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There and Back Again: Tolkien and Greco-Roman Antiquity
thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2022 The following introduction sketches the status questionis of the research on the influence of Greco-Roman antiquity on the works of Tolkien and provides details about the volume’s theoretical impetus and its broad themes.
Maciej Paprocki, Alicia Matz
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Looking Backwards for a Way Forwards: Greek Tragedy and its Classification of Mental States
Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2023 Greek tragedies have become synonymous with popular understandings of psychology. Amongst other themes, many of the storylines of these ancient tales centre on the decline and turmoil of their characters’ mental states.
Patrick Guy Browne Johnson
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The study of literary topoi as an area of comparative literature: the case of “murder for love”
Philologia Hispalensis, 2022 This article aims to examine the position of literary topoi in the field of comparative literature using Escobar (2000) and Laguna Mariscal’s (1999) definition of topoi.
Zahra Nazemi
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Hermeneutics of Reception by Hans Robert Jauss: An Alternative Approach Toward Quranic Studies
International Journal Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din, 2022 This research attempts to offer hermeneutics of reception by Hans Robert Jauss as an alternative to understanding the Quran. Starting from the concern of some contemporary Islamic thinkers about the limitations of the classical Quran in overcoming human ...
Lathifatul Asna, Nasihun Amin
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Sententiae, 2017 The article represents analysis of the development of British Classics during the last two decades based on the compilation Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform and the main theoretical texts of reception studies.
Olena Pohonchenkova
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The Great Homer in Small Sculpture: An Interview with South African Artist Charlayn von Solms
thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2016 An interview with Charlayn von Solms, the author of "A Catalogue of Shapes".
Charlayn von Solms
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Latin Education and Classical Reception: the Minor Genres
Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 2020 This contribution is the response piece to a larger dialogue of three articles that form the current issue of JOLCEL. The other contributions are “Controversial Topics in Literature and Education: Hrotswitha and Donatus on Terence’s Rapes” by Chrysanthi ...
Rita Copeland
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Production and Receptions of a Classic [PDF]
Biens Symboliques / Symbolic Goods, 2017 While the sociology of culture has helped fuel more general theoretical debate that has enlivened French social science since the 1960s, this has largely been via the mediation of a handful of texts that are considered to be classics today. Le Savant et le Populaire, Miserablisme et populisme en sociologie et en litterature by Claude Grignon and Jean ...
Claire Ducournau, Karim Hammou
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Sublime and Tragic Fall: When Tiresias Met Athena
thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2016 The Western cultural tradition has always been fascinated by the myth of Tiresias ever since the prophet’s first appearance in the Odyssey, an event that marks the beginning of his career in both literature and the arts.
Emilia Di Rocco
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