Langland and the French Tradition: Introduction

Introduction: The European Fairy-Tale Tradition between Orality and Literacy

In Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition Ruth Bottingheimer proposes to correct the historical narrative of the emergence of the fairy tale in Europe and to recognize "Straparola's role as an originator in the history of modern fairy tale" (Bottingheimer 2002:3). Giovanni Francesco Straparola (c. 1480-c. 1557) is not exactly an unknown figure in folktale history.1 Hi...

Introduction. Japan: its tradition and hot topics in biological sciences.

Text, Tradition, and Reason in Comparative Perspective: an Introduction

In the fall of 2004, the Program in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies of Cardozo School of Law organized an international conference on the competing claims to authority of text, tradition, and reason in both law and religion. The conference was predicated on the view that legal and religious traditions share a common interpretive structure and face common dilemmas over how to integrate ...

The French Paracelsians: the chemical challenge to medical and scientific tradition in early modern France

service of radical political aims. Advances in wealth and a consumerist attitude to life had created pathological lifestyles and addicted people to false medicine. Entrepreneurialism had rendered doctors complicit, finding their own gain in society's sickness. Only a few disenchanted radicals, like Beddoes, were prepared to step back and offer a scientific diagnosis, and they were not only marg...

“Phrasal compounds” and the discourse/lexicology interface: “conglomeration” within the French tradition of English lexicology

This paper tries to illustrate the relevance of what Benveniste called conglomérés (conglomerates) for the study of English. It shows that conglomerates refer to a set of regular phenomena and account for two general trends of the lexicon : the quest for economy on the one hand and the importance of speech (parole) in the lexicalisation of units on the other hand. By analysing a borderline case...