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Venuto al mondo di Margaret Mazzantini: dal testo al paratesto, e ritorno [PDF]

, 2014
The paratext on the back cover of Margaret Mazzantini's Venuto al mondo (published in 2008, winner of Campiello Award 2009, a film in 2012, a serial tv in 2014) reports the 'prize motivation' written by the jury of Campiello, formed by important ...
Taffon, Giorgio
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Understanding Genre in a Collection of a Million Volumes [PDF]

, 2015
Large digital collections offer new avenues of exploration for literary scholars. But their potential has not yet been fully realized, because we don’t have the metadata we would need to make literary arguments at scale.
William Underwood, William Underwood
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Dictionaries of Publishing: Analysis of the Contribution of their Paratext to their Role as Bridging Tools between the General Language and the Specialised Language of Publishing

Academic Journal of Modern Philology
This paper examines the paratext of a corpus of a dozen English-language dictionaries of publishing. Focusing on what this paratext reveals about the scope of study, the profile of the authors, the intended readership, and the objectives of the authors ...
Perrine Ciraud-Lanoue
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Nourishing Catholic Souls in Post‐Tridentine Miracle Narratives☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 339-355, June 2025.
Abstract The period of Catholic reform witnessed the proliferation of printed works that narrated historical and contemporary miracles for the edification of a vernacular readership. This article examines the role of printed miracle narratives in stimulating interior Catholic devotional life through close examination of three Italian vernacular ...
Joshua Rushton
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Visions Of Odalisques: Orientalism And Conspicuous Consumption In Leila Sebbar\u27s Le Peintre Et Son Modele (2007) [PDF]

, 2011
Many Algerian writers (Alloula, Djebar, Boudjedra) have revisited the representational politics of colonial iconography despite awareness that this endeavor is at risk of renewing exoticism.
Gueydan-Turek, Alexandra
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The counternarrative in early Pynchon: Race and power in “The Secret Integration”

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 1, Page 19-35, February 2025.
Abstract The issue of race and power in “The Secret Integration” requires re‐examination. Politically oriented readers have characterized the plot as forms of alignment with racism and segregation, whereas readers focusing on the esthetics and development of the authorship have to some degree recognized the role of the counternarrative in this early ...
Kristian Larsson
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.
Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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Preface : A Threshold to the Work at Hand [PDF]

, 2014
Collection : Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT)The paratext framework is now used in a variety of fields to assess, measure, analyze, and comprehend the elements that provide thresholds, allowing scholars to better understand ...
Apollon, Daniel, Desrochers, Nadine
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Paratexts in (social–political) transition [PDF]

, 2010
The paper addresses the modifications of certain paratextual information in a given territory and period, i.e., before, within and after the years of transition in Hungary, around 1989.
Kálmán C., György
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Sir Walter Ralegh and the Art of War by Sea: Military Humanism and the Uses of the Early Modern Soldier‐Scholar

History, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 461-487, December 2024.
Abstract This article establishes the intellectual origins and underpinnings of the early modern soldier‐scholar in order to better understand the military humanist tradition within which Sir Walter Ralegh's writings on naval warfare and logistics were conceived and composed. By locating Ralegh within this tradition, the article provides a new critical
MATTHEW WOODCOCK
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