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Anachronisme et humour : de l’usage intempestif de l’anachronisme dans la fiction en costumes

Mise au Point, 2017
After defining anachronism as a rhetorical process, this article aims to highlight its humorous effects - particularly untimely in the diegetic universe where one a priori expects the least: historical fiction .
Bernard Papin
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Anachronism and the rewriting of history: the South Africa case

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2006
The use and abuse of anachronism is often seen as the quintessence of the writing of history. Historians tend to conceive it as the hardcore of their métier to avoid anachronism.
Georgi Verbeeck
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Jews in the Bible: A persistent anachronism

Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 2017
The aim of the paper is to provide evidence for the claim that the Polish word ‘Żyd’ and its derivatives as used with reference to the “chosen people” taking part in the events described in the Bible is a linguistic anachronism. The word in its present
Tomasz Paweł Krzeszowski
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Rome à l’épreuve de la guerre civile dans la Pharsale de Lucain (I-III) : des éclaboussures de sang aux stigmates du trauma

Kentron, 2023
The civil wars of the end of Roman Republic in Lucan’s Pharsalia reveal paroxysmal exactions whose trauma is perceptible as far on citizens’ bodies as on Rome’s one.
Pierre-Alain Caltot
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The Politics of Photobooks: From Brecht’s War Primer (1955) to Broomberg & Chanarin’s War Primer 2 (2011)

Humanities, 2018
This essay intervenes in debates about the depiction of conflict since 1945, by comparing two highly significant photographic ‘hacks’: Brecht’s War Primer (Kriegsfibel) 1955; and Broomberg & Chanarin’s War Primer 2, 2011.
Bernadette Buckley
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‘A reflection of a reflection’: Notes on representational and ethical possibilities in Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2016
In January 2014, I published a Dutch poetry volume Mens Dier Ding (Man Animal Thing) in the Netherlands and Belgium. The book is partly based on research around the historical figure of Chaka, and especially Chaka’s fictional representation in three ...
Alfred Schaffer
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« All London was one grey temple of an awful rite » : Londres dans The Hill of Dreams d’Arthur Machen (1907)

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2013
This article examines the many metamorphoses of London in The Hill of Dreams, dwelling in particular on its transformation into a ‘fiery stage’ upon which an ancient orgiastic rite is played out.
Sophie Mantrant
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Nostalgia and Tourism: Narratives of Yucatán’s Tangible Heritage

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2015
Tourism in Mexico plays an important role in the country’s economy. It represents almost a third of the foreign currency that is invested in the country (Banco de México, 2014).
Francisco Javier Fernández Repetto
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Timespace for Emotions: Anachronism in Flaubert, Bal/Williams Gamaker, Munch and Knausgård

Text Matters, 2017
Quoting Flaubert through time, Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Madame B brings Madame Bovary’s reflections on love and emotions to the present day, in a productive anachronism.
Miguel Ángel Hernández Navarro
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Aby Warburg: The Collective Memory as a Medium for Art [PDF]

Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art, 2021
In this paper, I intend to study the contribution of Aby Warburg, a cultural theorist and an art historian, especially his concern with the relations between memory and history, relations that have been theorized in the late 20th century, but which ...
Gabriel Badea
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