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The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
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Gephyra, 2017 An unpublished inscription from Ancyra or its territory contains a dedication to Zeus Erusenos. This deity is also attested on two Latin inscriptions found in Roman Dacia (Roumania), and the cult, like several other local cults from Galatia or eastern ...
Stephen Mitchell
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Andrew Melville, sacred chronology and world history: the Carmina Danielis 9 and the Antichristus [PDF]
, 2009 The accepted view of the ecclesiastical reformer Andrew Melville (1545–1622) as the dynamic leader of the Presbyterian movement in Jacobean Scotland has been severely eroded in recent years, with particular criticism of the actual importance of his ...
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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2023 Books Received / Livres reçus
AestimatioJeremy Armstrong War and Society in Early Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Claire Bubb. Dissection in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. David H. Camden.
Stamatina Mastorakou
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Imported Hellenistic Stamped Amphora Handles from Tatarlı Höyük (in the Province of Adana-Turkey)
Gephyra, 2018 Twenty two amphora stamps from the Tatarlı Höyük excavations in Cilicia (2008-2017) are the subject of this article. Tatarlı Höyük is situated in the Tatarlı village, formerly Yedigöz/Yedioluk, 24 km east of Ceyhan, Adana.
Erkan Dündar, Ayça Gerçek
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The Placement of Lucian’s Novel True History in the Genre of Science Fiction [PDF]
, 2016 Among the works of the ancient Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata, well-known for his scathing and obscene irony, there is the novel True History. In this work Lucian, being in an intense satirical mood, intended to undermine the values of the classical ...
Viglas, Katelis
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Winged horses, rascals and discourse referents
Theoria, EarlyView.Abstract This paper discusses some remarks Kaplan made in ‘Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice’ concerning empty names. I show how his objections to a particular view involving descriptions derived from Ramsification can be avoided by a nearby alternative framed in terms of discourse reference.
Andreas Stokke
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The Animalistic Gullet and the Godlike Soul: Reframing Sacrifice in Midrash Leviticus Rabbah [PDF]
, 2014 This article proposes an analysis of two homiletic units in the Palestinian Midrash Leviticus Rabbah, which revolve around biblical chapters pertaining to sacrifices.
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The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract figure legend Schematic illustration of the bidirectional causative link between cerebral amyloid‐beta (Aβ) angiopathy and cardiovascular disease in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Common cardiovascular risk factors like microvascular thrombosis, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, hypertension and atherosclerosis lead to cerebral hypoperfusion and ...
Samuel Parker +2 more
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