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Metalepsis Drifts: for a Figurative Reading of Conspiracy Narratives. The Example of Umberto Eco and the Conspiracy Machine

open access: yesArgumentation et Analyse du Discours
Many experts on conspiracy theory reduce the phenomenon to its rational, cognitive dimension. 1Yet the aesthetic dimension and narrative pleasure are obvious in conspiracist discourse, whose rhetoric closely follows the codes of popular fiction.
Julien Cueille
doaj   +1 more source

The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Do We Talk about When We Talk About Animation

open access: yesSocial Media + Society, 2015
What if performance is no longer the dominant trope for understanding the mediated self? What if animation is as or more important as a trope? This essay explores what questions scholars would ask if they were to begin with animation as the starting ...
Ilana Gershon
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The Mad Scientist Trope and Victor Frankenstein [PDF]

open access: yes
The aim of this thesis is to provide an overview of the mad scientist trope, including its cultural and historical background, its evolution, and to also analyse the very first mad scientist in literature.
Kompus, Karoliina Anett
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Intensified Manufactured Non‐Belonging: Working Holiday Makers in Australia During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Profiles of Lipophilic Nutrients and In Vitro Antioxidant Activity in Commercial Arabica and Robusta Green Coffee Beans

open access: yesJournal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, EarlyView.
Integrated compositional profiling of ten commercial green coffee lots showed higher mean total phenolic content, DPPH radical‐scavenging activity, β‐carotene, and total phytosterols in Robusta‐labeled lots, whereas Arabica‐labeled lots showed higher mean total tocopherols and total measured fatty acids.
Muyny Chhom   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

STYLISTIC FEATURES OF RUSSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA HEADLINES

open access: yesИзвестия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки
The proposed article describes the functional and pragmatic opportunities of the structural elements of the Russian social media with an emphasis on their stylistic characteristics. The range of issues selected for highlighting consists of an analysis of
Pei Shuoxing
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Using Film-Trope Connections for Clustering Similar Movies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Tropes are storytelling devices or conventions that can be found in storytelling media, for example in movies. DBTropes is an RDF-dataset with media-trope connections extracted from Tv Tropes, which is a community-edited wiki listing tropes for various ...
Äijälä, Cecilia
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refloraR: An R package for efficiently retrieving and analyzing plant specimen data from the Herbário Virtual Reflora

open access: yesApplications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Advances in the digitization of herbarium collections are enabling open access to specimen data for research and conservation. In Brazil, the Herbário Virtual Reflora (HVR) hosts over 4.8 million high‐resolution images of botanical specimens and their associated data from 86 national and international herbaria.
Carlos Calderón del Cid   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

La Inquisición frente a la locura en la España de los Siglos XVI y XVII (I). Manifestaciones, tratamientos y hospitales.

open access: yesRevista de la Asociación Española de Neuropsiquiatría, 2010
Este artículo, basado en la documentación inquisitorial del Archivo Histórico Nacional, analiza la visión que los inquisidores y sus ayudantes tuvieron de la locura y, en algunos casos, la utilización que hicieron de ésta en los siglos XVI y XVII para ...
Hélène Tropé
doaj  

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