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Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850

By: Martin Korenjak

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Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850

By: Martin Korenjak

During the early modern period, the emergence of what ultimately became modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discourse of the era. Hundreds of thousands of scientific texts were published in Latin from the invention of print around 1450 to the demise of Latin as a language of science around 1850. Despite its importance, our knowledge of this literature is extremely limited. This book aims to provide an overview of this area, the first ever to be written. It does so, not from the perspective of a natural scientist or a historian of science, but of a literary scholar. Instead of the scientific content or methodology of the respective works, it focusses on the genres of scientific literature and their communicative functions. Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850 falls into two main parts. The first part ('Contexts') introduces four aspects of early modern intellectual culture which are crucial for an understanding of the scientific literature of the time: the development of science, the role of Latin, the concept of literature, and the rise of print. Part two ('Texts'), offers an overview of Neo-Latin scientific literature. Subsumed under five communicative functions - disclosing sources, presenting facts, arguing for certain positions, summarizing knowledge, and publicizing science - twenty pertinent genres are discussed.

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0198866054

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Anatomizing Civil War

Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique

By: Martin Dinter

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Anatomizing Civil War

Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique

By: Martin Dinter

Imperial Latin epic has seen a renaissance of scholarly interest. This book illuminates the work of the poet Lucan, a contemporary of the emperor Nero who as nephew of the imperial adviser Seneca moved in the upper echelons of Neronian society. This young and maverick poet, whom Nero commanded to commit suicide at the age of 26, left an epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey that epitomizes the exuberance and stylistic experimentation of Neronian culture. This study focuses on Lucan's epic technique and traces his influence through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Martin T. Dinter's newest volume engages with Lucan's use of body imagery, sententiae, Fama (rumor), and open-endedness throughout his civil war epic. Although Lucan's Bellum Civile is frequently decried as a fragmented as well as fragmentary epic, this study demonstrates how Lucan uses devices other than teleology and cohesive narrative structure to bind together the many parts of his epic body. Anatomizing Civil War places at center stage characteristics of Lucan's work that have so far been interpreted as excessive, or as symptoms of an overly rhetorical culture indicating a lack of substance. By demonstrating that they all contribute to Lucan's poetic technique, Martin T. Dinter shows how they play a fundamental role in shaping and connecting the many episodes of the Bellum Civile that constitute Lucan's epic body. This important volume will be of interest to students of classics and comparative literature as well as literary scholars. All Greek and Latin passages have been translated.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472901052

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Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850

By: Martin Korenjak

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Cinema and Classical Texts

Apollo's New Light

By: Martin M. Winkler

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Apollo's New Light

By: Martin M. Winkler

This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521518601

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Grammars with Context Conditions and Their Applications

By: Alexander Meduna,Martin Švec

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Grammars with Context Conditions and Their Applications

By: Alexander Meduna,Martin Švec

The essential guide to grammars with context conditions This advanced computer science book systematically and compactlysummarizes the current knowledge about grammars with contextconditions-an important area of formal language theory. Accordingto the types of context conditions, this self-contained referenceclassifies them into grammars with context conditions placed on thedomains of grammatical derivations, the use of grammaticalproductions, and the neighborhood of the rewritten symbols. Thefocus is on grammatical generative power, important properties,simplification, reduction, implementation, and applications, mostof which are related to microbiology. The text features: * Up-to-date coverage of grammatical concepts based on contextconditions * Self-contained explanations without assumption of any previousknowledge * Clear definitions and exact proofs preceded by intuitiveexplanations * Numerous easy-to-implement grammatical transformations * Realistic applications * Relation to mathematics, linguistics, and biology * Additional material and information about the book available onaccompanying Web site (see preface for details) Practitioners and advanced students in theoretical computer scienceand related areas- including mathematics, linguistics, andmolecular biology-will find Grammars with Context Conditions andTheir Applications an essential reference for this cutting-edgearea of formal language theory.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471736554

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Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850

Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850

Anatomizing Civil War

Anatomizing Civil War

Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850

Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850

Cinema and Classical Texts

Cinema and Classical Texts

Grammars with Context Conditions and Their Applications

Grammars with Context Conditions and Their Applications

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