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La profezia politica nella letteratura italiana da Alfieri a d’Annunzio
Laboratoire Italien, 2018 In the period between the creation and the crisis of the bourgeois liberal state, between the French Revolution and World War I, the figure of the Poet-Prophet, who accompanied the process of national unification with his song and committed to ...
Vincenza Perdichizzi
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Steering the Author Discourse: The Construction of Authorship in Quality TV, and the Case of Game of Thrones [PDF]
, 2015 This essay examines how authorship is discursively constructed and employed as an indicator of quality in the marketing of US cable network HBO’s TV series ‘Game of Thrones’.
Tobias Steiner
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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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Joan Maragall per a infants i joves o com reinventar un clàssic
Haidé, 2014 Estudiar l’obra de Joan Maragall que s’ha publicat per a nens i joves no només vol dir conèixer els poemes i proses que han semblat oportuns per a aquests lectors, sinó que suposa entendre les circumstàncies històriques i culturals que han empès l ...
Maria Pujol i Valls
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Transcendental metagenre travelers: a background of the reception of Cervantes’ Don Quixote in Spain and France [PDF]
, 2017 No abstract ...
Duche, Veronique, Perez De Leon, Vicente
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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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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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European Journal of Life Writing, 2014 This essay proposes to read the paratext of books published in seventeenth-century as a form of multi-perspective, multi-generic, and multi-modal of life writing, since information on the author is not only provided in chronological “Life of the Author ...
Sarah Herbe
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China as dystopia: Cultural imaginings through translation [PDF]
, 2015 This article explores how China is represented in English translations of contemporary Chinese literature. It seeks to uncover the discourses at work in framing this literature for reception by an Anglophone readership, and to suggest how these ...
Lee, TK
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