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Vol. 6, No. 1
April 2025
Vol. 6, No. 1
April 2025
Journey Through the Vowels of Human Time
An uninterrupted flow of thoughts (images, memories, analyses, desires, etc.)—content of human time in discontinuity/continuity. The discontinuous is suspended and thus becomes continuous when it emerges voluntarily: this is effort or duration; since in human time it is necessary to be and not just to exist [...] The aim here is to reflect on these impressions/expressions of the human Time Flow; that of a Self-given from its three angles (Conative Subject: that of differential preferences, Political Actor: creator of relationships, and Social Agent specialising in a particular skill) [...]
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Outsiders under Empire: Fusion Philosophy and the Barbarian’s Path from Scourge to Sculptor
#speakforPeaceThis article reproduces, in full, the keynote speech given at “V.N. Karazin” Kharkiv National University, School of Foreign Languages, for the 17th International Conference “Methodological and Psychological Issues of Teaching Foreign Languages: Reaching for School and University Integration” 25 April 2025, Kharkiv,Ukraine
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Women Poets of the Irish Troubles:Defining Themes
Northern Ireland’s Troubles turned the 20th century into a prolonged battleground. The country was divided, conflicts led to the loss of thousands of lives and terrorism. Male authors’ writings from this period have received consistent focus.
This paper seeks to explore female authors and the defining characteristics of their work as they engaged with themes of violence, nature, and individualism. Six women who lived and wrote during that period are contextualised and examined.
From Traveling for Enjoyment to Traveling for Eroticism:Tracing the Negotiation Between Sex and Tourism with Reference to some Famous Non-Asian Films
While some countries may be more renowned for the availability of commercial sex, sex tourism exists everywhere. [...] this is not restricted to men, because there is now a stream of discreet travellings by affluent western women to places in the Caribbean, Africa or Indonezia [...] whether characterised as “sex” tourism (commercial sex with the locals) or “romance” tourism (commercial sex with the trappings of a “real” relationship) [...]
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"Bringing off a Successful Swindle":The Educational Climate and Its Capitalist Discontents in Orwell’s “A Clergyman’s Daughter”
Compared to George Orwell’s best-known works, "1984" (1949) and "Animal Farm" (1945), his earlier fiction has attracted significantly less critical attention. [...]This essay examines how Orwell’s second novel, "A Clergyman’s Daughter" (1935), reflects the capitalist ethos that was present in the educational climate. By tracing Dorothy’s teaching career, I argue that her failure to reform the curriculum and her powerless resistance to Mrs Creevy, the proprietress of Ringwood House Academy, expose deeper structural flaws within the educational institutions of suburban London in the 1930s.
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Where the Harm Comes From: Ethics of Mediating Collectives
We target three domains of global injustice: economic, environmental, and gender-related, following the threads of briefly stated cases in these domains. Our conclusion suggests recommendations for dealing more realistically and more efficiently with global injustice (...)
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Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy as a Theoretical Framework of Wine Rhetoric
Wine rhetoric encompasses the unique discourse, vocabulary, and tastes of sommeliers, restaurateurs, and other wine professionals. (...) The rhetorical skills they develop are reflective of Scottish Enlightenment theories on Taste and Beauty.
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Pre-Raphaelite Intertextualities and Love as Melancholy in Constantin Christomanos’ Tagebuchblätter
Romantic aesthetics and Pre-Raphaelite fashion inspired Constantin Christomanos (late 19th century) to write about his virtual interaction with Empress Elisabeth...
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When “Knowing How to Read Texts” Means Understanding and Inferring Meanings
(...) a vision of reading comprehension as a dynamic process of decoding and linguistic understanding, which suggests how the relationship between decoding and linguistic understanding should be integrative rather than additional.
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“Gabriel de Pedro Quintet”: Decisions in Search for a Sonority
The production process and musical performance of the album "La mujer árbol" (2018). (...) The theoretical framework conceives music as a process and performance, not as an isolated object. The research field is organized by (...)
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