Ukrainian Chernivtsi writing as cultural phenomenon by Dmytro Zhmundulak

“…The article also shows that until the early 20th century a Chernivtsi man of letters had felt free in Jewish cultural space. …”
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O dwóch słowiańskich przekładach dialogu Ofiara Abrahama by Małgorzata Skowronek

“… On two Slavonic translations of the Renaissance drama Abraham’s sacrifice The paper’s main aim is to present two South-Slavonic translations of the Renaissance Greek drama Abraham’s sacrifice (I Thysía toú Avraám) by Vincenzo Cornaro; the first one was made by the Serbian man of letters Vikentije Rakić (1750–1818) at the end of the eighteenth century, the second one – by Andrey Pop-Doynov Robovski (1801–1858), a Bulgarian priest, teacher and activist for autocephaly of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. …”
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Aesthetic Virginity, Ethical Liberty and the Autonomy of Beauty: Possessions and the Poetics of Postcolonialism in the Aspern Papers by Naz Bushra

“…On the other hand, the lodger’s ardent pursuit of Aspern’s private papers, tokens of the poet’s aesthetic achievement, involves an imperial agenda to wrest control of them for his own interest as a man of letters and connoisseur of poetry.…”
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The Psychological Elements of Mehmet Nuzhet’s Written Creation by Tair Kirimov

“…The author’s methods and ways of psychological influence on the subconscious of readers are revealed. The future man of letters was born in 1888 in the village of Haydargazi in the vicinity of the Crimean city of Kezlev (Evpatoria). …”
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Master’s Portrait: Eugeniu Coșeriu by Elena UNGUREANU

“…With a good school at home (he is a graduate of the famous high school for boys “Ion Creangă” from Bălți), these qualities of the distinguished man of letters were cemented and asserted in Italy, Uruguay or Germany, places abroad where he practiced and deepened important research, which has not lost its relevance; on the contrary, whose value increases with the years. …”
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Strossmayerana in the English Sources: Acton, Gladstone, Newman and Strossmayer by Tihomir Živić, Šimo Šokčević

“…The paper deals with the friendship of Josip Juraj Strossmayer, the »First Son of His Homeland,« with the British John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO DL, a known politician, man of letters, and the »Magistrate of History,« and ideational relation to John Henry Newman, Cong. …”
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De criadas, sisas y gatos: huellas de un cuento folclórico árabe (ATU 1373) en la España de los siglos XIX y XX / Servants, Pilferage and Cats: Some Traces of an Arab Folktale (ATU... by Desirée López Bernal

“…In the late 14th century, one Ibn ʿĀṣim, a man of letters from Nasrid Granada, reproduced the first Iberian version of the folktale ATU 1373. …”
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Paul Celan in Russia (To the Centennial of His Birth)

“…The article emphasizes the evolution of perception and the peculiarities of canonization of this man of letters in our country and the meaning of the creative activity of Paul Celan for the contemporary Russian literary process, and specifically the problem of translation (translatability) of Celan’s works. …”
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The Description of the Discourse is More than the Discourse (A Glance at the Academic Rigor and the Masterful Punctiliousness of Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani in his Annotations on... by Amir Hossein Madani

“…Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani is a contemporary, diligent, and tireless scholar and a man of letters who has proven his mastery, skillfulness, precision, and poetical artistry in various literary fields such as writing, translation, editing, and poetry. …”
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The minority voice by Tobin, R, Tobin, Robert

“…As a particularly eloquent and stalwart member of this community, the Kilkenny man-of-letters Hubert Butler (1900-91) functions as the touchstone of this thesis, an individual worthy of attention in his own right but also compelling as a commentator on the challenges facing Southern Protestants generally during the period 1930-72. …”

Da Girolamo da Carpi al Riccio: scene di teatro tra la Ferrara di Giraldi Cinthio e la Siena medicea degli Accademici Intronati by Gabriele Fattorini

“…At the Este court of Ferrara the theatrical productions of Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinthio were represented in “all’antica” stages, often set up by the painter and architect Girolamo da Carpi (Ferrara, 1501-1566), who was also the author of a possible portrait of the man of letters. The investigations on those Giraldi’s lost sceneries are paralleled with the case of the theater commissioned in Siena by the Accademici Intronati on the occasion of the visit of Cosimo de’ Medici (1561), which was designed by the painter and architect Bartolomeo Neroni called il Riccio (Siena, documented from 1531-1571), the stage of which is testified by drawings and engravings. …”
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Eugene Jolas: A Poet of Multilingualism by Eugenia Kelbert

“…A French-German bilingual, Jolas acquired English in adolescence, crossing the Atlantic to refashion himself as an American man of letters. A "Man from Babel," as he styles himself in his posthumous autobiography of the same title (1998), Jolas published poetry in English, French, and German and eventually arrived to an understanding of his linguistic predicament as representative of humanity's path back to a pre-Babel state. …”
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FESTIVAL PEH CUN Menelusuri Tradisi Etnis Cina di Kota Tangerang by Rosyadi .

