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The Aesthetic Uncanny: Staging Dorian Gray [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article discusses my theatrical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2008). Freud's concept of the uncanny (1919) was treated as a purely aesthetic phenomenon and related to late nineteenth
Darren Tunstall   +3 more
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The Abuser in the Machine: The Invisible Man (2020) as Modern Gothic Horror

open access: yesHumanities
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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Magical Realism in Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname

open access: yesSelçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
Aristotle accentuates the significance of a lifelike depiction in drama and poetry. As a result, realistic art and literature display hostility to creativity and inventiveness beyond the limits of what is believable and plausible. Apart from true to life
Barış Mete
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The Concept of Miracle in Religious Discourse (Semantic Features of Russian and Chinese Cultures in the Perspective of Intercultural Communication)

open access: yesКонцепт: философия, религия, культура, 2023
The relevance of studying the processes of religious consciousness comes from the importance to ensure more coordinated interaction of scientific communities in intercultural communication.
E. I. Arinin, M. S. Lyutaeva, Kun Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Supernature

open access: yesCalenda, 2020
En refusant d’entendre la parole scientifique et en tentant de décrédibiliser le discours écologiste volontiers tronqué ou caricaturé, l’humanité, l’Amérique en tête, pose nettement la question d’une planète où l’être humain n’aurait plus sa place et serait, finalement, condamné à disparaître comme tant d’autres espèces avant lui.
openaire   +1 more source

Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
It is difficult to detect lexical change within Old English, since most of our texts derive from a relatively short period, but lexical change can afford valuable insights into cultural change.
Hall, Alaric
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Teleology and the intentions of supernatural agents.

open access: yesConsciousness and Cognition, 2020
Teleological beliefs about the natural world often exist implicitly, and there is a positive relationship between teleological endorsement and belief in supernatural agents. In the current study, participants judged a series of scientifically unwarranted
A. Roberts, C. Wastell, V. Polito
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale, Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree, and Sir Orfeo Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Two of the tales mentioned in the title are in many ways typical of the great collections of stories (The Canterbury Tales and Il Decamerone) to which they belong.
Wicher, Andrzej
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The Real Conflict Between Science and Religion: Alvin Plantinga’s Ignoratio Elenchi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
By focussing on the logical relations between scientific theories and religious beliefs in his book Where the Conflict Really Lies, Alvin Plantinga overlooks the real conflict between science and religion.
Philipse, Herman
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Supernatural explanatory models of health and illness and healthcare use in China among men who have sex with men

open access: yesGlobal Public Health, 2020
People’s beliefs in supernatural explanatory models of health and illness – beliefs in divine and/or supernatural forces to inform how they perceive, interpret, and respond to health and illness – may have important implications for their use of ...
S. Pan   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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