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Experiments have shown that implicit biases against people of other races (that is, statistically significant negative associations for one ‘outgroup’ or another) are common and stubborn. ... These consciousness may be quite different from our own

Greek tragedies - in translation for most of us - can seem very alien to the modern reader, but they're not that hard to read once you get used to them. ... People studying the Tragedy paper in their final year at Cambridge - and those who teach them as

many of us do, but to replace the terms of the poem with others alien to Spenser’s culture. ... the people of Somerset (though Coleridge was, at this time in his life, increasingly suspicious of the blind factionalism and violence brought about by the

This sort of psychological seepage, in which things participate in the mental states of the people handling or experiencing them, may seem peculiarly appropriate to the description of a scene in ... When an adverb or adjective shifts its place in a

it is 'mourn[ing]' and raving 'on alien shores' and the voices of their fellow mariners begin to sound 'thin, like voices from the grave'; finally, 'music in his ears his ... Flowed forth on a carol free and bold;. As when a mighty people rejoice.

Instead, a Renaissance by definition violates epistemes by insisting upon a link between disparate times, places, and peoples.

In his rhetoric, Carlisle is opening a window to another age, which would seem quite alien (albeit perhaps nostalgically attractive) to an audience even in the 1590s, let alone now, a

and alien—not home.

of other people’s intimate experiences’ (67). ... But if the romance is hard on us, it is not entirely alien to us either.

Why hat and rapier? Gentleman’s apparel, certainly, especially the rapier. Pragmatically (although it implies a kind of realism that might be alien to the play) the hat and the