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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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Ego contra mundum: About Don Juan and Don Quixote
This article analyses two figures of the Spanish Golden Age Literature, Don Juan and Don Quixote, which involve a series of questions or problems typical of philosophy. They don´t expose a theoretical problem rather they represent it, they stage it; they
Leonarda Rivera
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Guide to the classics: Don Quixote, the world’s first novel – and one of the best [PDF]
Completed by Cervantes when he was in prison, Don Quixote is the tale of a man so passionate about reading he leaves home to live the life of his fictional ...
Puchau de Lecea, Ana +1 more
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ABSTRACT Addressing ongoing calls for a more robust understanding of philanthropic foundations, this paper uses metaphor analysis to map and analyse analogical metaphors on foundations—metaphors that make a direct comparison between philanthropic foundations and another domain—put forward in academic and non‐academic discourse.
Tobias Jung
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Il Chisciotte e i suoi lettori
Don Quixote and Its Lectors. The Don Quixote of la Mancha represents a literary work that never ceases to amaze and that offers material for reflection, continuously, influencing "the entire course of subsequent Western literature".
Ercole Giap Parini
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The article analyzes the editions, translations and adaptations of Don Quixote, available for iPad. It pursues to catalogue the resources from Cervantes’ work, as well as study its technical characteristics, its scientific value and its innovations.
Josefa Badía Herrera
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Don Chisciotte: la forza di gravità spirituale
Don Quixote: the force of spiritual gravity. The article proposes to find the core of Cervantes’ novel in the illustration of the domination of one world over another. These two worlds are characterized for the different ways of confronting death as well
Lucilla Mininno
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Reading Don Quixote as political agent: a Spanish knight in British ideological and literary wars [PDF]
En medio de una batalla política y literaria tanto los autores radicales como los antiradicales usaron el Don Quijote de Cervantes como herramienta ideológica. En concreto, los novelistas anti-Jacobinos usaron el quijotismo para identificar las ilusiones
Borham Puyal, Miriam
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Disintegration, Salvation, and/or Madness in Dostoevsky
ABSTRACT Psychological fragmentation and derangement suffuse Dostoevsky's fiction. This paper argues that the madness of Dostoevsky characters derives from intense wounds to the self: humiliating lacerations that impel fugue and disintegration. Such vulnerable, frangible characters seek to escape and deny themselves to avoid being seen for who they are.
Jerry Piven
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The intellectual formation of an architect and his work are characterized by the cultural training he has received. The literature placed at the service of architecture enhances this formation and therefore its own existence.
Jaime Vergara Muñoz +1 more
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