Philology

🔗.https://bit.ly/3dItcWj. Il volume raccoglie venticinque saggi sui trovatori, scritti da Pietro G. Beltrami in quarant’anni di costante indagine sulla storia, le singole personalità, il senso, la rilevanza stessa di una tradizione letteraria da sempre al centro della romanistica italiana. In questo panorama l’approccio e lo stile di Beltrami si distinguono per il rigore del metodo ecdotico, la perizia dell’analisi metrica, e soprattutto per un’attenzione estrema al momento interpretativo, motore essenziale del suo interesse. I. LEGGERE I TROVATORI. Leggere i trovatori oggi (e domani?). II. I ‘TROVATORI ANTICHI’. Ancora su Guglielmo IX e i trovatori antichi – Per la storia dei trovatori: una discussione – Cercamon ‘trovatore antico’: problemi e proposte – La canzone «Belhs m’es l’estius» di Jaufre Rudel – Per una rilettura di «Deiosta•ls breus jorns e•ls loncs sers» – Peire d’Alvernhe e l’interpretazione dei trovatori. III. GIRAUT DE BORNEIL. Giraut de Borneil «plan e clus» – Giraut de Borneil, la pastorella ‘alla provenzale’ e il moralismo cortese – Lettura di «Ben cove, pus ja baissa•l ram» (BdT 242,25) – Lettura di «Quan lo fregz e•l glatz e la neus» (BdT 242,60) – Un divertimento di Giraut de Borneil con Delfino d’Alvernia – La canzone «Per solatz revelhar» di Giraut de Borneil – Note su «Ans que venha» di Giraut de Borneil – Appunti per una nuova edizione di Giraut de Borneil – IV. BERTRAN DE BORN. Bertran de Born poeta galante: la canzone della domna soiseubuda – Bertran de Born il giovane e suo padre – Giochi di corte per Bertran de Born («Chazutz sui de mal en pena») – Bertran de Born fuori da Altaforte. Qualche nota su Ges no mi desconort – V. ARNAUT DANIEL. «Lo ferm voler» di Arnaut Daniel: noterella per una traduzione – Arnaut Daniel e la ‘bella scuola’ dei trovatori di Dante. VI. TROVATORI DEL DUECENTO. Appunti su «Razo e dreyt ay si•m chant e•m demori» – Spigolature su Sordello e la poesia italiana del Duecento. VII. QUESTIONI DI METRICA. Variazioni di schema e altre note di metrica provenzale – «Er auziretz» di Giraut de Borneil e «Abans qe•il blanc puoi» di autore incerto. Bibliografia. Indici.

This essay examines the role and meaning of Shaykh Mushrif al-Dīn “Saʻdī” Shīrāzī’s Gulistān in late Mughal India. As the prose primer for a Persian education, the Gulistān encompassed the double meaning of adab, as exemplar both of literary form and of proper conduct. I explore instances in which the original text is cited in the work of Sirāj al-Din ʻAli Khān Ārzū (1689-1756 CE), a scholar and poet, who also wrote a commentary on the text. I then explore the larger context of Ārzū’s life and work in the context of mid- eighteenth-century Delhi, to situate the stakes of social and literary adab in a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval. Patronized by high-ranking Mughal officials, Ārzū was engaged in a larger project of recouping the cultural prestige of the imperial capital as political power devolved to regional centers in the face of factional politics and external invasion. Such an analysis seeks to historicize particular readings of classical texts of Persianate education.

