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Syn-Thèses, 2013 “Some people could accuse us of having copied from Foscolo’s Jacopo Ortis or from Goethe’s Werther, but, if you read these books, they witness in our favour” writes Panayotis Soutsos in the introduction of Leander, defending his novel.
Danai Otatzi
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THE ADDRESSEE-SHIP OF ANCIENT GREEK NOVELS: PORTRAYING PICTURES, DEBUNKING MYTHS
Anuari de Filologia. Antiqua et Mediaeualia, 2021 This paper delves into the question of the potential addresses of ancient Greek novels. After shedding some light on the matter (based on ancient sources which account for the sociocultural underpinnings of the new genre), a classification is established in an attempt to provide a deeper understanding of alleged homogeneity in readership.
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SYRACUSE AS VIETNAM: THE CLASSICAL INTERTEXT OF JOSEPH HELLER’S PICTURE THIS
Akroterion, 2012 This article explores the classical intertext of Joseph Heller’s 1988 novel Picture This and its concern with ancient Greek and modern American wars. First, the challenges which the generic peculiarities of the work pose to its interpretation will be ...
F.R. Pauw
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Les cartes d’amor a la novel·la grega antiga i al Curial e Güelfa
Scripta: Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna, 2014 La inclusió de cartes d’amor al Curial e Güelfa, així com a la novel·la cavalleresca catalana, és un element literari la funció del qual no només es limita a la comunicació entre els enamorats, sinó que també és capaç de dinamitzar la trama, provocar ...
Juan José Pomer Monferrer
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2023 In this issue, you will find three peer-reviewed articles and two forum essays. Adrien A. P. Chauvet’s “Cosmographical readings of the Qurʾan” is a trained physicist’s probing, multidisciplinary inquiry about a topic of great interest to the recent ...
Ovamir Anjum
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Historical Poetics : Chronotopes in "Leucippe and Clitophon" and "Tom Jones" [PDF]
, 2010 This paper forms part of a larger, ongoing project, to investigate how certain narrative possibilities that seem to have crystallized for the first time in the ancient Greek novel have proved persistent and productive over time, undergoing subtle ...
Beaton, Roderick
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Archaeology and virtual acoustics. A pan flute from ancient Egypt [PDF]
, 2015 This paper presents the early developments of a recently started research project, aimed at studying from a multidisciplinary perspective an exceptionally well preserved ancient pan flute.
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Infinite majesty : disabled and athletic métis in David Foster Wallace’s tennis writing [PDF]
, 2018 As John Jeremiah Sullivan remarks in his introduction to String Theory, a collection of David Foster Wallace’s essays on tennis, tennis “may be [Wallace’s] most consistent theme at the surface level.” As once an elite junior professional himself, Wallace
Rabe, Michelle Elizabeth
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The golden fleece as rite of passage [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2013 Borislav Pekić's novel 'The Golden Fleece' has been so far - since its complex poetics allowed it - interpreted in many ways. This is the first time that his seven volume novel is analyzed as a rite of passage, based on the works of the ethnologist ...
Lazić Nebojša J.
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Shaping Character: An Ancient Science of Musical Ethos? [PDF]
, 2019 Die Idee, dass die psychologische Wirkung der Musik auch für Fragen der Erziehung und Politik entscheidend ist, findet sich zuerst bei Platon, mit Verweis auf Damon von Athen (5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.).
Hagel, Stefan
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