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Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, N. 4 

2014

National identity -- language centredTranslationUniversal GrammarPragmaticsNon-native EnglishPhonostylistic featureUser’s guideHeteroglossiaLanguage InstinctCorpusGenerative GrammarEnglish as a foreign languageInformational style of intonationGrammatical errorsEnglish Latvian dictionariesSymbolic capitalMetaphor:HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Languages and linguistics::Other Germanic languages::English language [Research Subject Categories]English-Language TeachingApplied linguisticsPierre Bourdieu
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La mano del diavolo e il cuore di Pascal

2018

This paper aims to analyze the concept of fear in La main du diable, a movie of Maurice Tourneur. The film shows the Faustian pact between a bad artist and the devil. The pact concerns a wretched hand, and the obsession that will lead the protagonist to free it. The director has been able to show two kinds of fear, which, taken in isolation, seem to be a chiasm: the fear of death, which is afraid of a condition of life that leads to death (misery, failure, lack of love), and the fear of life, which is afraid of eternity, of an eternal suffering, of a life that does not remedy the loss of one's being. And these fears are afraid of the image and fear of the lack of image. The heart's reasons …

fear reason heart instinct Pascal conciliation
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