Trotz zahlreicher und fundierter Einblicke in die Gattung und den theologischen
Inhalt der Nag-Hammadi-Apokalypse des Paulus (NHC V,2) bleibt die genaue
Valenz des Textes umstritten: Ist der Text valentinianisch, wie oft behauptet, oder
nicht, und was bedeutet die Antwort für unser Verständnis der gnostischen Apokalypsen im Allgemeinen? Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über das Problem und belegt, dass der Nachweis für eine valentinianische Herkunft des Textes problematisch ist. Vor allem ist es unwahrscheinlich, dass die berühmten valentinianischen Lehrer des 2. Jahrhunderts Bedarf an Pseudonymität gehabt hätten. Ganz im Gegenteil zeigt die Beleglage für die Beziehung zwischen Gruppendefinition und Pseudonymität, dass die bekannten valentinianischen Lehrer ihre Autorität durch ihre kirchlichen Institutionen und hohe Ausbildung begründeten – im Unterschied zu den namenlosen Autoren der pseudonymen Apokalypsen und der sogenannten „sethianischen“ Literatur. Hier erscheint die Möglichkeit, dass die Nag-Hammadi-Apokalypse des Paulus eher ein späterer Text wäre, geschrieben nach der Blüte des Valentinianismus, in einer Zeit, als die valentinianische Theologie eine Art Geheimwissen unabhängig von irgendeiner Schule geworden war.

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CfP: Conflict and contrast in language and literature

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L’esperienza di Calvino comprende lo studio della fiaba e l’analisi critica di molti scrittori. L’articolo offre l’analisi dell’angolazione teorica e pratica di Calvino verso la fiaba, i classici cioè l’antologia scolastica e l’antologia personale. Nella fiaba Calvino individua gli elementi costituenti gli oneri dell’insegnare e del divertire, e la definisce come una lezione sulla vita pratica, ma anche indicazione sull’ordine sociale, sulla mentalità, e sulla cultura del popolo che l’ha creata e rimandata. Il problema principale delle antologie scolastiche è la non-lettura condizionata dall’imposizione delle opere scelte. Il caso più felice, secondo Calvino, è quello dell’antologia personale basata sulle scelte e sugli interessi individuali, nell’ambito della quale un’opera classica assume il proprio significato perché letta, riletta e amata per tutta la vita.

"Words and Phrases, Unchanged for Centuries.

Containing a rich glossary and in excess of 300 words and phrases, the texts demonstrate the strength of the Macedonian language through preservation.

Following is a comparison of sentences between the texts and the Macedonian
dialect of Bitola as spoken today.

16th cent., Kostur dialect
21st cent., Bitola dialect

Gospodine, brate, da si zdrav, da si prost, ostavi ni da spime, ela da jame, i da pieme, dol da pojdime, da rabotime.
Gospodine, brate, da si zdrav, da si prost, ostai ne da spiame, ela da jaime, i da piame, dolu da pojdime, da rabotime.

Imate hljap-o da kupime, imate vino da kupime, ot koja strana da pojdime vo
Bogasko.
Imate lep da kupime, imate vino da kupime, od koja strana da pojdime vo
Bogatsko.

As can be clearly noticed, most of the vocabulary and grammar is identical.
All of the elements that would later be required to rejuvinate the Macedonian people as they were shaking off centuries of subjugation, were present during this period. The language of the people had solidified, a tradition of heraldry and symbolism had developed which incorporated the emblem of a rapant lion and historical figures from Macedonia's past, and the churches continued preserve the local customs and serve as cultural centres for the population. The significance of all these elements together cannot be overstated, the language of medieval Macedonia is the same as the language of the Macedonians today. Unfortunately, only a small portion of the larger amount of Macedonian literature from the Middle Ages has survived, much of it being looted and destroyed by Greek-speaking officials, clerics and teachers. Nevertheless, Macedonian as a language reached its current form centuries before the creation of the Balkan states in the 19th and 20th centuries. "

The work presents etymologies of the Turkic names for the seven most important cereals: barley, corn, millet, oats, rice, rye and wheat. Altogether, 106 names are discussed.
As yet, this subject has not been dealt with as a whole. Propositions for etymologies of various names in single languages are scattered in dictionaries and articles, usually only accompanied by a brief explanation. Here, the author tries to provide a possibly comprehensive commentary.
Each entry presents a list of phonetic variants of the word, an overview of previous etymologies and the author’s standpoint expressed as exhaustively as possible but without loquacity.
The work closes with an enumeration and brief commentary of the most common naming patterns and semantic types which can be distinguished in the presented material.

