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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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Visual Satire Under German Censorship: The Card Game Pharo in Johann Heinrich Ramberg's Illustrations and in Contemporary Descriptions

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 59-83, March 2026.
Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
wiley   +1 more source

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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Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 224-236, March 2026.
ABSTRACT After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter of ecological collapse to advance fascistic politics.
Chloe Ahmann   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

“A Place Where Freedom Means Something”: James Baldwin's Global Maroon Geographies

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract Despite his vocal support for the Algerian revolution, Palestinian liberation, and the South African anti‐apartheid struggle, James Baldwin has continued to be regarded as a thinker whose work predominantly revolved around themes of civil rights, cross‐racial dialogue, and integration.
Ida Danewid
wiley   +1 more source

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.
openaire   +1 more source

PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-31, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
wiley   +1 more source

Not Just Half a Doctor: Promoting Humanism During Stressful Times

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Annals of the Child Neurology Society, Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 6-11, March 2026.
Nigel S. Bamford   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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