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Hubert, Marie-Claude. "Renouvellement du personnage de la sorcière dans le roman pour la jeunesse." Romanica Silesiana 19, no. 1 (June 29, 2021): 80–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rs.2021.19.07.

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There are many publications on witches both in children’s literature and in scholarly essays. Mona Chollet’s Witches, the Undefeated Power of Women explains that the word has become an emblem of feminism. This article offers a comparative analysis of several recent novels, based on the latter’s thesis, whose aim is to examine how the witch character is constructed, how the authors treat historical data (healer witch, witch-hunt, stake, etc.) and how they renew this character regarding certain issues (identity, transmission, emancipation, etc.). Are the witches of children’s novels carrying feminist demands for young readers?
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Ognjenović, Svjetlana. "VINEGAR TOM: A PLAY ABOUT WITCHES WITH NO WITCHES IN IT." Folia linguistica et litteraria XI, no. 33 (2020): 63–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.33.2020.3.

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Although it focuses on the 17th century witch hunt, the play Vinegar Tom actually dramatises historical degradation of women and their ultimate demonization in the form of witches. Challenging the official version of the story of ‘witches’, Caryl Churchill reveals the truth about them as “old, poor, single, or sexually unconventional” women (Churchill, 1985). Following her lead, our intention was to reveal and elaborate on how female sexuality, transgressive imagination and healing skills became a threat to the Church and its dogma, and how this triple threat actually represents a set of three most common accusations against the witches. Furthermore, in the style of new historicist literary approach, we will try to relate this horrendous attack on women with the rise of capitalism and Protestantism, two repressive ideologies that not only legitimized this misogynist campaign but planned it and organized it on the state level. What makes this play significant even today is its contemporariness which is underlined, among other things, by the direct address to audience and the use of modern dresses on stage. Thus, our concluding point would be that every historical period has its own “witches” – be it entire races, groups or individual dissidents.
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Stephens, Walter. "Learned Credulity in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Strix." Renaissance and Reformation 42, no. 4 (April 9, 2020): 17–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1068573ar.

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In 1522–23, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola was involved in trials that executed ten accused witches. Soon after the trials, he published Strix, sive de ludificatione daemonum, a meticulous defence of witch-hunting. A humanistic dialogue as heavily dependent on classical literature and philosophy as on Scholastic demonology, Strix is unusually candid about the logic of witch-hunting. A convicted witch among its four interlocutors makes Strix unique among witch-hunting defenses. Moreover, it devotes less attention to maleficia or magical harm than to seemingly peripheral questions about sacraments and the corporeality of demons. It attempts to demonstrate that witches’ interactions with demons happen in reality, not in their imagination, thereby vindicating the truth of Christian demonology and explaining the current surfeit of evils. Strix explicitly reverses Gianfrancesco’s earlier stance on witchcraft in De imaginatione (1501) and supplements the defence of biblical truth he undertook in Examen vanitatis doctrinae gentium (1520).
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Sullivan, Margaret A. "The Witches of Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien*." Renaissance Quarterly 53, no. 2 (2000): 333–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2901872.

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This study seeks to demonstrate that the timing, subject, and audience for the art of Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien all argue against the view that the witches in their prints and drawings were a reaction to actual witch-hunts, trials, or malevolent treatises such as theMalleus maleficiarum. The witch craze did not gain momentum until late in the sixteenth century while the witches of Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien belong to an earlier era. They are more plausible as a response to humanist interest in the poetry and satire of the classical world, and are better understood as poetic constructions created to serve artistic goals and satisfy a humanist audience.
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Awajan, Nasaybah W. "Terry Pratchett’s Rewriting of Shakespeare’s Witches in Wyrd Sisters." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 3 (March 1, 2022): 518–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1203.11.

