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Ethnoreligious dichotomization in Serbian epic poetry [PDF]
Sociologija, 2019 By using certain theoretical settings of ethno-symbolic and interactionist approach to the phenomena of nation and nationalism, this paper?s aim is to explain and reconstruct various pre-modern forms of ethno-religious dichotomization widely present in Serbian folk epic poetry.
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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TWO UNFINISHED PROJECTS OF AMERICAN POETRY
Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, 2020 Gonçalves Dias published in 1857 four cantos of the epic poem Os Timbiras. José de Alencar planned Os filhos do Tupã, an epic in twelve parts, which remains unpublished until his death.
Regina Zilberman
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Joies et tristesses des pauvres dans l’épopée française en vers du XIVe siècle
Cahiers d’Études Romanes, 2017 Classic French epic does not take notice of townspeople, much less of poor people and beggars. Fourteenth-century epic poetry paints this urban crowd by confronting the heroes and especially the heroines to it.
Denis Collomp
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.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
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The fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton [PDF]
, 2014 This chapter follows the fortunes of Arthur as a figure contested and celebrated in equal measure between Malory's Morte Darthur (1485), and Milton's History of Britain (1670).
Maley, Willy, Swann, Adam
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Eighteenth-century theatrical war plays and the experience of war [PDF]
, 2012 In my paper I will discuss ‘war plays’ as they were presented on the 18th-century stage in relation to the question how the identification of the audience with ‘the military’ was realized or prohibited by means of theatricality.
van der Haven, Kornee
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Juvencus and the biblical epic: specificity and literary criticism
Teoliterária: Revista Brasileira de Literaturas e Teologias, 2015 Latin Christian poetry has emerged in Constantine Era and flourished between 400 and 800. It has a fundamental role in the development of literary theory and critical discourse, because, except for Prudencio, the rest of the poets of this first period ...
Elena María Calderón de Cuervo
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The patria of Claudianus (FGrHist 282) [PDF]
, 2016 Following the interpretation of Felix Jacoby (FGrHist 282), I argue that the Κλαυδιανός quoted by the scholium to the Gr. Anth. I 19 is the same man presented by the Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius (I 19) as one of the most famous poets of the age of ...
Focanti, Lorenzo
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PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
History and Theory, EarlyView.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
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