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Irreality from Linguacognitive Viewpoint: Comparative Aspect of Study (on English and Russian Material)

open access: yesИзвестия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2017
The article is devoted to the investigation of linguistic and cognitive aspects of irreality in English and Russian languages. Since the study of irreality in linguistic and cognitive aspects has no long history the importance is emphasized.
Tatyana N. Nikulshina
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Convention, Repetition and Abjection: The Way of the Gothic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper employs Deleuze and Kristeva in an examination of certain Gothic conventions. It argues that repetition of these conventions- which endows Gothicism with formulaic coherence and consistence but might also lead to predictability and stylistic ...
Łowczanin, Agnieszka
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Connecting the dots: Illusory pattern perception predicts belief in conspiracies and the supernatural

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, 2017
A common assumption is that belief in conspiracy theories and supernatural phenomena are grounded in illusory pattern perception. In the present research we systematically tested this assumption.
Jan‐Willem van Prooijen   +2 more
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Neo-Gothic Trend in Contemporary American Teenage Literature (John August’s Arlo Finch Trilogy)

open access: yesФилологический класс, 2022
The article analyzes the novels by a famous American screenwriter John August “Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire” (2018), “Arlo Finch in the Lake of the Moon” (2019) and “Arlo Finch in the Kingdom of Shadows” (2020).
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Humanity, Nature, and the Supernatural in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2023
This paper examines the ways through which Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” might be considered as an example of environmental literature which focuses extensively on nature and the human relationship to it.
Sabri Mnassar
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SUPERNATURAL A-TERM INFLATION [PDF]

open access: yesModern Physics Letters A, 2010
Following Ref. 10, we explore the parameter space of the case when the supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking scale is lower, for example, in gauge mediated SUSY breaking model. During inflation, the form of the potential is V0 plus MSSM (or A-term ) inflation. We show that the model works for a wide range of the potential V0 with the soft SUSY breaking mass m
Lin, Chia-Min, Cheung, Kingman
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The quest for supernatural products: the impact of total synthesis in complex natural products medicinal chemistry.

open access: yesNatural product reports (Print), 2020
Covering: 2000 up to 2020This review presents select recent advances in the medicinal chemistry of complex natural products that are prepared by total synthesis.
Zhi-Chen Wu, D. Boger
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Cross-Cultural Kingship in Early Medieval Kāmarūpa: Blood, Desire and Magic

open access: yesReligions, 2017
Kingship in early medieval Kāmarūpa (Assam) was influenced by the collision of orthodox and heterodox Brahmanic traditions with various tribal cultures.
Paolo Eugenio Rosati
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The Common-Core/Diversity Dilemma: Revisions of Humean thought, New Empirical Research, and the Limits of Rational Religious Belief [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper is the product of an interdisciplinary, interreligious dialogue aiming to outline some of the possibilities and rational limits of supernatural religious belief, in the light of a critique of David Hume’s familiar sceptical arguments ...
Millican, Peter   +1 more
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"Fanfiction and the author: How fanfic changes popular cultural texts," by Judith May Fathallah

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2020
Review of Judith May Fathallah. Fanfiction and the author: How fanfic changes popular cultural texts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017, hardcover, €99 (234p) ISBN 978-90-8964-995-9, eISBN 978-90-485-2908-7.
Balaka Basu
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