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Orality and literacy: epic heroes of human destiny? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Human Speech has often been presented as the crucial line dividing humanity from animals, with Literacy then entering in as the fulfiller of human destiny, the redeemer from primitive orality, and, in alphabetic apotheosis, the all-conquering hero of the
Finnegan, Ruth
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Visioni bucoliche tardoantiche [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper is to be considered a preliminary approach towards a more general study on the generic consciousness of pastoral in Greek late antique literature and art.
Agosti, Gianfranco
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EPOS AND NOVEL IN CONFLICT? TEODORO DE ALMEIDA'S THE HAPPY INDEPENDENT (1779)

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, 2020
This paper highlights the epic and novelistic characteristics of Teodoro de Almeida’s hybrid narrative O feliz independente (The Happy Independent, 1779) against the backdrop of eighteenth-century literary theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theses on literary ...
Markus Ebenhoch
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Imogen Choi. "The Epic Mirror. Poetry, Conflict Ethics and Political Community in Colonial Peru"

open access: yesStudia Aurea: Revista de Literatura Española y Teoría Literaria del Renacimiento y Siglo de Oro
Reseña de Imogen Choi. The Epic Mirror. Poetry, Conflict Ethics and Political Community in Colonial Peru, Woodbridge, Tamesis Books, 2022, 229 pp.
Lara Vilà
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Mit cyklopa w antyku i literaturze hiszpańskiej złotych wieków [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
W literaturze starożytnej obecne są dwa, biegunowo odmienne, motywy podania o Cyklopie: epicki, znany z IX ks. Odysei, przywołany później i poddany modyfikacji przez Eurypidesa w dramacie satyrowym Cyklop oraz liryczno-erotyczny spopularyzowany ...
Kłosińska-Nachin, Agnieszka   +1 more
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La poésie de l’élan vital avant Bergson

open access: yesArts et Savoirs
Bergson’s image-concept of “élan vital” has its precursors in nineteenth-century French poetry. Prompted by reflections on the living world, especially evolutionism, poetry (particularly in the genre of scientific poetry) sought to articulate a new ...
Nicolas Wanlin
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Epic and Elegiac Poetry Homer

open access: yes, 2012
The Homeric epics make use of a very characteristic form of frame : the world of the similes. Upon closer inspection space turns out to be everywhere in the Homeric epics in the form of small details carefully inserted whenever the action needs them.
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