“…Tradition of Peh Cun refers to legend about a magnifier during Dynasti Couw, also a big man of letters and culture, that is Khut Goan. This tradision is also identical with Festival Perahu Naga in Cisadane River, Town Tangerang. …”
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Desperate remedies and vital lies: art, literature, and escapism, 1840-1914 by Daniels, HG

“…This thesis uncovers a specifically ambivalent escapist tradition across genres in the writing of the art and social critic John Ruskin (1819-1900), the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), and the memoirist and man of letters Edmund Gosse (1849-1928). Their ambivalent rehabilitation of avoidance provides a necessary corrective to dominant trends in Victorian studies, which instrumentalise literature as an aid to cognitive clarification, ethical commitment, and emotional containment. …”

PEWARISAN KEBERAGAMAN DAN KETELADANAN MELALUI SEJARAH LOKAL by Tutik Ernawati

“…Many historical figures learned in this boarding school such as Raden Ngabehi Ronggowarsito (a famous Javanese man of letters), H.O.S. Cokromanitoto (a famous national movement figure), and Susuhunan Pakubuwana II (a Javanese king). …”
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The long apprenticeship: Rodrigo Borgia as Papal Vice-Chancellor, 1457-1492 by Fellows, K

“…Furthermore, Borgia was not a man of letters and left no record of his activities or even much in the way of personal correspondence. …”

The Spanish Enlightenment revisited

“…<br/><br/> Jesús Astigarraga, Introduction: <em>admirer</em>, <em>rougir</em>, <em>imiter</em> – Spain and the European Enlightenment<br/> María Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo, The merits of good gobierno: culture and politics in the Bourbon court<br/> Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos, The Spanish Republic of Letters in its European context: images, economics, and the representation of the man of letters<br/> Jesús Astigarraga, Economic societies and the politicisation of the Spanish Enlightenment<br/> Juan Pimentel, The Indians of Europe: the role of Spain’s Enlightenment in the making of a global science<br/> Javier Usoz, Political economy and the creation of the public sphere during the Spanish Enlightenment<br/> Ignacio Fernández Sarasola, Constitution projects during the Spanish Enlightenment<br/> Gabriel Paquette, The reform of the Spanish empire in the age of Enlightenment<br/> Jesús Astigarraga, Niccolò Guasti and Juan Zabalza, The Spanish debate on public finance: a privileged laboratory for enlightened reforms<br/> Joaquín Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, The image of the British system of government in Spain (1759-1814) <br/> Javier Fernández Sebastián, From the ‘voice of the people’ to the freedom of the press: the birth of public opinion<br/> Alejandro Agüero and Marta Lorente, Penal Enlightenment in Spain: from Beccaria’s reception to the first criminal code<br/> Summaries<br/> Bibliography<br/> Index<br/>…”

Exemplum and Wundertier: Three Concepts of the Scholarly Persona by Gadi Algazi

“…In a third sense, broader and more heteronomous than the second, persona is understood as a cultural template for a codified social role - the man of letters, the scientist and so on - emerging at the intersection of contradictory social forces: not a neat embodiment of a group of practitioners’ shared values, but more a shaky historical compromise, sometimes an exemplum, sometimes a Wundertier and often both. …”
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Exemplum and Wundertier: Three Concepts of the Scholarly Persona by Gadi Algazi

“…</p><p> </p><p>In a third sense, broader and more heteronomous than the second, persona is understood as a cultural template for a codified social role - the man of letters, the scientist and so on - emerging at the intersection of contradictory social forces: not a neat embodiment of a group of practitioners’ shared values, but more a shaky historical compromise, sometimes an <em>exemplum</em>, sometimes a <em>Wundertier</em> and often both. …”
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Transatlantic Doubles: Intertextual Ageing in the Early Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Bulwer-Lytton by Marta Miquel-Baldellou

“…Abstract: As a literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe reviewed the writings of the Victorian man of letters Edward Bulwer-Lytton on at least four occasions in the span of six years, from 1835 to 1841. …”
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