Lector Ludens'

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442648643
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Lector Ludens' by : Michael Scham

Download or read book Lector Ludens' written by Michael Scham and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Scham uses Cervantes's Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction.

Píldoras para Pensar

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Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412081262
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Píldoras para Pensar by : Marcelo Blázquez Rodrigo

Download or read book Píldoras para Pensar written by Marcelo Blázquez Rodrigo and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compendio de los refranes que escucho en su hogar y la ampliacion de otros muchos que nunca oyo y que siguen vigentes en la cultura popular hispana.

In Search of the Sacred Book

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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822983028
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Book Synopsis In Search of the Sacred Book by : Aníbal González

Download or read book In Search of the Sacred Book written by Aníbal González and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity's powerful secularizing influence. Analyzing Jorge Luis Borges's secularized "narrative theology" in his essays and short stories, the book follows the development of the Latin American novel from the early twentieth century until today by examining the attempts of major novelists, from María Luisa Bombal, Alejo Carpentier, and Juan Rulfo, to Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and José Lezama Lima, to "sacralize" the novel by incorporating traits present in the sacred texts of many religions. It concludes with a view of the "desacralization" of the novel by more recent authors, from Elena Poniatowska and Fernando Vallejo to Roberto Bolaño.

The Marvelous Clouds

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022642135X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis The Marvelous Clouds by : John Durham Peters

Download or read book The Marvelous Clouds written by John Durham Peters and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peters defines media expansively as elements that compose the human world. Drawing from ideas implicit in media philosophy, Peters argues that media are more than carriers of messages: they are the very infrastructures combining nature and culture that allow human life to thrive. Through an encyclopedic array of examples from the oceans to the skies,The Marvelous Clouds reveals the long prehistory of so-called new media. Digital media, Peters argues, are an extension of early practices tied to the establishment of civilization such as mastering fire, building calendars, reading the stars, creating language, and establishing religions. New media do not take us into uncharted waters, but rather confront us with the deepest and oldest questions of society and ecology: how to manage the relations people have with themselves, others, and the natural world.

The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000550567
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials by : Liv Helene Willumsen

Download or read book The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials written by Liv Helene Willumsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women’s voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. From each country, three trials are chosen for close reading of courtroom discourse and the narratological approach enables various individuals to speak. Throughout the study, a choir of 24 voices of accused women are heard which reveal valuable insight into the field of mentalities and display both the individual experience of witchcraft accusation and the development of the trial. Particular attention is drawn to the accused women’s confessions, which are interpreted as enforced narratives. The analyses of individual trials are also contextualized nationally and internationally by a frame of historical elements, and a systematic comparison between the countries shows strong similarities regarding the impact of specific ideas about witchcraft, use of pressure and torture, the turning point of the trial, and the verdict and sentence. This volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of witchcraft, witchcraft trials, transnationality, cultural exchanges, and gender in early modern Northern Europe.

'The Dream' of Bernat Metge / Del Somni d'en Bernat Metge

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027271887
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book 'The Dream' of Bernat Metge / Del Somni d'en Bernat Metge written by Bernat Metge and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lo Somni (The Dream) is a dream allegory divided into four chapters or books. It was written ca. 1399 and is considered Bernat Metge’s best work. It is extremely innovative within the context of Catalan (and Iberian Peninsular) literature of the 1300’s. It consists of a dialogue between Metge-the-character and several participants (in fact the book is a dialogue between Metge and the Classical and Biblical tradition) on the topics of the immortality of the soul, the essence of religion and the dignity and moral essence of the human being. In addition to using many Classical and medieval literary sources, Lo Somni can be considered one of the first (if not the first) Humanist books to be ever written in the Iberian Peninsula. Metge wrote Lo Somni supposedly while in prison (house arrest?) following a dubious accusation about his involvement in the death of King Joan I. Metge wrote this work as a personal defense to exonerate himself and as an attempt to gain the confidence of the new King Martí l’Humà and his wife Queen María de Luna. Lo Somni ends when Metge-the-character is awaken from his dream. This foundational work also touches upon political themes pertaining to the Crown of Aragon, literary fashion and reception of Italian humanist works at the court, as well as on matters of fashion, cultural customs, taste and style.

A Critical Anthology of Spanish Verse

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520347897
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis A Critical Anthology of Spanish Verse by : E. Allison Peers

Download or read book A Critical Anthology of Spanish Verse written by E. Allison Peers and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.

Powers of Imagining

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887061097
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis Powers of Imagining by : Antonio T. De Nicolás

Download or read book Powers of Imagining written by Antonio T. De Nicolás and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new translation of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius de Loyola, of his Spiritual Diary, of his Autobiography, and some of his letters. These translations are introduced by a hermeneutical commentary laying out the theory and practices of the decision-making power of imagining. Ignatius proposed in his Spiritual Exercises a form of decision-oriented mysticism, and through their use, gathered around him a group of associates who became the firs members of the Jesuit Order. Under the control of later, doctrinally oriented theologians, the practical, decision-oriented mystical character of the original Exercises was gradually replaced by a more theoretical and devotional character. Antonio T. de Nicolas recovers in his translations and through his critical apparatus, the original decision-oriented thrust of Ignatius.

Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190076992
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by : Ilan Stavans

Download or read book Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by Ilan Stavans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual and transnational nature. Stavans presents a wide range of traditions within Jewish literature and the variety of writers who made those traditions possible. Represented are writers as dissimilar as Luis de Carvajal the Younger, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, Anzia Yezierska, Elias Canetti, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Irving Howe, Clarice Lispector, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Amos Oz, Moacyr Scliar, and David Grossman. The story of Jewish literature spans the globe as well as the centuries, from the marrano poets and memorialists of medieval Spain, to the sprawling Yiddish writing in Ashkenaz (the "Pale of Settlement' in Eastern Europe), to the probing narratives of Jewish immigrants to the United States and other parts of the New World. It also examines the accounts of horror during the Holocaust, the work of Israeli authors since the creation of the Jewish State in 1948, and the "ingathering" of Jewish works in Brazil, Bulgaria, Argentina, and South Africa at the end of the twentieth century. This kaleidoscopic introduction to Jewish literature presents its subject matter as constantly changing and adapting.

A Poetry of Things

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487509189
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis A Poetry of Things by : Mary E. Barnard

Download or read book A Poetry of Things written by Mary E. Barnard and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Poetry of Things considers how cultural objects were used by poets in the years around 1600 - a time of social and economic crisis, but also of remarkable artistic and literary production.

Oral and Written Transmission in Chant

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351555642
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis Oral and Written Transmission in Chant by : Thomas Forrest Kelly

Download or read book Oral and Written Transmission in Chant written by Thomas Forrest Kelly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing down of music is one of the triumphant technologies of the West. Without writing, the performance of music involves some combination of memory and improvisation. Isidore of Seville famously wrote that unless sounds are remembered by man, they perish, for they cannot be written down. This volume deals with the materials of chant from the point of view of transmission. The early history of chant is a history of orality, of transmission by mouth to ear, and yet we can study it only through the use of written documents. Scholars of medieval music have taken up the ideas and techniques of scholars of folklore, of oral transmission, of ethnomusicology; for the chant is, in fact, an ancient music transmitted for a time in oral culture; and we study a culture not our own, whose informants are not people but manuscripts. All depends, ironically, on deducing oral issues from written documents.

Reading and Fiction in Golden-Age Spain

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521303753
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading and Fiction in Golden-Age Spain by : B. W. Ife

Download or read book Reading and Fiction in Golden-Age Spain written by B. W. Ife and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-10-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Ife here examines the connection between the objections to Spanish Golden Age fiction and those raised two thousand years earlier by Plato.

Contradictory Subjects

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501728490
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Contradictory Subjects by : George Mariscal

Download or read book Contradictory Subjects written by George Mariscal and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by placing literary production in its socio-cultural context. Drawing on theories of cultural materialism and making use of historical analysis, George Mariscal focuses on the ways in which the problem of subjectivity is constructed in the writing of the period, particularly the poetry of Francisco de Quevedo and Cervantes' Don Quixote.

Computational Semantics

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1837684650
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Book Synopsis Computational Semantics by : George Dekoulis

Download or read book Computational Semantics written by George Dekoulis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the application of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in the semantics’ analysis for linguistics, classical studies, and philosophy. Similar techniques can be implemented to incorporate the fields of education, psychology, humanities, law, maritime, data science and business intelligence. The book is suitable for the broader audience interested in the emerging scientific field of formal and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The significance of incorporating all aspects of logic design right at the beginning of the creation of a new NLP system is emphasized and analyzed throughout the book. NLP and AI systems offer an unprecedented set of virtues to society. However, the principles of ethical logic design and operation of primitive to deep learning NLP products must be considered in the future, even via the preparation of legislation if needed. As law applications are already taking advantage of the techniques mentioned, the manufacturers should apply the laws and the possible knowledge development of the NLP products could even be monitored after sales. This will minimize the drawbacks of implementing such intelligent technological solutions. NLP systems are a digital representation of ourselves and may even interact with each other in the future. Learning from them is also a way to improve ourselves.

Greek and Latin Music Theory

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580469957
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Greek and Latin Music Theory by : Edward Nowacki

Download or read book Greek and Latin Music Theory written by Edward Nowacki and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-needed overview of, and guide to, the principles behind the treatises on music theory written in ancient Greece and Rome and continuing through the Middle Ages.

Knowledge and Censorship

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230611257
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Knowledge and Censorship by : I. Stavans

Download or read book Knowledge and Censorship written by I. Stavans and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship. In the second part of the volume, Verónica Albin engages Stavans in a series of four conversations in which he expounds on the arguments he developed in the essays.

Francisco de Quevedo

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Francisco de Quevedo by : D. Gareth Walters

Download or read book Francisco de Quevedo written by D. Gareth Walters and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: