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Showing 1 to 20 of 268 for “"Philology"”.
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A Grammar of Transcriptions in 2 Esdras: Text, Philology, Phonology
The most secure reconstructions of transcription spellings in 2 Esdras provide the simplest explanations for the extant spellings in manuscripts. When understood in their philological context, these securely reconstructed spellings reliably reveal a Hebrew and Aramaic pronunciation of Ezra-Nehemiah …
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Comparative philology, French music, and the composition of Indo-Europeanism from Fétis to Messiaen.
… argues that the disciplines of comparative philology and linguistics exerted significant force on the priorities and techniques of musicologists and composers in fin-de-siècle France, and examines how ideologies of Indo-Europeanism (or aryanism), concomitant with comparative philology, …
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The Transatlantic Renewal of Textual Practices: Philology, Religion, and Classicism in Madame de Staël, Herder, and Emerson
This dissertation demonstrates how the rise of historical criticism in Germany transformed practices of reading, writing, and public address in the related fields of classicism and biblical criticism in a transnational context. In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, writers on both …
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A Desire for Meaning: Ḳhān-i Ārzū's Philology and the Place of India in the Eighteenth-Century Persianate World
… This dissertation traces the development of philology (the study of literary language, known in Persian under several names including 'ilm-i lughat) within the Indo-Persian tradition, concentrating on its social and political ramifications, and the modes by which Indo-Persian writers smoothed …
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"The ""Codex Argenteus Upsaliensis"": A codicological examination"
… provided scholars in the field of Germanic philology with invaluable information about the language of the Goths in sixth-century Italy, as well as serving as the primary resource for Gothic studies. Beginning in 1662 with Junius' Editio Princeps of the Codex Argenteus, scholars have …
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Inexorable Burden: Rhetoric and Togetherness
<p>This dissertation employs philology and cultural analysis to reassess longstanding notions in rhetorical theory and moral philosophy (via classical rhetoric and technical communication). In particular, I use diachronic analyses of the terms telos, symbouleutikon, and sympheron (from Aristotle to …
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Ancestral voices: philological nationalism in the British Romantic period
… period. One of the great shifts brought by philology in the eighteenth century was to situate language in human history. The Enlightenment reduced long-enshrined institutions such as monarchy, religion, and language to human constructions subject to change. The language theory emerging from …
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Electronic Long-Term Archiving of Complex Textual Artefacts
… systems. But there are many use cases in philology where the requirements are even more stringent, for example the philological reconstruction of textual artefacts and their gestation. Such reconstruction depends on a format which natively supports non-linear text. It should also provide …
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Paradise Lost: The Biblical Fashioning of the East Indies in Dutch Chorographical Accounts, 1596-1726
… intertwined with popular debates in Biblical philology taking place in the Netherlands. Through four case studies, my thesis demonstrates how Dutch merchants, ministers, and colonial administrators used concepts such as the Garden of Eden, idolatry, Satan, monotheism, Noachic descent, the …
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Consummatum est: The end of the word in Geoffrey Hill's poetry
… depicted in Matthew Sperling’s Visionary Philology (2014) and Alex Pestell’s Geoffrey Hill: The Drama of Reason (2016) and asserts that the drama in Hill’s poetry, seeking to transcend history, is constantly related to its end: not only its termination in time but its consummating purpose.
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From tin trunk to world-wide memory : the making of the Bleek collection
… and established academic disciplines including philology, "native studies", folklore and anthropology, archaeology and rock art interpretation. In more recent times, the Bleek collection provides a case study of the archive reconstituted for the new nation, serving not only as a site for the …
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The recategorization of "chaos": a case study of language change and theory change
… on theories from linguistics, philosophy, philology, and sociology. Several mechanisms of semantic change are explored in order to discover their possible influence on theory formation. Developments in chaos theory are described in terms of George Lakoff's radial model of conceptual …
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Le carte del primo Lavorare stanca
… handling of authorial texts of Italian authorial philology and French genetic criticism, which were used in the selection of the type of edition and also for the critical analysis of the editorial documents for the first poem of the collection: I mari del Sud. This study is divided in two parts: …
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Chinese Hereditary Mathematician Families of the Astronomical Bureau, 1620-1850
… Grand Secretariat at the Institute of History of Philology of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan and many digitized archival materials to reconstruct the hereditary mathematician families of the Astronomical Bureau in Qing China. The research found several patterns and strategies that these hereditary …
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An Analysis of Duan Yucai’s Theory of Shengyi tongyuan in his Annotations to the Shuowen jiezi
… between sound and meaning in Western and Chinese philology. Secondly, it contextualises Duan and his work, the Duanzhu, against the background of 18th -Century scholarship to evaluate Duan’s significance in the intellectual developments of Qing China. Thirdly, it focuses on Duan’s approach to the …
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Ezra Pound and the rhetoric of science, 1901-1922
… left London. Beginning with Pound’s exposure to philology, the thesis establishes a correlation between his educational background and his use of scientific rhetoric in his prose. As he attempted to establish a professional status for the poet, he used metaphors linking literature to the natural …
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The Social Significance of Curse Tablets in the North-Western Provinces of the Roman Empire
… as well as their value for linguistics and philology as evidence for vulgar and vernacular language. In contrast, this study focuses on the importance of cursing as a contextually embedded ritual within the everyday lives of people living in the Roman north-western provinces. To achieve this …
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Natural Strange Beatitudes: Geoffrey Hill's The Orchards of Syon, Poetic Oxymoron and Post-Secular Poetics AND An Atheist's Prayer-Book
… hermeneutic approach, and Hill’s visionary philology. Creative process draws on Simone Weil’s notion of decreation, the kenotic paradigm as exemplified in the life and writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the continuing secular vitality of the apostrophic lyric mode.
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