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A Hidden History of Unhappiness

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Joe Moran
wiley   +1 more source

Doing Justice to Life in All Its Dimensions: Nurturing Humanism as Aesthetic Existence in the Church as a Sphere of Freedom

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay the author examines what Dietrich Bonhoeffer meant when he wrote from prison to his friend Eberhard Bethge and said that he wanted to retrieve “aesthetic existence” in the life of the church as a sphere of freedom. This is related to what he also told Bethge, namely, that it is “only as we hold fast to Christ as cantus firmus ...
John W. de Gruchy
wiley   +1 more source

Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
wiley   +1 more source

Narrator, character, other: Kafka’s triangle in Fürsprecher

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Franz Kafka's protagonists are conspicuously featureless, and yet Kafka is persistently read as a fabulist of the plight of the individual before impervious, impersonal, and indifferent legal structures. How can Kafka champion the individual against such forces when his heroes do not have personalities to lose?
Lindsay O’Connor Stern
wiley   +1 more source

Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

open access: yesPacific 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

Dictionary In Verse: A Poetic And Lexicographic Work

open access: yes, 2016
The experience presented by the author in his report call up a need, when one encounters another culture, to learn some words of the language of the respective culture in order to ease or try to overcome the feeling of being a foreigner – to establish communication with the people defined by a different language. In the manuscript collections in Bosnia
openaire   +1 more source

Parametric dictionary design for sparse coding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
—This paper introduces a new dictionary design method for sparse coding of a class of signals. It has been shown that one can sparsely approximate some natural signals using an overcomplete set of parametric functions, e.g. [1], [2].
Yaghoobi, M.   +5 more
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
wiley   +1 more source

A dictionary of modern written Arabic : Arabic-English

open access: yes, 1980
This book about reference in dictionary of Arabic-Englishxvii, 1110 p.; 22 ...
Hans Wehr, J milton cowan
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