For Edmond Rostand, dramatic writing is a medium ensuring communion between the author and spectator, bond questioned by Plato. This article studies how Rostand’s poetic plays illustrate quest for public’s understanding of poet characters thrive their lost social recognition. His works shed light on at work, each being an accomplished or budding versifier to reveal that poetry legitimate which ...

"You are invited to the Bauer mansion for dinner and to help solve a murder." Invitations like this one have been sent out by the millions, inviting friends and family to a multiplayer murder mystery party, often from the best-selling "How to Host a Murder" series of games. At these parties the players gather at a friend's house for dinner imagining it to be a mansion in the 1930's. The party g...

in the heart of all life's events, there has always been an interest and need toward cultural and artistic issues. in daily life, people perceive the absence of these requirements which they try to meet during their leisure time. these needs actually refer to people's tastes and preferences according to which they organize their pastime. every social setting provokes its own inclinati...

We study the social status motive in an experiment at art-house cinema Germany where movie-goers can make monetary contributions to help become climate neutral. Our key result is that offering high contributors a “social gift” displays their good deed increases both likelihood of contribution and mean contributions. It performs significantly better than previously studied mechanisms, such as re...

It is known that rates of participation in sports and physical activities among older adults decrease as they get older. This article focuses on the experience aging body at gym, it one few a little-studied group frequent gym-goers. Based an ethnographic work more than two years Amsterdam, I explain goals three who frequently out, what their relationships with gym bodies are, why are interested...