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Human-Monster Interactions, Lawlessness and Plasticity in Lord of the Flies: An Interdisciplinary Exploration [PDF]

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William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies is considered one of the best dystopian fictions not for its segmented setting and political contour but for its deep exploration of the horror and terror of untrodden spheres of the human psyche.
Amit Pandey
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Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
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Genre Hybridization, Literary Traditions, and Thematic Complexity in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red [PDF]

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
In postmodern literature, genre hybridization and thematic richness are far from being rare phenomena. However, when a classicist and translator chooses the verse novel as the most suitable genre for a story inspired by Stesichorus’s Geryoneis ...
Lenke KOCSIS
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Representational unification in cognitive science: Is embodied cognition a unifying perspective? [PDF]

, 2019
In this paper, we defend a novel, multidimensional account of representational unification, which we distinguish from integration. The dimensions of unity are simplicity, generality and scope, non-monstrosity, and systematization.
Miłkowski, Marcin, Nowakowski, Przemysław   +1 more
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UNIVERSALITY IN THE CLIMATE CATASTROPHE: RETHINKING CHAKRABARTY'S ANTHROPOCENE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY WITH MERLEAU‐PONTY'S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article critically examines Dipesh Chakrabarty's concept of Anthropocene history, a philosophy of history that is designed to respond to the universal challenge of the Anthropocene. It uses the work of Maurice Merleau‐Ponty to mitigate the pitfalls of Chakrabarty's concept and to propose an alternative relation between nature and history.
Andréa Delestrade
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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Memory/ monstrosity/ representation [PDF]

, 1999
Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 1999 Version appears in her Surpassing the spectacle, 2002.The war against the United States in Vietnam has moved from being a nightmare to a memory for the ...
Becker, Carol
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The Irony of Liberation in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest vividly portrays the tragic consequences of repressive psychiatric authority. The film was—and remains—one of the most memorable and well‐known products of anti‐psychiatry sentiment. Opponents of American psychiatry from the time period of Cuckoo's Nest objected to what they saw as social control ...
Laura Hirshbein
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The Poetics of Banality in Slovak Literature after the Year 1945 [PDF]

Slovenska Literatura, 2019
The paper is focused on the ways of thematizing the everyday life, ordinariness and banality in Slovak post-war literature. The poetics of banality is traced within the frameworks of the event poetics, while the event is seen as a problem happening, as ...
René Bílik
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Uncanny survivors and the Nazi beast: Monstrous imagination in See under: Love [PDF]

, 2016
In the past three decades, as writers have grappled with the legacy of the Holocaust and its aftermath, figures of the uncanny—such as ghosts, monsters, and mythic beings—have consistently appeared as salient metaphors in Holocaust fiction. As symbols of
Spiro, Miriam
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