Trumpeted as the artistic hallmark, central to Russian Formalism, and persistent ever since, estrangement yet remains an ill-defined term.We have nothing like a comprehensive approach to it, equipped to specify its workings by kind, medium, art form, discourse level, historical context. Narrative, Shklovsky’s own forte, would appear the paradigm case, as the most inclusive genre and the most ak...

OBJECTIVES This 11-city study sought to identify risk factors for femicide in abusive relationships. METHODS Proxies of 220 intimate partner femicide victims identified from police or medical examiner records were interviewed, along with 343 abused control women. RESULTS Preincident risk factors associated in multivariate analyses with increased risk of intimate partner femicide included pe...

Espen Aarseth recently claimed that all games referred to as ’narrative games’ could better be described as ’quest games’. The writer of this paper suggests that Max Payne is a possible counter-example to this hypothesis; i.e. a game with a strong focus on narrative which is not easily understood as a quest game. The writer suggests that this, and other similar games, could better be understood...

This article discusses the possibilities and limits of proposals for the humanization of healthcare. The theoretical references utilized are the concept of "reification" as a causative explanation for the process of man's estrangement from his world and the concept of "radical needs" as a possible way of overcoming traditionalist humanism to achieve transformative practice. From these notions, ...

Robert Murphy's career, culminating in the study of disability, gives evidence of deep commitment to understanding the human condition in adversity. His life-long interest in the psychological, sociological and cultural significance of behavior; his work on alienation, developed through fieldwork in small scale societies in South America and Africa; his fascination with the estrangement that ar...

This study examines the impact of 2015 European Refugee Crisis on ethnic identity resident migrants in Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit quasi-experimental setting Germany, by which refugees are allocated to different counties state authorities without being able choose their locations themselves. finds that higher shares a county increased migrants’ attachment home count...

This study seeks to examine (mis) representations of otherness in British detective fiction and focuses on the travelling gypsies as criminal other “The Case Missing Hand”, a story published 1895 Chronicles Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison. In line with its objectives, firstly introduces characteristics Victorian then provides literary analysis crime presumed murder victim, an exoticized settin...