Articulations
Peer-reviewed articles on “Temporal Communities”
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This insight explores two stories from Boccaccio’s Decameron, both featuring the character of Calandrino, through the lens of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. It argues that the comedy of both tales relies upon a disjuncture between what Merleau-Ponty terms the ‘lived body’ and the ‘objective body’. This phenomenological conception of embodiment is then used to explore the ways…
In Digital Humanities and Computational Literary Studies, platforms like Wikidata are crucial for retrieving structured data. But how reliable is this data? This insight looks at Sappho’s Wikidata entry (Q17892) as a case study to explore issues of data accuracy, misinformation, and the impact of cultural reception. Even though Wikidata’s openness allows for extensive data…
Spotlight
Petrarch (1304–1374) aimed to establish a transnational and transtemporal community that could bring together authors from different epochs and regions by imitating the idealised ancient Greek and Roman world, overcoming the supposedly obscure Middle Ages. The first part of this case study shows how Petrarch’s vernacular lyric poems ‘Rerum vulgarium fragmenta’ were employed to foster…