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Many scholars have written about how Terry Pratchett has represented the witches in his novel, Wyrd Sisters (1989), that were originally used in Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth (1623). However, in their studies of the two works, many of these scholars illustrate how both Shakespeare and Pratchett present the witches’ personalities and outward appearances. Additionally, there has also been some literature on the representation of Pratchett’s witches and some compared them with Macbeth’s three weird witches in relation to their appearance, personalities and external characteristics in general. At the same time, there is shortage in the studies that focus on the intention of the witches and the way they use their authority in both works. The study depicts the good and moral intentions of Pratchett’s three witches in Wyrd Sisters. This can be seen in the way they use their authority and influence to give back the throne to King Verence’s son and save the kingdom. It could also be seen in the way the three Wyrd Witches deal with Felmet and his Lady, despite what they do to them. There has not been much literature written about Pratchett’s representation of the witches’ intentions and influence in their plot to help King Verence, who represents Shakespeare’s King Duncan, regain his throne rather than fight against his reign as the three witches did in Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth (1623).
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Stephens, Walter. "Learned Credulity in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Strix." Renaissance and Reformation 42, no. 4 (February 11, 2020): 17–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v42i4.33705.

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In 1522–23, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola was involved in trials that executed ten accused witches. Soon after the trials, he published Strix, sive de ludificatione daemonum, a meticulous defence of witch-hunting. A humanistic dialogue as heavily dependent on classical literature and philosophy as on Scholastic demonology, Strix is unusually candid about the logic of witch-hunting. A convicted witch among its four interlocutors makes Strix unique among witch-hunting defenses. Moreover, it devotes less attention to maleficia or magical harm than to seemingly peripheral questions about sacraments and the corporeality of demons. It attempts to demonstrate that witches’ interactions with demons happen in reality, not in their imagination, thereby vindicating the truth of Christian demonology and explaining the current surfeit of evils. Strix explicitly reverses Gianfrancesco’s earlier stance on witchcraft in De imaginatione (1501) and supplements the defence of biblical truth he undertook in Examen vanitatis doctrinae gentium (1520).
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Nayak, Amarjeet. "Witches are Bitches." New Writing 11, no. 1 (December 23, 2013): 62–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2013.870578.

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Card, Jeb J. "Witches and Aliens." Nova Religio 22, no. 4 (May 1, 2019): 44–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2019.22.4.44.

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Margaret Murray (1863–1963) was a major figure in the creation of professional archaeology, president of the Folklore Society, and advocate for women’s rights. Her popular legacy today is the concept of the “witch-cult,” a hidden ancient religion persecuted as witchcraft. Murray’s witch-cult not only inspired Neopaganism but is foundational for author H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. These modern myths cast a long shadow on not only fantastical literature but on paranormal beliefs, preserving outdated elements of Victorian archaeology in popular culture concerned with alternative archaeology and the occult.
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Nadeau, Kathleen. "Dancing around the Cauldron with Rangda, the Balinese widow-witch: Exploring gender relations and attitudes toward women and children in Southeast Asia." Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik 33, no. 4 (November 5, 2020): 364. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/mkp.v33i42020.364-370.

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By taking a cross-cultural approach based on library research, content analysis, and fieldwork in the Philippines, this paper compares Southeast Asian and European tales. The Southeast Asian tales are rooted in local philosophical and cultural traditions. Balinese literature is replete with descriptions of rituals to ward off vampires. The flying half-bodied Aswangs in the Philippines, like their Malaysian sisterlings, can be shown to bear some resemblance to Balinese witches who culminate in the Rangda, the queen of witches. The Balinese ritual battle between the troubled widow witch Rangda and the gentle Barong offers a circular view of history that arguably holds to a universal notion of good and evil. In contrast, European witch tales can be traced back to the hysterical witch hunts and persecution of female midwives and healers in Medieval times that were perceived as threatening the power and authority of male doctors, priests, and landed government officials. The conclusion is that Southeast Asian lore connotes a different set of gender relations and attitudes toward women and children than European origin.
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Ezra, Elizabeth. "Witchcraft and the Uncanny Origins of Cinema." Gothic Studies 26, no. 1 (March 2024): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2024.0182.