Synekdemos, a geographical text of Hierokles presents the administrative structure of the Eastern Roman Empire in the early 6th century AD. Six dioeceses (large administrative units), 64 eparchiai (provinces) and 920 poleis (cities) are registered in catalogues, in such a way that the political geography of the period becomes apparent. The critical edition by Honigmann (1939) displays maps without a geophysical background. This fact makes the study of the historical settlements network more difficult. In order to facilitate this study, maps of the 64 provinces have been created to describe and offer a clear overall view of the regional context. These maps follow historical topography as this appeared in Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (2000). In addition, they support a database which classifies the settlements according to historical and geographical criteria. The first set of criteria is related to parameters and variables, such as the date of foundation, constant presence in five historical periods, ancient and modern toponyms. The second set is related to the location of the settlements, and uses parameters and variables, such as geomorphology, water elements, communication networks and presence of a nodal point or port. The province of Palaia Epeiros has been chosen as an example of the advantages that such a database has to offer. The combination of maps with a database improves the historical-geographical study of the settlements network, and accentuates the importance of Synecdemos as a basic geographical text of the period, α quality that has escaped the attention of the “official” History of Cartography (1987).""

The present volume responds to the rising boom of interest in folklore and folklore research in the study of Old Norse mythology. The twenty-two authors of this volume reveal the dynamism of this lively dialogue, which is characterized by a diversity of perspectives linking to different fields and national scholarships.

The chapters open with a general overview of how the concepts of “folklore” and “mythology” have been understood and related across the history of Old Norse studies, which is followed by a group of chapters that discuss and present different approaches and types of source materials, with methodological and theoretical concerns. The interest in folklore is bound up with interests in practice and lived religion, which are brought into focus in a series of chapters relating to magic and ritual. Attention then turns to images that link to mythology and different mythic agents in studies that explore a variety of usage in meaning-making in different forms of cultural expression. The next group of studies spotlights motifs, with perspectives on synchronic usage across genres and different media, cross-cultural exchange, and long-term continuities. The volume culminates in discussions of complex stories, variously in oral traditions behind medieval sources and relationships between accounts found in medieval sources and those recorded from more recent traditions.

Individually, the chapters variously offer reflexive and historical research criticism, new research frameworks, illustrative studies, and exploratory investigations. Collectively, they illustrate the rapidly evolving multidisciplinary discussion at the intersections of folklore and Old Norse mythology, where the transformative impacts were recently described as a paradigm shift. They open new paths for scholarly discussion with the potential to inspire future research.

La querela inofficiosi testamenti no conocía del litisconsorcio. Cuando había más de un coheredero forzoso, cada uno de ellos interponía su acción independientemente de los otros, con el objetivo de conseguir la cuota hereditaria que le correspondía en virtud de la sucesión intestada. Normalmente cada querelante ejercía su derecho de acción, por la propia cuota hereditaria. Nos preguntamos aquí si el querellante que accionaba podía acrecer su cuota si era así notorio el repudio de la querela por parte de uno o más coherederos. Los pasajes del Digesto parecen dar respuestas contradictorias y la doctrina moderna sospecha que existía una controversia en el derecho (ius controversum). Sobre la base de dos escolios de los Basílicos se intenta demostrar que las divergentes conclusiones de los juristas estaban referidas a distintos casos. La exégesis de los textos sugiere finalmente algunas reflexiones sobre la acción de los compiladores de Justiniano.

This inaugural lecture outlines the contours of a history of critical thinking. Drawing on case studies from the 19th, 20th, and 21st-century humanities, it draws attention to demands that critical thinking makes on the self – that is, to skills, virtues, attitudes, and capacities characteristic of what one might call a “critical self.” On the one hand, the cultivation of such qualities in research and teaching alike is a theme that allows for cross-disciplinary comparisons of the kind that historians of the humanities like to make. On the other, it touches directly on questions of contemporary relevance. What does it mean to foster critical thinking skills in contemporary academia? Is critical thinking compatible with care and compassion, or does it cultivate a stance of detachment, perhaps even of suspicion? Is critical thinking a much-needed remedy against fake news, or are societies struggling with political polarization and diminishing trust in public institutions likely to benefit more from a “postcritical turn”?

