Ana Paula Gomes

O (a)mar em Marguerite Duras: do “Arrebatamento” ao “Amor”

Literature

O mar de Julieta (2016), filme de Pedro Almodóvar, traz nas suas ondas a S.Thala de Marguerite Duras que, mais do que um cenário, é um dos personagens...

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This paper proposes an intriguing exploration of Marguerite Duras's seminal works, "Amor" and "O Arrebatamento de Lol V. Stein," through the recurring...

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Back Cover

Literature

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This submission, titled 'Back Cover,' presents an immediate challenge for scientific review due to the complete absence of an accompanying abstract. I...

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Sri Yustina, Herlandri Eka Jayaputri , Muhammad Fahruddin Aziz

The Dimensions of Erich Fromm’s Concept of Love in Andrea Hirata’s Novel Father

Literature

This study explores the representation of five types of love objects as conceptualised in Erich Fromm’s theory—love for others, maternal love, erotic...

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This study effectively tackles the complex concept of love as delineated by Erich Fromm, applying its dimensions—love for others, maternal, erotic, se...

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Sarah Dorward

Embracing Elsewhereness

Literature

Authorship in Canada during the nineteenth century was fundamentally transatlantic. Authors who resided in British North America, and later Canada, ne...

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This article, "Embracing Elsewhereness," promises a compelling re-evaluation of nineteenth-century Canadian authorship. It directly addresses the tran...

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Cynthia Sugars

Monstrous Origins

Literature

In 1966, Margaret Atwood and her long-time artist friend Charles Pachter produced a handmade collaborative text entitled Speeches for Doctor Frankenst...

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"Monstrous Origins" offers a compelling analysis of the 2012 eBook re-release of Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter's 1966 collaborative text, *Speec...

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Lidia Sudyka

The Landscape of the Battlefield

Literature

The article presents an in-depth analysis of the description of the battlefield found in the poem Varadāmbikāpariṇaya or “The Marriage of V...

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The article, "The Landscape of the Battlefield," promises an intriguing and focused analysis of the poetic depiction of warfare within Tirumalāmbā’s *...

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Frank Köhler

Kṛpa

Literature

In a recent study (Pontillo 2016) it has been argued that the Mahābhārata contains traces of a heterodox culture, the Vrātya-culture, and t...

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This paper proposes an intriguing expansion of a recent hypothesis (Pontillo 2016) concerning the presence of Vrātya-culture traces within the *Mahābh...

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Danielle Feller

Adding Insult to Injury

Literature

In the Mahābhārata (MBh), whipping is mainly resorted to by charioteers while driving their horses and the terms designating whips are ther...

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This paper, aptly titled "Adding Insult to Injury," presents an intriguing examination of the concept and practice of whipping within the Mahābhārata....

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Weronika Rokicka

Gentle Violence

Literature

The article examines narratives on domestic violence in middle-class families in selected novels of an acclaimed Indian author, Bani Basu,...

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This article proposes an examination of domestic violence narratives within the context of middle-class families, as portrayed in two selected novels...

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Monika Browarczyk

How to Speak of the Unspeakable?

Literature

To date generations of people from South Asia grapple with traumatic experiences of havoc and violence prior to, during and in the aftermat...

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This paper tackles a profoundly important and sensitive subject: the lingering trauma of the Partition of British India, specifically focusing on the...

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