Bernard Onyinkwa B. Mayaka
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Yael Landman deposited “The Many Bailments of David: A Case Study in Law and Literature” on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
In his landmark essay “Nomos and Narrative,” Robert Cover argues that “[law] may be viewed as a system or a bridge linking a concept of a reality to an imagined alternative – that is, as a connective between two states of affairs, both of which can be represented in their normative significance only through the devices of narrati…[Read more]
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Aisha Musa deposited “We have made you nations and tribes…”: A Quranically Based Vision of Multiculturalism and Inter-Religious Relations on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
This article looks at Quranic verses dealing with different religions and cultures.
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Adelaide Frances Robinson deposited Digital Shoeboxes: the history and future of personal performance archiving on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
Personal performance archiving describes a practice in which individuals who regularly attend live performances document their experiences, usually through the collection of documents such as programmes, playbills, cast sheets, ticket stubs, posters and leaflets. This is a form of documenting performance which intersects with the related field of…[Read more]
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Alexandra Kieffer's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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Alexandra Kieffer's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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Alison Baker deposited Anarchy for the UK in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDe Larrabeiti’s Borribles children’s/young adult fantasy trilogy was written and published between 1976 and 1986, a period of huge political, social and economic change in the UK. Set in London, it tells the story of Borribles, a group of children who have had a ‘bad start’ in life and become Borrible; ‘wild’ children with pointed ears who can nev…[Read more]
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Alison Baker deposited Daemons and Pets as signifiers of social class in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper seeks to examine whether daemons (which take the shape of animals) and familiar animals indicate the social class of characters in Harry Potter and His Dark Materials. Both series of books for young people were started at a time when neo-liberal politics were at the forefront of government, both in the late years of John Major’s C…[Read more]
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Alison Baker deposited Daemons and Pets as signifiers of social class in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper seeks to examine whether daemons (which take the shape of animals) and familiar animals indicate the social class of characters in Harry Potter and His Dark Materials. Both series of books for young people were started at a time when neo-liberal politics were at the forefront of government, both in the late years of John Major’s C…[Read more]
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Alison Baker deposited Protocols for the education of young witches and wizards in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper discusses approaches to pedagogy outlined in three series of books for children and young adults. By the end of the presentation, I hope to have outlined what the education systems in these novels says about the culture and society presented in these books. The books are: JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Jonathan Stroud’s Bar…[Read more]
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Alison Baker deposited Protocols for the education of young witches and wizards in the group
Pedagogy and Textual Scholarship on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper discusses approaches to pedagogy outlined in three series of books for children and young adults. By the end of the presentation, I hope to have outlined what the education systems in these novels says about the culture and society presented in these books. The books are: JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Jonathan Stroud’s Bar…[Read more]
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Alison Langdon deposited Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The…[Read more]
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Alison Langdon deposited Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The…[Read more]
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Alison Baker deposited Daemons and Pets as signifiers of social class on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
This paper seeks to examine whether daemons (which take the shape of animals) and familiar animals indicate the social class of characters in Harry Potter and His Dark Materials. Both series of books for young people were started at a time when neo-liberal politics were at the forefront of government, both in the late years of John Major’s C…[Read more]
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De Larrabeiti’s Borribles children’s/young adult fantasy trilogy was written and published between 1976 and 1986, a period of huge political, social and economic change in the UK. Set in London, it tells the story of Borribles, a group of children who have had a ‘bad start’ in life and become Borrible; ‘wild’ children with pointed ears who can nev…[Read more]
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Alison Baker deposited Protocols for the education of young witches and wizards on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
This paper discusses approaches to pedagogy outlined in three series of books for children and young adults. By the end of the presentation, I hope to have outlined what the education systems in these novels says about the culture and society presented in these books. The books are: JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Jonathan Stroud’s Bar…[Read more]
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Alison Baker's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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Alison Langdon deposited Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The…[Read more]
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Alexandra Kieffer changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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Abbey Elder's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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