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The article reads the invention of the Exodus-Narrative in its historical context of the religious and political system of the Ancient Near East. It reconstructs the revolutionary different approach to political power and theological... more
This article presents a manuscript that significantly enriches the textual corpus of ›Helfta Mysticism‹ with a series of hitherto unknown writings. Aside from this, it contains what is by some distance the oldest copy of the ›Legatus... more
Richard Wright's Native Son has often been read as a socially-oriented text, seemingly neglecting its existence as a literary construct. Such readings gear towards identifying the text with such societal ills as racism and... more
1999:, αφιέρωμα στην ποιήτρια Μαντώ Αραβαντινού, περ. Μανδραγόρας, τεύχος 22-23, Δεκέμβριος, σ. 35-43.
“Textuality and Hypertextuality: What’s ‘Hyper’ for?” is published as a chapter in the following book:
Between Two Cultures: Essays in Literature and Language.
Mary Massoud (ed.),
Egypt: Macmillan, 2002,
p. 130-141.
Between Two Cultures: Essays in Literature and Language.
Mary Massoud (ed.),
Egypt: Macmillan, 2002,
p. 130-141.
Writing academic papers is all about reading. It is all about reading what and when, in the process of writing, and yet there is writing to be accomplished differently from reading. So, what role does reading play in writing?
The history of literature has always been influenced by technological progress, as a transformative cultural power—threatening destruction or promising a luminous future—as a theme inspiring new narrative forms and plots, or as a force... more
L'expérience d'être autres (que le reste de la nature) constitue un aspect essentiel de notre vie quotidienne dans la nature et l'échange avec celle-ci. Cette expérience corporelle intense et sans cesse renouvelée qui, de par sa nature... more
This is an introductory course centred around the concept of practice. It aims to offer a general overview of the so-called practice turn in the social sciences, compare and contrast the most important theories of practice in sociology,... more
The intent of this chapter is to suspend the belief in the goodness of literacy -- our chirographic bias -- in order to gain a deeper understanding of how the engagement with texts structures human consciousness, and particularly the... more
Rabbi Judah Leib Alter of Ger, a famed nineteenth-century Hasidic master, wrote an influential collection of Hebrew homilies. But it seems that R. Judah Leib’s sermons were also transcribed by his students, some of whom recorded their... more
This paper examines the formation and development of the Abu Saʿid Abuʾl-Kheyr hagiographic tradition. It shows how reports about the eleventh-century saint circulated within a shrine community of his descendants and disciples, both... more
Jeg vil i denne artikel undersøge primært læserens og analytikerens forhold til litteraturen som sprog og byen som sprog og pege på, hvad der forøger læserens muligheder for at komme på talefod med de betydnings-spor som erindringens tab-... more
The goal of this paper was to take critical look at representations of the body as text or surface of writing and the implications of such metaphors in contemporary critical theory and gender studies. I considered the sacrificial... more
Resenha: REDAÇÃO E TEXTUALIDADE, VAL, M.G.C.(1991), São Paulo: Martins Fontes.
"Jutta of Sangerhausen. A ‘new saint’ in the wake of Elizabeth of Thuringia? Jutta of Sangerhausen (Thuringia/Germany) is a less known representative of the religious movements of the 13th Century Western Europe, a lay woman who spent... more
"Megaleh Temirin (Revealer of Secrets), ed. Jonatan Meir, Three volumes, Mosad Bialik, Jerusalem Megaleh Temirin (Revealer of Secrets), first published in Vienna in 1819, is one of the sharpest and wittiest pieces of Jewish literature... more
Critical Days is a late antique compilation of passages from four Hippocratic treatises. This is the first study to consider it seriously as an independent text. I conclude that Critical Days values practical considerations over theory... more
Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary in which multiple and selective perspective of culture can be drawn to examine the relation between culture and power, in which concern lies on practices and institutions, systems classification... more
Revisions to the Greek NT in NA28 are restricted to the Catholic Epistles—the product of the Münster Institute’s ongoing work on the Editio critica maior. The text of the rest of the NT remains unaltered. The updated manuscript data,... more
Ausgehend vom performativen Verständnis von Textualität bei Jacques Derrida (unhörbare, nur lesbare différance; textuelle Spur als "Störung der Ordnung"; Temporalität des Futur antérieur als Ausdruck von Wagnis, Bekenntnis, Antwort und... more
An overview of the variety of textual differences that exist between the Apocalypse in Codex Sinaiticus and the book in modern critical editions, thereby offering a window into the book's early readership. There is also a YouTube link to... more
What makes a narrative text a narrative? This is the central question of the paper which functions as an introduction to the edited volume "Perspectivization on narrativity and narrative perspectivization" (2016, John Benjamins). Based... more
Studiul urmăreşte încadrarea prozei lui Gheorghe Crăciun în două sisteme literare, respectiv în cadrul optzecismului şi ulterior în cel al postmodernismului. Punctul de pornire, teoretic, motivează înţelegerea deja canonică a... more
This chapter gives an overview of the study of vision and the multitude of ancient and late ancient ideas about the mechanics of the eye. It considers the challenges and potentials of writing a history of sight.
Defining interstitials and the various roles they play; how they invade programmes; how they provide guidance on how to watch TV
The subject of the article is Dependency Grammar (DG) as a tool of didactics of Italian as FL for Chinese speaking learners. We will obviously refer to the model developed by Francesco Sabatini for the didactics of Italian grammar started... more
This paper, completed as the final Dissertation for the University of Oxford MSt in 2017, argues for a reading of Barthes's L'Empire des signes as a kind of handbook for how to read and live differently.
Orthographic variation within the manuscripts of the Greek NT is seldom a cause célèbre beyond the ranks of diehard textual critics. Even among these most will concede that orthographic irregularities amount to little more than evidence... more
The publication of Josef Schmid's landmark work on the textual history of the Apocalypse seemingly established the Andreas Text Type as a fourth-century product. The primary evidence for Schmid's claim came from the fourth-century... more
A short article on the origin and development of the longer Trinitarian text of 1 John 5:7-8 as found in the Textus Receptus. The typos that are present in this draft will be corrected before the final version is submitted for... more
Derrida powerfully critiques a certain philosophical view of language—logocentrism—and the ideal of translation it implies. According to this ideal, the function of language is to express meaning while the task of translation is to find... more
Megaleh Temirin (Revealer of Secrets), first published in Vienna in 1819, is one of the sharpest and wittiest pieces of Jewish literature written in the first half of the nineteenth century, and is perhaps the most important piece of... more
Despite the increasing interest in textual structure and the specific use of linguistic means in narratives, the concept of Narration has so far not been an issue of theoretical concern within linguistics and has been rather used than... more
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events mirrors the scholarly praxis of the common law, encoding a doctrine of virtue from diligent study. This doctrine promotes critical literacy as a means of achieving justice, linking with the... more
RESUMEN. En este artículo abordamos la evaluación de textos especializados, con fines docentes, mediante un estudio experimental basado en los rasgos de textualidad que hacen que el texto resulte coherente para sus lectores. Se comprueba,... more