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This paper offers a nascent attempt at best practices for the comparative method in a conference setting. Exploring the value in transcendence of traditions and specialization, it traces the preparation and outcome of a recent comparative hagiology panel
Todd E. French
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Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) ou l’Art nouveau symboliste
Built from 1898 to 1901 in Paris, the buildings of Avenue Rapp by Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) are as well known as little studied. Although rehabilitated since the 1960s, Art Nouveau remains a formidable moment of aesthetic and social utopia whose ...
Bruno Montamat
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‘The Catholic Florist’: flowers and deviance in the mid-nineteenth century Church of England [PDF]
The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw a dramatic change in the appearance of many ecclesiastical interiors due to the growing popularity of Catholic revivalism in the Church of England.
Janes, Dominic
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Żywoty świętych Piotra Skargi – biografie transgresyjne. Prolegomena do przyszłych badań
The article discusses the phenomenon of transgressive personality based on the example of Lives of the Saints by Piotr Skarga. Each of the heroes of this work has a transgressive biography, that is, through his life they makes an act of transforming ...
Ewa Cybulska-Bohuszewicz
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Book Review: \u3cem\u3eSacred Matters: Material Religion in South Asian Traditions\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
Book Review of Sacred Matters: Material Religion in South Asian Traditions. Edited by Tracy Pintchman and Corinne G. Dempsey.
Pflueger, Lloyd W.
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“A strange mystical village” in Bunin’s short novel Dry Valley: To the problem of sources [PDF]
The subject of research in the article is the image of the Dry Valley in Bunin’s short novel and its possible sources. The author believes that the main precedent texts for Bunin’s short novel and the concept of national life and national ...
Mokina, Natalia Vasilyevna
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Contemporary African American Historical Novel [PDF]
The paper discusses the works of African American writers of the end of the 1960s — the end of the 2010s that address the historical past of African Americans and explores the traumatic experience of slavery and its consequences.
Yuri V. Stulov
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‘Little Gunshots, but with the blaze of lightning’: Xavier Herbert, Visuality and Human Rights [PDF]
Xavier Herbert published his bestseller Capricornia in 1938, following two periods spent in the Northern Territory. His next major work, Poor Fellow My Country (1975), was not published until thirty-seven years later, but was also set in the north during
Lydon, Jane
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N. V. GOGOL AS SLAVOPHILE: A SLAVIC THEME IN THE WRITER'S HERITAGE [PDF]
It is well known that P. J. Chaadaev’s, a famous Russian thinker of the 19th century, assessment of the present-day reality was determined by the study of the world and Russian history.
Igor' Alekseevich Vinogradov
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«Raccogliendo la veccia» di Lu Xun
The present article focuses on a short story written by Lu Xun in 1935, «Gathering Vetch», later included in Gushi Xinbian (Old Tales Retold). In this text the author has been faithful to the official biography of the two legendary hermits Boyi and ...
Perini, Gaia
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