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The Book of Genesis and other allegorical origin stories of games
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 1, Page 1-18, February 2025.Abstract This essay delves into the complex interplay between the sacred and the ludic, with a particular emphasis on allegorical origin stories from various religious and mythological traditions, highlighting their portrayal of games and the concept of play. The analysis includes the Judaeo‐Christian Book of Genesis and the Babylonian Enuma Elish.
Bo Kampmann Walther
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 5, Page 79-98, November 2024.Abstract This article focuses on alternative ways of understanding language in the context of minority language advocacy through an examination of the Galician tradition of singing‐in‐verse, known as regueifa. It proposes the notion of “linguistic collective action” to refer to the battery of resistance and solidarity strategies that lead to social ...
Bernadette O'Rourke +1 more
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Racial literacy and performative pedagogies in the German theater practicum
Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 145-161, Fall 2024.Abstract This article explores the potential and pitfalls of performative pedagogies for teaching literature that thematizes issues of race and racism and argues that racial literacy requires a rethinking of drama‐pedagogical practice. An initial segment situates pedagogical discussions of race in North American German curricula within research on ...
Morgan Koerner
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Pattern poetry and ludic relief in Zeina Hashem Beck’s oeuvre
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThis article analyzes the playful use of language and poetic form developed by the Lebanese poet Zeina Hashem Beck as a kind of ludic relief from discomforting topics, such as war, physical and mental illness, death, assault, and exile, predominant ...
Doris Hambuch +3 more
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Making an Influence: Sponsorship and Creolization on Social Media
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 228-256, July/August/September 2024.When Shenseea say: “I’m a leader when it comes to my ShenYengs. And, whatever I want, I achieve in life. I lead first. I set the trends, you feel me? It doesn’t matter if the world is against me, I’m gonna do what I want to do, because I am the alpha. I am strong.
Cheryl A. McLean
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Navigating Physical and Digital Environments: Latin American Video Game Studies in Practice
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 263-276, June 2024.This article reflects on developments in research into Latin American video games two decades after the first studies in the field. In particular, it fills a gap in research by reflecting on the pedagogical uses of video games, focusing both on their value in the undergraduate classroom and on the design of educational games for use by school children,
Paul R. Merchant +2 more
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Illusions of textuality: The semiotics of literary memes in contemporary media
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4-6, April-June 2024.Abstract This article seeks to account for the phenomenon where cultural productions are able to transcend different chronotopes and masquerade in myriad forms while sustaining an illusion of itself as a text. Using the Barthian distinction between work and Text as its framework, the article argues that multimodal semiotics offers a theoretically ...
Tong King Lee
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 45-58, March 2024.Abstract This essay discusses the use of epistolarity in a pamphlet controversy that played out over a published sermon by the Bishop of Exeter and a critical response by Benjamin Hoadly. While the political, religious, and social aspects of the resulting pamphlet war are substantial, the present article discusses how the form of the letter was ...
Gerd Bayer
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Fazendo Ana Paz: the ludic manipulation of poetic language in Lygia Bojunga
, 2011 No presente artigo, analisamos a obra infanto-juvenil brasileira Fazendo Ana Paz (1991) de Lygia Bojunga, no intuito de verificar os modos como são exploradas as potencialidades lúdicas da linguagem, de maneira a instigar o leitor, em especial o leitor jovem, altamente receptivo ao elemento lúdico.
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Quantifying the Beauty of Words: A Neurocognitive Poetics Perspective. [PDF]
Front Hum Neurosci, 2017 Jacobs AM.
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