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  2. Nazi book burnings - Wikipedia

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    Literature by Jewish authors, regardless of the field; Popular entertainment literature that depicts life and life's goals in a superficial, unrealistic and sickly sweet manner, based on a bourgeois or upper class view of life; Patriotic kitsch in literature. Pornography and explicit literature; All books degrading German purity.

  3. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

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    For example, according to Gilles E. Gignac and Marcin Zajenkowski, it can have long-term consequences by leading poor performers into careers for which they are unfit. High performers underestimating their skills, though, may forgo viable career opportunities matching their skills in favor of less promising ones that are below their skill level.

  4. Mock-heroic - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the mock-heroic style was popular in 17th-century Italy, and in the post-Restoration and Augustan periods in Great Britain.The earliest example of the form is the Batrachomyomachia ascribed to Homer by the Romans and parodying his work, but believed by most modern scholars to be the work of an anonymous poet in the time of Alexander the Great.

  5. List of fictional antiheroes - Wikipedia

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    1 Literature. 2 Film. 3 Comic books. 4 Television. ... Print/export Download as PDF; ... This article may contain excessive or irrelevant examples.

  6. List of most commonly challenged books in the United States

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    Violence and other ("graphic images"). 2006 31 — — The Giver: Lois Lowry: Obscene language, sexual content, violence, and unsuitable to age group 1993 61 23 11 Girls and Sex: Wardell Pomeroy: Sex education 1970 — — 98 Gender Queer: Maia Kobabe: Queer content, sexual content [note 1] [11] 2019 — — — Glass: Ellen Hopkins: Drugs 2007 ...

  7. Microaggression - Wikipedia

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    In reviewing the microaggression literature, Scott Lilienfeld suggested that microassaults should probably be struck from the taxonomy because the examples provided in the literature tend not to be "micro", but are outright assaults, intimidation, harassment and bigotry; in some cases, examples have included criminal acts. [22]

  8. Affective fallacy - Wikipedia

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    The concept of affective fallacy is an answer to the idea of impressionistic criticism, which argues that the reader's response to a poem is the ultimate indication of its value. It is the antithesis of affective criticism, which is the practice of evaluating the effect that a literary work has on its reader or audience.

  9. Contra Celsum - Wikipedia

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    Greek text of Origen's apologetic treatise Contra Celsum, which is considered to be the most important work of early Christian apologetics [1] [2]. Against Celsus (Greek: Κατὰ Κέλσου, Kata Kelsou; Latin: Contra Celsum), preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, countering the writings of Celsus, a ...