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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Art and the problem of theory: Perspectives for verbalization of arts [PDF]
The paper is focused on the analysis of the possibilities of a verbal and theoretical understanding of art, adequate to art itself. On the one hand, this problem is considered with regard to the perspectives of contemporary philosophy of art, and on the other, with regard to art itself.
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En el marco de los avances recientes en lingüística de la documentación y estudios del arte verbal, el presente proyecto propone el registro, sistematización y análisis de distintas expresiones de la tradición oral y el acervo discursivo producido y ...
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El pueblo ayoreo se ubica en el Chaco Boreal, entre Bolivia y Paraguay. Lo conforman alrededor de 6000 personas que hablan con alto grado de vitalidad la lengua ayoreo, perteneciente a la familia zamuco. La comunidad en la que se realizó trabajo de campo
Santiago Durante
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Abstract Considering the growing calls for decolonial approaches within the scope of Climate Change and Sustainability Education (CCSE), in this research we seek to understand the meanings which have been put into circulation through research narratives on Environmental Education (EE) concluded in Latin America, regarding Afro‐Amerindian knowledges ...
Danilo Seithi Kato +1 more
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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ABSTRACT Many artists in Europe now turn to online crowdfunding to fund their creative practices against the backdrop of cuts in state‐funded subsidies for the arts. Based on an ethnographic analysis of online crowdfunding in the Netherlands, I suggest that this neoliberal context requires artists to cultivate occupational subjectivities and practices ...
Eitan Wilf
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Oríkì Yorùbá: Uma Arte Verbal Africana na América Latina - Expressões Brasileiras
Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura Comparada da Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, como requisito parcial à obtenção do título de Mestre em Literatura Comparada.Esta pesquisa é uma contribuição aos ...
Idrissou, Alex Kevin
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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TEACHING SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: TOMÁS PINPIN'S GRAMMAR FOR TAGALOGS (1610)
ABSTRACT In 1610, a Tagalog printer named Tomás Pinpin published a Spanish grammar in Tagalog that was intended to help natives avoid errors and misunderstandings in their interactions with Spanish colonizers. This article attempts to clarify the book's genesis and to contextualize it within the global expansion of Spanish. Pinpin exemplifies a pattern
ALAN DURSTON
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