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“Forego the reality of all the simple things”: On Object-Oriented Reality as Metaphorical Vortex in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations
This article examines Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman in the context of Object-Oriented Ontology, and argues that the novel transports the structural paradigm of reality and being towards a never-ending limbo, highlighting a circular transference of ...
Shahriyar Mansouri
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Negotiating the Terminological Borders of ‘Language Mediation’ in English and Italian. A Discussion on the Repercussions of Terminology on the Practice, Self-perception and Role of Language Mediators in Italy

Lingue Culture Mediazioni, 2015
This paper explores the confusion regarding the use of the terms ‘language mediation’ and ‘cultural mediation’ in Italy by looking at some of the key factors that define this activity, and by comparing it to the way in which the term itself and the ...
Mette Rudvin, Cinzia Giacinta Spinzi
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“Only the Rivers Do Not Come Back”: Conservation Displacement and Rural Responses in Costa Rica

Latin American Research Review, 2023
Costa Rica’s environmental regime is world renowned, and since the mid-twentieth century, the country has protected its inestimable natural resources via land conservation expropriation.
Joseph U. Lenti
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Postprint Copy of Years of Teaching Dangerously: Interfacing Thomas Cromwell in Canon and Fandom, Michael Drayton, “W.S.,” and Hilary Mantel [PDF]

, 2016
When Sir Thomas Bodley founded the Bodleian Library, he sought to keep “baggage books,” “riff-raff books,” and distasteful literature off the shelves. The question of keeping literature in or out of a library or canon is never simply about literature; it
Laurie Ringer
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Nägaśi Gǝdäy, ጦማረ መዋቲ (Ṭomarä mäwati, ‘Letter of the dead’)

Aethiopica, 2020
Review
Hiruie Ermias
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Intertextual Adaptability of the Character of Sherlock Holmes from Literature to Film Production [PDF]

, 2014
This study explores the theme of intertextuality and adaptation between literature and film on the basis of Sherlock Holmes, the 19th/20th-century character conceived by Arthur Conan Doyle. It shows how the character has been adapted from literature into
Paśnik, Martyna
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Affectivity as stance: multimodal stance-taking in audiovisual documentations of Polish and German parliamentary debates

Frontiers in Psychology
This paper presents a media-aesthetic framework to study affectivity as a stance. This framework opens up a new perspective on multimodal affective stance-taking in the context of specific media ecologies.
Cornelia Müller, Maciej Karpiński, Clara Kindler-Mathôt, Katarzyna Klessa, Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow, Jana Katharina Junge, Katerina Papadopoulou, Brygida Sawicka-Stępińska   +7 more
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The Inflow of Southeast Asian Healthcare Worker Candidates in Japan:Japanese Reactions to the Possibility of Cultural and Ethnic Diversity

The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2016
This paper examines the social and cultural meanings of the incorporation of Southeast Asian healthcare migrant workers in Japan, focusing in particular on Japanese attitudes and perspectives.
Kenji Kaneko
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All the colours of the rainbow. [PDF]

, 2014
Our perception of colour has always been a source of fascination, so it's little wonder that studies of the phenomenon date back hundreds of years.
G Dinkova-Bruun, Giles E. M. Gasper, Hannah E. Smithson, HE Smithson, HE Smithson, L Baur, N Lewis, RG Bower, T Young, Tom C. B. McLeish   +9 more
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Decolonial Processes in Modern Ukrainian Literature through the Disclosure of the Soviet Man Image. City Space as One of the Identity-Forming Factors

Місто: історія, культура, суспільство, 2023
A post-colonial approach to literary studies of modern literature, in particular Ukrainian, has gained considerable popularity over the last decade. Clearly, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent attainment of independence have laid the ...
Diana Pidburtna
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