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The drama of disease: Tragedy and Medicine in the Construction of Platonic Dramatis Personae
Disease is a cross-cultural event, because it interferes with the course of culture, politics, the arts, and the morals of a people. It was also, from the origins of Western thought, a point of contact between Tragedy, Medicine and Philosophy. This paper
Gabriele Cornelli, Sussumo Matsui
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The universality of poetry in Aristotle’s Poetics [PDF]
This paper considers three questions arising out of Aristotle's statement that poetry is concerned with the universal. First, what does it mean? Secondly, what constraints does it impose on the construction of (in particular) tragic plots?
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Reporting Tragic Events Using Mobile Phones: Citizenship Photojournalism in Critical Tragedy in Nigeria? [PDF]
Abstract—The paper considers the reportage of tragic events in Nigeria by ordinary citizens, using mobile phones and other digital devices. The focus is on the moral agency of citizen-photojournalists, the dilemma inherent in the exercise of that agency, the technological structure that enable/impede such agency, and the resulting ethical tragedy for ...
Okon, Patrick E. +2 more
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Public-private tragedy: Stigma, victimisation and community identity [PDF]
On 13 March 1996, Thomas Hamilton shot and killed 16 children and 1 teacher at Dunblane Primary School, Scotland. In the weeks and months that followed, intense and extensive media coverage focused on the victims, the community, the aftermath and the ...
O'Leary, Nicola
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Missionaries, measles, and manuscripts: revisiting the Whitman tragedy
The missionaries Marcus Whitman, a doctor, and Narcissa Whitman, his wife, and twelve other members of the Waiilatpu Mission were murdered in November 1847 by a small contingent of the Cayuse Indians in the Oregon Territory.
Melanie J. Norton, John Booss
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Disasters, tourism and mobility, the case of Japan earthquake [PDF]
It is not uncommon to note that during emergencies or natural disasters a number of socio-psychological triggers come to the forefront so as to help the public the event and place it in a comprehensible context. Without these socio-psychological triggers
Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Peter Tarlow
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Acción y acontecimiento. Sobre los avatares de la subjetividad moderna (Kafka, Bacon, Beckett) [PDF]
El objetivo principal del artículo es mostrar que, en aspectos significativos, la obra artística de Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett y Francis Bacon se hace cargo de ciertas aporías de la subjetividad moderna y puede entenderse como una respuesta crítica a ...
Marrades Millet, Julián
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Friedrich Nietzsche à Bayreuth
Supporting the first Bayreuth Festival, organized by Richard Wagner, in 1876, his friend and ally, Friedrich Nietzsche presents the notion of event as a dialectic in the fourth Untimely Meditation.
Pierre Souq
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This research aimed to uncover collective memory denial of the victims’ families of Students who died in Trisakti and Semanggi Tragedy 1998-1999. We described how this pattern of collective memory denial works. This research used the qualitative approach
Rizqy Amelia Zein, Ilham Nur Alfian
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On 8 March 1711 Robert Harley, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was stabbed by a French renegade. This dramatic event, combining politics and human tragedy, led to a surge in publication, mixing high and low politics, national and international interests, as
Alice Monter
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