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Investigating the D.B. Cooper hijacking
Discusses the D.B. Cooper hijacking including what happened, Cooper's chances of survival, and different suspects in the case.
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Bildungsroman w obliczu katastrofy. O modernistycznym wariancie powieści rozwojowej
This essay compares two novels from the interwar period: The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann and Farewell to Autumn (1927) by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. The author treats these works as both period documents and parodies of the Bildungsroman, given the incompatibility of the traditional Enlightenment genre with times of crisis. The failure of the educational process in both novels gives rise to decadence, although both works critique the life model they depict, with the narrators’ irony serving as a key vehicle for this critique. Both writers challenge Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy, accusing him of being overly optimistic about the problem of decadence–a phenomenon that, in the author’s view, can be linked to the concept of “behavioral sink” developed by John B. Calhoun.
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Something's wrong! : kids with emotional disturbance
Learn about different types of mental illness, possible causes, and how to deal with children who may be suffering from these illnesses.
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Nierzeczywisty świat białych szczytów. Kraina śniegu i Czarodziejska góra w kontekście malarskiej poetyki, heterotopii, czasu i przestrzeni
This article explores the similarities between Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. The analysis focuses on the presented world and its space-time properties, the poetics of description, and how these elements transform in the perceptions of the main characters, Shimamura and Hans Castorp. The article also compares the demeanors of both characters, their attitudes toward their places of residence, their relationships with the women they encounter, their lifestyles, and their perspectives on the social world and human activity within it. The author examines how the dynamic between the male observer and the observed woman contributes to the narrative of both works and relates to themes of beauty, love, life, and death. The text applies Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope and Foucault’s notion of heterotopia.
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Literature and disability
\"Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of disability can provide new approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability plays a central role in much of the most celebrated literature, yet it is only in recent years that literary criticism has begun to consider the aesthetic, ethical and literary challenges that this poses. The author explores: - key debates and issues in disability studies today - different forms of impairment, with the aim of showing the diversity and ambiguity of the term \"disability\" - the intersection between literary critical approaches to disability and feminist, post-colonial, and autobiographical writing - genre and representations of disability in relation to literary forms including novels, short stories, poems, plays and life writing. This volume provides students and academics with an accessible overview of literary critical approaches to disability representation\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Jazyk a identita v súčasnej maďarskej próze na Slovensku
The paper explores the literary expression of Slovak-Hungarian cultural and linguistic interactions in 21st-century Hungarian literature in Slovakia. It examines texts or text fragments that approach the issue from a linguistic perspective, or make visible the complexity of the interaction and its implications through the language of the literary text. Authors of Hungarian literature written in Slovakia use various strategies to represent the multicultural environment or to express the complexity of minority identity, which is not homogeneous, is marked by the interaction of cultures/languages/mentalities, and is confronted with the cultural and linguistic patterns of the majority. These textual strategies respond to Slovak-Hungarian contact from a contemporary minority perspective, showing parallels with the strategies of postcolonial literatures that articulate their particularity and peripheral position in relation to the “centre”, or to its codes and patterns. The analysed texts by Lajos Grendel, Péter Hunčík, Zoltán Szalay, Norbert György, and Pál Szász employ diverse strategies, all unified by a shared aim: to express distinct forms of minority identity through the language of literary text.
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FBI files. The Unabomber
\"[The author] presents the story of the FBI's investigation of the Unabomber and the agent who helped bring him to justice.\"-- Publisher's description.
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Interakcie a kontaktné zóny slovenského modernizmu
The process of modernity is a complex system in which social modernisation and cultural modernity are combined. This is related to the wide terminological use of the terms modernity, modernity and modernism and their multiplicative form. Since the 1980s, but more prominently after 2000, revisions of modernism have taken place in international academic discourse, in a number of different conceptions and theoretical approaches subsumed under the common label of new modernism. These concepts are oriented towards a critique of the previously accepted canon, redefining modernism and expanding it temporally and spatially (geographically). Current research on modernism in Slovak literature also shows that the new, analytical-revising approaches expand and complement the hitherto traditional image of this movement in Slovak literature. As part of the change in discourse, authors who were previously overlooked are being included in the source base and attention is being paid to works that have been bypassed. In addition, it is concerned with capturing patterns of how changed interpretive constellations alter the view of the relationship and interrelationships of such categories as traditional and modern, conservative and progressive, social and cultural, or urban and rural/natural.
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Islam and controversy : the politics of free speech after Rushdie
\"Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses? Were the protestors right to have protested? What about the Danish cartoons? Is giving offence simply about the right to freedom of expression, and what is really happening when people take offence? Using case studies of a number of Muslim-related freedom of speech controversies surrounding (in)famous, controversial texts such as The Satanic Verses, The Jewel of Medina, the Danish cartoons of Muhammed and the film Submission by Theo van Gogh, this book examines the moral questions raised by such controversies, questions that are often set aside at the time, such as whether the authors and artists involved were right to have done what they did and whether those who protested against them were right to have responded in such a way. In so doing, it argues that the giving and taking of offence are political performances that struggle to define and re-define freedom, and suggests that any attempt to establish a language of inter-cultural communication appropriate to multicultural societies is an ethical as opposed to merely political or legal task, involving dialogue and negotiation over fundamental values and principles. Overall, this important book constitutes a sustained critique of liberal arguments for freedom of speech, in particular of the liberal discourse that took shape in response to the Rushdie controversy and has, in the twenty-five years since, become almost an orthodoxy for many intellectuals, artists, journalists and politicians living and working in Britain (and elsewhere in the West) today. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Towards ‘Nesting’ in the Environmental Humanities: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Narratives Across Theory and Practices
Which processes allow for a more effective employment of narratives as tools for fostering actual individual and collective transformation in civil society in response to current environmental crises? This article proposes ‘nesting’ as both a concept and a methodology in the development, execution, and evaluation of narrative-based workshops designed for direct and conscious engagement between local communities and global manifestations of climate change. After offering a critical examination of the semantic and metaphorical dimensions of ‘nesting,’ the first part of the article illustrates ‘nesting’ as a concept serving as a theoretical and applied framework for selecting and interpreting texts based on their potential to inspire reflections and practices of ‘homebuilding’ and ‘engagement.’ The second part examines ‘nesting’ as a methodology – proposed as an educational framework – to provide guidance on practical engagements with selected narratives and local communities. It outlines a step-by-step procedure for developing narrative-based workshops structured around four key terms: narrating, embodying, sensing, and transmitting.
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