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Horos : Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone
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Year: 2022 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Open Book Publishers,

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In Horos, Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the 'horos', a stone that Athenians erected to mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property. Potter weaves this history into a meditation on the ancient philosophical concept of horos, the foundational project of determination and definition, arguing that it is central to the development of classical philosophy and the marketplace. Horos challenges many significant interpretations of ancient thought. With nuance and insight, Potter combines the works of Aristotle, Plato, Homer and archaic Greek inscriptions with the twentieth-century continental philosophy of Heidegger, Derrida and Walter Benjamin. The result is a powerful study of the theme of boundaries in classical Athenian society as evidenced by boundary stones, law and exchange, ontology, insurgency and occupation. The innovative book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of ancient Greek social history, philosophy, and literature, as well as to the general reader who is curious to know more about classical life and philosophy.

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Ruggero Jacobbi : Prose e racconti - Inediti e rari
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Florence : Firenze University Press,

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Ah, if only I were not so alive and so crowded with things, what a book I would write [...] but there's so little time [...]. There's lots of time to map them out, that's true, but it's not enough. This is the voice of the protagonist of Convalescenza, one of the stories in this book that - thanks to the painstaking editorial attention of Silvia Fantacci - presents the prose written by Ruggero Jacobbi starting from his precocious youth through to the Sixties. The nine sections, recording fragments of memories, vestiges of mystery and bitter solitude, meander between cinema and theatre, revoke the faces of the war, recall the figures of writers and friends, suggest new approaches to reading. The evocation of Brazil, where Jacobbi spent the most important fifteen years of his life, is not lacking: a country "so big as to drive you crazy" with its magical rites, its rhythm, its culture (the music of Villa-Lobos, Vinícius de Morais and Dorival Caymmi and the poetry of his friend Murilo Mendes). The meticulous notes and the appendix at the end of the book illustrate the history of each text and offer a reconstruction of the projects for novels and stories that were left unfinished and have now finally been transferred from the mind and desk of the writer into book form.

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Prose e racconti : inediti e rari
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ISBN: 888453688X Year: 2007 Publisher: Firenze : Firenze University Press,

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Ah, if only I were not so alive and so crowded with things, what a book I would write [...] but there's so little time [...]. There's lots of time to map them out, that's true, but it's not enough. This is the voice of the protagonist of Convalescenza, one of the stories in this book that - thanks to the painstaking editorial attention of Silvia Fantacci - presents the prose written by Ruggero Jacobbi starting from his precocious youth through to the Sixties. The nine sections, recording fragments of memories, vestiges of mystery and bitter solitude, meander between cinema and theatre, revoke the faces of the war, recall the figures of writers and friends, suggest new approaches to reading. The evocation of Brazil, where Jacobbi spent the most important fifteen years of his life, is not lacking: a country "so big as to drive you crazy" with its magical rites, its rhythm, its culture (the music of Villa-Lobos, Vinícius de Morais and Dorival Caymmi and the poetry of his friend Murilo Mendes). The meticulous notes and the appendix at the end of the book illustrate the history of each text and offer a reconstruction of the projects for novels and stories that were left unfinished and have now finally been transferred from the mind and desk of the writer into book form.

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Seneca, la diatriba e la ricerca di una morale austera : Caratteristiche, influenze, mediazioni di un rapporto complesso
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Year: 2015 Publisher: Firenze, Italy : Firenze University Press,

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Within Seneca's prose, using a long-codified terminology, it is possible to identify a substratum which can be defined as diatribe. This volume aims at making up for the lack of a modern ensemble work on the cynical-stoic diatribe in Seneca's philosophy, analysing its features, influences and mediations. In response to a previous, almost purely compilatory, though systematic critical approach, this work offers an updated examination and contextualization of the individual stylistic elements bearing a seal of alleged 'diatribism'. This volume reconstructs the relationship, which is here deemed as 'complex', between the diatribe and Seneca's prose, while pursuing a research ideal which could combine moralistic contents and stylistic forms, philosophical preaching and rhetorical construction. Not least, the work aims at taking into account the extent to which the chronology of Seneca's works can be reconstructed. Among the fundamental mediations, it is possible to identify the teaching of Seneca's masters (the School of the Sextii and Attalus), the preaching of the Cynic philosopher Demetrius and Horace's poetry.

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Literarische Bildung in der heutigen Mediengesellschaft
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers,

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Die Studie erforscht mit kultursoziologischen Methoden (narrativ-problemorientierte Interviews, Deutungsmusteranalysen) den Stellenwert der literarischen Bildung bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen des Hochkulturschemas, deren literarische Sozialisation durch die Präsenz von AV-Medien und Computer geprägt ist. Damit soll Wissen über den kulturellen und medialen Wandel bereitgestellt werden. Der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchungen liegt auf dem Begriff der literarischen Bildung, daher sind die Ergebnisse insbesondere relevant für die Bildungsforschung, die Literaturdidaktik, die Pädagogik und die Lese- und Biographieforschung.

