This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP... [more]
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of ... [more]
This paper calls the identity of lyrical poetry as literary genre into question, starting from a study of the circumstantial poetry. Firstly, an analysis of the first courtly sonnet by Gongora: 'A Don Cristobal de Mora' (1593) shows that the poem si at
The concept of literary 'hypertextuality' which was coined by Gerard Genette in Palimpsestes, has characterized an important area of the post-estructuralistic paradigm. On the other hand, the theory of 'imitation' represents the basis of the Renaissan
Detailed analysis of the texts that were of use to Lope Garcia de Salazar to construct the Biblical part of the Bienandanzas, confirming the use of Alba's Bible and of the General Estoria; he also used other texts that had not been mentioned still, like
In this study, a set of freely accessible Web sites were examined, as a first step in understanding the ways the Web is utilised for disseminating, publishing, discussing, studying and selling modern Hebrew literature. The sites were classified according
The purpose of this paper is to take some of the mystery out of what is known as nonmonotonic logic, by showing that it is not as unfamiliar as may at first sight appear. In fact, it is easily accessible to anybody with a background in classical propositi
Nearly half of women age 65 or older are widows and nearly 70% of these women live alone. Because older women are three times more likely than their male counterparts to be widowed, widowhood has been labeled a primarily female phenomenon. This review art
An increasing range of research methods emphasize the socially situated nature of knowledge and hence the need to specify the knower. As such we need to account for the ways in which assumptions, feelings, biases, and anticipated outcomes might influence
The development of Emergency Medicine in the United States has evolved in diverse manners, depending particularly on the societal needs and academic support available in each city and institution. Significant personal and literary experiences are describe
This contribution complements the existing literature on rock shelter geoarchaeology and site formation processes by presenting data from 10 granite rock shelters in a tropical rain forest environment. Geological, taphonomic, pedological, and archaeologic
Functional foods are a challenge to food health policies, since they question central ideas in the way that food health policies have been developed over the last decades. Driven by market actors instead of public authorities and focusing on the role of s
Producers, traders, and consumers of organic food regularly use the concept of the natural (naturalness) to characterize organic agriculture and or organic food, in contrast to the unnaturalness of conventional agriculture. Critics sometimes argue that su
In recent years, several prominent medical journals have published articles addressing the relationship between religion/spirituality and medicine, and recognizing the importance of religion in the lives of most Americans, especially in times of illness.
In this paper we propose a theoretical model for laughter originating from either cognitive or non-cognitive sources (humor and tickling, respectively). The model is based on a modified forced Van der Pol type equation that mimics the respiratory output.
In 1966, Laura Bohannan wrote her classic essay challenging the supposition that great literary works speak to universal human concerns and conditions and, by extension, that human nature is the same everywhere. Her evidence: the Tiv of West Africa interp
Literary scholars are generally suspicious of the concept of universals: there are presently no candidates for literary universals that a high proportion of literary scholars would accept as valid. This paper reports results from a content analysis of pat