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Putting Galileo in his Place: Geographical Origins and the Rhetoric of Scholarly Credibility☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 481-497, September 2023., 2023 Abstract While in theory frowned upon, comments on the (regional) provenance of scholars frequently found their way into the scholarly debates of the Republic of Letters. This article uses early responses to Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius as a case study to explore various broader assumptions and associations underlying the use of such comments on ...
Anna‐Luna Post
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 405-429, August 2023., 2023 This paper aims to shed light on the mobility of people and relics in the seventh century. It will show that Emperor Heraclius strategically designed his movements and those of his household, citizens, and officials, as well as those of relics within and beyond the borders of Byzantium, in order to consolidate the empire and his position in it.
Paraskevi Sykopetritou
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 6, Issue 1, January–December 2023., 2023 This paper aims to clarify the formation process of the concept of “form” from the 1920s to the 1930s by chronologically tracing the creation of Perriand's furniture. Abstract This paper aims to clarify the formation process of the concept of “form” from the 1920s to the 1930s by chronologically tracing the creation of Perriand's furniture. That is, by
Shoichiro Sendai
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Ethnography, Incongruity, History: Soviet Poetic Cinema
The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 1, Page 68-90, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay examines the entangling of the poetic and the ethnographic in the art cinema of the 1960s as an indicator of a broader collision of epistemological/discursive regimes in postwar Soviet cinema—and ultimately, a clash between two fundamentally opposed approaches to the discursive production of history.
Elizabeth A. Papazian
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‘If there was no jaad’: poetics of khat and remembering the future in a London Somali community
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 1290-1308, December 2022., 2022 Abstract The Somali people have suffered from a devastating civil war and large‐scale forced displacement since the late 1980s. This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork with Northwest London Somalis during the khat (Catha edulis) control debates that led to the prohibition of the substance in June 2014. It argues that diaspora poetics can become
Guntars Ermansons
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The crisis of love in Michel Houellebecq’s Sérotonine
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 77, Issue 6, Page 355-370, December 2022., 2022 Abstract In this article I argue that Michel Houellebecq’s novelistic descriptions of isolated and depressed protagonists in Sérotonine (2019) and in his earlier novels should not simply be read as symptomatic of the crisis of love in late capitalism. By focusing on situations where love might or might not manifest itself, Houellebecq also explores the
Christian Refsum
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L’inférence dans les romans judiciaires d’Émile Gaboriau
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 77, Issue 6, Page 386-404, December 2022., 2022 Résumé L’injection de l’heuristique dans le romanesque est loin d’être un recours littéraire nouveau. Un certain nombre de romanciers (tels Voltaire, Balzac, Bernanos, Robbe‐Grillet ou Butor) ne se sont pas privés d’y toucher. Ceci dit, ce sont notamment les écrivains attitrés du genre policier qui s’y sont spécialisés.
Daniela Ventura
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 325-349, August 2022., 2022 This article explores how and why Gregory of Tours encoded the fear of God into the architecture of Tours cathedral and the Basilica of St Martin. Using Gregory’s writings, in combination with the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus and the inscriptions that adorned the interior walls of the basilica, this paper argues that Gregory followed the church ...
Catherine‐Rose Hailstone
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Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, 2011 A travers une analyse des concepts d’affirmation originaire, d’attestation et de reconnaissance, cet article tente de reconstituer le sens et les motivations du cheminement réflexif qui conduit Ricœur de L’Homme faillible à Soi-même comme un autre et à ...
Jean-Luc Amalric
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Quand la mer se retire suivi de Les lieux-dits du rêve [PDF]
, 2007 Les lieux-dits du rêve : brigitte bournivalUne question est née entre deux femmes, l’une poète, l’autre psychanalyste : « Le Lieu à partir duquel le poète aspire à nommer le Monde, ne serait-il pas le Lieu d’où le psychanalyste tente d’entendre le Sujet ...
Bournival, Brigitte, Couzier, Nane
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