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Journal articles on the topic "Literature; Modern – 17th Century – History and Criticism"

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Kirillova, Natalia B. "Metamorphoses of Russian Mass Culture." Observatory of Culture 16, no. 5 (2019): 536–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2019-16-5-536-541.

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The article is a review of the monograph “Russian Mass Culture: From Baroque to Post-Modernism” by Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences I.V. Kondakov. The book, which consists of seven chapters, is devoted to the history of the emergence and development of mass culture in Russia from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. Studying its ori­gins dating back to antiquity, the author proves that Russian mass culture received an “impulse of indepen­dence” in the 17th century, as the cu
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Jaumann, Herbert. "Wozu hütete Abel seine Schafe, wenn es keine Diebe gab? ‒ Altes und Neues zu Isaac La Peyrère und seiner Präadamiten-These (1655)." Scientia Poetica 23, no. 1 (2019): 22–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/scipo-2019-002.

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Abstract The two treatises of 1655, entitled Prae-Adamitae and Systema theologicum ex Praeadamitarum hypothesi, are among the principal works of the French Huguenot author Isaac La Peyrere (1596-1676). Peyrere ‘s theses have occupied a key position within the heretical branch of 17th-century Biblical Criticism: God must have created a human race before Adam, the Bible does not tell the history of mankind but of the elect people of Israel only, and the books of the Pentateuch were certainly not written, if at all, by Moses alone. The present contribution offers an outline of the recent La Peyre
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Chaberski, Mateusz. "Counterfactuality as a Polyphonic Assemblage. Entangled Human and Nonhuman Stories of Early Modern Sciences in Neal Stephenson’s The Baroque Cycle." Art History & Criticism 14, no. 1 (2018): 110–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mik-2018-0010.

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Summary In recent science-fiction literature, we can witness a proliferation of new counterfactual narratives which take the 17th century as their point of departure. Unlike steampunk narratives, however, their aim is not to criticise the socio-political effects caused by contemporary technological development. Such authors as Neal Stephenson or Ian Tregillis, among others, are interested in revisiting the model of development in Western societies, routing around the logic of progress. Moreover, they demonstrate that modernity is but an effect of manifold contingent and indeterminate encounter
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Panina, Nina L. "Illustrations in Children’s Educational Books in Russia in the Late 17th – Early 19th Centuries." Tekst. Kniga. Knigoizdanie, no. 23 (2020): 82–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/23062061/23/5.

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The aim of this article is to analyse the transition period in the history of illustrating children’s educational books on the material of Russian-language publications. It is the period in which the function of an intermedial representation gradually develops from emblematic to encyclopedic and narrative-figurative images. This process is related to the literary history of children’s books and their genre transformations. In the last third of the 18th century, children’s literature in Russia was formed as an independent direction with its special goals, and the basis for further search for sp
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Dmitriev, Igor. "God-Pantocrator and God-Coordinator: The Status of a Miracle in the Scientific Revolution." Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics V, no. 4 (2021): 116–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/2587-8719-2021-4-116-137.

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Scientists and philosophers of the 17th century, with all the novelty of their ideas, at the same time were in no hurry to reject the concept of a miracle, although many of them, such as I. Newton, rejected the understanding of a miracle as a violation of the laws of nature, its “ordinary course”. On the whole, with regard to the Christian concept of the miracle in the natural philosophy of the early modern period, a very uncertain situation developed. On the one hand, in the era of the Scientific Revolution, there was a clear tendency to explain extraordinary phenomena by the action of natura
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Khromov, Oleg R. "Russian Engraving of the 17th Century in the Studies of Dmitry Rovinsky." Observatory of Culture 19, no. 5 (2022): 492–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2022-19-5-492-501.

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The article is devoted to the works of Dmitry Aleksandrovich Rovinsky (1824—1895), a famous Russian scientist and collector, the founder of Russian engraving studies. There are special articles devoted to him in modern literature, but mostly of a biographical nature. This article explores his methods for studying early Russian engraving of the 17th century. The author shows the directions and approaches to the topic identified and developed by D.A. Rovinsky. Exploring the scientist’s work in the context of the development of art criticism of the 19th century, the article reveals methodological
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Mishina, L. A. "THE FAMILY PHENOMENON IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERAURE." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 32, no. 2 (2022): 355–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2022-32-2-355-362.

