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The Will to Understand Witchcraft and Magic in This Era
The origins of magic were already being debated in antiquity, and histories of the witch trials appeared in Europe before the last of the trials…
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Halloween Newsstands Behind the Keepers of the Culture
Until the late nineteenth-century, Halloween amounted to barely anything more than a couple of informational inches of column space in October newspapers.
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Celebrating its Eighth Anniversary Through Utopias
From a modest beginning, when the medium was founded eight years ago, we established a tradition in which each monthly issue opened with an editorial.…
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Educating Toward a Culture of Open Access Without Fear
In truth, digital technologies have created more than one cultural revolution, so let us call this one the open access revolution.
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Spanish Horror Cinema and Orphaned Cultural Learnings
Since its introduction to the cinema in the early twentieth-century, the horror genre has functioned to evoke anxiety and visceral responses from its audience.
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Heavy Metal Studies Unlocking Cultural, Open Access Research
Heavy metal studies present a diverse range of current research drawing on sociological and cultural theory, by exploring the gendered nature of scholarship and the…
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The Audacity of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart
The idea that the interest in horror literature might somehow cause the reader to become violent, is merely another argument against reading horror.
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Teaching Horror Literature in a Multicultural Classroom
As a genre, horror tends to be marginalized in literature because it is often mistakenly perceived to be inappropriate for the classroom environment.
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An Aesthetic Discourse About Alternative Cultures
Our medium draws on alternative cultures, even as it takes its inspiration from new desires of publishing and interdisciplinary modes of thought and research.
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Spiritualism, the Enemy of Cold Intellectual Reasoning
The eagerness in which Spiritualism and its twin-sister Spiritism was received by almost all the cultured people of Europe, contains a splendid lesson.
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Our Seventh Anniversary Bares A Colombian Crown
Originally established in Portugal, the now educational open access cultural medium relocated to Colombian soil five years ago, where it still subsists.
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The Skeptical Artistry Of Horror In Everyday Life
Occasionally, certain genres of art inspire indignation, trepidation, and even public aversion in the case of the horror genre, as is the precisely the point.
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