The ritual of sacrifice and the economy of violence [PDF]
Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură, 2023 Mythical and historical memory are two sides of the same reality. Folk legends remind us that there are great tragedies behind great epic heroes and mythic deeds/images.
Katica Kulavkova
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Can Sophie's choice be adequately captured by cold computation of minimizing losses? An fMRI study of vital loss decisions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The vast majority of decision-making research is performed under the assumption of the value maximizing principle. This principle implies that when making decisions, individuals try to optimize outcomes on the basis of cold mathematical equations ...
Qi Li +9 more
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THE BIBLICAL CONTEXT OF SELF-REJECTION MOTIF IN THE PLOT OF IVAN TURGENEV’S “A STRANGE STORY” [PDF]
Проблемы исторической поэтики, 2016 The article studies the functional role of biblical reminiscence in Ivan S. Turgenev’s short novel “A Strange Story” (1870). A pretextual function of the Bible and interpretations of certain biblical theses, sayings and maxims are revealed ...
Vyacheslav M. Golovko
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Word Havens: Reading One’s Way out of Trauma in Contemporary Fiction [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2019 Prompted by the attention received in recent years by the collateral benefits of reading and the growing prominence of bibliotherapy in the literary marketplace, this paper aims to investigate the therapeutic effects of books as they emerge from the ...
Lucia Opreanu
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Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2014 Bezhan Helen Genocide in American-Russian comparative discourse (W. Styron Sophie’s Choice A. Kuznetsov Babiy Yar) Studying W. Styron’s (Sophie’s Choice) and A. Kuznetsov’s (Babi Yar) texts allowed to find common and different interpretation of the war
Olena Bieżan
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The Work of Nurses in Primary Health Care: Crossings of the New Public Management. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel), 2023 Kasper MS +15 more
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Sophie's choice: The costs of the COVID-19 pandemic versus the costs of its “treatment”
Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2020 Debasish Basu
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Effects of Alexithymia on Moral Decision-Making in Sacrificial Dilemmas: High Alexithymia is Associated with Weaker Sensitivity to Moral Norms. [PDF]
Psychol Res Behav Manag, 2023 Chen X, Wu Z, Zhan B, Ding D, Zhang X.
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Why Is Everyone Reading Sophie's Choice?
Virginia Libraries, 2000 Peggy Stillman, Andrea Kross
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How End-of-Life Blogs Re-Affirm the "Power to be Oneself". [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2021 Green G.
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