Excerpt from Moore’s Mugabe’s Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies, and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe by David B. Moore

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The Local, The Global, or Somewhere in Between? by Peter J. Verdin

“…This research examines the way that ideas of locality and globality are negotiated, reinvented, and reimagined at Africa Festival in Würzburg, an annual festival that celebrates African music and culture in the Lower Franconian region of Germany. Operating from the conceit that events like Africa Festival are “constructed cultural festivals,” this research looks at the way that these reinventions and reimaginings are reflective of implicit notions of authority, authenticity, power, and alterity, which have been shaped by globalization and colonial legacy. …”
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South Sea Daggers and the Dead Man’s Eye: Foreign Invasion in Fin-de-Siècle Optogram Fiction by Andrea Goulet

“…This study looks at four fin-de-siècle texts that revolve around the central conceit of the ‘optogram,’ the photograph of a retinal image in a cadaver’s eye: Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Claire Lenoir (1867–87), Rudyard Kipling’s ‘At the End of the Passage’ (1891), Jules Claretie’s L’Accusateur (1897), and Jules Verne’s Les Frères Kip (1902). …”
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Monstrous to our human reason. The empty grave of the Winter’s tale by Richard Wilson

“…So when ‘the Queen’s picture’ moves, and ‘it appears she lives’, the play represses possibilities that are ‘more monstrous standing by’, and which had been Shakespeare’s concern ever since Juliet shuddered at ‘the horrible conceit’ of premature burial. The statue that comes to life reverses the contretemps of Juliet’s game of playing saints that ‘do not move’. …”
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THE PROBLEM OF SEARCHING THE MEANING OF HUMAN EXISTENCE: CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT by V. M. Petrushov, V. M. Shapoval

“…A human must refuse from false self-conceit concerning his potential omniscience and omnipotence, cease dictating his own rules to the Existence, determine the boundaries of his freedom and try to clearly realize his place in the objective structure of being. …”
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விவேக சிந்தாமணி கூறும் மானுட விழுமியங்கள் / Human Values in Viveka Cintamani by முனைவர் சு. சுசா / Dr. S. Susa

“…They have formulated ethical principles using literary techniques such as Ullurai Uvamum (conceit) and Iraichi (implicit metaphor). Ethical texts were written to impart human values, analyzing which principles are suitable or unsuitable for life and offering guidance in various ways. …”
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Book phenomenon in library philosophy and library research by Baiba Sporane

“…The end of the book, the printed text, and old-style reading is a real possibility, not an academic joke or a post-structuralist conceit. How the book will look in the near future, whether it will still be called a "book," and whether changes in its historical form will change the name "book" and its essential nature, we will see very soon. …”
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Poétique/Politique de l'artifice dans Richard II by Pierre Iselin

“…One is the historical and political context of Queen Elizabeth’s succession — a hot debate in which indirection may appear as a necessary political artifice, the other is the ostentatious and multiple use of poetic citation — mise en abyme of discourses and theatrical props, recurrence of symbolic and biblical motifs, insistence on poetic conceits and topoi, onomastics and wordplay. With its chiasmic architecture of inversion, Shakespeare’s play can be seen not only as the mannerist treatment of a medieval diptych, but also as a study in perspective, where meaning and reception are instable, roles liable to reversibility — a poetic reflection on the theatre of politics.…”
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ASMENS TAPATUMAS by Alphonso Lingis

“…How much can one build on such thin concepts - such conceits? Had we not better search in the fullness of experience? …”
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