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The transformations of a name:: Saavedra and Cervantes

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Saavedra was not Cervantes's last name, nor one that his direct ancestors bore. The writer assumed this surname after his return from Barbary, where he was a captive from 1575 to 1580. This surname acquires an extraordinary significance in the light of t

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Ricoeur versus Taylor on language and narrative

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Although Ricoeur and Taylor are often grouped together, their conceptions of language, literature, and practical reason are very different. The first half of this essay focuses on Ricoeur's theory of triple mimesis and narrative, showing how his attempt

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The discourse use of French donc in imperative sentences

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It seems that the French particle done is not always used as a conjunction of argumentation, linking the antecedent to the consequent and presenting the consequent as a kind of logical result of the antecedent, as is the case in its inferential use: 'Il

What poetry brings to the table of science and religion
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What poetry brings to the table of science and religion

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Ever since Plato's famous attack on artists and poets in Book 10 of The Republic, lovers of literature have felt pressed defend poetry, and indeed from ancient times down, to the present, literature and art have had to fight various battles against philo

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Taxonomizing hybridity (Ethnicity, Asian Americans)

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For some time now, 'hybridity' has occupied a central role in discussions of 'ethnic' or 'minority' cultural production within both Asian American and postcolonial studies. However, existing approaches to 'hybridity' ultimately simplify more than

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Defining dirt: Three early modern views of obscenity

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This essay examines the workings of bad language in the early modern period, along with its social and political contexts--why and under what circumstances some words were deemed inappropriate for polite or moral discourse and literature. In early modern