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]
Cases of variation between canonical and non-canonical negative forms are widespread across the world's languages. Typically, the difference between the forms is characterized as regulated by pragmatic factors, albeit fuzzy or undefined, such as emphasis
There is much controversy about the extent to which auditory processing deficits are important in the genesis of language disorders, particularly specific language impairment (SLI) and dyslexia (or specific reading disability-SRD). A review of the availab
Models of the perception of phonologically variant speech differ in the extent to which contextual information is used predictively versus regressively. These temporal disparities reflect corresponding differences in the experimental literature on the per
Accounts in the archaeological literature from 1898 onwards of the degradation and siltation of archaeological ditches, generally in the Chalk, are first briefly reviewed. These are often supported by a series of successive measured sections, showing a te
This paper examines the osteological evidence for a case of long-term labret use in pre-Columbian north Chile and the pathological conditions associated with it. The burials from the site of Solcor 3 (AD 400-900) included a complete skeleton associated wi
Ever since Plato's famous attack on artists and poets in Book 10 of The Republic, lovers of literature have felt pressed defend poetry, and indeed from ancient times down, to the present, literature and art have had to fight various battles against philo
For some time now, 'hybridity' has occupied a central role in discussions of 'ethnic' or 'minority' cultural production within both Asian American and postcolonial studies. However, existing approaches to 'hybridity' ultimately simplify more than
In Dialectic of Enlightenment, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer argue that the autonomy of aesthetic production ina modern society preserves a sense of premodern enchantment. This relationship between aesthetics and enchantment was literalized in periodi
This essay examines the workings of bad language in the early modern period, along with its social and political contexts--why and under what circumstances some words were deemed inappropriate for polite or moral discourse and literature. In early modern
From the 1890s on, the atheist philosopher F. Nietzsche exerted a profound and enduring impact on Russian religious, cultural, and social reality. The religious philosopher V.S. Solov'ev perceived Nietzsche's thought as an actual threat to Russian relig
This article attempts to do a number of things: Firstly, it describes the assassination of a priest called Guilio Cazzari in Venice in 1622, using the reports of a spy named Gerolamo Vano as a principal source. It confronts the distance between the experi
The subject of this paper is 'reproductive writing', a term covering all forms of writing that involve other texts. Different kinds of reproductive writing are discussed with the main focus on text production in which the writer uses other texts in acad
This paper discusses the general problem fo translation functions between logics, given in axiomatic form, and in particular, the problem of determining when two such logics are 'synonymous' or 'translationally equivalent'. We discuss a proposed forma
Whether in person or in the guise of some fictional character, the figure of Eugene-Francois Vidocq appears regularly in the literature of the nineteenth century. In the present article, I study the figure's literary posterity and examines how the ex-con
Background. The nursing literature on spirituality tends to agree that modern science is relatively powerless to address the loss of personal meaning experienced by people facing death, suffering and loss. As a remedy, the literature recommends addressing