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

Известия 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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Temporal Instability, Wildernesses, and the Otherworld in Early Modern Drama

Literature, 2022
This article shows how temporal disorder diffuses into the wildernesses within early modern English drama. Those areas beyond the walls of cities and castles in—among other plays—The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, and ...
Edward B. M. Rendall
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Facing the Monsters: Otherness in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim and Hellboy

Religions, 2020
What happens when we imagine the unimaginable? This article compares recent films inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos with that author’s original early 20th century pulp horror stories. In Guillermo del Toro’s films Pacific Rim
David McConeghy
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Review: Sarah Bartels, The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture [PDF]

, 2023
Book review of Sarah Bartels, The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English ...
Smith, H.
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The quest for supernatural products: The impact of total synthesis in complex natural products medicinal chemistry

Natural product reports (Print), 2020
This review presents select recent advances in the medicinal chemistry of complex natural products that are prepared by total synthesis. The underlying studies highlight enabling divergent synthetic strategies and methods that permit the systematic ...
Zhi-Chen Wu, D. Boger
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Humanity, Nature, and the Supernatural in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

European 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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Connecting the dots: Illusory pattern perception predicts belief in conspiracies and the supernatural

European 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.
J. van Prooijen, Karen M. Douglas, Clara De Inocencio   +2 more
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"Fanfiction and the author: How fanfic changes popular cultural texts," by Judith May Fathallah

Transformative 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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The Abuser in the Machine: The Invisible Man (2020) as Modern Gothic Horror

Humanities
By modernizing Gothic tropes within a narrative exploring the trauma of intimate partner violence, the latest film adaptation of The Invisible Man from Leigh Whannel draws attention to the invisibility of the psychological and societal horrors of abuse ...
Emily Zarka
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The Cross-Cultural Kingship in Early Medieval Kāmarūpa: Blood, Desire and Magic

Religions, 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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