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    To knit the knot: embodied mind in John Donne’s “The Ecstasy”
    (Taylor & Francis, 2018) Helms, Nicholas
    For John Donne’s “The Ecstasy”, cognitive ecology offers a new approach to the divide between Platonism and Aristotelianism in the poem, presenting a continuum between body and soul rather than an opposition or equivalence. In this essay, I argue that Donne charts a continuum of body and soul through a chain of metaphors, knitting together an ecstasy that is both outside and beside the self. One can neither conceive of nor experience such an ecstasy without employing embodied metaphors, metaphors that enable the conceptual movement within the poem. Strictly speaking, souls cannot move, speak, mix, or descend: all these actions are embodied concepts that use human motor-schema to map out abstract notions. The soul’s movement occurs in a conceptual space carved out through this chaotic change and exchange of embodied metaphors. This movement of the soul through the body, via the body, knits the “knot, which makes us man”.
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    Writing From the Wreckage: Austerity and the Public University
    (Open Book Publishers, 2023) DeRosa, Robin
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    Defining Open and OER-Enabled Pedagogy
    (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2023) DeRosa, Robin; Jhangiani, Rajiv
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    Government credit risk and private capital participation in public-private partnership: The case of local governments in China
    (Journal of Business & Economic Policy, 2023-03) Li, Jie; Wu, Chen; Li, Wei
    In China the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects are adopted to achieve the strategic goals of governments and to ensure the sustainable operation of local government finances. However, rigorous empirical research on the determinants of private capital’s participation in PPP is sparse. This study investigates the effects of government behaviours on the participation of private capital in the PPP projects by focusing on the role of government credit risks. We construct a dynamic game and adopt an empirical analysis using panel data of Chinese provinces from 2013 to 2018. Our findings reveal a significant inverse relationship between the government credit risk and the private capital participation in PPP. It provides policy-makers and researchers with useful information about using the PPP to promote investment on infrastructures while ensuring a sustainable local fiscal system.
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    A mixed-methods analysis of supports and barriers for rural college students
    (The Journal of College Orientation, Transition, and Retention, 2020-12-07) Flynn, Stephen; Laflamme, Eric; Hays, Danica
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