskari Lahtinen
wiley   +1 more source

Exonerating Eve:

open access: yesCrossings, 2020
For millennia, women have been demonized and denigrated through the metanarrative of Eve’s collaboration with Satan in Paradise as proof of women’s inherent moral inferiority as the progenitors of the “Original Sin.” Grandstanding poets such as Milton ...
S M Mahfuzur Rahman
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The wire and the world: narrative and metanarrative [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Rarely, if ever, has a television drama constructed a narrative with such a strong thrust to metanarrative. Its intricate and interwoven storylines dramatise the dialectical interaction of individual aspirations and institutional dynamics.
Sheehan, Helena, Sweeney, Sheamus
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Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
wiley   +1 more source

The Mainstreaming of Environmental Criticism: Theory and Nature

open access: yesSelçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2023
Contemporary theory has been framed by structuralist, poststructuralist and postmodernist discussions about social, cultural and linguistic formation of meaning. Structuralists argue that meaning is an external feature. It depends on the linguistic
Barış Mete, Defne Erdem Mete
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Trauma and the (Im)Possibility of Representation: Patrick McGrath’s Trauma

open access: yesCultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2013
: The present paper explores the notion of trauma as the epitome of the postmodern crises of representation and communication. Through the example of Patrick McGrath’s novel Trauma (2008), the trauma phenomenon will be scrutinized as thematic and ...
David Kerler
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The social pathology of polycrisis

open access: yesGlobal Sustainability
Non-technical summary The polycrisis, an inadvertent peril of our own making, poses an existential threat to the modern world. Given humanity's innate desire to live safely, and to prosper, what explains this self-inflicted danger?
Stephen J. Purdey
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Decalogue Five: A Short Film about Killing, Sin, and Community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Decalogue Five tells the story of Waldemar Rekowski (Jan Tesarz), a jaded taxi driver, Piotr Balicki (Krzysztof Globisz), an idealistic, newly-licensed attorney, and Jacek Lazar (Mirosław Baka), a young and troubled drifter, whose lives intersect with ...
Baur, Michael
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Futures of Everyday Life: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Future Personas in Scenarios

open access: yesFUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Scenario reports, holding a long‐standing tradition in foresight and futures studies, act as an essential document for organizations to prepare for possible, plausible, and alternative futures. Focusing on descriptions and representations of everyday life, we examined 29 future persona narratives from six publications—covering a wide field ...
Gerhard Schönhofer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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