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Infinite majesty : disabled and athletic métis in David Foster Wallace’s tennis writing [PDF]
, 2018 As John Jeremiah Sullivan remarks in his introduction to String Theory, a collection of David Foster Wallace’s essays on tennis, tennis “may be [Wallace’s] most consistent theme at the surface level.” As once an elite junior professional himself, Wallace
Rabe, Michelle Elizabeth
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Springs as a Civilizing Mechanism in Daphnis and Chloe [PDF]
, 2017 : In Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, springs are a central motif of the Prologue and the novel as a whole. This motif counters male domination, since it is associated with Chloe, while the flowers watered by springs in this novel are identified with Daphnis ...
Janelle Peters
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Historical texts incorporate important characteristics that need to be assessed including genre, text structure and content. Often overlooked are characteristics of handwritten manuscripts commonly divided into legibility, readability and aesthetics.
Ion Andronache +2 more
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Looks of Love and Loathing:Cultural Models of Vision and Emotion in Ancient Greek Culture [PDF]
, 2011 International audienceThis paper considers the intersection of cultural models of emotion, specifically love and envy, with folk and scientific models of vision in Greek antiquity.
Cairns, Douglas
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Развитие образования, 2018 The article proposes an original version of the origin of the names of the main characters of the novel L.N. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. The author of the article, exploring the novel and extensive materials on it, shows an amusing but systematic ...
Fyodor P. Khodeev
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Les Boukoloi ou le monde instable
Aitia, 2020 In Heliodorus’ Aethiopica, cowherds constitute a group of unstable identity, a feature that affects both the characters that come in contact with them and the narrative where they appear. The geographical contous are blurred, the narrative loses sight of
Dimitri Kasprzyk
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La « crise grecque » dans l’Ultime Humiliation de Rhéa Galanaki
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2018 Since 2008, Greece is facing one of the most serious crises in its history. This financial bankruptcy, which is also a social and humanitarian disaster, is fueling an interesting albeit uneven literary production.
Loïc Marcou
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Mirrors in 19th-century Greek prose fiction: The King of Hades (Constantinople, 1882)
Neograeca Bohemica, 2020 In 19th-century Modern Greek life, the most common written word that means 'mirror' was 'katoptron'. It is well-known that during this period katoptron as a material object still indicated luxury and welfare.
Anastasia Tsapanidou
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Spartans in the ancient Greek novels
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2023 AbstractCharacters in the Greek novels comprise a dizzying array of identities, but one group of people who have received barely any attention are Spartans. They appear only in Chariton of Aphrodisias and Xenophon of Ephesus, where analysis of their presence sheds crucial light on the novels’ literary and sociocultural agendas.
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Borrowed Texts: Translation and the Rise of the Greek-Ottoman Novel in the Nineteenth Century
Syn-Thèses, 2013 A long-time blind spot of Greek literary historiography, the novel of the Romantic period has, over the last twenty years, been consistently re-examined, as semi-forgotten or even unknown works, and authors have resurfaced through the dedicated efforts ...
Étienne Charriere
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