Results 11 to 20 of about 31,674 (212)
China as Humanist Exemplum [PDF]
This essay addresses the “demand for humanism, with a nod toward Asia” within current theory and global intellectual political culture. I argue that using humanism as a way to understand China (a habit inside and especially outside the PRC) keeps us within the orientalist tradition; it is also at odds with China's attempted/failed/ongoing revolution ...
Vukovich, DF
openaire +5 more sources
Iucundus nominis error (Ov. Ars 3, 729): Procri rustica puella nell’Ars amatoria [PDF]
Alla fine del terzo libro dell’Ars, Ovidio esorta le cultae lettrici a non dare spazio al sentimento della gelosia, estraneo all’adulterino mondo dell’elegia erotica, e introduce il mito dell’amore infelice di Cefalo e Procri (3, 683-746), exemplum ...
Giuseppe La Bua
doaj +5 more sources
Retelling the Future: Don Juan Manuel's "Exenplo XI" and the Power of Fiction [PDF]
In this paper I look at how “Exenplo XI” is both product and reflection of the various traditions and cultures of medieval Iberia and how Juan Manuel forges a new version of this story from these inherited traditions in order to showcase problems of ...
Michelle M. Hamilton
core +2 more sources
A crowd of Gods: atheism and superstition in Juvenal Satire 13 [PDF]
Accepted ...
Uden, James
core +1 more source
Il valore esemplare della morte di Bhīṣma nel "Mahābhārata"
1. Il personaggio – 2. L’arco narrativo si tende – 2a. Antefatto – 2b. Culmine – 3. Le colpe di Bhīṣma verso le donne – 3a. Ambā – 3b. Draupadī – 4. Declino e apogeo: Bhīṣma morente come exemplum – 5. Bhīṣma e Karṇa – 6. Tre morti inique: Bhīṣma, Droṇa,
Alberto Pelissero
doaj +1 more source
On the wings of the vulture : gender, violence, and « resistance » in a Nahua tale of a trip to Chiknâujtipan, the land of the dead (Mexico). This essay analyzes four versions of a contemporary Nahua Orpheus tale (Mexico), inherited from a pre-Hispanic ...
Dominique Raby
doaj +1 more source
Kultura i polityka zagraniczna [PDF]
The Maastricht Treaty includes as the “second pillar” of the European Union a Common Foreign and Security Policy that is designed to improve co-operation in foreign policy, co-operation which has existed informally since 1970.
Banús, Enrique
core +2 more sources
En el artículo se analiza la diversa trayectoria genérica de la Vida e historia del rey Apolonio [¿Zaragoza, Juan Hurus, 1488?] desde una triple perspectiva. Por su origen, remonta a la Historia Apollonii regis Tyri, narración de origen clásico próxima a
María Jesús Lacarra
doaj +1 more source
The paper focuses on the poem “Penelopea or the innocence of the strangely wonderful maidensev’n times tortured. Previously by Jerome the saint, now by Jan Achacy Kmita described”(Penelopea abo niewinność dziwnie cudownej niewiasty ...
Karolina Wójciga
doaj +1 more source
The Janus Intertextuality Search Engine: A Research Tool of (and for) the Electronic Manipulus florum Project [PDF]
This article demonstrates how the search engine developed for this online edition not only serves the research purposes of users of this digital resource, but is also a valuable tool for refining and improving the edition while also aiding the author’s ...
Nighman, Chris L.
core +2 more sources

