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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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The choreography of longing: songs, screens and space in Carlos Saura’s 'Fados' [PDF]
, 2014 Carlos Saura’s 2007 film Fados follows the director’s earlier works Flamenco (1995) and Tango (1998) by showing musicians performing a vernacular music genre while accompanied by dancers.
Elliott, Richard
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Limit the Drama of M. Tsvetaeva
Филологический класс, 2012 The article considers the characteristics of lyrical plays Marina Tsvetaeva in the aspect of poststructuralist approach aimed at the analysis of poetics.
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Is badfiction processed differently by the human brain? An electrophysical study on reading experience. [PDF]
Front Hum Neurosci, 2023 Weitin T +4 more
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Eulogizing Realism : Documentary Chronotopes in Nineteenth-Century Prose Fiction [PDF]
, 2010 In this contribution we try to probe the generic chronotope of realism, which, judging from its astonishing productivity in the nineteenth century and the profound impact it has had on literary evolution and theory ever since, can be designated nothing ...
Borghart, Pieter, Dobbeleer, Michel De
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope : Reflections, Applications, Perspectives [PDF]
, 2010 The aim of this introductory article [to the volume of the same title], firstly, is to recapitulate the basic principles of Bakhtin’s initial theory as formulated in “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel: Notes toward a Historical Poetics ...
Bemong, Nele, Borghart, Pieter
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Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) wrote 11 novels and two children's books, one of which—The Magic Pudding first published in 1918—remains a national classic. This article argues that readers and critics have long misunderstood Lindsay's intention in writing this lengthy cartoon‐story about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum in ...
John Uhr
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