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Human Destiny and the Natural Law in St Maximus the Confessor: A Contribution to Orthodox Christian Humanism

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Orthodox Christian theology in general prides itself on bearing the mantle of patristic thought. Orthodox theological anthropology is no different, often drawing on Greek patristic sources in presenting its vision of the human being. Yet Orthodox anthropology can also broadly be categorized as personalist in ways that are not necessarily so ...
Alexis Torrance
wiley   +1 more source

Лабіринтом праць Дмитра Чижевського: чеське літературне бароко

open access: yesOpera slavica, 2013
The article deals with D. Čyževskyj's publications in which Czech literary Baroque is touched upon. The author points out two dominant aspects of these works: Baroque symbolism (on the basis of spiritual songs of the pre-Baroque) and Baroque worldview ...
Oksana Blaškìv
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Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Novels: a Baroque Hostility to Straight Lines

open access: yesÉtudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 2005
Can Peake’s Gormenghast novels be termed baroque? This paper suggests the beginnings of an answer by examining one aspect which is usually considered a distinguishing feature of baroque art, namely, its marked preference for curves, broken lines, spirals
Sophie Mantrant
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Puppets for the Margravine

open access: yes21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, 2021
This article introduces a group of 23 textile appliqués, or oshi-e – scraps of padded and painted fabric applied to a support of papier mâché – that were manufactured in Japan during the final decades of the seventeenth century.
Anton Schweizer
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
wiley   +1 more source

The fine arts during the Baroque period in the Principality of Catalonia and the countships of Roussillon and the Cerdagne [PDF]

open access: yesCatalan Historical Review, 2014
Once the prejudices that hindered our understanding of Baroque art’s true nature had been overcome, the history of Catalan art has been rehabilitating the memory of the Baroque period and discovering a more faithful image of it.
Joan Bosch
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Genèse et thématologie de Don Quichotte : l'inflexion des chapitres VI et VII

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Résumé Cet article examine la genèse de Don Quichotte à partir d'une analyse thématologique des chapitres VI et VII de la première partie, afin de réévaluer l'hypothèse critique selon laquelle l'œuvre aurait pu être initialement conçue comme un roman bref.
José Rienda Polo
wiley   +1 more source

How Many Worlds Could There Be? David Lewis and Advanced Modalizing

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Advanced modalizing, namely, possibilities and necessities concerning modal space itself, is problematic for a Lewis‐style analysis of modality. A popular solution, proposed by Divers, postulates explicit semantic clauses for a collapse of advanced modalizing, to the conclusion that all such matters are, if true in the first place, both ...
Lorenzo Azzano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remarques sur la genèse et les utilisations de la notion de « baroque » en Allemagne

open access: yesLes Dossiers du GRIHL, 2012
La contribution retrace l’évolution des significations attribuées à la notion de « baroque » dans le domaine de la recherche allemande depuis ses premières utilisations esthétiques dans l’histoire de l’art au xixe siècle chez Jacob Burckhardt et Heinrich
Hartmut Stenzel
doaj   +1 more source

‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
wiley   +1 more source

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