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]
During the past thirty years, scholars of Arab cultural politics have struggled to articulate modern Palestinians' unique ways of viewing the medieval past. Al-Andalus in particular fascinates authors and visual artists of Palestine. Our current theoreti
The memory of the Second World War remains a bone of contention between Poland and Ukraine. The countries' mnemonic discourses differ significantly, especially regarding the legacy of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Most local children's and young adult a
This article explores the cultural representation of the urban male's return to the countryside in Santiago Lorenzo's Los asquerosos, Javier Cercas' Terra Alta, Oliver Laxe's Lo que arde, Rodrigo Sorogoyen's As bestas and Mikel Guerrea's film Suro.
This paper aims at filling the current fissure in the literature pertaining to the presence of Brazilian Portuguese in Massachusetts by 1) presenting historical and contemporary evidence of the prevalence of Portuguese language in the state of Massachuset
This essay reviews the literature on the economics of religion in the perspective of the current debate on norms and values in the Netherlands and elsewhere. The main emphasis is on religion as an institution. It also considers the role of institutions fo
Historical fiction now comprises a kind of interdisciplinary borderland, to which historians, novelists and literature scholars have come in growing numbers. Each group brings its own set of preoccupations and priorities. For historians a key issue is the
In spite of the substantial literature dedicated to it, the status of French subject clitics is still an unresolved issue within morpho-syntactic theory. Two main analyses have been proposed and defended over the past three decades: one advocating that Fr
With the rapid penetration of digital interfaces into all aspects of everyday life, the need for understanding the aesthetic aspects of interaction between humans and computers has come into focus. Various positions suggest that aesthetics offers IT desig
Account books show that merchants frequently used book credit in exchanges with consumers. The ability of credit to act as a substitute for currency in payments depends on the terms attached to the credit, such as its duration. To investigate duration mor
The literature on the life and work of American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan is used to provide a critique of Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever. Derrida's concept of archival violence relies on psychoanalysis both for its epistemology and for its exe
To date, the literature on prayer and anxiety has yielded mixed results. Recent development of a new instrument has improved our ability to measure individuals' prayer activities, which may be a promising means of clarifying this literature. This correla
Purpose - Explores the relevance of structuralism and post-structuralism to the field of library and information science (LIS). Design/methodology/approach - The paper is a literature-based conceptual analysis of the two philosophical movements, structura
This article reviews the main theories about the prehistoric shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture. The transition, also known as the Neolithic Revolution, was ultimately necessary to the rise of modern civilization by creating the foundation fo
This paper will primarily engage in a close reading of the short story Pouca Sorte Corn Barbeiros by the Portuguese-American author Jose Rodrigues Migueis. Methodologically, my analysis is based on a current debate in gender studies, namely, on the relati
Gustavson (Gustavson, L., Journal of Children's Literature, 2000, 26(l), 16) used the award-winning novel The View From Saturday (Konigsburg, 1996) to investigate the discourses constructed by adolescent readers in after-school discussion groups. Partici