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Voices in the Medieval Poetic Encyclopedia seeks to track down the multiple textual echoes of the poetic voices in the medieval encyclopedia as it is being articulated on the fringes of Al-Andalus in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries. This is a decisive period in…

Still-nascent as an Internet phenomenon, blogs have paved the way for the resurrection of the world's oldest form of marketing: word-of-mouth. Firms are realizing that including promotional messages in the blog content itself may be an effective way to market their products, in …

“Encyclopedic Form in the Modern French Novel” explores three modern encyclopedic texts and argues for the novelistic potential of their (re)arrangements of knowledge so as to change, distort, de- or re-contextualize it. Inspired by the French literary group Oulipo, founded in 1…