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Richard Coates
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Jasmine Jones
Summary: The article discusses the origins of the cult of the Virgin Mary in England, suggesting that it dates back to the early medieval period rather than the High Middle Ages as commonly believed. It highlights The Advent Lyrics as an important piece of evidence for early English Mariology and argues that it is a unified composition. The article also explores the influence of diverse traditions on English Mariology, providing new insights into the early English poetry as a medium of vernacular theology.
REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES
(2023)
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Sonia Planson
Summary: This study, based on data from the French Ministry of Education, examines the differences in genre consumption in reading and TV watching and how it relates to gender and ethnic/racial gaps in GPA. The findings suggest that variations in consumption can impact girls and minorities positively or negatively, with gendered practices having an exacerbated effect on grades in certain cases and conformity to school norms being particularly rewarded for children of immigrants.
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Guenter Leypoldt
Summary: This essay explores the institutional charisma of the Nobel Prize within the laureate position, examining its historical background, value system, and its interactions with different frames of value. It also analyzes the internal tensions within the prize system and the conflicts between different agents of consecration.
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Chris Murray
Summary: This article introduces the chance meeting between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats in 1819, and their theories on double touch. Coleridge believes that we engage with the world through sensory perception and an energetic connection derived from Mesmerism, while disruption to either aspect results in the pathological state of single touch. They explore ghost-sightings through literature and psychological speculations, with Coleridge claiming to have foretold Keats's death influenced by double touch theory. Coleridge's theory pervades his writings, while Keats uses it as a means to explore the supernatural in his narrative verse.
NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
(2023)
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Mattias Pirholt
Summary: This article investigates the spectrality of ekphrases and art reproductions, focusing on the description of a copy of a Baroque painting in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun. It argues that the copy retains the aura of the original but only as a haunting presence of absence, perpetuating tradition while necessitating the sacrifice of the copyist's individual talent as an artist.
NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
(2023)
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Gisele Sapiro
Summary: This paper explores the impact of literary prizes on the conversion of economic capital and discusses the role of the Nobel Prize in unifying the international literary space and promoting world literature. While emphasizing the relative heteronomy conveyed by the award, the paper also examines how the symbolic capital of the Nobel Prize reinforces modes of domination. Despite the growing inclusion of non-Western authors in the past three decades, Western cultural intermediaries continue to dominate the symbolic and economic benefits of the prize.
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Margriet van Hek, Gerbert Kraaykamp
Summary: Students' intrinsic reading motivation is crucial for their reading proficiency and overall development. Girls tend to have higher intrinsic reading motivation than boys, benefiting more from family reading socialization and good disciplinary climate in classrooms. On the other hand, boys benefit more from a competitive learning climate in school and teachers' active stimulation of reading engagement, especially if they have received less family reading socialization.
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Susana Gala Pellicer
Summary: This passage discusses the interpretive difficulties presented by the statements of women accused of practicing sorcery before the Inquisition. It analyzes factors such as the transcription process and the context of emission, shedding new light on the construction of the defendant's speech and its transformation into a judicial text.
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Jacob Habinek
Summary: This article introduces the concept of scalar mediation to describe the work of global consecrating organizations and how they bridge different scales to produce legitimate selections. The study focuses on the Nobel Prize in Literature and finds that the scales of mediation underwent transformations over time. The findings highlight the slow and contested nature of scalar mediation in global cultural organizations.
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Arnaud Cudennec, Chang-Wa Huynh
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of atypicality on cultural goods reception and finds that crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, trigger affective states and influence evaluations of atypical cultural goods. The findings have important implications for research on categorization, social evaluations, and the consequences of COVID-19 policy.
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Guenter Leypoldt
Summary: This essay examines the institutional charisma of the Nobel Prize within the laureate position, discussing its unique value and significance in the landscape of literary prizes. It also explores the historical background of the Nobel Prize and its relationship to different regimes and consecration sites. Furthermore, the essay analyzes how the Nobel Prize handles internal tensions and conflicts between different agents of consecration.
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Rebecca Braun, Johann Wolfgang Unger
Summary: This article takes a fresh look at Pierre Bourdieu's notion of consecration by applying a mixed methods approach to the way authorship unfolds around the Nobel Prize. It explores different "authorship modes" that exist in different contexts and scales, and argues that a network-inspired ontology of authorship provides a better understanding of the diffuse notion of consecration associated with Nobel winners.
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Rita Latikka, Jenna Bergdahl, Nina Savela, Atte Oksanen
Summary: This study investigates attitudes towards using AI in art and finds that people are less positive about its use in the art and culture field compared to other fields. The needs for relatedness and autonomy play important roles in shaping attitudes.
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Semi Purhonen, Marc Verboord, Ossi Sirkka, Nete Norgaard Kristensen, Susanne Janssen
Summary: This paper examines how ordinary people in European societies conceive culture and evaluates the boundaries of expressive culture. The results show that the classical distinction between narrow and broad notions of culture still influences Europeans' evaluations, but with variations across countries and sociodemographic factors. Contrary to traditional assumptions, lower-status groups tend to have narrow evaluations, while upper-status groups embrace broad notions of culture.
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Thorlac Turville-Petre
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David-Antoine Williams
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Kazuaki Ota
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Sara Prieto
Summary: This article explores Katharine Lee Bates' travel book Spanish Highways and Byways and its significance in understanding the Spanish-American War and the author's engagement in social issues. The book provides details about the Spanish landscape and serves as an instructive text commenting on the social and political panorama of Spain during a time of crisis.
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Desmond Manderson
Summary: This essay explores the nature of colonial, postcolonial and decolonizing thought through the perspective of a tiger. It discusses how tiger hunting was central to maintaining colonial authority and raises questions about the postcolonial tiger and the decolonization of the tiger. The essay emphasizes the importance of laughter, subversion, and irony in dismantling enduring structures of colonial thought and myth.
