Differing bodyminds: Cripping choreography
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status: published
status: published
‘Essayistic Ventures in the Wake of Diasporas’ contributes to Contemporary Theatre Review’s ‘Hear Tell: Describing, Reporting, Narrating’ issue by examining performances through the essay form. The objectives of this article are twofold: to propose a nuanced vocabulary drawing from literary and film studies for describing these performances and to ...
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By examining polemical treatises on Sufi samāʿ or spiritual audition’, written by scholars with a Ḥanbalī or traditionalist orientation, we assess the strategies and rhetorical devices that they used to discuss the status of samāʿ within their tradition. Our exploration reveals a clear difference in approach between pre-Taymiyyan scholars, on the o...
Research about science and publics in the COVID-19 pandemic often focuses on public trust and on identifying and correcting public attitudes. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 209 residents in six countries-Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal-this article uses the concept of performativity to explore how participants underst...
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The way in which artistic writing is depicted in biofiction, especially in the case of Hollywood biopics but also in some acclaimed biographical novels, tends to distort the complexities of the creative process, overemphasizing the notion of inspiration and perpetuating what I call a “reader’s bias”, fueled by the mystique of the first page. In thi...
status: published
status: published