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Avicenna's Commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle: a critical study with an annotated translation of the text
… aware of the fact that the post-Classical history of the treatise begins in the Arabic Middle East. In the early tenth century A.D. the <em>Poetics</em> was translated into Arabic and, as I try to establish in this study, it was translated at least once more later in the century. Major Arabic …
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The sublime, imperialism and the African landscape
… postcolonial reading of the sublime that takes into account the racial and gendered underpinnings of Immanuel Kant's and Edmund Burke's classic theories. The thesis used the understanding of the sublime as a lens for an analysis of the cultural politics of landscape in a range of late imperial and …
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Conducting Women: Gender, Power,and Authority in the Rhetoric of French and English Conduct Literature of the Later Middle Ages
Conduct and courtesy literature have a long history, its vernacular tradition extending back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. We are familiar with modern versions of this literature: Ann Landers advice column, women's magazines, and even modern books that tell us about etiquette. My …