Results 21 to 30 of about 459 (181)

Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
wiley   +1 more source

On the history of Vyacheslav Ivanov’s translation for “A Collection of Latvian Literature” [PDF]

Литературный факт, 2018
The present study is devoted to the history of creation of Russian translation “Molitva” of Latvian poet Aspazija (the name Elza Pliekšāne, 1865–1943). V. Ivanov made this translation for a collection of Latvian literature (“Sbornik latyshskoj literatury”
Elmira K. Alexandrova
doaj   +1 more source

‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
wiley   +1 more source

Dimitrie Bolintineanu’s Manoil From Literary Convention to Moralizing Lesson [PDF]

Cultural Intertexts, 2015
This paper analyses the construction of Manoil, the eponymous hero of Dimitrie Bolintineanu’s novel, in relation to: a number of European fictional models present in the 19th century in the ‘very young’ Romanian literature; to the non-competitive ...
Viviana–Sabina BRĂTUC
doaj  

Epistolary Organization as a Semantic Code of M. Yu. Lermontov’s Poem “Valerik” [PDF]

Два века русской классики
The article examines Lermontov’s poem “Valerik” in terms of the spiritual content of the epistolary genre. The specific feature of “Valerik” is the pronominal organization of the text.
Irina A. Kiseleva
doaj   +1 more source

Spiritual Letter-Travelogue in the Russian Monastic Literature of the 20 Century

Научный диалог, 2019
The functioning of a travelogue letter in Russian monastic literature is considered on the material of the spiritual epistolary heritage of Archimandrite Sergius (Stragorodsky).
A. N. Smolina
doaj   +1 more source

Eulogiae Terrae Sanctae of St Sava of Serbia [PDF]

Balcanica, 2014
The focus of the paper is on the eulogiae that Sava of Serbia, on his pilgrimage in the Holy Land, sent to the abbot of Studenica, Spyridon: a little cross, a little belt, a little towel and a little stone.
Popović Danica
doaj   +1 more source

Reference dependence and lottery participation

Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract We assume that lottery participants are poor relative to their target income. Reference dependence with loss aversion can render the marginal utility of income non‐monotonic in line with the Friedman–Savage hypothesis. As a result, lottery participation can be rationalized without invoking probability weighting.
Robertas Zubrickas
wiley   +1 more source

LETTER TRADITION AND EPISTOLARY NOVEL IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Journal of International Social Research, 2020
In this study, letter writing in other words epistle writing is focused on since it is the first literary form of the prose fiction in American Literature. Being commonly used in eighteenth century, this literary form is viewed as a means for the writers to display their political and social thoughts.
openaire   +1 more source