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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"material text"”.
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Reading Servius in Context and Reception
… reception of Virgil through Servius in this context, concluding with later adaptations in mediaeval Christian England. I identify different layers of reception. First, Servius s commentary on Virgil, in the context of his contemporaries, Claudian and Augustine. The former uses Virgil to support …
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The Ends of a Line and the Passion of History
… of these is Theodor Adorno whose theory of a ‘materialistic-dialectical aesthetics’ facilitates a reading of the poetic line-ending as engaged in ethical work. If the line-ending is a moment where verse form asks us to question what we have seen and what we know, then this element of verse form …
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Material Prayers: The Use of Text in Early Modern Italian Domestic Devotions
… upon how laypeople engaged with devotional text during times of prayer and in their everyday lives. Studies of early modern devotional texts have explored their literary content, investigated their censorship by the Church, or concentrated upon an elite readership. This thesis, instead, …