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The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew.
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ISBN: 1800649827 1800649800 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers,

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"This volume explores an underappreciated feature of the standard Tiberian Masoretic tradition of Biblical Hebrew, namely its composite nature. Focusing on cases of dissonance between the tradition's written (consonantal) and reading (vocalic) components, the study shows that the Tiberian spelling and pronunciation traditions, though related, interdependent, and largely in harmony, at numerous points reflect distinct oral realisations of the biblical text. Where the extant vocalisation differs from the apparently pre-exilic pronunciation presupposed by the written tradition, the former often exhibits conspicuous affinity with post-exilic linguistic conventions as seen in representative Second Temple material, such as the core Late Biblical Hebrew books, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, rabbinic literature, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and contemporary Aramaic and Syriac material. On the one hand, such instances of written-reading disharmony clearly entail a degree of anachronism in the vocalisation of Classical Biblical Hebrew compositions. On the other, since many of the innovative and secondary features in the Tiberian vocalisation tradition are typical of sources from the Second Temple Period and, in some cases, are documented as minority alternatives in even earlier material, the Masoretic reading tradition is justifiably characterised as a linguistic artefact of profound historical depth."--Publisher's website.

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«Viele Anspielungen gehen ohnehin verloren» : Autofiktion und Intertextualität in Max Frischs «Montauk»
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Zürich : Chronos Verlag,

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In seiner Erzählung "Montauk" (1975) inszeniert Max Frisch autobiografische Fakten mit den Mitteln fiktionaler Literatur; eine Kombination, die sich als Autofiktion beschreiben lässt. Besonders interessant sind die intertextuellen Bezüge, mit denen Frisch in "Montauk" Biografisches erzählt. Denn diese Verweise spielen nicht nur auf andere Texte an, sondern sind in eins damit auch bedeutsam im Hinblick auf jene Teile der Autorbiografie, die nur indirekt und ganz dezent angedeutet werden können. Indem die Studie verschiedene intertextuelle Anspielungen untersucht - etwa auf Philip Roths "My Life as a Man", auf Ingeborg Bachmanns "Undine geht" und ihre Erzählung "Simultan", auf Frischs eigene "Skizze eines Unglücks" oder auch auf die Orestie des Aischylos -, strebt sie ein genaueres Verständnis von Frischs autofiktionaler Selbststilisierung an. So lässt sich die Arbeit am Bild, das Frisch seiner Leserschaft vermitteln wollte, nicht nur dort verfolgen, wo er autobiografische Dokumente retuschiert, um eine etwas geschönte Version seiner Vergangenheit zu präsentieren, sondern auch an der Art und Weise, wie er Bekenntnisse tief unter die Textoberfläche versenkt, ausgesparte Informationen erschliessbar macht oder auch Neues hinzuerfindet - beispielsweise den Namen seiner jungen Begleiterin, Lynn. Besonderes Gewicht erhält in der Studie die gendertheoretisch motivierte Frage nach Frischs Selbstinszenierung als Mann, die größtenteils über die verschiedenen in "Montauk" beschriebenen Liebesbeziehungen zu Frauen verläuft.


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Chapter Суффиксация как средство образования видовых пар в резьянском диалекте : славянская и иноязычная лексика
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Florence, Italy : Firenze University Press,

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In the paper morphological processes for creating aspectual pairs in Resian are discussed. A distinction is made between original Slavic verbs and verbs originating from other languages. In the former case the most productive process is prefixation (and perfectivation), whereas in the latter case for verbs of Romance origin the most productive process is suffixation (and imperfectivation). Verbs of Germanic origin also allow prefixation.


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Per l'edizione delle Elegantie di Lorenzo Valla : Studio sul V libro
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Firenze, Italy : Firenze University Press,

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Summary:Elegantie lingue latine is the masterpiece of Lorenzo Valla's reflection on language, through which the humanist gave birth to a real re-foundation of Latin. To date we still do not have a modern, scientifically based edition of the text characterising the various editorial phases of the work, on which the author worked for over ten years and which, arbitrarily and by the author's own will, was in circulation long before its official publication. This research is part of a future complete edition of the text: the first complete edition of a book of the "Elegantie" is presented, limited to the fifth book on the "disputatio verborum", based on the examination, albeit partial, of the handwritten tradition and on a global reconsideration of the editorial history work.


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Recent reading initiatives : examples of national, state, and professional organizations' efforts
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Year: 2002 Publisher: Bloomington, IN : ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading English and Communication : Family Learning Association,

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