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Christopher Crosbie deposited Publicizing the Science of God: Milton’s Raphael and the Boundaries of Knowledge in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis essay reads Raphael, the principal expositor of scientific knowledge in Milton’s Paradise Lost, as embodying divergent, virtually antithetical, dispositions towards the prospect of free engagement with natural philosophy within the public sphere. At once stimulating Adam’s curiosity about the natural world while also overzealously cur…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Sexuality, Corruption, and the Body Politic: The Paradoxical Tribute of The Misfortunes of Arthur to Elizabeth I in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis article examines how Thomas Hughes’s “The Misfortunes of Arthur” pays homage to Elizabeth I through its eclectic use of Arthurian traditions and deployment of imagery centered on corrupted sexuality and the body politic.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic 19th-c. American literature in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoRetropost, 2013: Edgar Allan Poe: The Sanctuary of the Disengaged Soul https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2013/09/edgar-allan-poe-sanctuary-of-disengaged.html
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic 20th-c. American Literature in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago“Especiación y retrospección: El diseño inteligente de Vladimir Nabokov.”
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Seo-Young Chu deposited Dystopian Surface, Utopian Dream: Wittman Ah Sing foresees postethnic humanity in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago“Dystopian Surface, Utopian Dream” examines the postethnic and the posthuman in fiction by Maxine Hong Kingston, Octavia Butler, and Isaac Asimov.
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Comunicación de bien público: un estudio comparado entre México y Cuba in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoEl estudio de la comunicación de bien público constituye un imperativo para aumentar la conciencia crítica de las audiencias sobre determinadas problemáticas. En cambio, constituye una categoría con limitada fundamentación teórica, conceptual y metodológica. En la producción de los medios de comunicación latinoamericanos se fragmentan las probl…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Politics and film in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago“El final de Silver City.” https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/finalsilvercity.pdf
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Contemporary fiction in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoGraham, Annabel. “Lauren Groff’s The Waste Wilds Is Her Most Personal Novel Yet.” Wall Street Journal 14 Sept. 2023.* https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/lauren-groff-vaster-wilds-book-38b19a12 2023
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for abstracts: Promises and Perils of the Psychedelic Renaissance in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPromises and Perils of the Psychedelic Renaissance: A Critical Perspective from the Humanities
A seminar proposal for the ACLA in Montréal, Canada, March 14th to 17th, 2024. Description below.
Organized by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas (Santa Clara University) and Ana Luengo (San Francisco State University)
Inquiries: a…[Read more]
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoFrom antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]
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