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An interspecific foraging association with polar bears increases foraging opportunities for avian predators in a declining Arctic seabird colony. [PDF]
Ecol EvolInterspecific foraging associations (IFAs) are biological interactions where two or more species forage in association with each other. Climate‐induced reductions in Arctic sea ice have increased polar bear (Ursus maritimus) foraging in seabird colonies, which creates foraging opportunities for avian predators.
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REVISITING NORSE MYTHOLOGY: THE CASE OF A.S. BYATT’S RAGNARÖK [PDF]
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023 In 2011, British author and Booker-prize winner A. S. Byatt publishes Ragnarök, her rewriting of the Norse myth about the death of the gods. Seen through the eyes of a thin child who is forced to witness the terrors of World War II, the story and ...
Cristina Mihaela NISTOR
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Pessimistic Strategy in Negative Politeness Study in Thor: Ragnarok Movie
Humanis, 2022 Good communication is the basis of a good relationship. In achieving the appropriate goals, responses, and reciprocities of speech, people tend to apply the value of decency. The pessimistic strategy of negative politeness is analyzed in this study.
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Fans on the silver screen: Portrayals of fandom in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 56, Issue 3-4, Page 731-743, June/August 2023., 2023 Abstract Fan culture has changed the whole entertainment industry, becoming “mainstream.” Thus, its expressions necessarily shape franchise cinema, including Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The study reacts to this shift, aiming to explore how MCU movies incorporate images of fan culture and turn some of their support characters into “fans.” The ...
Jana Radošinská, Zdenko Mago
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Popular fiction and white extremism: Neo‐Nazi ideology and medievalist crime fiction
Literature Compass, Volume 19, Issue 11, November 2022., 2022 Abstract Dystopian near‐future fantasies of violent white revolution and genocide—most infamously, William L. Pierce's The Turner Diaries (1978)—are the most well‐known and studied fictions by white extremists. They are, however, not the only genre through which the extreme far‐right engage with popular culture.
Helen Young, Stephanie Downes
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WIREs Climate Change, Volume 12, Issue 5, September/October 2021., 2021 A historic perspective to existing discussions about climate change, places and identity can help us understand why and how these self‐perceptions and collective identities have developed and how this could be a barrier or enabler of adaptation measures for climate change. Photo: Jessica Holzhausen.
Jessica Holzhausen, Kevin Grecksch
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Erich Przywara’s Late Reception of Luther
Modern Theology, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 595-615, July 2021., 2021 Abstract Erich Przywara’s late career writings have to this point received little attention in English. While Przywara’s earlier writings include both significant dialogue with Protestant theologians (most prominently Karl Barth) and occasional references to Martin Luther, Luther takes on a new prominence in his work after the Second World War.
Adam T. Morton
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDY OF MOTIF DIFFERENCES IN RAGNAROK AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION
Lire Journal, 2020 This research aims to formulate the similarities and the differences of the death motif employed in Ragnarok and the Book of Revelation. Both of these stories use the same motif of death but with different portrayal and explanation of the death. The data
Agung Wijianto
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The wolf's jaw: an astronomical interpretation of Ragnarok [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2018 This paper aims to explain the eschatological outbreak that occurred during the X century in Scandinavia and northern Europe, which gave rise to a great iconography of Ragnarok, stemmed primarily from the Old Norse mythology. Our basic hypothesis is that
Langer, J.
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Old Scandinavian and Christian eschatology
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990 The eschatological beliefs current in Scandinavia during the Viking and early Medieval periods can be grouped into two main traditions, denoted by the concepts of Ragnarok and Doomsday.
Anders Hultgård
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