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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Greek Lyric Fragments in Margaret Goldsmith’s Sappho of Lesbos

Lexis
Sappho of Lesbos. A Psychological Reconstruction of Her Life (1938) by Margaret Leland Goldsmith (1894-1971) receives little attention in accounts of Sappho’s modern reception.
Finglass, Patrick J.
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The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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Greek and Latin Astrological Poetry Reconsidered

Aestimatio
: A discussion of La poésie astrologique dans la littérature grecque et latine by Vanessa Monteventi that contextualizes this meritorious yet imperfect monograph in modern research on ancient astrological poetry and focuses on the whole range of its ...
Stephan Heilen
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
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The Tragic Conflict in Hegel’s Aesthetics [PDF]

Ideas y Valores, 2007
Resumen:El ensayo expone la teoría hegeliana de la poesía como una elaboración lingüística en la cual convergen la esencia y la existencia del hombre en el mundo, expresándose de modo objetivo en la épica, subjetivo en la lírica y reuniendo libertad y ...
Crescenciano Grave
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The translator as reader: the case of poetry translators from modern Greek into English.

, 2020
Reader Response and Reception theories recognize that readerly activity during the reading process means that the reader draws on various resources, such as their knowledge of the world and of literary conventions. A more practical perspective with significant insights into the reader’s input comes from empirical explorations of literature (Hartman ...
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Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics

Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation into the increasingly popular trend amongst philosophers on the metaphysics of powers, exemplified by the statement: ‘To be real is to possess a power to affect (or to be affected by) other things’. First, I briefly trace the history of this idea (from the Eleatic dialectic of ancient times to present day quantum
David Rozema
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