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An Instance of the Grotesque from Smollett to Dickens: Roderick (Random), Barnaby (Rudge) and the Raven [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
International audienceSmollett's influence on Dickens has been frequently commented upon, 1 and goes deeper than one might infer from the passing allusions made by David Copperfield, who, echoing the views of his creator, expresses several times his ...
Rouhette, Anne
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A utilitarian antagonist: the zombie in popular video games [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article takes as its starting point the prevalence of the zombie in video games. I argue that, although the zombie games often superficially resemble filmic texts in their use of aesthetic and narrative, they must be understood, less as a set of ...
A Tudor   +11 more
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AI voice journaling for future language teachers: A path to well‐being through reflective practices

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study aimed to explore the perceived impact of using an AI‐powered voice journaling app in overcoming the challenges and stressors encountered by senior students enrolled in teaching practicum at an English Language Teaching Bachelor's programme.
Bora Demir, Duygu Özdemir
wiley   +1 more source

Joint power control and user grouping mechanism for efficient uplink non‐orthogonal multiple access‐based 5G communication: Utilising the Lèvy‐flight firefly algorithm

open access: yesIET Networks, EarlyView., 2023
We utilise a metaheuristic optimisation method, inspired by nature, called the Lévy‐flight firefly algorithm (LFA), to tackle the power regulation and user grouping in the NOMA systems. Abstract The non‐orthogonal multiple access strategies have shown promise to boost fifth generation and sixth generation wireless networks' spectral efficiency and ...
Zaid Albataineh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grotescul geniului şi geniul grotesc [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2011
The following pages contain a hermeneutical analysis of the grotesque into Eugen Ionescu’s biographical study “Tragic and grotesque life of Victor Hugo”.
Aluniţa Cofan
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Grotesque maternity: reading "happiness" and its eugenics in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child (1988) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper contexualises and reads Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child (1988) as a criticism towards the Family Acts conducted by Thatcher’s government in 1980s Britain. The article principally draws attention to the main and minor protagonist’s “annomalous”
Uematsu, Nozomi
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Potential of a digital parenting app to support parents of toddlers: Relations between the intensity of app use, language‐related parental self‐efficacy and the home literacy environment

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The home literacy environment (HLE) has a considerable influence on children's language development. How parents perceive their own parenting abilities (e.g., how well they encourage their children's language development) is particularly important when it comes to guiding their children appropriately through different stages of development ...
Luisa Prokupek   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Repugnance as Performance Error: The Role of Disgust in Bioethical Intuitions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
An influential argument in bioethics involves appeal to disgust, calling on us to take it seriously as a moral guide (e.g. Kass, Miller, Kahan). Some argue, for example, that genetic enhancement, especially via human reproductive cloning, is repellant or
May, Joshua
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‘They just want the perfect kids on show’: The illegal exclusion of children with special educational needs and disabilities from primary schools

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Guidance from the Department for Education stipulates that permanent exclusions should only be used as a last resort and where there is potential for harm to come to anyone in the school setting. Suspensions are positioned as a tool to communicate to a pupil that their behaviour is in breach of the school's behaviour policy.
Megan Whitehouse
wiley   +1 more source

Otherworldly Experience in Abramović's Works Based on the Theory of the Grotesque by Kuryluk [PDF]

open access: yesهنرهای زیبا. هنرهای تجسمی
The grotesque pertains to a world beyond the ordinary real world, consistently engaging with moral, political, religious, and cultural concepts, and presenting them through strange forms and dissonant combinations and patterns. In doing so, it challenges
farzaneh vahed dehkordi, farzaneh Najafi
doaj   +1 more source

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