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    Functions and Components of Storytelling in Politics: An Analysis Based on Hannah Arendt’s Ideas by Ali TadayyonRad, Sara Najafpour

    Published 2023-07-01
    “…The rejection of metaphysical fallacies and reductionist and deterministic methods of modern science is due to their disregard for the reality of human existence and life on earth by highlighting theories of parallel universe, solipsism, etc. Concerning the positive and affirmative dimension of the model, specific methods for understanding the world and politics are employed, including storytelling, imagination of the researcher as a situated and neutral observer, differentiation, the use of paradoxes and their analysis to gain understanding, and the use of taste and imagination in comprehension.Within this framework, this article first examined Hannah Arendt’s criticisms of modern models and methods of understanding and expression. …”
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    From Coolie Hinterland to Babu Stardom: An Interview with Tabish Khair by Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal

    Published 2008-12-01
    “…An Interview with Tabish Khair Born and educated mostly in Gaya, India, Tabish Khair is the author of various books, including the poetry collection, Where Parallel Lines Meet (Penguin, 2000), the critical study, Babu Fictions: Alienation in Indian English Novels (Oxford UP, 2001) and the novel, The Bus Stopped (Picador, 2004), which was short-listed for the Encore Award. …”
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    Langues, arts et empathie à l’école by Marie Potapushkina-Delfosse

    Published 2019-07-01
    “…Art that is, according to Dewey, “the most universal and freest form of communication” (Ibid. : 440) is confined in museums in the adult world but is a part of children’s everyday life : they use artistic languages (fictional narration, drawing, singing, etc.) as naturally as they speak the verbal language in order to communicate. …”
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    Earthquake weather and other tentative correspondences by Laura McLauchlan, Sarah Treadwell

    Published 2014-03-01
    “… The term ‘earthquake weather’ has had a fluctuating history being understood as both an observable event and a recurring fiction. The starting point for the term is usually associated with Aristotle who is said to have promoted the idea that winds trapped in underground caves caused earthquakes. …”
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    Journeys – an introduction by Rune Andersen, Knud Knudsen

    Published 2012-08-01
    “…(Stagl, 1995) Hence travel literature is used as a broad term for accounts, whether you can determine them as a historical or fictional. Within this margin of fiction and non-fiction a diverging travel-art took form – the imaginary journey – a genre that gave the writer´s plot a limitless range of performance. …”
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    Rewriting the Egyptian river: the Nile in Hellenistic and imperial Greek literature by Todd, H

    Published 2015
    “…The Nile is also seen to be useful to the historian as a conceptual parallel for his historiographical project. Whereas Diodorus begins his universal history with the Nile, Strabo closes his universal geography with Egypt; the second chapter demonstrates how Strabo incorporates the Nile into his vision of the new Roman world.…”
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