Article aims to show and explore the phraseological units, reflecting the cultural identity of the Kazakh, Russian peoples; conduct comparative-typological analysis of the display of the wedding ceremony in the Kazakh and Russian linguistic cultures with examples of phraseology and proverbs of the Kazakh and Russian languages.

The advent of English language has procured the status of global language as well as contemporary societies deal with the multiculturalistic from part of the reality that teachers in different European and international contexts are compelled to acknowledge on a daily basis. More and more emphasis should be placed on the fact multilinculturalism is a growing phenomenon in classrooms all over the world means that educators might be facing a number of challenges that require new pedagogical considerations in their efforts to ensure that learners are accomodated with the necessary proficiency and efficient feedback in the global language.

This article explains the methodological aspect of the usage of the term "media discourse", and considered controversial issues of the discursive approach to the study of mass communication, its impact on the cognition. In this work, theoretical principles of this work are based on the modern theory of the theory of mediality (M.McLuhan). In this work I have made an attempt to trace how the medial space affects the processes of perception and cognition.

Although the first world, as seen through the lens of academia, seems to be prospering, and the third world has found its own place in the postcolonial intellectual order, the post-cold war world of semi-peripheries in East and Central Europe (ECE) has largely disappeared from the discourse of Comparative Literature. It sometimes appears as a convenient intellectual counterpoint or is included in postmodernist or postcolonial narratives; in both cases, however, it doesn’t convey regional specificity or allow local voices to speak. Both strategies – core and postcolonial – expropriate the semi-peripheral realm of second-world non-places.

Aportación al volumen "Cien años de poesía. 72 poemas españoles del siglo XX: estructuras poéticas y pautas críticas", que apareció en Peter Lang, Bern, a comienzos de siglo, es una lectura del poema que da título al tercero de los libros de Carlos Marzal. Poesía de la experiencia, juegos intertextuales, presencia de elementos de la cultura de masas, se tejen en una poesía singular y de calidad que, como en el estudio se aventuraba, ha dado nuevos e importantes frutos.

La narratividad no es solo una cualidad de determinados discursos (verbales o no). Es una dimensión básica de nuestra existencia: la narratividad o relatividad ontológica. También, al experimentar la existencia como "agôn", la dimensión dramática está enraizada con nuestro mundo de la vida. En este ensayo hacemos una revisión del texto original de la Poética aristotélica, evidenciando que narración y drama difieren no por los medios ni por el objeto de la imitación, sino por el modo. Así, más allá de una oposición equívoca (diégesis vs. mímesis) proponemos la consideración, dentro de las formas de mímesis, de una dimensión puramente dietética, que reproduce con palabras las palabras y los hechos de los protagonistas, frente a una mimesis pragmática, propia del teatro, en la que las palabras son palabras, pero las acciones se representan como acciones.

The Italian edition of the work by Eleazar M. Meletinsky on the historical poetics of the novella – recently edited and translated by M. Bonafin and L. Sestri ‒ gives us the opportunity to revise the theoretical model by which the Russian scholar explained the origins of this narrative genre in Europe and Asia from various folkloric forms, i.e. myth, fairy and realistic tale, anecdote: in particular the analysis is carried out through the comparison with the similar reflections on novel and epic available in other Meletinsky’s books and with the theory of the “converging streams” developed by A.N. Veselovsky. Some corrections to the model of historical poetics are proposed, in order to conciliate typology and contingent elements, poetics and philology.

Questa è la prima edizione critica delle poesie di Umberto Saba successive al 1921. Il libro ricostruisce il percorso genetico ed evolutivo della produzione poetica sabiana. Dall’edizione del Canzoniere del 1921 in poi si contano decine di plaquette, pubblicazioni su rivista, successive edizioni del Canzoniere, progetti d’opera, forme dell’opera principale superstiti e nascoste tra le centinaia di manoscritti e dattiloscritti. Lo studio di questo materiale, dei testi e dei progetti noti o sommersi e salvati ha rappresentato la parte certamente più complessa ma anche densa di maggiori novità per l’allestimento dell’edizione critica delle poesie di Saba e per l’individuazione di un testo base che fosse originale e rispettoso della tradizione.