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Of gods and men: The gift of bicameral mentality in Lake Atitlán's Mayan oral literature

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 2025.
Abstract This study investigates contemporary Mayan oral stories through the lens of Julian Jaynes's theory on the origin of consciousness, aiming to identify a potential connection between the literary elements of these narratives and traits of pre‐consciousness outlined by Jaynes.
José M. Franco Rodríguez, Daniel Montoya   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Paranormal romance: an attempt to define the subgenre in the context of young adult literature [PDF]

, 2016
This diploma thesis thematically follows up one of subgenres of young adult popular literature - paranormal romance. Its main aim is to create a comprehensive definition of this subgenre on the basis of interpretation of representative sagas - Twilight ...
Ditrychová, Martina
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Prejudice is epistemically unwarranted belief

Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 38, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract In two preregistered online studies with U.S. adults, we provide evidence of a common psychological profile characterizing belief in prejudicial and non‐prejudicial epistemically unwarranted claims. We solicited self‐report ratings of beliefs in prejudicial and non‐prejudicial pseudoscientific, conspiratorial, and paranormal claims, as well as
Emilio Jon Christopher Lobato, Colin Holbrook   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thoroughly Modern Mina: Romance, History, and the Dracula Pastiche

Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2019
Dracula pastiches have been popular for decades, but it is only since the 1970s that authors have regularly turned to imagining romances between Dracula and Mina Harker.
Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
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Investigating “man’s relation to reality”: Peter Winch, the vanishing shed and metaphysics after Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 3-23, January 2024.
Abstract Peter Winch believed that the central task of philosophy was to investigate ‘the force of the concept of reality’ in human practices. This involved creative dialogue with critical metaphysics. In ‘Ceasing to Exist’, Winch considered what it means to judge that something unheard‐of has happened.
Olli Lagerspetz
wiley   +1 more source

Police‐perpetrated racism and health in African American and Black communities

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2024.
Abstract This brief review article focuses on police‐perpetrated racism against African American and Black (AAB) communities, typically in the form of police brutality, police violence, and aggressive policing. We assert that police‐perpetrated racism constitutes a racial justice and public health problem.
Lori S. Hoggard, Mariah T. Lutchman
wiley   +1 more source

Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies

Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2012
This paper traces the evolution of the figure of the queer heroine in romance from the Middle Ages through contemporary fiction. We locate queerness not only in a female protagonist’s romantic and sexual preferences, but also in any other identity ...
Katherine E. Lynch, Ruth E. Sternglantz, Len Barot   +2 more
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Del príncipe azul al vampiro millonario : la alienación del sujeto femenino en las novelas del romance paranormal

Signa: Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica, 2012
A partir de la obra poética de José Ángel Valente construimos una estética de la disolución en la que todo parece disolverse en su propio interior y esta infiniversión crea una red que liga las problemáticas del infinito, el ritmo, la materia, la forma y el vacío.From the poetic works of José Ángel Valente we construct an aesthetic of dissintegration ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Magic, Love and the City. Foreword to Sources of Urban Fantasy Popularity

, 2023
The urban fantasy genre is currently receiving increasing attention from audiences and researchers. One of the factors contributing to this is the growing reception of fantasy per se.
Szymczak-Maciejczyk, Barbara
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Paranormal tourism in Edinburgh : storytelling, appropriating ghost culture and presenting an uncanny heritage

, 2015
The paranormal industry in Edinburgh has become a thriving niche within the country’s tourist market. While ghost walks have been explored in anthropology from the perspective of spectacle, this thesis investigates and analyses the cultural framework ...
Holzhauser, Elizabeth
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