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UNINA9910795646303321 |
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Titolo |
Exceptional bodies in early modern culture : concepts of monstrosity before the advent of the normal / / edited by Maja Bondestam |
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Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 pages) : : color illustrations |
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Abnormalities, Human - Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction / Maja Bondestam -- The moresca dance in Counter-Reformation Rome : court medicine and the moderation of exceptional bodies / Maria Kavvadia -- Monsters and the maternal imagination : the 'First Vision' from Johann Remmelin's 1619 Catoptrum microcosmicum Triptych / Rosemary Moore -- The optics of bodily deviance : Juan Ruiz de Alarcón's path to public office / Pablo García Piñar -- 'The most deformed woman in France' : Marguerite de Valois's monstrous sexuality in the Divorce satyrique / Cecile Tresfels -- Curious, useful and important : Bayle's 'hermaphrodites' as figures of theological inquiry / Parker Cotton -- An education : Johannes Schefferus and the prodigious son of a fisherman / Maja Bondestam -- Ambiguous and transitional bodies : stillbirth in Stockholm, 1691-1724 / Tove Paulsson Holmberg -- Afterword / Kathleen Long. |
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Drawing on a rich array of textual and visual primary sources, including medicine, satires, play scripts, dictionaries, natural philosophy, and texts on collecting wonders, this book provides a fresh perspective on monstrosity in early modern European culture. The essays explore how exceptional bodies challenged social, religious, sexual and natural structures and hierarchies in the sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and contributed to its knowledge, moral and emotional repertoire. Prodigious births, maternal imagination, hermaphrodites, collections of extraordinary things, powerful women, disabilities, controversial exercise, shapeshifting phenomena and |
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hybrids are examined in a period before all varieties and differences became normalized to a homogenous standard. The historicizing of exceptional bodies is central in the volume since it expands our understanding of early modern culture and deepens our knowledge of its specific ways of conceptualizing singularities, rare examples, paradoxes, rules and conventions in nature and society. |
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UNINA9910779729203321 |
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Autore |
Verbeke Saartje |
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Alignment and ergativity in new Indo-Aryan languages / / Saartje Verbeke |
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Berlin : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (332 pages) |
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Empirical approaches to language typology, , 0933-761X ; ; v. 51 |
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Indo-Aryan languages - Grammar |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Ghent University, 2011). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-315) and indexes. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Theoretical preliminaries -- 2 Indo-Aryan -- 3 Eastern Indo-Aryan: Asamiya -- 4 Northern Indo-Aryan: Nepali -- 5 Western Indo-Aryan: Kashmiri -- 6 Central Indo-Aryan: Rajasthani -- 7 Conclusion -- 8 Appendix -- 9 References -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages |
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The volume investigates the different alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan and shows that the variation of alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan goes beyond the opposition between accusativity and ergativity. The book includes a thorough discussion of the concepts and terminology relating to alignment patterns. The study draws extensively on new language data from Indo-Aryan. It includes discussions of examples taken from Hindi, Sanskrit, Apabhramsa, Asamiya, Bangla, Oriya, the Bihari languages, Nepali, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Siraiki, Poguli, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marwari, Harauti, the Hindi varieties, and Shina. The volume |
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offers a comprehensive overview of various alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan based on a wide range of data. By focusing on lesser known Indo-Aryan languages, the study questions the central position of Hindi-Urdu in the research on ergativity. Each language is treated in its own right, with a focus on language-specific data and analyses, rather than relying on a notional format that starts with pre-established linguistic concepts. In accordance with this methodology, much attention is paid to "indirect" connections between ergative constructions and other syntactic and semantic patterns in the various languages. |
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