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New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Syntax of the sentence
New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax is a methodologically uniform multi-authored work that traces main currents in the syntactic history of Latin. The term history of Latin (or of any other ancient IE language) in its most widespread usage means 'history of phonology and morphology' as they have developed from PIE. Standard comparative grammars of Latin have concentrated primarily on the development of the phonological and morphological systems of the language, with comparatively little attention paid to historical syntax. This emphasis is reflective of the Indo-European tradition in wh.
The Hero Reloaded
What was a hero in Classical Antiquity? Why is it that their characteristics have transcended chronological and cultural barriers while they are still role models in our days? How have their features changed to be embodied by comic superheroes and film? How is their essence vulgarized and turned into a mass consumption product? What has happened with their literary and artistic representation along centuries of elitist Western culture? This book aims at posing these and other questions about heroes, allowing us to open a cultural reflection over the role of the classical world in the present, its meaning in mass media, and the capacity of the Greek and Roman civilizations to dialogue with th...
The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch
Engaging introduction by leading scholars to the many aspects of Plutarch's numerous and varied works and their subsequent reception.
The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger
This book addresses the problems and challenges of studying the discourse of "danger" cross-linguistically and cross-culturally, and proposes the cultural pragmatics of danger as a new field of inquiry. Detailed case studies of several linguacultures include Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, German, Japanese and Spanish. Focusing on global and local contexts surrounding “living in dangerous times”, this book showcases how the new model of cultural pragmatics can be used to illuminate cultural meanings in discourse. Unlike the universalist approaches to pragmatics, cultural pragmatics focuses on understanding the linguacultural logics of discourse, and in the case of “danger”, the mul...
Iconophages
An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century Eating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, in the European and Mediterranean worlds, people have swallowed down frescoes, icons, engravings, eucharistic hosts stamped with images, heraldic wafers, marzipan figures, and other sculpted dishes. Either specifically made for human consumption or diverted from their original purpose so as to be ingested, these figured artifacts have been not only gazed upon but also incorporated—taken into the body—as solids or liquids. How can we explain such behavior? Why take an image into one’s own bo...
Classical Reception
In a time of acute crisis when our societies face a complex series of challenges (race, gender, inclusivity, changing pedagogical needs and a global pandemic) we urgently need to re-access the nature of our engagement with the Classical World. This edited collection argues that we need to discover new ways to draw on our discipline and the material it studies to engage in meaningful ways with these new academic and societal challenges. The chapters included in the collection interrogate the very processes of reception and continue the work of destabilising the concept of a pure source text or point of origin. Our aim is to break through the boundaries that still divide our ancient texts and ...
Los filósofos cínicos y la literatura moral serioburlesca
El libro ofrece amplia información sobre las características fundamentales y los principales representantes de la escuela cínica e incluye también la traducción de la mayoría de los textos conservados de estos autores y un ingente número de referencias sobre ellos transmitidas por otros autores, griegos y latinos, muchas de las cuales no se habían traducido hasta ahora.
Clasicismo e identidades contemporáneas
La identidad es uno de los conceptos prominentes de nuestra contemporaneidad, una noción que atraviesa discursos políticos, filosóficos y socioculturales de distinto signo. Este volumen analiza las interacciones entre el mundo grecolatino y el actual, y la manera en que las referencias clásicas han contribuido a la conformación y desarrollo de las identidades contemporáneas. Su planteamiento se interesa fundamentalmente por tres de ellas: las identidades individuales (basadas en el género, la sexualidad o la raza, entre otros), las identidades colectivas (nacionales, supranacionales, religiosas, corporativas, etc.) y, finalmente, las identidades digitales (redes sociales, cibercomunid...
Historia de la transexualidad
Cada cultura ha esperado de la persona que nace biológicamente hombre, unos determinados valores, actitudes y modos de afrontar su propia existencia, que debían ser cumplidos para de ese modo ser aceptado en la comunidad plenamente. Sin embargo, todo lo que se salía (y se sale aún en la actualidad) de estas normas debía ser arrinconado, anulado o corregido en el mejor de los casos, como ocurría con las personas que manifestaban una sexualidad diferente a los patrones heteronormativos, o una divergencia entre el sexo biológico y al que sentían pertenecer. La obra que tiene entre sus manos recoge por vez primera un análisis profundo y riguroso sobre la transexualidad, incluyendo un pe...
The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
Exploring the musical styles and cultures of metal, this Companion is an indispensable introduction to this popular and distinctive genre.