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Around the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of cinema as an art form and as a medium of communication offered new ways of transmitting old myths. The gothic figure of the witch offered a frisson of transgression that was ultimately contained on the big screen, especially in works considered to be unthreatening because of their playful nature. The power of transformation ascribed to witches was mirrored in the power of film itself, as demonstrated by cinema's origin story, the ‘lucky’ accident that took place as Méliès filmed on the Place de l’Opéra, in which men appeared to become women and a trolley turned into a hearse. This essay examines the gendered (and often transgendered) struggle for dominance in films depicting witches and magical transformation in the context of the Freudian uncanny in a number of early films, including several silent-era precursors to MGM's Wizard of Oz (Fleming 1939).
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Witches in literature"

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Anderson, Maureen Clare Shields John C. ""Witch" as metaphor in America an interdisciplinary analysis of the linguistic shaping of women in literature /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1390282941&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1202750211&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007.
Title from title page screen, viewed on February 11, 2008. Dissertation Committee: John Shields (chair), Bruce Hawkins, Ronald Fortune. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-281) and abstract. Also available in print.
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DeLong, Anne M. "Medea and Medusa the archetype of the witch in literature /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2001. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2822. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaf. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-126).
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Vogele, Yvonne Alice. "The reluctant witches in Benedikte Naubert's Neue Volksmährchen der Deutschen, 1789-1792 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9941.

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Mallett-Birkitt, Diane. "“Fetch M’Dear”: Healers, Midwives, Witches, and Conjuring Women in Select YA and Toni Morrison Novels." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3845.

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Accusations and persecution of witchcraft have been embedded in global culture for centuries. For as long as these persecutions have occurred, women have found themselves accused most frequently. Older women with herbal knowledge were often called on to assist with childbirth or termination of pregnancies and this “secret knowledge” often led them to be suspected of supernatural abilities, often of a satanic nature. Intrigued by these wise women who appeared to have mysterious powers and a penchant for arousing the ire of men in the legal, medical, and religious communities, I began to notice their frequent appearance in novels. Does the presence of actual or perceived magic serve to improve the women’s status in their community? I reviewed several examples of YA literature, two picture books, and four Toni Morrison novels to determine if magic, conjuring, and witchcraft were more powerful threats than sexism and racism.
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Goff, Jennifer. "The Serpent in the Garden: How early-modern writers and artists depicted devils and witches." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396523520.

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Matthews, Michelle M. "MAGICIAN OR WITCH?: CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE'S DOCTOR FAUSTUS." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1143482826.

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Porterfield, Melissa Rynn. "Warning, Familiarity and Ridicule: Tracing the Theatrical Representation of the Witch in Early Modern England." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1114108678.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Theatre, 2005.
Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], ii, 104 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-104).
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Coleman, Alex. "Foul Witches and Feminine Power: Gendered Representations of Witchcraft in the Works of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1562624942402741.

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Loar, Patrice. "Magical Process." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/40.

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The use of supernatural beings in four of Shakespeare’s plays – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and The Tempest – is examined in order to show the change in Shakespeare’s thinking about magic, and how the mortal and supernatural can co-exist. The shift from properly controlled benevolent female power, to out-of-control malevolent female power, to the eradication of female power and triumph of the male magus is examined; the ideal co-existence of the human and supernatural worlds is assessed.
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Carlsson, Stefan. "Healing, häxor och helhetstänkande : en studie av new age-litteraturens tillgänglighet på folkbibliotek = [Healing, witches and holistic thinking] : [a study of the availability of new age literature in public libraries] /." Borås : Högsk. i Borås, Bibliotekshögskolan/Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, 2004. http://www.hb.se/bhs/slutversioner/2004/04-45.pdf.

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Books on the topic "Witches in literature"

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Besel, Jennifer M. Witches. Mankato, Minn: Capstone Press, 2007.

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Lynette, Rachel. Witches. Detroit: KidHaven Press, 2007.

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Stewart, Ross. Witches. Brookfield, Conn: Copper Beech Books, 1996.

