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Quare? Argument in David Daube, After Karl Popper
No full textThis article considers the method of argument favoured by David Daube (1909-1999), a scholar of Roman and biblical law. It suggests that Daube used a method of argument championed by Karl Popper (1992-1994), a philosopher of science
Le roman policier: approche du genre à travers ses „topics“
No full textL'histoire du roman policier français s'écrit, le plus souvent, à travers la succession de plusieurs formes dominantes du genre et de ses précurseurs : tout commence avec le roman-feuilleton populaire et le roman judiciare (p.ex. Eugène Sue, Émile Gaboriau) puis le roman d'aventures et d'exploits (p.ex. Gaston Leroux, Maurice Leblanc). Vient ensuite le récit de détection classique (p.ex. Georges Simenon), suivi par le roman noir (p.ex. Léo Malet), le roman à suspense (p.ex. Boileau/Narcejac) et le néo-polar (p.ex. Jean-Patrick Manchette, Didier Daeninckx). Une telle histoire du genre a pu s'appuyer sur des efforts typologiques tels que ceux de Tzvetan Todorov (1971) et à été écrite entre autres par Ulrich Schulz-Buschhaus (1975) en Allemagne ou par Boileau-Narcejac (1975) en France.
La présente contribution voudrait jeter un regard complémentaire sur un aspect précis de l'histoire du roman policier, un regard porté par les thématiques dominantes à telle ou telle époque et chez tel ou tel auteur. Elle présentera les résultats de l'étude d'une collection de romans policiers ainsi que de leurs précurseurs, publiés entre 1860 et 2000 environ. Cette collection est explorée à travers la procédure du “topic modeling” développé par David Blei (2011) en utilisant l'outil MALLET (McCallum 2002). Cette procédure découvre de manière non-supervisée des groupes de mots thématiquement liées dans une collection de textes.
La contribution éprouve donc l'utilité de la technique du “topic modeling” pour l'histoire d'un genre littéraire comme le roman policier. Elle s'interroge également sur la question de savoir en quoi le topic modeling, en tant qu'outil intermédiaire entre les textes et le chercheur, donc en tant qu'interface numérique (Douehi 2012), promeut ou au contraire empêche certaines manières d'envisager le genre policier. Elle est l'occasion, aussi, de s'interroger sur les apports du paradigme des “humanités numériques” et plus précisément du “algorithmic criticism” (Ramsay 2011) aux études de lettres
Basalt as ships' ballast and the Roman incense trade
No full textContents Introduction (David Peacock and David Williams); The incense kingdoms of Yemen: An outline history of the south Arabian Incense trade (Caroline Singer); Basalt as ships' ballast and the Roman incense trade (David Peacock, David Williams and Sarah James); The Port of Qana' and the incense trade (Alexander Sedov); Frankincense in the 'triangular' Indo-Arabian-Roman aromatics trade (Sunil Gupta); Incense in Mithraic ritual: the evidence of the finds (Joanna Bird); Incense and the port of Adulis (David Peacock and Lucy Blue); Frankincense and myrrh today (Myra Shackley)
Emilia David intervista Norman Manea
No full textIl volume, che include l'intervista concessa da N. Manea a E. David, raccoglie gli atti della giornata di studi organizzata in occasione della presenza in Italia dello scrittore Norman Manea, ospite dell'Università di Padova e dell’Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica di Venezia, dal 13 al 19 settembre 2017. Manea è uno dei grandi nomi dell’esilio culturale romeno, nonché uno dei più noti e celebrati scrittori europei. Sopravvissuto alla persecuzione nazifascista e alla dittatura comunista di Ceaușescu, nel 1986 ha scelto definitivamente l’esilio e oggi vive a New York, dove ha insegnato letteratura e cultura europea al Bard College. Ha ottenuto numerosi riconoscimenti, tra cui il Premio Nonino (2002), il National Jewish Book Award (1993), Il Premio Letterario FIL - Premio della Fiera Internazionale del libro di Guadalajara (FIL) in lingue romanze (2016) ed è stato appoggiato nella corsa al Nobel per la letteratura da scrittori come Heinrich Böll, Philip Roth e Orhan Pamuk. Durante l’incontro padovano, introdotto da Caludio Magris, e al quale è intervenuta anche l'intervistatrice (si veda la pubblicazione "La quinta impossibilità: le avversità della scrittura e dell’identità", presente su ARPI), sono stati approfonditi i rapporti tra letteratura ed esilio ed è stato presentato il suo ultimo volume uscito in Italia per i tipi del Saggiatore, intitolato "Il Corriere dell'Est, Conversazioni con Edward Kanterian", traduzione di Anita Bernacchia (Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2017). L'intervista concessa dallo scrittore a E. David è dedicata agli stessi temi
After Sulla: study in the settlement and material culture of the Piraeus peninsula in the Roman and Late Roman period