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The purpose of this article is to analyze the phenomenon of the New English family of the 17th century, the first century of the existence of American national literature, presented in the works of early American authors - period insufficiently studied in literary criticism. Untranslated or incompletely translated into Russian works of such religious and public figures, writers as Richard Mather (Diary), Inkris Mather (The Life and Death of the Reverend Richard Mather), Edward Johnson (The Miraculous Providence of the Savior of Zion in New England) , Samuel Sewall (Diary), John Cotton (God’s P
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Lambe, Patrick J. "Critics and Skeptics in the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters." Harvard Theological Review 81, no. 3 (1988): 271–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816000010105.

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The literature on the history of biblical criticism is voluminous, but remarkably consistent in its postulation of the Reformation and the Enlightenment as the two mainsprings of modern biblical criticism. That this history is written almost exclusively by heirs of the liberal Protestant tradition ought to sound a warning bell, especially since the extremely rare dissenting accounts of biblical criticism come from the Roman Catholic camp.
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Galtsin, Dmitrii D. "Froben Prints and Polemics on Religion in Early Modern Eastern Europe." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History 67, no. 2 (2022): 578–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2022.216.

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The article explores the Froben prints stored at the Rare Books Department of the Library of the Russian Academy of Science (Biblioteka Akademii Nauk) in Saint Petersburg. For three generations in the 16th century, Basel printers the Frobens influenced European intellectual life like no other publishing establishment, contributing to the spread of early Latin and Greek Christian literature, which determined both the development of theology and the humanities. Some copies of Froben prints are conspicuous for the history of their use which is intrinsically connected with various kinds of religio
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Korn, Uwe Maximilian, Dirk Werle, and Katharina Worms. "The carmen heroicum in Early Modernity (Das carmen heroicum in der frühen Neuzeit)." Daphnis 46, no. 1-2 (2018): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18796583-04601014.

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The special issue at hand provides a contribution to the historical exploration of early modern carmina heroica (epic poems) in the German area of the early modern period, especially of the ‘long’ 17th century. To this purpose, perspectives of Latin and German Studies, of researchers with expertise in medieval and modern literary history, are brought together. This introductory article puts the following theses up for discussion: 1) The view that epic poems of the early modern period are a genre with little relevance for the history of literature is wrong and has to be corrected. 2) Accordingl
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Literature; Modern – 17th Century – History and Criticism"

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Patterson, Jonathan Hugh Collingwood. "Representations of avarice in early modern France (c.1540-1615) : continuity and change." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610850.

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Kwong, Jessica Mun-Ling. "Playing the whore : representations of whoredom in early modern English comedy." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707984.

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Langford, Charles K. "Le utopie rinascimentali : esempli moderni di polis perfetta." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102806.

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The citizens of utopian Renaissance cities have in common the confidence in the power of reason and moral virtues. The purpose of the thesis is to prove that, in spite of the imaginative and unreal aspects of these utopian societies, they contain the prodroms of the modern societies.<br>The utopias of the Renaissance are projects of a new commonwealth, based on justice and education. The Italian peninsula of the XVI and early XVII century spawned several works belonging to this literary genre, inspired by Plato's Republic and initiated in England with Thomas More's Utopia (1516). Those conside
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Hone, Joseph. "The end of the line : literature and party politics at the accession of Queen Anne." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d847a561-130a-42f0-b78f-2463e9e65535.

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This thesis provides the first full-length account of the political and cultural significance of the accession of Queen Anne. It offers a critical reassessment of the politics of the royal image across a spectrum of texts, events, and artefacts - from panegyrics, newspapers, sermons, royal progresses, and processions to medals, coins, and playing cards. Recent scholarship has emphasized the importance of party politics to the literature and culture of the early eighteenth century. This thesis nuances that assumption by arguing: (1) that the principal focus of partisan texts was competing repre
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Hirsch, Brett Daniel. "Werewolves and women with whiskers : figures of estrangement in early modern English drama and culture." University of Western Australia. English and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0175.

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Each chapter of Werewolves and Women with Whiskers: Figures of Estrangement in Early Modern English Drama and Culture explores a particular figure of fascination and fear in the early modern English imagination: in one it is owls, in another bearded women, in a third werewolves, and in yet another Jews. Drawing on instances from drama and other cultural forms, this thesis seeks to examine each of these phenomena in terms of their estrangement. There is a symbolic appositeness in each of these figures, whether in estranged and estranging minority groups, such as Catholics, Jesuits, Jews, Purita
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Gomez, Clemente Jr. "Manhood in Spain: Feminine Perspectives of Masculinity in the Seventeenth Century." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849616/.

