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The Book and the Box takes a new approach to understanding the relationship between the rise of television, the history of twentieth century fiction, and the shifting definitions of authorship in the United States during a period in which large media conglomerations began acquir…

The writings of Palladius of Helenopolis (363–430) became recognized during the course of the twentieth century as a valuable source of biographical and historical information. Palladius was an ascetic of Palestine and Egypt who later became a bishop. First charged with Origenis…

The miracle-workers and magicians we meet in the Greco-Roman world and on the pages of Greco-Roman narratives are among the most difficult characters for modem scholars to understand. While Greco-Roman writers presume their readers will share their socio-cultural script and unde…

The field of contrastive rhetoric examines contrasting rhetorical structures across languages with the goal of predicting the difficulties experienced by students learning to write essays in a foreign language. The paradigmatic contrast is between Western languages such as Engli…