This article describes the cultural script of Russian feast. The author refers to texts conversations recorded using participant observation method and reflecting communicative-speech interaction speakers Ural urban vernacular. analysis makes it possible consider a feast as communicative event, structure it, present sequence episodes, open up possibility for its holistic description. Hospitalit...

In the first part of article, I examine Rembrandt’s Belshazzar’s Feast in light Butor’s interpretation sight/blindness paradox. second then outline numerous ways which flourishes own L’Emploi du temps. While researchers have highlighted importance biblical intertextualities this novel – Cain and Abel, Babel, Apocalypse has been largely overlooked, despite being central to text. Through a detail...

Christmas and music seem to belong together. Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and the Christmas sections from Handel’s Messiah are an integral part of the public and private soundscapes between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. They belong to the feast like roasted chestnuts and peppermint sticks. The soothing sound of the Baroque pastoral and the festive splendor of conc...

Plasma levels of corticosterone are often used as a measure of "stress" in wild animal populations. However, we lack conclusive evidence that different stress levels reflect different survival probabilities between populations. Galápagos marine iguanas offer an ideal test case because island populations are affected differently by recurring El Niño famine events, and population-level survival c...