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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the origins of the words we use. In this paper, we will shed light on these origins, including the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the British Empire and, of course, a TV show.
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Vernon Watkins, metaphysical poet [PDF]
, 1984 The Welsh poet Vernon Watkins (1906-1967) can best be characterized as a modern metaphysical poet. Not only does he stand in relationship to certain "Metaphysical Poets" of the seventeenth century like Henry Vaughan and Thomas Traherne, but he is ...
McCaslin, Susan
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Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper compares Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory of “the good life” and Daniel Haybron's psychic affirmation theory of “happiness,” which he differentiates, as a descriptive notion, from “well‐being” as an evaluative notion. Haybron suggests that a central determinant of happiness has to be the somewhat reliable occurrence of positive ...
Ole Höffken
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Studia Humanitatis, 2013 This article is devoted to the problem of realization of the category of lyrical character in the Joseph Brodsky’s love poetry. The aspiration to characterize the lyrical character through details of the material world becomes the feature of the poet’s ...
Bayramova Karina Arturovna
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Metaphysical poetry / ed. by Malcolm Bradburry and David Palmer [PDF]
, 1970 METAPHYSICAL POETRY / ED. BY MALCOLM BRADBURRY AND DAVID PALMER Metaphysical poetry / ed. by Malcolm Bradburry and David Palmer (1) Cover (1) Titelseite (3) Contents (4) Preface (5) I.
Palmer, David, Bradburry, Malcolm
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Sodalis's Lyrics on Tadeusz Różewicz's Poetic Juveniles [PDF]
, 1997 The work analyzes a group of poems written by an eminent poet, Tadeusz Różewicz (b. 1921), and published in the monthly of Marian Sodality entitled "Under the Sign of Mary" in the years of 1938-39.
Kłak, Tadeusz
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Contingency, (In)significance, and the All-Encompassing Trip: Pearl Jam and the Question of the Meaning of Life [PDF]
, 2021 The first scholarly discussion on the band, Pearl Jam and Philosophy examines both the songs (music and lyrics) and the activities (live performances, political commitments) of one of the most celebrated and charismatic rock bands of the last 30 years ...
stefano marino
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The metaphysical and poetical universe of A. A. Fet [PDF]
, 1994 "The previously-neglected metaphysical aspect of Fet's poetry discussed in this thesis mainly concerns itself with the philosophical, ontological and aesthetical basis of his lyrics.
Shenshin, Veronica
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