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Pipe, Jim. Witches. Brookfield, Conn: Copper Beech Books, 1997.

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Cheatham, Mark. Witches! New York: PowerKids Press, 2012.

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Hawkins, Colin. Witches. London: Collins, 1995.

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ill, Gál László, ed. Sea witches. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1991.

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1961-, Ganeri Anita, ed. Witches and warlocks. New York, N.Y: PowerKids Press, 2011.

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Paul, McGuire. Enter three witches. New York: Perennial Library, 1985.

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Colin, Hawkins. Witches. Morristown, N.J: Silver Burdett Co., 1985.

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Book chapters on the topic "Witches in literature"

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Giere, Ursula. "Lifelong Learners in The Literature: Adventurers, Artists, Dreamers, Old Wise Men, Technologists, Unemployed, Little Witches and Yuppies." In Lifelong Education, 383–93. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0087-8_18.

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Pfister, Manfred, and Rebekka Rohleder. "Ford, John: The Witch of Edmonton." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_8537-1.

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Diver, Alice. "Monsters, Heroes, Waifs, and a ‘Witch’." In Genetic Stigma in Law and Literature, 53–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46246-7_3.

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Martin, Kameelah L. "“Thou Shall Not Suffer a Witch to Live”." In Conjuring Moments in African American Literature, 15–53. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137336811_2.

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Leichter, Magdalena. ""Wind's howling." Meteorological Phenomena as Atmospheres in Digital Games." In Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games, 161–76. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839462645-014.

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This article explores in-game atmospheres as meteoritical phenomena and aesthetic spaces. The example of wind shows specific means of referentiality used to depict weather in digital games. Considering both philosophical approaches to atmospheres as well as previous observations on meteorological phenomena in film, literature and digital games, this contribution analyzes three games ("The Witcher 2: Wild Hunt", "Ghost of Tsushima", and "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild") and the role the wind plays in creating their respective game world and atmosphere, creating an environment for meaningful play.
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Smith, Cassander L. "“Candy No Witch in Her Country”: What One Enslaved Woman’s Testimony During the Salem Witch Trials Can Tell Us About Early American Literature." In Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies, 107–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76786-4_6.

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de Blécourt, Willem. "The Laughing Witch: Notes on the Relationship Between Literature and History in the Early Fifteenth Century." In Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 255–77. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32385-5_13.

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Antosa, Silvia. "Witchcraft, Gender and Queerness in Contemporary British Literature." In Queer Gothic, 189–206. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474494380.003.0011.

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This chapter analyses four contemporary British women authors who focus on the figure of the witch through a Queer Gothic lens. However, before considering these contemporary feminist views of the witch, the author first lays out histories of European witch hunts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Of particular note, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger (Dominican inquisitors) penned their treatise on diabolical witchcraft entitled The Malleus Maleficarum or The Witch’s Hammer (1486) which ‘inextricably linked’ witchcraft with the female sex. From this history, the author looks to these contemporary works that speak back to the historical misogynous stereotyping : Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate (2012) which is a re-imagining of the Lancashire witches; Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, ‘The Lancashire Witches’ (2012); Emma Donoghue’s 1997 collection of fairy tales entitled Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins; and, Rebecca Tamàs’s collection of poems, Witch (2019). Through these diverse and feminist examples of perspectives on queer witches, the author explores the obvious queer sexual practices as well as the covert trans, pansexual and polyamorous possibilities that underly these re-considerations of the witch.
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Newland, Jane. "Conclusion: Children’s Literature on a Witch’s Broom." In Deleuze in Children's Literature, 155–62. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466677.003.0007.

