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Downs and Acrosses: Textual Markup on a Stroke Based Level

, 2004
Textual encoding is one of the main focuses of Humanities Computing. However, existing encoding schemes and initiatives focus on 'text' from the character level upwards, and are of little use to scholars, such as papyrologists and palaeographers, who ...
Terras, M., Robertson, P.
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Hayden White and a Literarily Informed Philosophy of History [PDF]

Ideas y Valores, 2009
The year 2008 is the 25th of the publication of Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, a milestone for the philosophy of history, since it comprehends its linguistic turn.
Verónica Tozzi
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The Highlander

, 2011
This thesis explores James Macpherson’s The Highlander (1758) in relation to originality, Scottish identity and historiography. It also situates the Ossianic Collections in the context of Macpherson’s earlier poetical and later historical works.
Lindfield-Ott, Kristin
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The 2nd Congress of Latvian Historians. Abstracts

, 2018
II Latvijas vēsturnieku kongress notika 2018. gada 18. un 19. jūnijā IV Pasaules latviešu zinātnieku kongresa ietvaros. Vēsturnieku kongresa tēžu krājumā ietverti kongresā nolasīto referātu kopsavilkumi.

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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Literary change

Literary historians generally explain change by narrating it. Narrative history excels at identifying individual events, authors, and works that exemplify transformations of literary culture.
Underwood, Ted
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From José María Blanco and Crespo to Joseph White White: an intellectual biographical journey

Estudios de Teoría Literaria, 2014
The article discusses the life and writings of Blanco White from its context of production and its various intentions. Given the abundant academic production around his figure, which is being developed by historians and literary critics since the second ...
Alejandra Pasino
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: Literary italianology

, 2013
Taking into account the re-emergence of the "idea of a nation" on the political and the intellectual scenes, the author explores the meaning of this new "longing for a fatherland".
Tabet, Xavier
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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