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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

Sediment addition to address tidal marsh elevation deficits caused by farm impoundments: a Delaware Bay, New Jersey, United States case study

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Dredge material use is emerging as an important technique for restoring marshes threatened by historic mismanagement and sea‐level rise, yet optimal methods to maximize ecological benefit remain under development. The Delaware Estuary is in urgent need of restoration, as historic agricultural conversion caused substantial and ...
Stephanie Feigin, Joseph A. M. Smith, Steve Hafner, Theo Diehl, Aleksandr Modjeski, Tim Dillingham, Shane Godshall, Joanna Burger, Larry Niles   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Local Politics of Social Investment Under Fiscal Constraints: The Case of Childcare Expansion in Germany

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governments in many of the advanced economies expanded childcare, an exemplary social investment policy, in recent years. Yet, considerable regional variation exists in expansion efforts, and often the supply of childcare still does not match demand.
Erik Neimanns, Björn Bremer
wiley   +1 more source

Waiting objects: letters as containers of time and care. [PDF]

Med Humanit
Catty J, Salisbury L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Connoisseurship and Technical Analysis Re-evaluating the Laughing Cavalier Forgery 100 Years After the Court Case

Tummers A, Alfeld M, Dik J, Fahed I, d’Imporzano P, Janssens K, Kokkedee L, Litjens S, Pizurica A, Vandenabeele P, Vermeersch E, Vyncke N, Wallert A.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Inequality in human exposure to future climate extremes. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Hosseinzadehtalaei P, Hamdi R, Moradkhani H, Termonia P, Tabari H.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

Gold from nature's pantry: a diachronic study of Rubus chamaemorus L. (Rosaceae) in swedish gastronomy and economy. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Svanberg I, Karlholm A, Ståhlberg S.
europepmc   +1 more source