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 essay reviews the literature on the economics of religion in the perspective of the current debate on norms and values in the Netherlands and elsewhere. The main emphasis is on religion as an institution. It also considers the role of institutions fo
Historical fiction now comprises a kind of interdisciplinary borderland, to which historians, novelists and literature scholars have come in growing numbers. Each group brings its own set of preoccupations and priorities. For historians a key issue is the
In spite of the substantial literature dedicated to it, the status of French subject clitics is still an unresolved issue within morpho-syntactic theory. Two main analyses have been proposed and defended over the past three decades: one advocating that Fr
With the rapid penetration of digital interfaces into all aspects of everyday life, the need for understanding the aesthetic aspects of interaction between humans and computers has come into focus. Various positions suggest that aesthetics offers IT desig
Account books show that merchants frequently used book credit in exchanges with consumers. The ability of credit to act as a substitute for currency in payments depends on the terms attached to the credit, such as its duration. To investigate duration mor
The literature on the life and work of American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan is used to provide a critique of Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever. Derrida's concept of archival violence relies on psychoanalysis both for its epistemology and for its exe
To date, the literature on prayer and anxiety has yielded mixed results. Recent development of a new instrument has improved our ability to measure individuals' prayer activities, which may be a promising means of clarifying this literature. This correla
Purpose - Explores the relevance of structuralism and post-structuralism to the field of library and information science (LIS). Design/methodology/approach - The paper is a literature-based conceptual analysis of the two philosophical movements, structura
This article reviews the main theories about the prehistoric shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture. The transition, also known as the Neolithic Revolution, was ultimately necessary to the rise of modern civilization by creating the foundation fo
This paper will primarily engage in a close reading of the short story Pouca Sorte Corn Barbeiros by the Portuguese-American author Jose Rodrigues Migueis. Methodologically, my analysis is based on a current debate in gender studies, namely, on the relati
Gustavson (Gustavson, L., Journal of Children's Literature, 2000, 26(l), 16) used the award-winning novel The View From Saturday (Konigsburg, 1996) to investigate the discourses constructed by adolescent readers in after-school discussion groups. Partici
This article provides an analysis of culturally-marked referential terms in three passages from Brazilian literary works and their translation into French, Italian, Norwegian, and English. This is done in accordance with two theoretical and descriptive ma
In the His Dark Materials trilogy, Pullman reworks the fall of humanity into an ascent and suggests that ascent into adulthood through sexual experience is the desired goal for children. Although this ascent is accompanied by a radical reconceptualization
In this article, it is shown bow authors of fairy-tale retellings have incorporated ideas of feminist literary criticism into a fictional form. As such, these retellings display the tension between the pedagogic and aesthetic aspects of all children's li
Three recent novels for children offer fictionalizations of the year that Louisa May Alcott spent at the utopian community of Fruitlands: Little Women Next Door, by Sheila Solomon Klass [New York: Holiday House, 2000]; Becoming Little Women, by Jeannine A