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Don’t Feed the Trolls: The Net and Memeing as New Knowing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
From the time of Aristotle’s Poetics, comedy has been described as “a mimesis of inferior persons... [of] what is funny—an aspect of ugliness” (§ 14).
Barko, Timothy, Brkich, Chris
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Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and “Narrative Credibility” in Interviews on White‐Collar Transgression

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

“Excluded Participation”: Some Observations of Non‐Reciprocal Interaction in a Danish Fifth Grade Classroom

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article introduces the concept of excluded participation to examine how inclusion and exclusion are negotiated in real time within a Danish fifth‐grade classroom. Using a micro‐sociological framework, particularly the work of Erving Goffman, the study focuses on the case of Anders, a student whose participation is symbolically recognized yet ...
Jørn Bjerre
wiley   +1 more source

Perception and Power Through Naming: Characters in Search of Self in the Fiction of Toni Morrison [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
Humpty Dumpty was correct to see the important connection between language and power; and if Lewis Carroll had developed this discussion further, he might have had his characters comment as well on the interrelationship between language and thought ...
Myers, Linda Buck
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Local Ecological Knowledge Reveals the Distribution of Cryptic Nocturnal Wildlife 局域生态知识揭示隐秘夜行野生动物的分布

open access: yesWildlife Letters, EarlyView.
Many nocturnal animals are difficult to study because they are rarely seen, including nocturnal primates, galagos and pottos, in West Africa. Working with over 600 people in 52 villages in southern Guinea‐Bissau, we found that communities frequently recognized galagos by their red eyeshine and distinctive calls, while pottos were not known.
Chloe Chesney   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peculiarities of Wilde`s poem “Endymion (For Music)” in the context of Aestheticism and difficulties of translation into Ukrainian. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Peculiarities of Wilde`s poem “Endymion (For Music)” in the context of Aestheticism and difficulties of translation are investigated. Transforming the character's image of the wellknown mythological plot about Endymion, rethinking such “eternal values”
Фоміна, Людмила
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A Study of the Film Adaptations of Marek Hłasko's Prose by the Students of the Film School in Łódź [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A Study of the Film Adaptations of Marek Hłasko's Prose by the Students of the Film School in ŁódźThe works of Marek Hłasko have proved a reliable source of content and inspiration in Polish culture from the time of their writing to the current ...
Bucknall-Hołyńska, Justyna
core   +2 more sources

'Babylonian flats' in victorian and edwardian London [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The first half of this paper examines the controversy associated with the building of Queen Anne's Mansions, London's first high-rise flats, erected between 1873 and 1890, and a catalyst for the introduction of height restrictions in the London Building ...
Dennis, R
core   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

The Sublime, Ugliness and Contemporary Art: A Kantian Perspective

open access: yesCon-textos Kantianos: International Journal of Philosophy, 2015
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to explain the distinction between Kant’s notions of the sublime and ugliness, and to answer an important question that has been left unnoticed in contemporary studies, namely why it is the case that even though ...
Mojca Kuplen
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