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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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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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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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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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Este artículo examina las conexiones entre el pasado y el presente realizadasmediante manifestaciones de arte verbal en su contexto de actuación y de reflexionesmetapragmáticas acerca de ellas por integrantes del colectivo social judío argentino.El ...
Fernando Fischman
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The inventions of Sir Thomas Urquhart [PDF]
Perhaps the most famous – or notorious – practitioner of baroque prose in the Scottish literary ‘canon’ is Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty (1611-1660). Urquhart was seen by contemporaries as primarily a humorous writer, a reputation he has sustained, and
Smith, Jeremy
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ABSTRACT Building on an ongoing dialogue with co‐editors Claudio Alvarado Lincopi and Roberto Cayuqueo Martínez, this article explores the process that redefined roles and relationships with and through writing. It investigates multivocal representations and collaborative writings, interrogating the possibilities and challenges of divergent ...
Olivia Casagrande
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Three published books of sermons delivered in Malta between 1694 and 1754 [PDF]
The identification of texts of sermons delivered in Malta during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries would make possible a study of the oratorical styles, themes treated, and languages used in their delivery.
Zammit, William
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TOUCHED BY DEEP TIME: Earthquake Sickness in Mexico City
ABSTRACT In Mexico City, earthquakes are so frightening that they make residents sick. Sometimes referred to as being tocado (touched), the illness might be considered part of the “culture‐bound syndrome” known as susto throughout the Spanish‐speaking Americas, where acute experiences of shock—such as being trapped in a shaking building—induce chronic ...
LACHLAN SUMMERS
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Mood Selection in the Old Northumbrian Gloss to Durham MS A.iv.19
Abstract The aim of this article is to examine the use of the subjunctive in the 10th‐century Old Northumbrian gloss to Durham MS A.iv.19. We assess whether there is evidence for a weakening of the indicative/subjunctive opposition, as has been argued for the earlier gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels, which was the work of the same glossator, Aldred of ...
Julia Fernández Cuesta +1 more
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