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]
Recent studies in the oncology literature have shown that spirituality, defined as the combination of existential and religious well-being (RWB), is related to both emotional well-being and quality of life. Indeed, spirituality may be particularly importa
Recent literature suggests that feasting played a major role in such developments as the emergence of socioeconomic inequalities, the creation and utilization of political power, and the evolution of prestige technologies in prehistoric societies. Ethnoar
This paper proposes a new analysis of that-t effects, which have resisted any principled minimalist account. It is shown that given the Vacuous Movement Hypothesis, that-t effects straightforwardly follow from the Phase Impenetrability Condition, an indep
The historical movement of surrealism continues to influence contemporary theories of everyday life even if its project of bourgeois self-transformation proved to be an epochal failure. The melancholic subjectivity associated with surrealist experiments i
The study applies the idea that media discourse is typically public to an analysis of the open postcard. The postcard as product is seen as only one aspect of the social practice of postcarding, which is parasitic on the postal system, but ambivalent enou
In this paper, we give an account of reference and blending in the computer role-playing game (CRPG) Icewind Dale II in light of the theories of mental spaces and conceptual integration networks [G. Fauconnier, M. Turner, The Way We Think: Conceptual Blen
The 1930s economic depression may have been worldwide, but the French experience was unique in a number of ways, notably in its prevalent and broad consensus of anti-immigrant 'explanations' and 'solutions' to unemployment. With the aid of Ministry of
A growing body of literature suggests that individuals who face life-threatening situations turn to religion to help them cope. Religion has been cited as the most frequently used resource to cope with stressful events (K.I. Pargament, 1997). The present
We have made efforts to date a substantial number of bodies from northwest European peat bogs by means of C-14. In our research, we compared materials such as skin, hair, bone, textile, leather and wood where available. Most of the bodies we investigated
Although still in its infancy, research on spirituality is attracting increasing attention in health care. There are ongoing calls within the literature for research directed specifically toward clarifying what people mean by the word 'spiritual' and ho
A number of studies have examined the link between criminality and religiosity. However, only a limited number of studies have examined the relationship between spirituality and criminality. Because spirituality has been identified as a fundamental attrib
Considerations of virtue and character appear from time to time in the agricultural biotechnology literature. Critics of the technologies often suggest that they are contrary to some virtue ( usually humility) or do not fit with the image of ourselves and
There are two competing conceptions of the nature and domain of ecological science in the popular and academic literature, an orthodox conception and a more expansive conception. The orthodox conception conceives ecology as a natural biological science di
The term (social) mechanism is frequently encountered in the social science literature, but there is considerable confusion about the exact meaning of the term. The article begins by addressing the main conceptual issues. Use of this term is the hallmark
This paper presents an empirical study of metaphor recognition by means of an underlining task in a famous Bob Dylan song, Hurricane. The paper develops a three-dimensional approach to metaphor processing, in which metaphors are assumed to have linguistic