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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Humanism at the Council of Constance. Diego de Anaya, Classical Manuscripts and Education in Salamanca

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Common sense, scientific images, and the aesthetic mode of knowing. [PDF]

open access: yesHist Philos Life Sci
Inbar S   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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Rethinking ‘Hill‐Valley Divide’ in Darjeeling District, India: An Autoethnographic Approach to Highland Identities

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

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