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Double Agents, Cameos, and the Poor Man's Orchestra: Music and Place in Chungking Express
Flaunting virtuoso camera work, proneness to endless punning, and unabashed exploitation of their leads’ star power, Wong Kar-wai's films are deeply indebted to the values and the practices that have gelled in and around the most representative genres of
Biancorosso, G, Giorgio Biancorosso
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Now, Again and Again: The Metaphysics of Many Presents
ABSTRACT This paper discusses whether there can be multiple present moments. After presenting some reasons for thinking that the question is worthwhile, I challenge several objections to its possibility: worries about the exclusivity of tense; the nature of change, tense logic and semantics; and the apparent tension between multiple presents and an ...
Nikk Effingham
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ABSTRACT Drawing on Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough and Philosophical Grammar, it is shown that, from a hermeneutic perspective, the Middle Wittgenstein, develops a fluid model of understanding which supposes a fixable meaning of any given text. In this context, to understand a text (intransitively) means to (imaginatively) play the language games ...
Sebastian Abel
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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How to Initiate Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Developing Countries Using the Behavior Economics Concept of "Choice Architecture". [PDF]
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Early one morning while taking a bit of a walk
Humorous song, punning on a young man's escapades with his cock, the ladies, and a ...
Keough, Wilken Gertrude; Furlong, Mary Frances
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ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
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Automatic generation of creative text in Portuguese: an overview. [PDF]
Gonçalo Oliveira H.
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ABSTRACT This article presents new archival discoveries concerning the siblings of early modern playwright John Fletcher following the sudden death of their father, Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, in 1596. Navigating the epistemological limits of adversarial legal records from Chancery and the Star Chamber, the study reveals the tumultuous ...
Domenico Lovascio
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