Ross Eckler: He Didn\u27t Know What Retire Meant [PDF]
, 2007 In the late 1980s, while writing two wordplay books, I discovered Word Ways.
Hauptman, Don
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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
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Seeing the light, Part II: The reception of Aratus’s LEPTĒ acrostic in Greek and Latin literature
Dictynna, 2019 Part I of this study argued that Aratus’s decision to base his LEPTĒ acrostic, which occurs during a discussion of moonlight (Phaen. 783-87), on Homer’s LEUKĒ acrostic (Il. 24.1-5) was motivated by the connection in Homer between the adjective λευκός and
Leah Kronenberg
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The Relationship between Semantic Joke and Idiom Comprehension in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. [PDF]
Brain Sci, 2023 Yankovitz BE, Kasirer A, Mashal N.
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Pig Lawns and Diaper Spas [PDF]
, 1993 Surprise is a key ingredient of wordplay\u27s charm. Many forms of wordplay amuse us by rearranging one word\u27s letters into two or more unrelated, unexpected words. One basic class of letter rearrangements is Word interlocks.
McManus, Christopher
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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
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Is That a Pun in Your Pocket, Or...? [PDF]
, 2002 To publicize my two wordplay books, which were published in the early 1960s, I prepared a talk that I delivered in such exotic places as Paris and Jersey City. (Really!
Hauptman, Don
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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How humour travels in the new and dynamic mediascape: a case study of a short video platform, Little Red Book, and an online teaching platform, Rain Classroom. [PDF]
Humanit Soc Sci Commun, 2023 Liang L.
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Machine‐learning classification of motor unit types in the adult mouse
The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract figure legend The goal of this study was to build an algorithm for machine‐learning classification of motor unit (MU) physiological type in the adult mouse. We made intracellular recordings of triceps surae (TS) motoneurons in anaesthetized adult mice and recorded MU isometric force and electromyographic (EMG) activity.
María de Lourdes Martínez‐Silva +5 more
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