Reflejos de la Segunda Sofística en los epigramas atribuidos a Luciano de Samósata by Matías Sebastián Fernandez Robbio

“…En este estudio dejamos de lado la discusión acerca de la autenticidad de los mismos y, en cambio, exploramos la posible recepción de ciertos recursos y topoi de la Segunda Sofística en este corpus atribuido a Luciano.…”
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"Odějme Tóra v nevěsty úbor!" O genderových stereotypech severské společnosti v době Vikingské éry by Lenka Doová

“…The main aim of this study is denial of typical social stereotypes of the Viking Age society as man-protector and provider of his family and woman „Lady of the keys“ (i.e. housewife) which authoress conciders only as literary topoi. …”
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Écriture et trauma dans “The Giant Wistaria” : Quand Charlotte Perkins Gilman revisite le gothique by Paule Lévy

“…This article purports to highlight the relationship between text and trauma in Gilman’s, “The Giant Wistaria”, a short story based on one of the topoi of the gothic tradition: the haunted mansion.Gilman humorously introduces a “trouble in the genre”, turning her dark tale into a subversive version of the birth of the American nation. …”
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L’Italie chez E.T.A. Hoffmann by Alberto Caprioli

“…At the turn of the Enlightenment, the Italian language represented one of the topoi of German musical literature. While most philosophers and men of letters of the Romantic era were reluctant to consider Italy as the promised land of art, E.T.A. …”
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La SF de la Théorie : Baudrillard et Haraway by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay (Jr.)

“…Both theorists elaborate SF topoi, while writing theory that is poised between fiction and rational explanation-just like SF.…”
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Winter, Montana: the Mountain Literature of Rick Bass by François Gavillon

“…Cette étude a pour objet d’examiner le rôle des deux topoi comme constitutifs d’une "poétique" bassienne de la montagne hivernale : la montagne comme lieu, comme temporalité, comme force agissante, comme art enfin. …”
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'Los peces de la amargura' de Fernando Aramburu: Un diálogo transnacional y multidireccional by Rosa Pérez Zancas

“…Para ello, se recurre a conceptos como la ‘Multidirectional Memory’ y ‘The Implicated Subject’, desarrollados por Michael Rothberg. Se exploran los topoi literarios, recurriendo a obras en lengua alemana sobre la violencia del nazismo y la extrema derecha, teniendo en cuenta las diferencias espacio-temporales y evitando caer en una ‘competencia de víctimas’.…”
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Discursive Construction of Immigration Through the Lens of News Values in the Brexit Referendum by Arash Javadinejad

“…The adoption and repetition of such narratives could also, by themselves, lead to further acceptance and normalisation of the common anti-immigrant topoi in the broader discourse of Brexit in society, although more research is needed in this regard.…”
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Se mettre à l’œuvre: Trois incipit de fantasy française by Adrien Rosescu

“…Durant notre analyse, nous tâcherons aussi de porter une attention toute particulière à l’emploi des topoï dans ces incipit, tels que ceux du seuil, de l’éveil, du regard et de la violence dès l’orée du texte.…”
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‘The South! something exclaims within me’: Real and Imagined Spaces in Italy and the South in Vernon Lee’s Travel Writing by Leonie Wanitzek

“…Edward Soja’s concept of ‘Thirdspace’, or ‘real-and-imagined places’ further allows me to explain Lee’s experiences of place as encounters between the real and the imagined, the present and the remembered. I argue that the topoi of ‘the South’ and ‘Italy’ function as mental ‘Secondspaces’ which combine with the geographical ‘Firstspaces’ of Lee’s travels in order to produce complex Thirdspace depictions of Italian places.…”
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Tours de Babel et lettres de feu : motifs bibliques dans le Berlin de Vladimir Nabokov by Monica Manolescu-Oancea

“…Starting from these motifs involving shop signs, letters and light, I attempt to connect the urban scene of exile with the issue of bilingualism, and to show in what ways Nabokov’s use of these two biblical topoi points to a vision of literary creation as transgression. …”
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«Chi potrebbe esplicar con parole»: il lessico dei disastri nelle relazioni di età moderna tra scarti e continuità by Rosa Anna Paradiso

