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A Genealogy of the Ridiculous: From 'Humours' to Humour
Outlines, 1999 We tend to take the phenomenon of humour for granted, seeing it for the most part as something innately and fundamentally human. However we might go even further than this, and say that the phenomenon of humour is perceived as an essential part of what ...
Brenda Goldberg
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Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2013 The article highlights Rabelais’s reception as a dissident author: in the 17th century, not only has he been misjudged as many critics have emphasized it (Lazare Sainéan, Jacques Boulenger), but also felt to be warlike.
Dorothée Lintner
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng +4 more
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Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation As part of a comprehensive strategy (2015-2018), aimed at protecting children from the temptations of tobacco, cross-media communication is an important instrument for the Dutch Cancer Society to increase ...
Marloes Carlier, Laura Houtenbos
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Controlling the Field: Memory, Labor, and Ethics in Oral Histories of Brazilian Human Genetics
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.This article examines how oral histories of twentieth‐century human genetics in Brazil reveal the politics of memory of fieldwork. Through a comparative analysis of interviews with prominent geneticist Francisco M. Salzano and technician Girley V. Simões, who worked with him for most of his career, this study explores the narrative strategies each ...
Rosanna Dent +1 more
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A Blend of Absurdism and Humanism: Defending Kurt Vonnegut’s Place in the Secondary Setting [PDF]
, 2018 This essay argues that Kurt Vonnegut blends a unique humanist stance into his absurdist plots and characters, ultimately urging readers to confront the absurd with a kindness and human decency his protagonists often find rare.
Johnson, Krisandra R
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The influence of rivers on seabird foraging ecology
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rivers act as vital arteries to the world's oceans, delivering fresh water and nutrients that sustain marine ecosystems. Globally, river flow increasingly is being altered by climate change and anthropogenic pressures; yet the significance of rivers to predatory marine species, such as seabirds, and the extent to which river‐related changes ...
Julia B. Morais +2 more
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The Reading Hunger in the American Revolutions and the Complex Work of the Creole Men of Letters
Estudios de Teoría Literaria, 2018 The present article aims to establish a thoughtful dialogue between different reading scenes that took place in American colonies during the revolutionary processes.
Mariana Inés Rosetti
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Musicologica Brunensia, 2018 In the 1710s and 1720s, librettist Pietro Pariati and composer Francesco Bartolomeo Conti cultivated the highly specific genre of tragicommedia per musica at the Habsburg court in Vienna. Of particular interest is their tragicomedy Penelope (1724), which
Livio Marcaletti
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