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G.H. von Wright's Biographical Sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article presents the history of Georg Henrik von Wright's well‐known biographical sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein, which first appeared in English in 1955 and was later included in Norman Malcolm's Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir. It will be shown that von Wright, during the years 1954–1984, published as many as six versions of the ...
Bernt Österman
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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Bruno Schulz: sztuka jako kulturowa ekstrawagancja
Teksty Drugie, 2016 Nycz explores how the work of Bruno Schulz can be read through the concept of ‘extravagance’. This concept, which is key to the poetics of Schulz’s prose, has a variety of connotations: bizarreness, weirdness, exaggeration, as well as erring, going ...
Ryszard Nycz
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Genre Innovations and Reception of Thaddeus Venediktovich Bulgarin in the Czech Community
Pitannâ Lìteraturoznavstva, 2018 Faddey Bulgarin (1789–1859) is one of the predecessors nad inspirers of new genre forms in the three spheres: in the formation of the genres of the moral-satirical novel, in the skaz narration and the specific genre forms of utopoia and dystopia.
Ivo Pospíšil
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Adorno's empiricism?: On intellectual and metaphysical experience
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Adorno's work contains pregnant references to the concepts of both “intellectual” and “metaphysical” experience. While the concept of metaphysical experience figures relatively prominently in the Adorno literature, intellectual experience has been largely neglected—indeed to the point that certain scholars have asserted that the two concepts ...
Tom Whyman
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Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This special issue explores variations in English address terms across world Englishes, highlighting how globalization and digital communication continue to shape their use. While Western Englishes like British and American English show a decline in hierarchy‐stressing terms (e.g.
Anke Lensch +2 more
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Kinship Terms and Person Address in the English‐Speaking Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of migration, globalization and digitalization on the use of nominal address terms in the English‐speaking Sri Lankan Tamil (SLT) diaspora community by undertaking a corpus analysis of English fiction authored by diaspora members with SLT heritage. In the 40 years since the outbreak of the Sri Lankan civil war,
Anke Lensch
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