A tongue-in-cheek reflection of a debut novelist on the social peril of getting published.

The comic adaptation of La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca (2018) emphasizes the emotion of anger as one of the forces that guides the plot. The protagonist, Segismundo, displays aggression through two main gestures: the clenching fist and the frown on his face. This article aims to answer the following questions: Why did the comic artist d…[Read more]

When we study civil wars and conflicts we tend to conceptualise them as occurring in stages: starting from domestic political disagreements, to demon-strations and protests escalating into violence and war. How armed conflicts end is often seen as the reverse process, moving from high intensity armed interaction, to a drawing down, war weariness,…[Read more]

This study presents innovative strategies for EFL educators aimed at cultivating resilience and growth mindsets in learners. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, we engaged 200 learners aged 11-20 from varied linguistic backgrounds. The methodology comprised surveys and interviews, enabling customized interventions that significantly improved…[Read more]

Throughout the interwar period, America’s interest in Romania grew and encompassed not only political, diplomatic, and historical aspects but also financial, cultural, and educational contributions. Thus, the Romanian- American ties throughout the interwar period suggest innate complexity and dynamism. This volume presents novel techniques and i…[Read more]

ویتمن ایرانی: فراتر از پذیرش ادبی ــ که به پذیرش والت ویتمن، شاعر نامدار آمریکایی، در یک دورۀ تقریباً صد ساله در ایران معاصر می‌پردازد ــ دارای نُه فصل، مقدمه، مؤخره و ضمیمه است. کتابِ حاضر تحقیقی بینارشته‌ای است: از سویی ادبیات تطبیقی (پذیرش ادبی، تأثیرپژوهی و تصویرشناسی) و نقد ادبی (تاریخ‌گرایی نو)، و از سوی دیگر مطالعات ترجمه (ترجمه و ای…[Read more]

According to the medical tradition, the temperament of bodies came from the balance of their primary qualities – hot, cold, dry, and moist. However, physicians associated additional sensory properties with temperament in the field of pharmacology. These sensations included taste, color, and odor, which allow an appraisal of the constitution and a…[Read more]

This biography of the German medical doctor and minerologist Diederich Wessel Linden (fl.1745-1768; d.1769) is the unabridged, pre-publication version of an accepted and revised article for publication in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. This version is also available as an online blog post:…[Read more]

South African universities’ use of digital technologies in learning has increased in recent years. Given that
social exposure, the context and pedagogic uses of technology influence learning expectations and
learner involvement, it is important to understand students’ experiences of the use of different
technological tools. This article emp…[Read more]

Globally, student support mechanisms focus almost exclusively on academically ‘under-performing’
students, especially as insofar as academic development practices are concerned. This article makes a
case for a shift in approach. Using the context of one country, South Africa, we sought to better
understand the strengths that academically…[Read more]

Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 police procedural is, as its title suggests, intensely interested in the socioeconomic valences of spatial relationships, literalized in Yokohama’s affluent hills and its low-lying slums. The central conflict between inhabitants of these two spaces articulates this local topography into a global framework, in which con…[Read more]

This article explores the consequences of the environmental transformations of the Laurentian Valley on the timber trade uniting the Province of Canada and the industrialization of Great Britain during the nineteenth century. The notion of ghost acres used to describe the ecological footprint of resource consumption from abroad is extended to…[Read more]

This essay shares the author’s ideas, alluding to depth psychology, philosophy, and comparative culture, particularly East-West differences in the basic worldviews people can have, such as I-Thou, Us vs. Them or We-They, I-Nature or I-Universe, with Asian people tending to live more collectively in a social reality. The essay includes Zen insights…[Read more]

This article shows how English supporters of Jewish immigration in the 1650s articulated a universal model of Christian hospitality for all foreigners fleeing religious persecution, regardless of whether they adhered to the Protestant faith of their English hosts. It thus urges a reconsideration of the widespread assumption that European…[Read more]

This journalistic essay can give Western readers insight into non-Western logic that the author has found in a long career in Japan. It is also informed by research on intercultural communication, bilingualism and biculturalism. The author teaches those subjects and has a Japanese family. This 2023 update includes the author’s photo taken in Osaka…[Read more]

The story of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is adapted and revised by James Ijames in his play Fat Ham, which ran from 12 May to 31 July 2022 at The Public Theater, coproduced by the National Black Theatre. Ijames’s play, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, plays with and departs from the plot of Hamlet to explore Black manhood, the fam…[Read more]

This 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]

This 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.