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A history of Maltese culture may be said to reflect in various ways the history of the whole community. Since, much more than in the case of larger countries, Malta could never do without foreign contacts, necessarily causative of a complex process of influences, adaptations and reactions (and consequently only through a study of a set of assimilations can the scholar arrive at a true definition of a Maltese identity), such a history, be it political, social or cultural, is bound to assume a comparative character. This may be all the more so owing to the fact that what one may euphemistically call foreign contacts were nothing less than foreign occupations. The conditions which characterize and modify the process of, say, a political history of subordination may boil down to be the inalienable causes of analogous conditions in the cultural field. ; peer-reviewed
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Bulgarian Literature as World Literature
In: Südost-Forschungen: internationale Zeitschrift für Geschichte, Kultur und Landeskunde Südosteuropas, Volume 80, Issue 1, p. 533-535
ISSN: 2364-9321
German Literature as World Literature
In: The European legacy: the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Volume 21, Issue 7, p. 759-761
ISSN: 1470-1316
Rhetorical Procedures in Chinese Literature: Post-Cultural Revolution literature: Scar Literature
In: Chinese Semiotic Studies, Volume 15, Issue 3, p. 289-301
ISSN: 2198-9613
Abstract"Scar Literature," a literary movement in twentieth-century Chinese literature, encompasses a series of works written after the Cultural Revolution. The scar metaphor was taken from the title of a short story, "The Scar," and characterized a series of works with common features. The outlines of "Scar Literature" are blurred, mixed and intertwined with other literary trends and movements. But while Chinese and foreign literary criticism claim that it was short-lived, its influences are visible in several works by contemporary authors. Based on the idea that literary works are prone to being analyzed as a form of persuasive discourse, this paper identifies typical rhetorical procedures of this literary trend and its influences in certain emblematic works: the recurrence of topoi (figures such as "rehabilitation," peculiar to the Cultural Revolution); inductive reasoning (the construction of a historiographic reasoning via the exemplum); recourse to pathos; and the metaphorical figure of the scar bearing the value of the plotline. This analysis applies concepts of New Rhetoric and discourse linguistics, in particular, concepts developed by Olbrecht-Tyteca and Perelman, Amossy's approach about pathos and the role of emotions and "figurality" in argumentation, and Plantin's linguistic theory of the emotions.
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In: Pop: Kultur und Kritik, Volume 7, Issue 2, p. 173-176
ISSN: 2198-0322
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In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen: Analysen zu Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft, Volume 26, Issue 2, p. 174-188
ISSN: 2365-9890
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In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen: Analysen zu Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft, Volume 25, Issue 3, p. 139-151
ISSN: 2365-9890
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In: Women Studies Abstracts, Volume 35, Issue 3, p. 59-60
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In: Women Studies Abstracts, Volume 34, Issue 4, p. 57-61
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In: Women Studies Abstracts, Volume 34, Issue 3, p. 56-57