“…Ultimately, these elements are linked to the impossibility of describing, with traditional words and styles, an event that requires, at this chronological stage, the use of new terms and analogies: hence the use of dialect and the use of modern descriptive topoi such as those of war and spectacle. At the same time, we observe how a new discursive tradition is being created in the early modern period, exemplified on the one hand by the continuity in the use of syntagms that cannot be seen in the repertoires and the aforementioned descriptive strategies, and on the other by the affirmation of a sensationalist approach to information about the disaster. …”
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La musica da film e la costruzione dell'immaginario turistico nei blockbuster hollywoodiani by Marie-Hélène Chevrier, Chloé Huvet

“…Si tratterà qui di mostrare come le musiche composte per questi film partecipino alla creazione dei topoi (“India dei Maharaja”, “Egitto dei Faraoni”, ecc.) favorendo l'esotismo e l'orientalismo, in particolare attraverso l'uso di strumenti e motivi musicali locali e attraverso la rappresentazione, su schermo, di pratiche musicali e artistiche tradizionali (canto, danza, ecc.). …”
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On the rhetoric of handmaidenhood: The translator’s construction of (im)modesty by Kelly Washbourne

“…I entertain whether humility is in fact the translator 'under erasure', not invisible but visible-in-invisibility. As modesty topoi are also shown to often be mere translation norms, “devotional formula”, or even immodesty in disguise, this work considers many of its ‘rhetorical moves’, complicating assumptions of the meek translator. …”
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Musique de film et construction des imaginaires touristiques dans les blockbusters hollywoodiens by Marie-Hélène Chevrier, Chloé Huvet

“…Il s’agira ici de montrer comment la musique composée pour ces films participe à la création de topoï (« l’Inde des Maharadjas », « l’Égypte des Pharaons », etc.) en favorisant l’exotisme et l’orientalisme, notamment par l’utilisation d’instruments et de motifs musicaux locaux et par la représentation, à l’écran, de pratiques musicales et artistiques traditionnelles (chant, danse, etc.). …”
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«Вот скажем лицом я в Китае». Стереотипы и имаготипы Китая, китайца и китайского в практике обращения к чужому в геопоэтике и геоэстетике Дмитрия Пригова... by Rainer Grübel

“…In its analytic design the article discerns in Prigov’s China-text a broader geo-esthetical from a smaller geo-poetical horizon and distinguishes the theme- and sense-orientated phenomenon of stereotype, reducing (the concept of) a culture or a nation to special, often discrediting it, semantic features (as topoi), from the phenomenon of the imagotype, which is orientated to the poetical and/or esthetical construction of an artifact and relates the specialty of the other to certain sounds, intonations, colors, textures. …”
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Landschaftsgedächtnis und Geschlechterdiskurse in ausgewählten Werken von Elsa Bernstein und Maria Waser by Monika Mańczyk-Krygiel

“…Symbolic drama by Elsa Bernstein (pseudonym Ernst Rosmer, 1866–1949) Mutter Maria Totengedicht in fünf Wandlungen (1900) deals with the subject of the supplanting of old folk beliefs by the Christian religion, as well as the violent clash of the male and female worlds, symbolized here by the figures of alpine mythology as literary topoi (hunter and mountain goddess). The end of the drama—a combination of a mythical being after death with a sculpture of the Madonna carved in rock—is usually interpreted as the apotheosis of Christianity and the triumph of a new religion (and thus a new world order) over the pagan world. …”
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Revenances et hantises dans les récits des camps de Jorge Semprun by Marie-Christine PAVIS

“…L’inscription des revenances et hantises dans les récits des camps de Jorge Semprun rompt avec les topoï du témoignage sur les camps en oscillant sans cesse entre horreur absolue et « bonheur insolite de se souvenir ».…”
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„Wie die Geschichtsschreiber der Welt die Geschichte des Felsens schreiben“. Die zerschlagene Gedächtnislandschaft in der „Saison in den Alpen“ von Mieczysław Jastrun by Elżbieta Dutka

“…Jastrun’s lyrical works refer to the well-known mountain symbolism and play with topoi, but despite this, there is a clear distance from tradition, especially the Romantic one. …”
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Ombres et lumières croisées : l’appropriation prométhéenne de la lumière dans les peintures de Wright of Derby (1734-97) et John Martin (1789-1854) by Muriel Adrien

“…Beneath the terrestrial, and even telluric topoï that flatter human hubris, the privileged place of pictorial representations is the pandemonium, domain of Lucifer, the light-carrying angel but also the ruler of the kingdom of shades. …”
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