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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Accouplement: vicissitudes of an architectural motif in classical France in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoCoupled columns in French architecture and the reaction to their use from the Renaissance up to the classical rationalism of the early twentieth century hinged on the debates regarding the relation- ship between structural stability and visual delight, over the backdrop of the search for a national classical tradition. This architectural motif was…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro started the topic CfP: Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (RAEI) in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThe Editorial Board of Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (RAEI), Alicante Journal of English Studies, is pleased to announce its Call for Papers for Volume 36 (General Issue), whose date of publication is January 2022. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that revolve around English Studies, and are expected to meet the scientific cri…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro started the topic CFP: Babel-AFIAL 30 (2021) in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThere is a call for papers for issue number 30 of Babel-AFIAL (Universidade de Vigo), which will be published at the end of the year. Proposals must be sent before March 15th.
Babel – AFIAL is an online peer-reviewed academic journal, published annually, that includes work relating to English and German Studies. It is indexed in ABELL, BDDOC…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited De Grieken, babbelziek volk! Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558), lidwoordhater in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHet Latijn heeft geen lidwoord zoals bijvoorbeeld het Nederlands (de, het) of het Oudgrieks (ho, hē, tó), en dat vond de 16de-eeuwse humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger prima. De grootse taal van Rome kon het makkelijk stellen zonder dat pietluttige woordje. Toegegeven, het kan soms nuttig zijn om aan te geven dat je een specifiek object op het oog h…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Wanneer Latijn niet volstaat: John Palsgrave, schrijver van het eerste handboek Frans (1530), en het Grieks in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHet Latijn, de taal van de Romeinen, heeft lange tijd zijn stempel gedrukt op de taalkunde en taalbeschrijving, niet alleen in de oudheid, maar ook in de middeleeuwen en de Renaissance, wanneer men de talige diversiteit van de wereld gestaag ontdekte. De meest uiteenlopende talen werden met wisselend succes gegoten in de mal van het Latijnse…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Vakantie in eigen land: Manneken Pis à la grecque in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMet de wereld op stelten is het tegenwoordig niet evident om van de mediterrane zon te genieten, al moet het weer in de Lage Landen de laatste jaren niet veel meer onderdoen. Mocht je toch snakken naar een zweempje Griekenland deze zomer, dan biedt de dichter van Gentse origine Daniël Heinsius (1580–1655) misschien een tegengif.
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Hugo Grotius’ kist, eigendom van de Muzen: Een Grieks gedicht over zijn beruchte ontsnapping opgeduikeld in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoExact 398 jaar geleden ontsnapte de beroemde Nederlandse jurist, filoloog en diplomaat Hugo Grotius (de Groot, 1583–1645) op spectaculaire wijze uit Slot Loevestein in een kist, geholpen door zijn vrouw en zijn dienstmeid. Grotius zat daar een levenslange straf uit vanwege zijn remonstrantse sympathieën. Het regime was er evenwel nogal losjes: Gr…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited The Art of Spanish in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years ago1492 was a momentous year for Spain. The Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, leading to the continent’s largescale colonization by Europeans. Columbus did so by order of the so-called Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, while actually trying to discover a new travel r…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited An ablative for the Greeks? Frischlin vs. Crusius on grammar (II) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoIn the new “Ad fontes” feature of Adendros, I want to offer English translations of short source texts or text excerpts from the history of (Greek) language studies which struck me as particularly interesting, enlightening, or enticing.
Today: part two of a grammar dispute between Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin and Martin Crusius, two six…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Hadrianus Amerotius: de eerste Griekse grammaticus van de Lage Landen in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoVandaag is het exact 500 jaar geleden dat Hadrianus Amerotius’ (ca. 1495-1560) Compendium Graecae grammatices te Leuven verscheen in het atelier van Dirk Martens.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Twentieth Century in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years agoUn artículo que escribí en los ochenta sobre la prosa de Beckett:
Unnullable Least: Vacío y metaficción en el Beckett de los 80: http://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/unnullable.html
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro started the topic CFP: RAL Special Issue on Ama Ata Aidoo in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThere is a call for papers for a special issue on Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo, which will be published by RAL: Research in African Literatures, one of the leading and most prestigious journals on the literatures of Africa. For more information, see the document enclosed.
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Fragmento e todo: duas imagens urbanas entre oriente e ocidente, c. 1600 in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis article analyzes representations of cities in two pictures created around 1600: Theodor de Bry’s engraving of Macao, and the views of Kyoto attributed to Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei. The relationship between fragmented and total forms of repre- sentation is studied in both pictures. The European engraving depicts urban space as a whole, while t…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited Liberating Britain from Foreign Bondage: A Welsh Revision of the Wars of the Roses in L. M. Spooner’s Gladys of Harlech; or, The Sacrifice (1858) in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn the ten years following the publication of the infamous Reports on the State of Education in Wales (1847) that had classified the Welsh population as a vice-ridden nation of working-class drunkards and promiscuous hoydens, the middle-classes in Wales strongly rejected this Anglo-centric condemnation at first in the press and, later on, in…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited Liberating Britain from Foreign Bondage: A Welsh Revision of the Wars of the Roses in L. M. Spooner’s Gladys of Harlech; or, The Sacrifice (1858) in the group
English Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn the ten years following the publication of the infamous Reports on the State of Education in Wales (1847) that had classified the Welsh population as a vice-ridden nation of working-class drunkards and promiscuous hoydens, the middle-classes in Wales strongly rejected this Anglo-centric condemnation at first in the press and, later on, in…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro started the topic Femspec & Feminist Imaginaria: Going Beyond Realism in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoFemspec accepts critical essays, poetry, art, memoir, drama, fiction, and reviews dealing with feminist/queer topics in SFF. The current call for contributions concerns Afrofuturism and celebrating the contributions of Black women in SFF, here. While the deadline for the next issue is set for February, the journal is always accepting relevant…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro started the topic CFP 50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre & Media in US Popular Culture in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThere is a call for presentations for a conference series on the gothic modes across genre and media in US popular culture. You can find the complete call here.
Presentations will be organized thematically in different sessions, as detailed below. However, the analysis of any type of popular culture products across media is welcome: film, (…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro started the topic 31 SEDERI Conference, 2021 in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe organising committee of the 31st SEDERI International Conference has opened a second period for CFPs until next 15th January for researchers who missed the first one. Due to the pandemic, the academic event was rescheduled for 12-14 May 2021 and will be held online. For more information and further updates, please, follow this link https://even…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro started the topic CFP: L2 Writing Research Seminar in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe second edition of the L2 Writing Research Seminar, organised by the University of Murcia, Spain, will take place online on May 20-22, 2021. The title of the research seminar this year will be “Advancing research in L2 writing and written corrective feedback appropriation in pen & paper and digital environments”.
Guest speakers will prese…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro started the topic ES Review available online in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoAll issues of the first two series of the Valladolid journal ES Review,
-ES (1971-1983) and
-ES. Revista de Filología Inglesa (1990-2016),
are now fully open access: nearly 400 articles digitised from a total of 37 issues.
They are available and downloadable via Dialnet:
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