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Hemingway and Mussolini: A Study in Contrasts 海明威与墨索里尼:对比研究

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.8.2.02

A. Greenspan

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Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis: A Testimony to Life in the Margins Jeet Thayil的Narcopolis:生活在边缘的见证

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.8.2.05

Subin T. Daniel, B. Mishra

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The Humanities and Fire 人文与火

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.8.2.06

Alfonso J. García-Osuna

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Yinyangism: Rethinking Western Dualism Regarding Sex and Gender 阴阳论:对西方性别二元论的再思考

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.8.2.04

Chinedu Nwadike, Chibuzo Onunkwo, Onyinyechukwu Philip-Anusionwu

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Graphic Queering of Mental Illness: Nagata’s My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness as Counter Discourse 精神疾病的图形酷儿:永田的我的女同性恋经历与孤独作为反话语

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.8.2.03

M. Shobitha

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Resilience in Times of Need 需要时的适应力

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.8.2.01

Jytte Holmqvist

{"title":"Resilience in Times of Need","authors":"Jytte Holmqvist","doi":"10.22492/ijah.8.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.8.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"In these transformative times of interrupted lives, humanity has had to take a step back and subject its frantic, rushed existence to a profound analytical glance. The COVID pandemic has caused millions to suffer and the elderly are more vulnerable than ever; moreover, many families are left to mourn alone, not always able to gather around their departed loved ones at the time of grief. This has led many to believe that humanity has lost control of its environment and its destiny. Yet, if recent predictions by sociologists come true, the current, seemingly never-ending pandemic might have some positive results. The anguish it causes may be, in fact, teaching us to appreciate the value of the natural world that we are depleting, to understand “the other”, and to recognise the planet-saving significance of the phrase “less is more”. And while the world’s populations slowly realise that their social environment has changed permanently, the pandemic’s beneficial upshot might be that people will be mindful of things beyond their immediate concerns and will begin to see the “bigger picture”. In view of the speculative disarray inherent to our present condition, this paper proposes existentialism as a system of thought with the intrinsic power to guide individual and social awareness; it thus analyses our present in an interpretive and pragmatic light while it draws on the existentialist theories of Søren Kierkegaard and Simone de Beauvoir. Both philosophers are querying and inquisitive and both timelessly relevant, sensible and direct about what they see is at the core of human existence.","PeriodicalId":426535,"journal":{"name":"IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114639766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Qipao: The Carrier of Chinese Cultural and Philosophical Symbols 旗袍:中国文化和哲学符号的载体

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-25 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.8.1.09

Cheng Fung Kei

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The Luit in Bhupen Hazarika’s Songs: A Metaphor for Exploring Assam’s Linguistic and Ethnic Politics 布本·哈扎里卡歌曲中的韵律:探索阿萨姆邦语言和民族政治的隐喻

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-25 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.8.1.07

Jayashree Borah

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Deep Ecological Reading of Mahasweta Devi’s “The Book of The Hunter”: An Eco-Conscious Approach Mahasweta Devi《猎人之书》的深层生态解读:生态意识的途径

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-25 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.8.1.06

Darshana Pachkawade

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The Effectiveness of Coloring in Reducing Anxiety and Improving PWB in Adolescents 着色在减少青少年焦虑和改善PWB中的作用

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-25 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.8.1.03

Cindy Emanuela, Monty P. Satiadarma, R. Roswiyani

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