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The Aesthetic Uncanny: Staging Dorian Gray [PDF]
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
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
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 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
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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.
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Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture [PDF]
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.
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
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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]
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]
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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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 ...
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