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Liberal Nationalism and the Objectivity of National Culture: A Linguistic Relativity‐Based Reassessment

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper articulates the implications of linguistic relativity for liberal nationalism and the objectivity of national culture. The nationalism scholarship of recent decades has been largely characterized by a modernist and constructivist orthodoxy that emphasises the artificial, top‐down and socially constructed nature of national culture ...
Rhianwen Daniel
wiley   +1 more source

‘Who is afraid of fairenesse or wanton ladies appearing in their barenesse?’: laughing at female desire in early modern English reception of the myth of the Trojan War☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth's heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war's calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth's women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
wiley   +1 more source

Historical Review of Euthanasia. From Ancient Times until before Modern Times. [PDF]

open access: yesMaedica (Bucur)
Spinthouraki A   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Prophetic promise: the lineal return of ‘lopp'd branches’ in Shakespeare's Cymbeline

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative power of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare's ...
Rana Banna
wiley   +1 more source

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