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2025 Vol.5 No.1


Cultural Arts Research and Development

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10 articles

Spanish Humanism: A Trajectory of the Legacies of the Renaissance in Spain

Yaan Yan

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 1-11 · 10.55121/card.v5i1.325

Spanish humanism, unlike its more radical counterparts in Italy or Germany, emerged as a gradual and integrative intellectual movement that sought harmony rather than rupture with the past. While Italian humanism was marked by are discovery of classical antiquity and German humanism became closely tied to the Protestant Reformat

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Rural to Urban Migration as A Class Struggle in Selected Tanzanian Young Adult Novels

John Peter Madoshi, Salma O. Hamad, Emmanuel Kilatu

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 12-18 · 10.55121/card.v5i1.333

This study examined a theme of rural to urban migration as highlighted in selected Tanzanian young adult novels. Significantly, the study sought to generate some knowledge on class struggle revealed in the selected young adult novels in Tanzanian society. The study has used Marxist social critical theory as a literary criticism.

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Chinese Literary Works in Myanmar

Htay Htay Myint

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 19-35 · 10.55121/card.v5i1.327

A growing number of Chinese literary works have been translated and distributed to different nations as China’s relations with other nations deepen. Since translation is important for cross-cultural communication, Chinese literary works have been translated into several languages, including Burmese. In this paper, the author pre

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The Enrichment of Visual Experience through Music: Exploring Art-Music Perception

Rivka Elkoshi

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 36-49 · 10.55121/card.v5i1.251

This study explores the interplay between visual art and classical music, focusing on the role of ekphrasis—the translation of visual art into musical form. Two types of art–music connections are investigated: ekphrastic connections, in which the music translates a single painting and retains its title, and related connections,

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Integrating GraphRAG and GIS for Cultural Heritage Digitization: A Case Study of Jiangbei District

Mingfei Xu, Weichen Jia

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 50-63 · 10.55121/card.v5i1.336

With the rapid advancement of digital technologies, the preservation and management of cultural heritage face both new opportunities and challenges. Jiangbei District in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, is home to a substantial number of immovable cultural relics requiring systematic documentation and scientific oversight. In response

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Exploring TESOL Pedagogies in Japan: An Autoethnographic Study of Eikaiwa Teaching Practices

Dominic Bryan San Jose, Melona Guitche

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 64-77 · 10.55121/card.v5i1.409

With eikaiwa (English conversation schools) playing a crucial role in Japan’s English education landscape, the pedagogical methods used in eikaiwa have received relatively little attention. Thus, utilizing the three-dimensional framework of temporality, sociality, and spatiality, this autoethnographic study explored and document

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Laughing About and With the Absurd in Twentieth-Century German Literature: With a Focus on Kurt Kusenberg

Albrecht Classen

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 78-90 · 10.55121/card.v5i1.291

Since the early twentieth century, intellectuals, artists, writers, and philosophers across the board have realized that humanity is increasingly losing its grip on its own existence in many different terms. Neither rationality nor reality seems to make all that much sense any longer. Catastrophic experiences in various wars, in

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Music, Time and Being – The Constitution of the Heideggerian Mousiké

Jose Eduardo Costa Silva, Gilmar Antonio Monte

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 91-100 · 10.55121/card.v5i1.263

This article offers a philosophical reflection on the concept of music within the framework of Martin Heidegger’s thought. It argues that music can be understood as an immediate articulation of time, drawing upon Heidegger’s major works: The Concept of Time, Being and Time, Time and Being, Nietzsche, The Origin of the Work of Ar

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Some New Remarks on the Egyptian Word “ššt“ in Urk IV, 1938, 4

Stefan Bojowald

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 101-105 · 10.55121/card.v5i1.282

This essay makes a renewed attempt to explain the Egyptian word “ššt“ from Urk IV, 1938, 4. The word appears there next to the “ḏcm“-gold. The investigation thus has a philological focus. The study of philological questions traditionally promises the most benefits in Egyptology. The topic has been rarely addressed in previous re

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Systematic combing of Hemudu cultural symbols and analysis of modern value

Gaoshen Wang, Weichen Jia

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 106-117 · 10.55121/card.v5i1.338

This study presents a systematic investigation into the symbolic system of Hemudu culture, aiming to construct a comprehensive classification framework and explore the potential for modern reinterpretation and application. Drawing on an interdisciplinary methodology, we utilized bibliometric analysis via VOSviewer (v1.6.19), tex

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