Exile, an experience that destroys the self and affective and spatial refer- ents, represents, in the experience of various authors, an opportunity for rebirth on another soil. Through the exam of excerpts from the work of Hannah Arendt and María Zambrano, this article aims to explore the link between exile and the metaphysical experience in the li...
The vampire Spike of is the latest in a long line of a mbiguous but sympathetic vampires which have caught the public imagination, stretching back to Polidori's Byronesque vampire, Lord Ruthven. This article argues that the vampire image that circulates across contemporary vampire fan cultures is one that exceeds any individual depiction of the vam...
. In this paper we consider the three classes of choice functions
satisfying the three significant axioms called heredity (H), concordance (C) and outcast (O). We show that the set of choice functions satisfying any one of these axioms is a lattice, and we study the properties of these lattices. The lattice of choice functions satisfying (H) is dist...
