Pourquoi le flamenco est-il une telle machine à fabriquer des stéréotypes ? by Diego Farnié

“…Finally, the use of Flamenco for political ends has also fed the same stereotypes by using them in very specific ways, and one has to wait until the end of the twentieth century and a significant evolution in the way Flamenco is perceived before the same stereotypes will be called into question and discarded by artists.…”
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“The Road of War” and “The Path of Peace”: William Morris’s Representation of Violence by Eleonora Sasso

“…Mill’s comment on war, described as “an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things”, as well as Freud’s theory of war neuroses in his “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” (1915), and uses both these concepts to advance a new reading of William Morris’s literary writings focusing on violence, one which sees it as not “the road of war” but “the path of peace”. …”
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A Mystic Analysis of Alda Merini’s Poetry by Mohammad Hussein Ramezankiaei, Mahtab Alimohammadi Malayeri

“…Merini is a poetess of great renown because her poetry leads readers to the knowledge of a world-wide aspect of literature. …”
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Mechanisms of co-presence in repetitive drama studio performances by Željka Flegar, Grozdana Lajić Horvat

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The story of Jesus and the blind man: a speech act reading of John 9 by Hisayasu Ito

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Un réseau de sources : figures de l’araignée dans Madame Bovary et La Tentation de saint Antoine by Irene Zanot

“…The author fully exploits the versatility of this animal, which, as Sylvie Ballestra-Puech has shown, acquires a negative value in the Western iconographic and literary tradition. Incarnation of the devil in a production which was inspired by the Bible as well as in some "moralizing" re-readings of the myth of Arachne, an omen of misfortune and madness, this arachnid enters the Flaubertian universe first of all through Ovid’s Metamorphoses. …”
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OVERCOMING THE ANTINOMIES OF HUMAN EXISTENCE: ONTOLOGY OF TRICKSTER by T. V. Danylova

“…This dialogue-dispute has neither beginning nor end. Karataka and Damanaka are the bifurcation of one single synthetic character – the manifestation of bipolar worldview that combines the opposing principles of life. …”
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OVERCOMING THE ANTINOMIES OF HUMAN EXISTENCE: ONTOLOGY OF TRICKSTER by T. V. Danylova

“…This dialogue-dispute has neither beginning nor end. Karataka and Damanaka are the bifurcation of one single synthetic character – the manifestation of bipolar worldview that combines the opposing principles of life. …”
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