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From Mystery to Initiation: A Mytho–Ritual Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel even in Apuleius’ Golden Ass? [PDF]
, 2013 I contend that both discourses – the religious modes of expression, and the novel, based on orally transmitted traditional wonder-tales – focus upon, rework, circulate around, retract and help to overcome the central crisis of marriage as well as of the ...
Bierl, Anton
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Morton, Masha. Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture: On the Treshold of German Modernism [PDF]
, 2015 No abstract ...
Wieber, Sabine
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Mythos, Fiktion, Geschichte: Ein Beitrag zum „Realismus“ der antiken Romane [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper it is argued that the description of literary narrative in ancient rhetoric could have provided Greek and Roman novelists with a critical vocabulary, and that this vocabulary is reflected in their works.
Tilg, Stefan
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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A Gleaming Ray: Blessed Afterlife in the Mysteries [PDF]
, 1993 published or submitted for ...
Brenk, Frederick E.
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The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 58, Issue 6, Page 290-299, December 2025.ABSTRACT Garrulous parrots appear in a wide array of pop culture forms—from urban legends, television sitcoms, and advertising, to comics, pulp detective fiction, and jokes (naming a few). The birds can be helpful, clever agents; but more often they are mischief makers challenging social norms. Among the pandemonium of parrots in expressive culture, we
Greg Kelley
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Epoché as the Erotic Conversion of One into Two [PDF]
, 2017 This essay interprets the epoché of ancient scepticism as the perpetual conversion of the love of one into the love of two. The process of one becoming two is represented in Plato’s Symposium by Diotima’s description of the second rung of ‘the ladder ...
Aumiller, Rachel
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 387-409, September 2025.Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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