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The question of decline in the historiography of seventeenth-century Spain originally included socio-economic analyses that determined the decline of Spain was an economic recession. Eventually, the historiographical debate shifted to include cultural elements of seventeenth-century Spanish society. Gender within the context of decline provides further insight into how the deterioration of the Spanish economy and the deterioration of Spanish political power in Europe affected Spanish self-perception. The prolific Spanish women writers, in addition, featured their points of view on manhood i
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Reynolds, Paige Martin. "Reforming Ritual: Protestantism, Women, and Ritual on the Renaissance Stage." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5439/.

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My dissertation focuses on representations of women and ritual on the Renaissance stage, situating such examples within the context of the Protestant Reformation. The renegotiation of the value, place, and power of ritual is a central characteristic of the Protestant Reformation in early modern England. The effort to eliminate or redirect ritual was a crucial point of interest for reformers, for most of whom the corruption of religion seemed bound to its ostentatious and idolatrous outer trappings. Despite the opinions of theologians, however, receptivity toward the structure, routine, and fam
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Higgins, Benjamin David Robert. "We have a constant will to publish : the publishers of Shakespeare's First Folio." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ab876515-5984-46a5-8bf0-8346165fb583.

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This thesis is a cultural history of the publishing businesses that financed Shakespeare's First Folio. The thesis argues that by 1623 each of the four businesses that formed the Folio syndicate had developed an influential reputation in the book trade, and that these reputations were crucial to the cultural positioning of the Folio on publication. Taking its lead from a dynamic new field of study that has been called 'cultural bibliography', the thesis investigates the histories and publishing strategies of the business owned by the stationers William and Isaac Jaggard, who are usually though
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Jennings, Emily. "Prophetic rhetoric in the early Stuart period." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:13643178-0544-4b2b-9ca3-55d6c73a5d26.

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This is a study of the political prophecy in England in a period delimited by the accession of King James I (1603) and the end of the Interregnum (1660). It combines the analysis of hitherto obscure manuscript texts with that of printed works to provide a nuanced account of the uses and reception of prophecies in this period. Chapter One (which focuses on the first decade of James's reign) and Chapter Two (which covers the period 1613-19) approach the analysis of dramatic treatments of political prophecy through the study of prophecy both as a rhetorical buttress to the Jacobean state and as a
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Kershaw, Alison. "The poetic of the Cosmic Christ in Thomas Traherne's 'The Kingdom of God'." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0085.

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[Truncated abstract] In this thesis I examine the poetics of Thomas Traherne’s often over-looked Christology through a reading of The Kingdom of God. This work, probably written in the early 1670s, was not discovered until 1997, and not published until 2005. To date, no extended studies of the work have been published. It is my argument that Traherne develops an expansive and energetic poetic expressive of the theme of the ‘Cosmic Christ’ in which Christ is understood to be the source, the sustaining life, cohesive bond, and redemptive goal, of the universe, and his body to encompass all thin
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Books on the topic "Literature; Modern – 17th Century – History and Criticism"

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P, Shaw William, ed. Praise disjoined: Changing patterns of salvation in 17th-century English literature. P. Lang, 1991.

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Birkett, Jennifer. A guide to French literature: Early modern to postmodern. St. Martin's Press, 1997.

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David, Damrosch, and Pike David L. 1963-, eds. The Longman anthology of world literature. 2nd ed. Pearson/Longman, 2009.

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Kennedy, Donald Edward. Grounds of controversy: Three studies in late 16th and early 17th century English polemics. History Dept., University of Melbourne, 1989.

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Montgomery, Robert Langford. Terms of response: Language andaudience in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theory. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.

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1946-, Lyons John D., and Wine Kathleen, eds. Chance, literature, and culture in early modern France. Ashgate, 2009.

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Kenny, Neil. The uses of curiosity in early modern France and Germany. Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Matthew, Dimmock, and Hadfield Andrew, eds. Literature and popular culture in early modern England. Ashgate, 2009.

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Lyons, John D. Exemplum: The rhetoric of example in early modern France and Italy. Princeton University Press, 1989.

