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‘Me juzgo por natural de Madrid’: Vincencio Carducho, theorist and painter of Spain's court capital (2016)
Journal Article
Bass, L. J., & Andrews, J. (in press). ‘Me juzgo por natural de Madrid’: Vincencio Carducho, theorist and painter of Spain's court capital. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 93(7-8), https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2016.1227040

More than a guide for painters, Vicente de Carducho's Diálogos de la pintura has long been recognized to promote painting as a liberal art and to advocate for the creation of an academy of painting in seventeenth-century Madrid. But questions of patr... Read More about ‘Me juzgo por natural de Madrid’: Vincencio Carducho, theorist and painter of Spain's court capital.

Can people experience post-traumatic growth after committing violent acts? (2016)
Journal Article
Blackie, L. E., Roepke, A. M., Hitchcott, N., & Joseph, S. (2016). Can people experience post-traumatic growth after committing violent acts?. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 22(4), 409-412. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000218

The concept of post-traumatic growth refers to the positive psychological changes that some people experience as a result of their struggle with highly stressful and often traumatic circumstances. Research into post-traumatic growth has typically foc... Read More about Can people experience post-traumatic growth after committing violent acts?.

Les Chroniques de langage and the development of linguistic purism in Québec (2016)
Journal Article
Walsh, O. (2016). Les Chroniques de langage and the development of linguistic purism in Québec. Nottingham French Studies, 55(2), 132-157. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2016.0145

The second half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence in Québec of a number of societies for the protection or promotion of the French language. Since the 1990s, new societies have increasingly been established online, with older ones also... Read More about Les Chroniques de langage and the development of linguistic purism in Québec.

Inside-the-scenes: The rise of experiential cinema (2016)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. A., & Kennedy, H. (2016). Inside-the-scenes: The rise of experiential cinema. Participations, 13(1), 139-151

This article introduces this themed section which focusses on the growing trend toward the creation of a cinema that escapes beyond the boundaries of the auditorium whereby film-screenings are augmented by synchronous live performance, site-specific... Read More about Inside-the-scenes: The rise of experiential cinema.

Philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology at the turn of the nineteenth century: holism, expressivism, and antipathy to separation (2016)
Journal Article
Carroll, J. (2016). Philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology at the turn of the nineteenth century: holism, expressivism, and antipathy to separation. Publications of the English Goethe Society, 85(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2016.1162578

This article discusses the relationship between philosophical anthropology and philosophical aesthetics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the connection of both with literature and the novel form in particular as it develops in the late eigh... Read More about Philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology at the turn of the nineteenth century: holism, expressivism, and antipathy to separation.

Specific and individuated death reflection fosters identity integration (2016)
Journal Article
Blackie, L. E., Cozzolino, P. J., & Sedikides, C. (2016). Specific and individuated death reflection fosters identity integration. PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0154873. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154873

Identity integration is the process wherein a person assimilates multiple or conflicting identities (e.g., beliefs, values, needs) into a coherent, unified self-concept. Three experiments examined whether contemplating mortality in a specific and ind... Read More about Specific and individuated death reflection fosters identity integration.

Clowning and tragic clowning: Miguel de Unamuno as a funny writer (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, S. G. (2016). Clowning and tragic clowning: Miguel de Unamuno as a funny writer. Romance Quarterly, 63(2), 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2016.1146014

The present study considers the role and function that humour has in Unamuno’s intellectual and literary universe. It traces Unamuno’s attitude to humour to his reading of the Spanish character in En torno al casticismo (1895) and to his dialogue wit... Read More about Clowning and tragic clowning: Miguel de Unamuno as a funny writer.

Emancipation from work or emancipation through work? Aesthetics of work and idleness in recent French thought (2016)
Journal Article
Lane, J. F. (2016). Emancipation from work or emancipation through work? Aesthetics of work and idleness in recent French thought. Nottingham French Studies, 55(1), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2016.0140

In Le Capitalisme cognitif (2007), Yann Moulier Boutang argues that, under Post-Fordism, workers are expected to invest ever more of their creative, affective, and cognitive powers in their labours. These eminently human qualities, he maintains, are... Read More about Emancipation from work or emancipation through work? Aesthetics of work and idleness in recent French thought.