No full textModem text-based and ancient historical accounts take the sack of Piraeus, the port of Athens in Greece, by the Romans under Sulla in 86 ВС as the terminal point of the history of the area in antiquity. Archaeological work on the town has tended so far to regard the post-Classical phases of the settlement as less interesting than those marking the 'heyday' of the port in the Classical period. This thesis explores the nature and scale of settlement in the area in the centuries spanning the town's destruction by the Romans in 86 ВС and the Late Roman period. The study is based on a re-assessment of archaeological data from old and recent rescue excavations in the modem town up to 1997. It also presents and discusses in detail the results of post-excavation work by the author on unpublished material from an extensive site excavated in the early 1980s, These results are compared to and synthesized with epigraphic and other testimonies to answer questions about the nature of settlement and the degree of social and cultural change in the area during the period in focus. The discussion focuses in particular on; 1) exploring continuity and change in the settlement patterns, demography and topography of the town, 2) the changing nature of domestic space and its organization, and 3) investigating patterns of pottery consumption and trade. These issues are examined in the context of the social, economic and cultural changes documented for the Roman imperial and Late Roman period by previous archaeological fieldwork and excavations in the region of southern Greece and the Aegean
T.T. David, Der Übergang, Roman
No full textT.T. DAVID, DER ÜBERGANG, ROMAN
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Lustration and Transitional Justice : Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland /
No full textRoman David analyzes major institutional innovations devised in Central Europe to deal with officials tainted by their complicity with prior regimes. He examines the historical origins, social meanings, and political effects of personnel systems based on dismissal, exposure, and confession in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland.Roman David analyzes major institutional innovations devised in Central Europe to deal with officials tainted by their complicity with prior regimes. He examines the historical origins, social meanings, and political effects of personnel systems based on dismissal, exposure, and confession in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Roman David teaches politics at Newcastle University.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed October 27 2015
The taberna structures of Roman Britain
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to explain how the shops (tabernae) of Roman Britain related to society. The buildings of a more humble nature, including tabernae, have been frequently overlooked at the expense of the more ornate public buildings and villas. This thesis proposes to redress this imbalance, as it is believed that retailing and manufacture were one of the most crucial features of Roman society. Varied sources have been used to aid this hypothetical reconstruction and these included the excavated archaeological remains, the extant remains from other parts of the empire and the ancient literary sources. Although these provided a wealth of information they are by themselves limited in what they can reveal about their society. Anthropological and geographical studies have proved an immensely useful tool to illuminate other aspects of society. These were approached with great circumspection and examined in relation to the archaeological evidence. Using all this information the thesis attempts to describe and explain the major factors that helped to create the form and geographical pattern of retail establishments in Roman Britain. It is argued that the tabernae were more responsive to and give a more accurate picture of the social and economic climate of Roman Britain than any other building type. It appears that the Romano-British community was well catered for in life's necessities with a wide variety of merchandise supplied by tabernae. The development of tabernae is difficult to summarise, as more than any other building type they were subject to a multitude of varied and individual circumstances, but it can be demonstrated that a thriving and competitive retailing community existed in the major settlements of Roman Britain
David Lodge's Author, Author and the Genre of the Biographical Novel
No full textInternational audienceThis essay is an attempt to analyse the mechanisms of the biographical novel in David Lodge's Author, Author (2004) which focuses on Henry James's middle years as well as on the few months before his death. By paying special attention to the paratexts and to the subtle intertwining of fiction and reality within the text, the paper demonstrates how Lodge manages to strike a delicate balance between imagination and facts. The article also explores the reasons for the prominence of the mixed genre of the biographical novel in contemporary British literature and attempts to situate Author, Author in relation to postmodernist historiographic metafiction.Cet article tente d'analyser les mécanismes du roman biographique dans Author, Author (2004) de David Lodge, qui met en scène Henry James dans les années 1880-1890, ainsi que dans les derniers mois avant sa mort. Par le biais d'un examen précis des paratextes et du tressage de la fiction et de la réalité au sein même du texte, l'article démontre que Lodge est parvenu à opérer un équilibre subtil entre imagination et faits réels. Cet essai propose en outre de déterminer les raisons du succès du genre mixte du roman biographique dans la littérature britannique contemporaine, et s'efforce d'évaluer le statut de Author, Author en le comparant aux métafictions historiographiques postmodernistes
David M. Browne, Roman Cambridgeshire
No full textRaepsaet Georges. David M. Browne, Roman Cambridgeshire. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 51, 1982. p. 594
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