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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures"”.
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FROM FANTAISIE TO HISTOIRE: APPLYING AN “ALSATIAN LESSON” TO CHINA
… text could adapt so well to the Chinese soil, and how this piece of fiction participated in the shaping of China’s concept of patriotic education. From the naming of characters and places seen through the evolving original text, we can perceive the artificiality of Daudet’s Alsatian-ness, …
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KUNSTKRITIK ALS KONVERSATION: DAS JOURNALISTISCHE AUSSTELLUNGSGESPRÄCH, 1804-1826
… about the paintings on display at the Dresden and Berlin art academy exhibits, occurred in early nineteenth-century German periodicals. Drawing on research by Albert Dresdner, Jürgen Habermas, Margrit Vogt and others, I argue that such journalistic gallery conversations imitate the contemporary …
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Teaching and Learning the Italian Vernacular in Sixteenth-Century Western Europe: Pedagogy, Texts, and Practices
… to explore how the Italian vernacular was taught and learned in sixteenth-century Western Europe. During this period, numerous grammars, textbooks, and dictionaries on the Italian vernacular were published. While previous scholarship has primarily focused on the linguistic content of these works, …
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« Le désert progresse » : mirages postmodernes de l’Ouest américain dans les fictions françaises et québécoises
… of the American desert in contemporary French and Québécois fiction, where it is often portrayed as an expanding, destabilizing force that overwhelms the narrative space. It investigates how Francophone authors engage with this landscape through a postmodern lens that reflects anxieties about …
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Science, the Self, and Skepticism: Posthuman Fictions of Post-1960s France
… the conceptual emergence of posthumanism and probes the viability of posthumanist redefinitions of the human (self). Motivated by a sense of the simultaneous necessity and danger of the desire to revise our notion of the human in light of the contemporary ecological crisis, it establishes …
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The Sense of Smell in the Renaissance: Natural Philosophy and Medicine in Italy (ca 1450-1600)
… Renaissance Italian scholars (ca 1450-1600 CE) handled the vast canon of ancient Greek and medieval Islamicate literature on the sense of smell in order to build a solid and sophisticated theory of olfaction to be applied to the field of medicine. It begins by surveying the relevant theories on …
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“das ungewisse”: the Uncertain Time of Paul Celan’s “Grabschrift für François”
… for François], written by the Holocaust survivor and mid-20th-century German-language poet, Paul Celan. Celan’s poetry is regarded in the scholarship as a site of mourning for the brutalities of the Holocaust, including the murders of his parents. “Grabschrift für François,” however, marks a …