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The Five Serizawas and the Practice of Sacrifice: Reframing the Stereotypes of Scientists in Godzilla Media by Carazo, Rachel L.

“…With the growing popularity of Godzilla and kaijū media, scholarship on these topics is also increasing. While science themes (i.e., nuclearism, genetics, and…”
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of the Arctic Cultural Circle in Three Ethnographic Works from China, Russia, and Canada by Mu, Yang, Ma, Di

“…This paper analyzes the Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) within the Arctic Cultural Circle by comparing three influential texts: the Russian travelogue…”
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Mind the Gap: On the Absence of Writing Women in German-Language Literature of the Czech Lands by Jičínská, Veronika, Ludewig, Anna-Dorothea

“…The absence of female writing forms a particularly striking gap in the historiography of German-language literature in the Czech Lands during the decades…”
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Artifacts of Glory and Pain: Evolving Cultural Narratives on Confederate Symbolism and Commemoration in a New Era of Social Justice by Jameson, John H.

“…The American Civil War has been commemorated with a great variety of monuments, memorials, and markers. These monuments were erected for a variety of reasons,…”
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Motions in Pictures: From Habermas’s Informal Political Sphere to Formal Politics in the Films Footloose, Land and Freedom and The Beguiled by Thomas, Jane, Tunney, Sean

“…This article analyses three historical fiction films, Footloose, Land and Freedom and The Beguiled, to help illuminate aspects of politics and political…”
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Gadamer, Descartes, and the Problem of Method by Dalissier, Michel

“…In this paper, I demonstrate that, beyond the notion of prejudice, it is the whole Cartesian framework that Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics seems to…”
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Between Emptiness and Enslavement: The Role of Interpersonal Relationships in the Work of Ernst Weiß, Hermann Ungar, and Ludwig Winder by Smrkovsky, Michal

“…This article explores the complex struggle for identity in the works of three prominent Moravia-born Prague German writers of the early twentieth century:…”
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Co-Implications: Rethinking the Relationship Between Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Philosophy by Alfandary, Isabelle, Levine, Michael, Ricciardi, Alessia

“…Psychoanalysis, literature, and philosophy—these practices and disciplines are linked by a dual paradigm of affinity and asymmetry [...]…”
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Shattering Reality: Monsters from the Multiverse by Larsen, Kristine

“…Kaijū media frequently features dangerous scientific experiments as a central theme, invented by scientists who are falsely convinced that they both completely…”
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Revising Gerty MacDowell’s Identity and Agency: An Intersectional Feminist Disability Perspective by Gallego-Ortiz, Maria

“…Gerty MacDowell’s initial, albeit brief, appearance in James Joyce’s Ulysses has sparked debates regarding her identity and agency. In the critical literature,…”
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Slanting the Holocaust in the Fairy Tale Form: Jean-Claude Grumberg’s The Most Precious of Cargoes by Rozzell Murray, Kristin

“…This article analyzes Jean-Claude Grumberg’s 2019 Holocaust fairy tale, The Most Precious of Cargoes, translated from French. This fairy tale adds to…”
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Godzilla at 70: Time for Kaijū Studies by Rawle, Steven

“…This article contextualises the history of kaijū scholarship and looks particularly at the swell of publishing that has emerged in the last decade. It argues…”
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Musicians, Chariot Bearers, and Ghost Characters: The Spectrality of Black Slavery in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama by Schülting, Sabine

“…The article discusses early modern English plays from the 1590s to the 1610s, set in or referring to the Mediterranean, which feature Black African characters…”
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Bungen—An East Asian Philosophy of Culture in Terms of Intercultural Interactions and a Reinterpretation of Watsuji’s Concept of Aidagara by Tam, Andrew Ka Pok

“…Influenced by Hegel, modern Chinese philosophers (e.g., Mou Zong-San, Lao Sze-Kwang, etc.) and Japanese philosophers (e.g., Nishida Kitaro) were inclined to…”
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Reaffirming Loyalty and Legitimacy: Representations of Hui Multi-Layered Identity in Bai Lian’s “Mountain Pass” by De Grandis, Mario

“…In the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) left many writers severed from their cultural roots. Starting in the 1980s,…”
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Mediating Monstrosity: The Threat of the (In)Visible in the MonsterVerse by Kopitz, Linda

“…Drawing on Susan Sontag’s understanding of the anxieties about contemporary existence lurking beneath the surface of science fiction films, this article argues…”
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Blue Öyster Cult’s “Godzilla”: An American Kaiju Anthem by Compora, Daniel Patrick

“…In 1978, the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult released the song “Godzilla” as the first single from the fifth studio album Spectres. Despite not…”
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Capitalizing on Animality: Monstrosity and Multispecies Relations in Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022) by King, Heather

“…One amongst many of the defining characteristics of so-called ‘late stage’ capitalism are human-animal relationships that have become acrimonious, hostile, or…”
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Deconstructing Two Roads: Applying the Psychology of Regret to Resolve the Mystery Surrounding Robert Frost’s Most Beloved Poem by Carte, Donald Thomas

“…In the lifetime anthology of Robert Frost’s poetry, one poem consistently stands out as the most beloved and recognizable of his works. To the average reader,…”
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Hitchhiking and the Production of Haptic Knowledge by Purkis, Jonathan, Laviolette, Patrick

“…Overall, the cultural and artistic practices that continue to surround hitchhiking subcultures are largely untapped by serious scholastic research. This paper,…”
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