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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Das Literarische Echo
Author: Literary Canon Formation as Nation-Building in Central Europe and the Baltics
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004457712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
This volume presents regional approaches on the formation and transformation of national literary canons as a practice of nation-building in various cultural traditions (Polish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Estonian, etc.) from the 19th century to the present times.
A First Aryan Reader, Consisting of Specimens of the Aryan Languages which Constitute the Basis of Comparative Philology
Author: Gustav A. SchrumpfPublisher:
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Category : Indo-European languages
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Editing the Nation’s Memory
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401206473
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Europe’s nation-states emerged from a complex of nineteenth-century developments in which cultural consciousness-raising played a formative role. The nineteenth-century reflection on Europe’s national identities involved a re-inventory and revalorisation of the vernacular cultural past and, above all, the nation’s literary heritage. Everywhere in Europe, foundational texts (including medieval epics and romances, ancient laws and chronicles) were retrieved from their obscure repositories. In new, printed editions, prepared according to the emerging academic standards of textual scholarship, they were appropriated, contested and canonised as public symbols of the nation’s permanence in history. This often neglected, but crucially important Europe-wide process of ‘editing the nation’s memory’ involved old states and emerging nations, large and small countries, metropolitan and peripheral regions; it straddled politics, the academic professionalization of textual scholarship and of the human sciences, and literary taste. This collection of studies by outstanding specialists offers a comparative synopsis on exemplary cases from all corners of the European continent.
Personal Names and Naming from an Anthropological-Linguistic Perspective
Author: Sambulo NdlovuPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110759292
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book fills a gap in the literature as it uniquely approaches onomastics from the perspective of both anthropology and linguistics. It addresses names and cultures from 16 countries and five continents, thus offering readers an opportunity to comprehend and compare names and naming practices across cultures. The chapters presented in this book explore the cultural significance of personal names, naming ceremonies, conventions and practices. They illustrate how these names and practices perform certain culture-specific functions, such as religion, identity and social activity. Some chapters address the socio-political significance of personal names and their expression of self and otherness. The book also links the linguistic structure of personal names to culture by looking at their morphology, syntax and semantics. It is divided into four sections: Section 1 demonstrates how personal names perform human culture, Section 2 focuses on how personal names index socio-political transitioning, Section 3 demonstrates religious values in personal names and naming, and Section 4 links linguistic structure and analysis of personal names to culture and heritage.
Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library. Allen A. Brown Collection of MusicPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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