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Not Avail, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Literature; Modern – 17th Century – History and Criticism"

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Taylor, Michael. "Shakespeare in History and History in Shakespeare." In Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University PressOxford, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198711858.003.0005.

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Abstract Not even the most committed formalist would argue that Shakespeare’s works could be satisfactorily understood with no concern for their place in history. After all, the very language the formalists practise their art on is a language from another historical era whose idiom-as the mass of commentary in most modern editions of Shakespeare testifies-often needs strenuous interpretation. One of the glories of n twentieth-century Shakespeare criticism, as we have seen, is the inspired interpretations of those Shakespeare passages bristling with ambiguity and metaphor. Modernist poetic practice spurred on modernist critics to give foreign to their intense engagement with Shakespeare’s imagination, and they could not do so without an understanding of the time-bound language and concepts with which he shaped his art. But this is the application of history at its most minimal, whereas for many twentieth-century critics history at its most interventionist is now the sine qua non of Shakespeare criticism-and of most other kinds. ‘The systematic application of historical findings to the interpretation of secular literature’, writes S. Viswanathan, ‘is a characteristic n twentieth-century development’ (1980: 7).
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Patronnikova, Yulia S. "Francesco Fulvio Frugoni’s “The Tribunal of Criticism”. The Critical View on the Literature of the 17th Century." In “The History of Literature”: Non-scientific sources of a scientific genre. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0684-0-350-367.

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The article looks at the critical analysis of the 17th-century literature carried out by Francesco Fulvio Frugoni in his life’s main opus, “Il Cane di Diogene” (“The Dog of Diogenes”, 1687–1689) — or, more, precisely, in its most famous, tenth novel “Il Tribunal della Critica” (“The Tribunal of Criticism”). The critical evaluation of the authors and their works has an allegorical form of the tribunal of the Criticism over the books. It takes place in Apollo’s temple on Mount Parnassus, where the opus’s main hero — dog Saetta owned by the Cynic philosopher Diogenes — arrives to after a long period of wandering. The tribunal evaluates typologically different works, for the most part, written in Roman languages in the first half of 17th century — presumably the author shares the knowledge he acquired while studying and travelling. A number of famous figures of Seicento are thus left out of consideration. The key criterion used in the evaluation of a text is the ratio of the pleasant and the useful in it. The pleasant refers to a text’s being written in a flamboyant style and the useful — to its containing a certain message or idea. For all the shortcomings of the baroque authors, Frugoni takes his age to be exemplary. Despite its incompleteness and partiality, Frugoni’s analysis is an important source of information about Seicento literature, as well as Seicento theory of literature. In addition, being an analysis of literary texts, it contributes to the development of the history of literature as a self-standing discipline.
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Hellebust, Rolf. "Literary History and National Identity." In How Russian Literature Became Great. Cornell University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501773419.003.0004.

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This chapter investigates the factors—both domestic and foreign, from the culture of medieval Orthodoxy to neoclassicism and German romanticism—involved in the genesis and development of the modern concept of literature in Russia. It particularly looks at the interrelation of belles lettres, national identity, and national history. For Russia, the nineteenth century opens with the 1812 defeat of Napoleon. It is the lack of political avenues of expression for this newly awakened national consciousness that motivates the cultural elite to work out Russia’s destiny indirectly, through literature and literary criticism. Already by the 1840s this trend has reached its apogee, and the foundation has been laid for a literary tradition to embody the ideals of a nation. For Russians in the nineteenth century, the literary process is a source—even substitute—for the national narrative they see their backward land as having failed to produce. The dominant expression of the social function with which the Tradition’s aesthetic value is equated thus becomes the creation of a history for Russia. The chapter then considers the historiogenic role of Russian writers.
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Too, Yun Lee. "Discriminating Pleasures: Aristotle’s Poetics and the Civic Spectator." In The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism. Oxford University PressOxford, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198150763.003.0004.

