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Affective Resistance to Sirach’s Androcentric Presentation of a Daughter’s Body [PDF]

open access: yesJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2022
This article concentrates on the affective impacts of the relationship between the bodies of the father and his daughter in Sirach. It relies on gender studies as well as affect theory to explore how intensities pass from body to body in the biblical ...
Sébastien Doane
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A cruel and pointless trick? False non-closure in Horace’s Odes

open access: yesDictynna, 2023
Some scholars argue that only a change of metre signals the beginning of a new poem in Horace’s Odes. Woodman has objected that, if this were the case, the juxtaposition of poems in the third and second asclepiadic metres, which begin with the same two ...
Robert Cowan
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The Power of 'Wonder' by R. J. Palacio to Trigger Young Readers’ Emotionally Literate Responses

open access: yesLinguaculture, 2021
Readers’ emotions are naturally blended with their cognitive abilities in the transaction with literary texts. From the perspective of emotional intelligence, an emotionally literate reader will be able to read beyond the surface of the text and make ...
Raluca Ștefania Pelin
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Reader’s Factors in Interpreting Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe Using Reader-Response Theory: A Preliminary Study

open access: yesHumaniora, 2011
Article aims to find variety of interpretations on Eldorado poem, following the readers’ internal factors, such as societal norms, personal values and past experiences influence the interpretations.
Risa R. Simanjuntak   +1 more
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Students' responses to "The Gift of the Magi" and imaginative re-creations

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Research has thus far shown that students' interest and active involvement are pivotal in the language learning process. However, there is a paucity of research examining how an English literary text can be exploited to bolster student engagement in an ...
Muhammad Rifqi   +3 more
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Patterns of cognitive dissonance in readers’ engagement with characters

open access: yesEnthymema, 2013
Leon Festinger’s account of cognitive dissonance, published in 1957, has become one of the most successful theories in the history of social psychology.
Marco Caracciolo
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Gendering Sarai: Reading Beyond Cisnormativity in Genesis 11:29–12:20 and 20:1–18

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2020
This article explores the way assumptions about gender prevalent in twenty-first century readers impact our understanding of Sarai. It interrogates the way a mere glimpse allows us to instantaneously assign a person gender, something trans theorist Julia
Henderson-Merrygold Jo
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Reakcja polskich czytelników na holenderskie elementy kulturowe w polskim przekładzie thrillera „De reünie” [„Zjazd szkolny”] autorstwa Simone van der Vlugt [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Translatorica
The subject matter of this article is the Dutch culture-specific items (CSIs) in the Polish translation of the thriller “De reünie” by Simone van der Vlugt.
Małgorzata Zarzycka
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The Role of the Reader-Response Approach to Teaching Short Stories in Developing Students’ Critical Thinking in EFL Literature Classes: A Quasi-Experimental Study

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2023
Literature has become one of the major concerns of EFL classes. It is now regarded as one of the authentic resources that can be used in the language classroom along with other resources.
Hazha Salih Hassan   +2 more
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The Ultimate Objective: Planned Obsolescence of Medical Humanitarian Missions: An Interview with Tony Redmond, Professor and Practitioner of International Emergency Medicine and Co-founder of HCRI and UK-Med

open access: yesJournal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2020
In this interview with editors Tanja R. Müller and Gemma Sou, Tony Redmond reflects on his long career as a professor and practitioner of international emergency medicine and founder of UK-Med, an NGO that provides international emergency humanitarian ...
Tanja R. Müller , Gemma Sou
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