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Reading Orosius in the Viking Age: An influential yet problematic model
This paper considers the representation of war in the Old English Orosius, in order to investigate what models the Late Antique text might have provided to its English audience at the time of the Viking invasions.
Lucrezia Pezzarossa
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ABSTRACT This article examines Anna Maria Ortese's collection of journalistic reportages and short stories, Silenzio a Milano (Silence in Milan, 1958), and Ingeborg Bachmann's speech ‘Ein Ort für Zufälle’ (17 October 1964). It focuses on their topophobic images of Milan and West Berlin, the anxious representations of these post‐1945 urban landscapes ...
Roberto Interdonato
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Denkbilder/Immagini di pensiero. Hannah Arendt e la letteratura
Nella Premessa alla raccolta di “esercizi politici” intitolata "Between Past and Future", Arendt si riferisce alla letteratura di Franz Kafka. Sostiene precisamente la tesi che, in tutta la produzione dello scrittore praghese, dagli apologhi ai romanzi ...
Peluso, R
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Approcci interdisciplinari: letteratura e cartografia. Tra immagini e parole
Nell’ultimo ventennio, un numero importante di lavori sono stati consacrati allo studio della rappresentazione dello spazio nei testi letterari. Tale interesse sembra inscriversi sia nell’evoluzione dei generi, caratterizzati da una spazializzazione ...
Fabrizio Di Pasquale
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ABSTRACT Citizens' participation and direct initiatives are on the rise, including in assessing public service performance. Performance measurement and government‐citizen interactions have been traditionally studied separately in public administration scholarship.
Carmela Barbera +2 more
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Annale letterario prosecuzione della rivista "Comunicare letterature lingue" uscita dal 2001 al 2007 con conto del Mulino. Le due sezioni di cui si compone ciascun volume, Letteratura italiana e Letterature straniere, offrono un intreccio di testi e ...
FILIPPI, PAOLA MARIA
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Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
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Weeping eyes and the Old English phrase wopes hring
The aim of the present article is to reconsider the Old English poetic formula wopes hring, which is used in four poems, where the contexts indicate that the phrase refers to shedding of tears.
Veronka Szoke
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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