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Abstract Chapter 3 remains with the fourth century in offering a reading of Aristotle’s contribution to ancient criticism. What justifies the current study giving this attention to Plato’s close contemporary is the way in which scholars have constructed chronologies of literary history which attribute significance to this author and his work, even, on occasion, to the disregard of Plato. Aristotle fills an important gap between classical Greek discussions of literature and the Hellenistic period. His and Theophrastus’ works apart, no substantial works of criticism exist from Plato until the first century BCE so that we must rely on fragments and testimonia preserved in later authors for the intervening period. Aristotle is a reference point, and precisely a terminus post quem, for the narrative of ‘criticism’, which ancient and modern scholars understand as a discourse about literature. In antiquity, Dio Chrysostom attributed the beginnings of the arts of criticism (kritikē) and of grammar (grammatikē) to the philosopher (Or. 36. 1).
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Russo, Daniel. "AN ALTERNATIVE SPELLING FOR ENGLISH: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES AND SIMPLIFICATION CRITERIA." In JEZIK, KNJIŽEVNOST, ALTERNATIVE/LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, ALTERNATIVES - Jezička istraživanja. Filozofski fakultet u Nišu, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46630/jkaj.2022.19.

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The history of English spelling is characterised by periods of discontinuity and a slow and relentless shift from a phonemic orthography to a morphophonemic system. There have been two periods when spelling reform of the English language has attracted particular interest: the first was from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 17th century, when a number of publications and dictionaries outlining proposals for reform were published; the second was between the 18th and early 20th centuries and linked to the development of phonetics as a science. For example, Noah Webster’s dictionary included an essay on the oddities of modern orthography and his proposals for reform (some of which would become hallmarks of American English spelling). The purpose of this study is to review proposals for English-language spelling reform since the 1950s – New Spelling, Regularised English, Spelling Reform 1, Cut Spelling, Shavian, Interspel, and the Petersonian English Alphabet – to identify their main common traits by highlighting the underlying ideas of simplification. All the models under consideration show a preference for a phonemic spelling system as an ideal in the direction of linguistic simplicity.
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Meme, Joy, Yahaya Alhassan, and Lawrence Bellamy. "The Evolution of Microfinance." In Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics. IGI Global, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-6622-6.ch001.

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This chapter explores the evolution of microfinance by reviewing existing literature. The chapter reviews the development of microfinance to understand how the concept emerged and the extent to which it has evolved. It specifically explores the history of microfinance and how it evolved in some countries before and after the emergence of Muhammad Yunus's microfinance era. The chapter concludes that the evolution of microfinance is a testament to its adaptability and resilience which started as a tool for poverty alleviation and has since transformed into a multifaceted industry that empowers marginalised individuals and communities while contributing to economic development. However, there are variations in opinions regarding the origins of microfinance as some researchers argue that it started in the 15th century, while others claim it was in the 17th or the 19th century. This analysis provides insights into how microcredit evolved into modern microfinance.
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Hegele, Arden. "Unreliable Semiology from Frankenstein to Freud." In Romantic Autopsy. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192848345.003.0005.

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Examining how prose fiction and the case history share certain formal features, this chapter turns to the medical field of semiology to investigate how the Romantic-era case history models a diagnostic reading practice that extends from medicine to the novel. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) is a notable, even parodic, literary case history informed by conventional protocols of medical reporting, visible both in Romantic-era case histories, and, at the end of the nineteenth century, in the case histories of Sigmund Freud. The Romantic case history captures fundamental tensions between the physician’s scientific report and the patient’s autobiography, which compromise the physician’s ability to trace a semiotic relationship between external symptom and underlying condition. The case history proves to be a site of disciplinary quarrel between literature and medicine: not only does it anticipate many of the epistemological problems that attend our modern attempts to read “symptomatically” or “deeply,” it also interrogates the notions of authority, personhood, and normality that continue to sustain modern medical discourse and literary criticism. As the case history reveals the unreliability of the diagnostician’s production of narrative, it also shows the limitations of interpretation in the emergent medical and literary fields of semiology.
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Hershinow, David. "Coda." In Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439572.003.0007.

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In this book, I have tried to show that it is only with the rise of dramatic realism that the figure of the Cynic truth-teller begins to provoke sustained interpretive crisis, a crisis that takes shape in the sixteenth century and that goes on to drive key developments in our literary, philosophical and political history. Through my readings of Shakespeare’s plays, I have also tried to show that literature – along with its academic offspring, literary criticism – is uniquely positioned to diagnose the interpretive errors that consequently underwrite philosophical and political ideas about the means of achieving extreme critical agency. What these two overarching aims have in common is the critical methodology I develop in order to advance them, and I conclude this book by briefly commenting on the value this method holds for early modern studies in particular and for the discipline of literary studies in general....
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