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The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 509-524, December 2025.
Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
wiley   +1 more source

Women and Oaths in Euripides [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
“The oath is what holds democracy together,” claimed the Athenian orator Lycurgus, whose democracy was composed exclusively of men.1 Athens was the definitive phallogocentric community where public discursive practices such as the oath were the ...
Fletcher, Judith
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‘Who Is Afraid of Fairenesse or Wanton Ladies Appearing in Their Barenesse?’: Laughing at Female Desire in Early Modern English Reception of the Myth of the Trojan War☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 612-631, November 2025.
Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth’s heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war’s calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth’s women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
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A Percepção Da Morte No Regresso A Alceste

open access: yesForma Breve, 2022
Este trabalho propõe uma análise sobre a obra Os Velhos Também Querem Viver (2014), de Gonçalo M. Tavares, a partir de Alceste, de Eurípides, aflorando o tema da morte nas suas várias configurações.
Rui Carlos Medeiros Alvarenga
doaj   +1 more source

Hippolytus\u2019 Songs and Musical Innovations in the Attic Tragedy. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Hippolytus’ songs show that, even when taking from Aeschylus or Sophocles, Euripides is always attempting innovative solutions. This play belongs to an initial stage of the Euripidean work, but it probably marks the starting point in the evolution of his
DE POLI, Mattia
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The Development of Museology in 1930s China: Western Influences and Early Reflections

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 656-672, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the emergence of museology in China during the 1930s, tracing its development through the establishment of the Museums Association of China and the analysis of early publications. It examines the influence of Western concepts on Chinese museum theory and practice, particularly regarding exhibition techniques.
Daphné Sterk
wiley   +1 more source

CFI. A Working Hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Il saggio propone un'ipotesi di lavoro per verificare il significato di un'opera d'arte, basandosi sul concetto di 'call for interpretation'. La struttura profonda e il ruolo sociale dell'arte è produrre una richiesta di interpretazione, dato il ...
Gigliucci, Roberto
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‘NICHTS ALS DIE HÖLLENFAHRT DER SELBSTERKÄNNTNIS BAHNT UNS DEN WEG ZUR VERGÖTTERUNG.’ HAMANN'S CONCEPT OF LITERATURE AS SELF‐REFLECTION

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 413-431, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This article presents a conception of literature as self‐reflection, derived from the writings of Johann Georg Hamann (1730–88). Starting from an intertextual analysis of Hamann's statements on self‐knowledge as a descent into hell that paves the way to divinisation, the article presents Hamann's intertextual writing practice (‘neuer Begriff ...
Anna Żymełka‐Pietrzak
wiley   +1 more source

Crisis and philosophy: Aeschylus and Euripides on Orestes' crimes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Since the XIX century, a pleiad of philosophers and historians support the idea that Greek philosophy, usually reported to have started with the presocratics, lays its basis in a previous moment: the Greek myths – systematized by Homer and Hesiod – and ...
Lago de Sousa Barroso, Gabriel   +1 more
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