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…
When thinking about the use of data, we always have to think about workflows and data management, too. Therefore, the aim of this contribution is to show how ‘Articulations’ handles bibliographic data through Zotero to manage and implement references to the platform—the advantages this has brought and the difficulties encountered in the implementation process.
Spotlight
In this insight, the literary device of framing is used to shed light on the systematic structure of al-Ḥarīrī’s ‘Maqāmāt’ (hereafter, Ḥarīriyya). The work has been criticised by modern scholars for being fragmented, short-breathed, and episodic. In contrast, I argue that all fifty episodes of the ‘Ḥarīriyya’ are part of a symmetric, well-devised structure, which…
