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Lazarillo De Tormes And Rhetorical Paradox, Robin Mcallister
Lazarillo De Tormes And Rhetorical Paradox, Robin Mcallister
English Faculty Publications
Picaresque novel as a genre is usually traced back to the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes, but mystery surrounds the origin of this paradoxical narrative that appeared in 1554. In particular, the techniques of irony and paradox employed in Lazarillo as vehicles for moral and social satire are influenced by an extremely widespread classical tradition, the rhetorical paradox, recently revived and made popular by Erasmus in his Praise of Folly. Lazarillo’s ties with a humanist revival of literary genres suited to social satire and self-inquiry extends to other forms of Menippean satire of which the rhetorical paradox and mock oration are …
Making Machines Learn. Applications Of Cultural Analytics To The Humanities, Javier De La Rosa Pérez
Making Machines Learn. Applications Of Cultural Analytics To The Humanities, Javier De La Rosa Pérez
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The digitization of several million books by Google in 2011 meant the popularization of a new kind of humanities research powered by the treatment of cultural objects as data. Culturomics, as it is called, was born, and other initiatives resonated with such a methodological approach, as is the case with the recently formed Digital Humanities or Cultural Analytics. Intrinsically, these new quantitative approaches to culture all borrow from techniques and methods developed under the wing of the exact sciences, such as computer science, machine learning or statistics. There are numerous examples of studies that take advantage of the possibilities that …
Contra Las Normas. Las Picaras Españolas, Reyes Coll-Tellechea
Contra Las Normas. Las Picaras Españolas, Reyes Coll-Tellechea
Reyes Coll-Tellechea
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