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Lives, Identities and the Historians of the Normans
A study of the six main historians of the Normans writing in Normandy from Dudo of Saint-Quentin to Wace. The artcile argues that it is only by combining the personal, the contextual, the ethical, and the literary that we can truly understand what the ...
David Bates, Bates, David
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The russian writers of the Enlightenment period about history and historians: Mikhail Muravyov
The russian writers of the Enlightenment period about history and historians: Mikhail Muravyov The paper compares the theoretical articles by Mikhail Nikitich Muravyov (1757-1805): Studying history, About history and historians, The historians of ...
Magdalena Dąbrowska
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A “Última flor do Lácio” entre portugueses e brasileiros
Historians of Portuguese language and literature claimed the particularity of their idiom, distinguishing it from the Spanish, in order to assure the national literary identity.
Regina Zilberman
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From an issue of the Magazine Litteraire featuring the work of Fernand Braudel to an article by Hayden White on the "Absurdist moment" in criticism, it is clear that the disciplines of history and literary studies are converging.
Lynn A. Higgins
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This article analyses The History of the Seven Wise Mistrisses of Rome, attributed to Thomas Howard, and traditionally underrated by literary critics and historians as a mere imitation of the Seven Sages, despite its enormous success.
Tomás Monterrey
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The works of Charles Bonnet illustrate the contribution of imagination to research in natural history in the second half of the 18th century. In his Palingénésie philosophique(1769), Bonnet uses images and metaphors rooted in the philosophical and ...
Marta Sukiennicka
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Ancient Greek Literary Letters [PDF]
The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre.
Rosenmeyer, Patricia A.
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The article contains an editorial study of thirteen letters from the years 1899-1900, addressed to Henryk Sienkiewicz for the twenty-fifth anniversary of his literary activity.
Aleksandra Błasińska
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Consisting of seventeen folio volumes and eleven volumes of engraved illustrations - over seventy-four thousand articles and twenty-one million words - the Encyclopédie (1751-1772) remains a monumental contribution to Western literature for its promotion
St. Louis, Scott Richard
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From the point of view of systems and field theory, the value attached to a work of art, for example a literary text, is not only the result of the intrinsic characteristics of the text but also includes connections with institutions such as publishers ...
Burgert Senekal, Eduan Kotzé
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