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This article will focus on the symbolism of the bridge from the novel The Bridge on the Drina, and its significance.

Fanfictions are stories created by fans about existing texts, and often challenge ideas of authorship and originality within narrative.

News media’s frame on political issues is more problematic than useful because it manipulates public opinion on important societal issues.

Early modern perceptions of the body saw it as a fluid, interconnected entity, an idea that nowadays is being revisited by Posthumanism.

This article aspires to unveil the most significant pilgrimage themes characterizing the Capuchin Crypt.

Comparing how Brlić-Mažuranić's works use mythology and fantasy to explore themes, highlighting similarities with Andersen and Tolkien.

This article will explore how various cultures left their mark on the American land.

This article examines the primary underlying causes leading to wrongful convictions of juveniles.

Cuarón’s movie "Roma" brings to light the complex emotional dynamics entailed in domestic labor.

Foreword Moscow Romantic Conceptualism was a major Soviet underground art movement and the echoes of its influence still manifest themselves in the pacesetting and often rebellious contemporary art of Russia. Developed in the atmosphere of strict ideological conventionality of the 1970s Soviet Union, Moscow conceptualist art served as not only a form of protest but also a means of escape from artistic and personal constraints characteristic of the period. This series offers a

Elizabeth Gaskell presents two perspectives of capitalism in Victorian England to define a new paradigm of women in finance.

Few literary works have had a cultural echo that could withstand to be compared with that of the story of Tristan and Iseult in occidental culture. From as early as the Middle-Age , their love story has influenced many other symbolical productions, and still to this day, many literary works are related in structure to this medieval chivalric romance, notably through their thematics. It set the narrative structures for many romances and adventure works, such as the love trian

Traditionally involving the rubbing of ink into deep cuts for reasons such as spirituality or right-of-passage, ‘tattoo’ is derived from the Tahitian word ta-tu, or ‘to strike’. Widely attributed to Australasian, Micronesian and Papuan communities, ancient hand-poked tattooing has been recorded across the world (Deter-Wolf, 2013), from the Romans and Vikings of Europe to the Aztecs and Native tribes of the Americas, representing status and often indicating life achievements.

This final article in Felix Purat's The Ethics of Cultural Translation series explores the relationship of ideology with translation.

Across anthropology, the work of philosopher and historian Michel Foucault has been hugely influential in understanding how different systems of power emerge and interact throughout history (Lynch, 2013). Identifying sovereign power, disciplinary power and biopower as ways that dominant powers cause a citizen to yield to the will of the state (Foucault, 1982), Foucault also highlighted how the production of ‘docile bodies’ that positively self-regulate to engage with and repr

The MeToo Movement represents an example of connective action, a common form of digitally enabled social movements.

The fourteenth-century poet, Hafez, was a catalyst for change and impacted mystics, Sufis, and poets everywhere.

La Tigresa's activism borrows from the ecofeminist connections between woman and natures and uses them to advocate for both.

Ian McEwan’s Atonement explores the portrayal of children’s contact with sin and trial.

"Western" romantic love is not solely based on affection. It is entangled in neoliberal subject-making and economic exchange processes.