‘Groaning wicked like a maddening dog’: Bestiality, Modernity and Irishness in J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World by Hélène Lecossois

“…Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, anxieties brought about by Ireland’s colonial modernity are given an especially powerful expression through an extensive recourse to animal imageries. …”
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Код-«мусор» – кривой почерк – опечатка: несовершенство как литературный приём в цифровой эре by Ellen Rutten

“…The aim of my analysis is to juxtapose and historically contextualize the social anxieties that inform these and other present-day creative practices that foreground the imperfect. …”
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Freak Shows on the Page: Defining ‘criminanimality’ in Newgate Fiction (1830-1847) by Hubert Malfray

“…Such glamorization of the criminal encompasses the animal metaphor which turns out to be virtuous: through it, the animal becomes the criminal’s equal and partner in glory: the ‘criminanimal’ is redefined, both criminal and animal fuse, queer one another and surpass the initial anxieties evoked by their tandem to become an erotically charged duet.…”
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Portrait de l’artiste en jeune femme : Wormwood (1890) de Marie Corelli by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…France then becomes an apt screen on which to project fin-de-siècle anxieties and to denounce immorality. This time, Corelli’s moralizing vignettes are two-fold. …”
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These men in love with mining companies and pickup trucks: Moralities and knowledge practices of the deserts and movements of the economy by André Dumans Guedes

“…I thus bring to the foreground certain moral dimensions of their lives and occupations and the role of pickup trucks as signs and operators of the knowledge practices to which they resort to situate themselves in the face of both long-standing anxieties and these new realities. Finally, I show how this ‘economy of the city’ is outlined by an interweaving of certain branches and productive activities with practices, stories, circulations, rivalries that are markedly masculine, and which are updated in those places and paths where pickup trucks are present.…”
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Social network support for women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy by Diego Augusto Lopes Oliveira, Luiza Beatriz de França Silva, Sabrina Kelly Marinho Alves, Marilia Cruz Gouveia Camara Guerra, Vania Pinheiro Ramos

“…The women identify that the support offered by primary and secondary networks through incentives, motivation and physical presence reduce their fears and anxieties related to treatment.…”
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Agencies of transition: why German coal workers are not accepting an energy transition despite social provisions by Nicole Kleinheisterkamp-González

“…This study highlights the importance of considering these factors in policy discussions, advocating for a just transition that addresses both the immediate material anxieties and the broader societal impacts experienced by workers.…”
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The Egyptian Museum in Fiction: The Mummy’s Eyes as the ‘Black Mirror’ of the Empire by Nolwenn Corriou

“…My contention is that the showcasing of mummies in these two texts leads to a critique of imperialism as the mummy’s gaze, by offering a mirror image to the museum visitor, can mediate imperial anxieties and put on display the repressed parts of the imperial psyche.…”
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Plural Identity and Migrant Communities in Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City (2018) by Margarida Pereira Martins

“…This dichotomy reveals underlying anxieties that raise questions about otherness, marginalisation and belonging, and how these aspects intersect in the construction of cultural identity. …”
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Strong Women among ‘The Defenseless Christians’ : la place des femmes dans les romans mennonites Sweeter than all the World de Rudy Wiebe et A Complicated Kindness de Miriam Toews... by Claire Omhovère

“…Both novels are consequently fully resonant with the anxieties of a national culture that endeavors to conjugate within the same space the claims of its minorities with the ethical aspirations of an increasingly diverse majority.…”
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The Dialectics of Political Ideology and Power Relations in African Literature: A Reading of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Baṣọ̀run Gáà by Sola Owonibi

“…The paper also argues that the private anxieties of the playwright, as presented in the play, 160 Lere Adeyemi are prophetic in nature and that Baṣọrun Gáà is weakened by the burdens of ̀ his strength, in other words, blinded by sight. …”
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Exploring the End-of-Life Experiences of Advanced Cancer Patients from India by Maria Wajid, Eslavath Rajkumar, J Romate

“… # Results The standout themes were outlook on life, unfulfilled goals, end-of-life expectations, and death anxieties and attitudes to impending death. # Significance of Results The study highlights the psychosocial and cultural needs of the patients in end-of-life care. …”
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Residential child care and the psychodynamic approach; is it time to try again? by Charles Sharpe

“…It places particular significance on the anxieties and fears which arise for children when healthy emotional development is disrupted in early childhood. …”

Diagnosis of Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Patient Reaction and Adaptation—Case Study and Review of the Literature by Solomis Solomou, Maria Stavrou, Justin Marley

“…The patient’s responses to the questionnaires suggest certain anxieties that are part of his adaptation to the diagnosis of heart failure. …”
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Questioning Agency Through Intergenerational Dialogue: The Adult Ghosts and the Forgetting Children in Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill by Hera Kim

“…Specifically, this essay argues that Kipling does not simply represent the adult voice within the imperial discourse, but rather renders ambiguity in uniting the anxieties of the Empire’s previous generation and the hopes for the Empire’s future generation. …”
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Re-assembling the Victorians: Steampunk, Cyborgs, and the Ethics of Industry by Helena Esser

“…Whether these encode ethical trespass or promise to remedy physical trauma, the ambiguous figure of the steam-cyborg may employ Victorian hopes and anxieties in order to reflect back our own concerns about human identity in the age of digital technology and fabricate more flexible alternatives. …”
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Social Support Associated with Quality of Life in Home Care Patients with Intractable Neurological Disease in Japan by Tomoko Nishida, Eriko Ando, Hisataka Sakakibara

“…High WHOQOL scores were associated with “attending patient gatherings held by the public health center,” “having someone who will listen empathically to anxieties or troubles,” and ADL. Physical health was associated with ADL, while psychological well-being was related to “having a hobby,” “having someone who will listen,” and “having a hospital for admission in emergencies.” …”
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The Breaking of the Square: Late Victorian Representations of Anglo-Sudanese Warfare by Luisa Villa

“…Though mostly arid, inaccessible, and scarcely attractive from a purely economic point of view, it became a crucial concern for the British executive, as well as a focus of popular anxieties relating to British military prowess (or lack thereof). …”
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The impacts of the discontinuation of dual nomenclature of pleomorphic fungi: the trivial facts, problems, and strategies by U. Braun

“…Numerous discussions and statements during the Symposium reflected widespread anxieties that these rules could negatively influence taxonomic work on pleomorphic fungi. …”
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“Ethereal Journeys” of a Wanderer in William Cowper and Yahya Kemal Beyatlı by Şafak Altunsoy

“…Hence, in Cowper’s long narrative poem, The Task (1785) and Beyatlı’s poems from Our Own Vault of Heaven, The Idea of Journey and Communion (1961) the image of a protected home catalyses the rational boundaries and language, enabling the speakers to cope with their recurring sorrows/ anxieties. The study concludes that an English pre-Romantic/ neo-classical poet and a Turkish neo-classical poet can poeticise similar contradictory feelings of joy and despondence in the natural phenomenon of evening and the comforting space of home. …”
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