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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 65, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSankara saw himself as a renouncer. However, if we take this as our starting point, assuming that renunciation is the only option in Advaita, we run the risk of misunderstanding his position on rightful conduct. In...
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From:Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAlexander Waugh has reached an agreement with Oxford University Press to publish the complete works of his grandfather Evelyn in forty-seven volumes. Alexander will serve as general editor and edit several volumes of...
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From:Discourse (Detroit, MI) (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVirtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture by Jane Naomi Iwamura. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 198 pages. $24.95 paperback. Jane Naomi Iwamura delivers an enormously important and...
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From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTHIS ESSAY STUDIES THE TEXTUAL representations of the City of Jerusalem in the modern Palestinian novel. It is generally guided by Blanche Houseman Gelfant's deductive framework of the city novel. Gelfant has suggested...
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From:Studies in Romanticism (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSarah Raff. Jane Austen's Erotic Advice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 224. $31.95. We have had many diverse (and sometimes contradictory) versions of "Jane Austen" over the years: the reticent and...
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 50, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945 ANNA BRICKHOUSE Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015 366 pp. The achievements of Anna Brickhouse's...
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From:Studies in Philology (Vol. 116, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe dying words spoken by John of Gaunt have a long afterlife: as sententious lines bound to catch the eye of a commonplacing reader, they seem almost designed to appear outside their dramatic setting, in manuscript and...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedBy exploring lessons learned from Ethiopia and Finland, this article challenges two assumptions about online hate speech research. First, it challenges the assumption that the best way to understand controversial...
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From:Journal of Tolkien Research (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs readers of J.R.R. Tolkien's literature are well-aware, his creative and scholarly talents are habitually merged in his writing. Perhaps his most influential essay, "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936),...
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAmerican States of Nature: The Origins of Independence, 1761-1775 MARK SOMOS Oxford University Press, 2019 406 pp. "In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let us suppose a...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedKaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose, and Jessalynn Keller, Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019, 216 pp., $99.00 (hardcover), $27.95...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe question of whether there are laws of nature in ecology has developed substantially in the last 20 years. Many have attempted to rehabilitate ecology's lawlike status through establishing that ecology possesses laws...
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From:Nordic Journal of English Studies (Vol. 19, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 2019, Vastana Theatre staged Jon Fosse's Edda, a theatrical adaptation of myths from the Poetic Edda. This essay focuses on a number of formal devices used to adapt the Norse myths at Vastana, the dumb show convention...
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From:Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article will look at the translation of idioms and other types of fixed expressions from Afrikaans (the source language) into South African English (the target language), from selected texts in Huisgenoot and You...
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From:Studies in Philology (Vol. 117, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhere scholars frequently claim that ballads emerge primarily from orally transmitted folk and festival songs, evidence shows equally important aristocratic influences on the form during the early sixteenth century. In...
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From:Journal of American Folklore (Vol. 132, Issue 523) Peer-ReviewedIona Margaret Balfour Archibald Opie was born in Essex, England, on October 13, 1923, and passed away in Hampshire, England, on October 23, 2017. Together with her husband, Peter Mason Opie, she did extensive field...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 70, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor many contemporary Confucians today, an urgent task is to reflect on the challenges of modernity and look for what Mou Zongsan calls a "New Outer Kinghood." (1) In the political realm, this task implies identifying...
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From:Cultural Critique (Issue 66) Peer-ReviewedAdorno, Theodor. Philosophy of New Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Agamben, Giorgio. Language and Death: The Place of Negativity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006....
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedIn 2018, the election of Jair Bolsonaro for the Brazilian presidency was associated with dubious propaganda strategies implemented through social media. The purpose of this article is to understand the early development...
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From:Scottish Literary Review (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedArthur Conan Doyle wrote about America and Americans throughout his career, beginning with his second published story, The American's Tale.' Thick with Americanisms, 'The American's Tale' includes some rare lexical...