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Scholars today are experimenting with a vast array of reading devices in order to explore texts anew, often blending, both on the technical and on the hermeneutical axes, traditional approaches and innovative computing tools, that collect textual features and detect...
For two centuries, from the middle of the 6th century to the end of the 4th century BCE, hundreds of scenes of play were depicted on Attic and South Italian vases. They bring to life warriors, children, girls and boys enjoying a large variety of ludic...
This study documents and analyses the structure and function of Greek incubation rituals in Classical and Hellenistic times addressing all relevant and extant literary and epigraphical testimonial concerning the rites and rules surrounding incubation. It shows that...
Purity, and its converse, impurity, formed a versatile metaphor in the ancient Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in this volume explore the range of these ideas, from...
Studies in the cultic honours for Hellenistic leaders and benefactors mainly focus on the ideological and diplomatic features of the phenomenon. Conversely, the papers collected in this volume aim to shift the focus to its material and practical aspects: media, ritual...
Ritual permeates Greek comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. In Birds and Peace, the performance of sacrifice is central to the plot and its dramatic action; Women at the Thesmophoria is set during the celebration of a religious festival; while the story of...
Though twentieth-century readers may not value Tillotson’s sermons as highly as did the Bishop of Sarum, they will readily grant that he aptly defined the change that had come over pulpit oratory in England in the course of the seventeenth century. That the new style of...
Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as...
The analysis of the dynamic nature of rituals has become a heuristic tool for the investigation not only of religious behaviour and beliefs, but also for the study of social practice and communication in ancient and modern societies. From public assembly gatherings and...
Both James’s life and his literary career might be figured as a double spiral rooted at the one end in the American soil and in romanticism, contracting in its middle on contact with France and French naturalism and expanding again into the Anglo-Saxon world and into...
The main concern of this study is the artist’s vision of society; its major theme is the relation between the individual and society resulting from the impact of social and political upheavals on individual life. By criticism of society I mean the novelist’s awareness...
This study questions the traditional view of sacrifices in hero-cults during the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods. The analysis of the epigraphical and literary evidence for sacrifices to heroes in these periods shows, contrary to the traditional notion, that...
For the understanding and interpretation of the religions of times past, the imagery of those cultures has always been an important source of information, besides the written sources (if at all available) and the ever-richer archaeological material. The topic of this...
On a coutume, lorsqu’il est question de littérature fantastique en Belgique francophone, d’avoir aussitôt à l’esprit les noms de Jean Ray, de Thomas Owen, de Franz Hellens, de Marcel Thiry, de Gaston Compère ou de Michel de Ghelderode. Tous ces écrivains ont, en effet,...
En se penchant sur l’œuvre de Pierre Klossowski, ce livre articule une réflexion autour du phénomène littéraire et de la figuration. L’œuvre de Pierre Klossowski exemplifie de façon à la fois concrète et abstraite une économie du littéraire comme rencontre. Rencontre...
Au fil des années, la figure du sage a pris une importance essentielle au sein de l’imaginaire entourant l’écrivain belge Henry Bauchau (1913-2012), à tel point que cette construction posturale, mobilisée par l’auteur et reconduite tant par ses critiques que par la...
Ce livre s’intéresse moins aux mouvements poétiques qu’au mouvement des formes poétiques. Plutôt que de s’acharner à promouvoir ou à rejeter certaines écoles, il étudie les formes que les poètes adoptent ou négligent. Ces choix sont révélateurs de leurs ambitions et de...
Cet ouvrage présente neuf artistes et écrivaines modernistes, connues ou moins connues, dans leur attitude de modernité : Judith Gautier, Dorothy Bussy, Suzanne Valadon, Emily Carr, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Dora Carrington, Isadora Duncan, Claude Cahun et Kay Boyle. Ces...
Le commissaire Maigret de Georges Simenon est souvent associé dans l’imagination populaire avec la ville de Paris. Cependant, des 75 romans et 28 contes et nouvelles de la série Maigret presque le tiers des enquêtes se déroulent en-dehors de la capitale et la Normandie...
Un autor crea sus personajes, pero sólo puede ejercer su poder sobre ellos dentro de los límites de su obra. Más allá, en la imaginación de otros escritores, algunos personajes continúan viviendo aventuras. ¿Cómo los reconocemos? ¿Qué equipaje semiótico llevan consigo?...
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