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Deleuzian philosophy often speaks of witches and sorcerers. To conclude, this chapter takes up the idea of the witch’s line. Inviting Deleuze into the genre of children’s literature is synonymous to mounting a witch’s broom and embarking on an exhilarating witch’s flight bringing forth intensive encounters. To close this study, this chapter returns to Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and the picture-book, L’Oiseau philosophie. The figure of Alice eptiomises the invigorating witch’s line of the reading experience. Her becomings, repetitions and stutterings alongside the cartographies she composes reveal the potential of the molecular child – a child of the ‘people to come’ with its molecular text, L’Oiseau philosophie.
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"Chapter tWo. The Iranians and Their Literature." In Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers, 13–20. University of Texas Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.7560/726871-006.

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Conference papers on the topic "Witches in literature"

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Maisonneuve, Hervé. "Liens d’intérêts et publications : bilan de 20 ans d’observations en médecine." In 2ème Colloque International de Recherche et Action sur l’Intégrité Académique. « Les nouvelles frontières de l’intégrité ». IRAFPA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56240/cmb9911.

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In order to regulate possible links and conflicts of interest, several conceptions coexist, or even oppose each other. These currents of thought are evolving and organizations vary in their policies concerning conflicts of interest. Three strategies exist: witch-hunting, transparency and tolerance. But the PubMed website, there were 850 references in 2005, 15,100 in 2010, 36,500 in 2015 and 217,000 in 2020. There were 1,100,000 hits in May 2022 on this biomedicine-oriented literature base alone. Quality research articles are drowned out by editorials, commentaries, opinions, and literature reviews. More evidence is needed in each of the scientific areas that analyze conflict of interest. Scientific journals and public institutions use names without specifying the variations and nuances of the concepts: public declaration of interest, links of interest, conflicts of interest, financial links or conflicts; non-financial links or conflicts, competing interests, disclosure, relationships and activities. Researchers call for more research and regulation in the interest of citizens and of confidence in the health system.
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Andronie, Maria. "E- LEARNING AND DISTANCE LEARNING INFORMATION SYSTEMS AUDITING." In eLSE 2013. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-13-074.

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Distance learning and in particular e- Learning are activities that are usually based on new technologies like ICT (Information and Communication Technology). Distance learning and e- Learning brought many advantages to those who used them, making possible for people from different social categories to have more easily access to education. However, there appeared also criticism to their use, especially to distance learning, blaming the reduced quality of training provided to the students. Some of these criticisms are partially justified by the fact that some institutions applied distance learning concepts erroneously, obtaining negative results. For example it is not recommended to study certain disciplines witch require practical abilities (like medicine, theatre, sports, and so on) at distance. Distance learning is more appropriate to the disciplines that are more theoretical like economics, mathematics, literature, some branches of science and others. With the emergence of modern e- Learning technologies it became possible to transmit more effectively knowledge and even practical abilities to students following distance learning courses, but there are still limitations witch must be taken in to account if one wants to obtain the best performance from using e- Learning and distance learning systems. In the above mentioned context, the quality assurance of distance learning and e-Learning becomes very important, quality auditing becoming an essential factor towards success. The paper will be focused on auditing e- Learning and distance learning systems. There will be explored the possibilities to design or use and quality audit of a dedicated information systems for the distance learning and e- Learning activities.
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Adão, Milena Menezes, Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães, and Zenilton K. G. Patrocı́nio Jr. "Evaluation of machine learning applied to the realignment of hierarchies for image segmentation." In XXXII Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/sibgrapi.est.2019.8311.

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A hierarchical image segmentation is a set of image segmentations at different detail levels. However, objects can be located at different scales due to their size differences or to their distinct distances from the camera. In literature, many works have been developed to improve hierarchical image segmentation results. One possible solution is to realign the hierarchy such that every region containing an object (or its parts) is at the same level. In this work, we have explored the use of random forest and artificial neural network as regressors models to predict score values for regions belonging to a hierarchy of partitions, which are used to realign it. We have also proposed a new score calculation witch considering all user-defined segmentations that exist in the ground-truth. Experimental results are presented for two different hierarchical segmentation methods. Moreover, an analysis of the adoption of different combination of mid-level features to describe regions and different architectures from random forest and artificial neural network to train regressors models. Experimental results have point out that the use of new proposed score was able to improve final segmentation results.
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